Tag: literature
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Usher Unveiled: Poe and the Metaphysic of Gnosticism
from eapoe.org: It has long been a critical paradox that Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be outside the mainstream of American literature, while he is known internationally as the author of the most famous short tale in thee tradition, “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The most damaging charge against Poe is surely…
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Manly P. Hall Gets to the Heart of Homer’s “Odyssey”
from Disinfo.com: You won’t hear this interpretation in the storied halls of academia. Manly P. Hall – author, mystic, examiner of all things esoteric – teases apart the obscurities of Homer’s epic to reveal its secret meaning. Namely, what certain elements represent and how it relates to the inner life of man (mental/emotional/spiritual) and consciousness…
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Reinventing the Renaissance Occult
from jwmt.org: From the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition: Five hundred years ago the occult – what we think of as ‘the occult’ – was taught in university and practiced by many of the foremost personalities of the age. Still it was persecuted. Dangerous. Between the Church and the deep blue sea: Scylla and Charybdis. It…