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Lauro, Frances Di. On a panegyrical note: Studies in honour of Garry W Trompf. Sydney]: Dept. of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney, 2007.

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Steiner, Rudolf. From the history and contents of the first section of the Esoteric School: Letters, documents, and lectures. Hudson, N.Y: Anthroposophic Press, 1998.

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Stuckrad, Kocku von. Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe: Esoteric discourse and Western identities. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

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Palmer, M. Dale. True esoteric traditions: A search for the source of Western cultural values. Plainfield, Ind: Noetics Institute, 1994.

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Esoteric Tarot: Ancient Sources Rediscovered in Hermeticism and Cabalah. Theosophical Publishing House, 2013.

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Decker, Ronald. The esoteric Tarot: Ancient sources rediscovered in Hermeticism and Cabala. 2013.

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Levy, David B. Essays and Explorations in the Enigmatic, Esoteric, and Mystical based on Sources in Rabbinic texts ad fontes IX: I. Lulu.com, 2021.

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Levy, David B. Essays and Explorations in the Enigmatic, Esoteric, and Mystical Based on Sources in Rabbinic Texts Ad Fontes IX: II. Lulu Press, Inc., 2021.

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Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor. Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism: The Eastern Mediterranean, the near East, and Beyond. BRILL, 2021.

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A universal pattern of consciousness: A study of dimensionality comparing the Edgar Cayce psychic readings with various sources of the world's esoteric and mystical knowledge. Hanover, Mass: Christopher Pub. House, 1994.

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Stone, Michael E. Secret Societies in Ancient Judaism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842383.003.0001.

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This chapter deals with the sources available for knowledge of Jewish esoteric groups, distinguishing between “insider” and “outsider” sources. The Essenes and the Qumran covenanters as a secret society are introduced. The keeping of secrets in the Greco–Roman world and the consequent importance of archaeology in discovering these secrets are briefly discussed. Typical features of secret societies are given: gradual initiation and limitation of membership, hierarchical organization with different levels, and stages of admission to the special knowledge. The main categories are “secret–open,” not “sectarian–normative,” as in previous studies. Analogous secret cults in the Greco–Roman world are also listed.

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Grieve-Carlson, Timothy. American Aurora. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197765562.001.0001.

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Abstract American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Hermetic, alchemical, and esoteric texts became crucial sources of religious meaning and perspective among radical Protestants during this period as they struggled to understand their changing climate and a cosmos that seemed to be declaring its own decline. In particular, American Aurora focuses on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667–1707), an enormously influential but comprehensively misunderstood theologian who settled outside of Philadelphia from 1694 to 1707. American Aurora explores the Hermetic and alchemical dimensions of Kelpius’s Christianity before turning to his legacy in American religion and literature. This includes original translations of Kelpius’s university writings—which have never before been translated into English—along with other important sources from the period in German and Latin. By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kelpius’s legacy began to warp under the scrutiny of both Enlightenment historians and antiquarian authors, entangling him in the legacies of nineteenth century Rosicrucianism and the occult revival. American Aurora points toward a time and place when climate change caused an eruption of esoteric thought and practice—and how this moment has been largely forgotten.

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Free, Joshua. The Complete Anunnaki Bible: A Source Book of Esoteric Archaeology. Joshua Free, 2019.

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Faxneld, Per. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664473.003.0001.

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Chapter 1 presents the purpose of the study: to map, contextualize, and discuss the discourse of more or less explicit Satanic feminism as it is conveyed in a number of esoteric works, literary texts, autobiographies, scholarly books, political and polemical publications, newspaper reviews, editorials and articles, early works of cinema, paintings, sculptures, and even artefacts of consumer culture such as jewellery. The time period under scrutiny stretches from 1772 to the years before World War II. The great majority of sources, however, belong to the period ca. 1880–1910. Theoretical points of departure are explained, drawing on Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, and Bruce Lincoln. In this chapter, key terms like counter-discourse, counter-myth, esotericism, occultism, and Satanism are also defined.

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Foxeus, Niklas. Contemporary Burmese Buddhism. Edited by Michael Jerryson. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199362387.013.2.

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Contemporary Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar is diverse and manifold, and the variety of “modern” forms of Buddhism have evolved since the colonial period in dynamic interplay with modernization, colonization, nation-building, and shifting socioeconomic circumstances. Complex hybrids have emerged, combining a wide variety of sources and influences, drawing both on the pre-colonial developments and novel ones introduced during the colonial period onward, reflecting the interests of those involved, identity politics, and power struggles. This chapter investigates the development of a textual, doctrinal Buddhism, defense and promotion of the Buddha’s sasana, moral community, and national identity in a diversity of movements: the Buddhist lay associations, systematic meditation, and Abhidhamma studies for the laypeople, the insight meditation movement and the esoteric congregations, Buddhist nationalism, socially engaged Buddhism, and individualist trends and prosperity Buddhism.

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Mckanan, Dan. George Lippard, Ignatius Donnelly, and the Esoteric Theology of American Labor. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039997.003.0002.

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This chapter examines the works of two labor novelists, George Lippard (1822–54) and Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901), focusing specifically on their use of esoteric Christianity as a source of worker empowerment. Esotericism here is defined as that strand of belief and practice that finds hidden significance beneath the surface of religious traditions. Esotericists view all nature as alive and posit elaborate correspondences between heaven and earth, or the self and God. Most esotericists see themselves as bearers of an ancient tradition that has been transmitted through initiations by secret brotherhoods. For some Western esotericists, this secret tradition is outside of and antithetical to Christianity. For others—including Lippard and Donnelly—it is the vital heart of Christianity itself, albeit a heart that has often been suppressed by ecclesiastical institutions.

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Mitchell Sommers, Susan. The Siblys of London. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687328.001.0001.

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Recent historical accounts of aspects of life during the long eighteenth century are replete with fascinating vignettes of little-known figures. As individual sketches, they are illustrative of larger arguments, but the assumption has been that, in general, scholars have already retrieved all the information they could about socially or historically obscure characters, and consequently nothing else has been sought. But over the past few decades, techniques and technologies have dramatically changed the landscape of biographical research. This is demonstrated in the current study, a biographical microhistory of shoemaker Edmund Sibly, his sons Ebenezer, Manoah, and Job, daughter Charity, and granddaughter Urania. Through the use of such sources as ratebooks and poll books, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, it is possible to weave together a much more true and useful account of middling lives than would have been believed possible even a few decades ago. The result is a supremely entertaining family history that also offers useful revisions to existing scholarly accounts of brothers Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire family firmly on the esoteric fringes of Georgian London.

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Hedenborg White, Manon. The Eloquent Blood. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190065027.001.0001.

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The study analyzes constructions of femininity and feminine sexuality in interpretations of the goddess Babalon, a central deity in the British occultist Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) religion Thelema. Babalon is based on Crowley’s positive reinterpretation of the biblical Whore of Babylon and symbolizes liberated female sexuality and the spiritual modality of passionate union with existence. Analyzing historical and contemporary written sources, qualitative interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork in the Anglo-American esoteric milieu, the study traces interpretations of Babalon from the works of Crowley and some of his key disciples—including the rocket scientist John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons and the enigmatic British occultist Kenneth Grant—from the fin-de-siècle to the present. From the 1990s onward, female and LGBTQ esotericists have challenged historical interpretations of Babalon, drawing on feminist and queer thought and conceptualizing femininity in new ways. Femininity has held a problematic position in feminist theory, often being associated with lack, artifice, and restriction. However, the present study—which assumes that femininities are neither exclusively heterosexual nor limited to women—indicates how interpretations of Babalon have both built on and challenged dominant gender logics. As the first academic monograph to analyze Crowley’s and his followers’ ideas from the perspective of gender, this book contributes to the underexplored study of gender in Western esotericism. By analyzing the development of a misogynistic biblical symbol into an image of feminine sexual freedom, the study also sheds light on interactions between Western esotericism and broader cultural and sociopolitical trends.

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Flatto, Sharon. Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-century Prague. Liverpool University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113393.001.0001.

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Kabbalah played a surprisingly prominent and far-reaching role in eighteenth-century Prague. This book uncovers the centrality of this mystical tradition for Prague's influential Jewish community and its pre-eminent rabbinic authority, Ezekiel Landau, chief rabbi from 1754 to 1793. A rabbinic leader who is best known for his halakhic responsa collection the Noda biyehudah, Landau is generally considered a staunch opponent of esoteric practices and public kabbalistic discourse. This book challenges this portrayal, exposing the importance of Kabbalah in his work and thought and demonstrating his novel use of teachings from diverse kabbalistic schools. It also identifies the historical events and cultural forces underlying his reluctance to discuss Kabbalah publicly, including the rise of the hasidic movement and the acculturation spurred by the 1781 Habsburg Toleranzpatent. The book offers the first systematic overview of the eighteenth-century Jewish community of Prague, and the first critical account of Landau's life and writings, which continue to shape Jewish law and rabbinic thought to this day. Extensively examining Landau's rabbinic corpus, as well as a variety of archival and published German, Yiddish, and Hebrew sources, the book provides a unique glimpse into the spiritual and psychological world of eighteenth-century Prague Jewry. By unravelling and exploring the many diverse threads that were woven into the fabric of Prague's eighteenth-century Jewish life, the book offers a comprehensive portrayal of rabbinic culture at its height in one of the largest and most important centres of European Jewry.

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Myers, Richard L. The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400605284.

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What is a chemical compound? Compounds are substances that are two or more elements combined together chemically in a standard proportion by weight. Compounds are all around us - they include familiar things, such as water, and more esoteric substances, such as triuranium octaoxide, the most commonly occurring natural source for uranium. This reference guide gives us a tour of 100 of the most important, common, unusual, and intriguing compounds known to science. Each entry gives an extensive explanation of the composition, molecular formula, and chemical properties of the compound. In addition, each entry reviews the relevant chemistry, history, and uses of the compound, with discussions of the origin of the compound's name, the discovery or first synthesis of the compound, production statistics, and uses of the compound.

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Lagiou, Pagona, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, and Hans-Olov Adami. Concepts in Cancer Epidemiology and Etiology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190676827.003.0006.

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This chapter reviews central concepts in epidemiology, which apply also to cancer epidemiology. It examines cohort and case-control studies, with reference also to studies of genetic epidemiology, it considers the impact of chance and systematic errors, and it traces the process of causal reasoning. It attempts to convey that the sometimes esoteric theory of modern epidemiology can be condensed to a few central issues, namely (1) how to quantify and understand the impact of chance; (2) how to best harvest information on exposures and outcomes from a source population by using a cohort design, a case–control design, or variants thereof; (3) how to achieve valid results by minimizing the impact of confounding and bias, and; (4) how to address the central issue of causality in a structured way. A glossary at the end of the chapter provides a summary of definitions.

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