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Black Isis and White Moon-Cakes: Divine Femininity and Everyday Womanhood in the Work of Dion Fortune [PDF]
, 2017 Dion Fortune (1890-1946) is one of the most influential figures of 20th century British occultism, although her work remains largely unstudied. Born Violet Mary Firth, Fortune founded an offshoot of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the 1920s ...
Van Raalte, Georgia
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Chaldean and Neo-Platonic Theology [PDF]
, 2016 In the present paper, the meanings the term “Chaldeans” acquired during the Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are presented, but mainly the role the Chaldean Oracles played inside the movement of Neo-Platonism is emphasized. The stratification of Being
Viglas, Katelis
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World-hating: apocalypse and trauma in We Need to Talk about Kevin [PDF]
, 2017 Lynne Ramsay’s 2011 film We Need to Talk about Kevin alternates between two narrative times, one occurring before its protagonist Eva’s son commits a terrible crime, and one after. The film invites us to read the crime as a traumatic event in Eva’s life,
Desilets, S. J.
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Orientalisms in the interpretation of Islamic philosophy [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper, I argue that Edward Said’s central thesis in Orientalism has a direct explanatory role to play in our understanding of the work produced in at least one area of scholarship about the Arab and Islamic worlds, namely Arab-Islamic philosophy ...
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
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“All women are Isis”: the figure of Isis in The Sea Pristess (1935) and Moon Magic (1956) by Dion Fortune [PDF]
, 2018 This article aims to examine the reception of the figure of the goddess Isis in two novellas by writer and occultist Dion Fortune who portrayed the Egyptian goddess from the perspective of several Greco‐Roman sources (mainly Apuleius and the hermetic ...
Sánchez Pérez, Carlos
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Correspondences, 2019 This article deals with a motif that appears repeatedly in the history of the Western traditions of esotericism and alternative spirituality. The motif is an essentially simple one: a person claims to have discovered an older, previously hidden text ...
G. J. Wheeler
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Government Support for Unconventional Works of Art [PDF]
, 1992 My aim in this discussion is to argue, not only that government should provide funding for the arts, but a fortiori that it should provide funding for unconventional, disruptive works of ...
Piper, Adrian M. S.
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О двух сущностях человека. „Задумчивый странник” Зи- наидыГиппиус [PDF]
, 2018 The article is an attempt to describe the conception of androgyny in ZinaidaGippius’s work entitled Reflective wanderer. The main character of Reflective wandereris a modernistic philosopher, Vasily Rozanov.
Okroj, Kinga
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Magic and Politics: Conspirituality and COVID-19. [PDF]
J Am Acad Relig, 2021 Parmigiani G.
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The Path of Initiation: The Integration of Psychological and Spiritual Development in Western Esoteric Thought [PDF]
Integral Review, 2013 This paper examines, from an emic stance, a strand of Western esoteric wisdom that offers a particular perspective on psycho-spiritual development in relation to spiritual emergence, the mutually interdependent evolution of consciousness and substance ...
Gary Raucher
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