Artistic influences The allegorical nature of much of Varo’s work especially recalls the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, and some critics, such as Dean Swinford, have described her art as “postmodern allegory,” much in the tradition of Irrealism. Varo was also influenced by styles as diverse as those of Francisco Goya, El Greco, Picasso, and Braque. [...]
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All four books centre on young siblings William, Mary and Alice Constant. They spend their holidays at Golden House, a large, 16th Century house in the British countryside. The house is given no specific location except for Wales, supposedly on ley lines; reference to standing stones is made in the books. During these holidays, the [...]
The notion for education based workshops and displays developed out of a philosophical view that the world was heading towards difficult times and that people needed to learn how to become more self-sufficient so that they would be less reliant on a system unable to provide spiritual and survivalist needs. If one was unable to [...]
Knights Templar and Occultism The original Knights Templar, founded around 1119, had been a crusading military order, that, at some time, had established financial networks across the whole of Christendom. In 1307, King Philip IV of France mounted a “slanderous campaign” to strip the Order of its economic and political influence. The Templars were accused [...]
The word was revived early in the 17th century, as Latin ”theosophia”, to denote the Renaissance occultism found in Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Robert Fludd and others. The name ”theosophy” was applied specifically to Jacob Böhme, who showed at least stylistic influence by the Renaissance “theosophists”: Böhme’s writing shows the influence of neoplatonist and alchemical writers [...]
Sophie and Josh are working at their jobs when a mysterious man named Dee comes for a book called the Codex. Sophie and Josh witness Nick and Perry, the owners of the store, using magic, and discover that Nick is not a bookseller, but is the ancient alchemyst Nicholas Flamel being kept alive by making [...]
Carl Gustav Jung (; 26 July 1875& – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is “by nature religious” and to explore it in depth. Though not the first to analyze dreams, [...]
Syncretism is one of the core principles of Theosophy, a religious philosophy originating with Helena Petrovna Blavatsky from the 1870s, and the seven rays appear repeatedly in the related writings. Theosophy holds that all religions are attempts by the “Spiritual Hierarchy” to help humanity in evolving to greater perfection, and that each religion therefore has [...]
Antiquity While there is no evidence to show a direct ancient lineage of the Western mystery tradition, its roots are in occultist movements of Late Antiquity, Roman-Hellenistic religions which in turn claimed to originate in ancient Egypt, Chaldea, Persia or other parts of the ancient world. The Catholic Encyclopedia sums up its origins thus: :Its [...]
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