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Chargement... The Occult Underground (1971)par James Webb
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Covers "such personages as Madame Blavatsky, the Reverend Leadbeater, the Brotherhood of Luxor, Annie Besant, Krishnamurti, Swami Vivekananda, Spiritualists, Rosicrucians, vegetarians, Mithraic cults, and all manner of occult propagandists"--Cover. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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They formed a hardly doctrinally unified, yet diffusely ideologically interwoven, sociocultural resistance to (as Webb himself put it) "the Powers That Be." For Webb this irrational counterculture is the expected response due as a result of a "crisis of consciousness," where humanity found itself confronted by the bleak existential tableau conjured by the burgeoning rationalist materialist scientific method and its consequent discoveries. Alone in the frigid blackness of the universe where God is dead and death is the final and true end to all, the multiplicitous occult philosophies offered a panacea to the occult practitioner; and a means to oppose the tide of stark rationalism that so threatened the fragile human psyche.
Webb's prose is lucid and engaging, this historical narrative flows well, enabling the author to build his case and close it by the book's end. The best history of that nebulous beast known as "the occult" that I have read as yet.
Bring on the followup, The Occult Establishment! ( )