Politics and the occult

the left, the right, and the radically unseen

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Gary Lachman: Politics and the occult (2008, Quest Books/Theosophical Pub. House)

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Publikuota 2008 m. lapkričio 10 d., Quest Books/Theosophical Pub. House.

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978-0-8356-0857-2
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Not quite as dense as Sex and Rockets (and about even with Lachman's Crowley biography, in terms of readability), this book nevertheless demonstrates both a breadth and depth of scholarship on occult history that's remarkable. It's not a casual read but one that might serve as a gateway to research into other works -- a starting point for looking up the details of individual movements that might catch your eye, connecting them together on a macro scale.



I always find Lachman's books to be a slog to read, simply because their prose is workmanlike rather than polished, but he always pulls his weight in terms of sheer subject-matter knowledge. In this case, he draws out a complex genealogy of occult-informed and occult-adjacent political thought -- a chain of influence from the gnostics to the rosicrucians to Evola to Left Behind -- and illuminates the various ways certain ideas twisted over …

Temos

  • Occultism
  • Political science
  • Civilization -- History