Occult Book
Subtitle: A Chronological Journey, from Alchemy to Wicca
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781454925774
Subjects: Occultism, history; Alchemy; Witchcraft
Description: xi, 212 pages : 23 cm
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: viii; title: 6th Century BCE: Pythagoras Comes to Crotona
pagenum: 1; title: 5th Century BCE: Empedocles Invents the Four Elements
pagenum: 3; title: Late 5th Century BCE: The First Horoscopes
pagenum: 5; title: 347 BCE: Death of Plato
pagenum: 7; title: 186 BCE: Rome Outlaws the Bacchic Mysteries
pagenum: 9; title: 1st Century BCE: Miriam the Alchemist
pagenum: 11; title: 33 CE: Death of Jesus
pagenum: 13; title: 57 CE: Fall of Mona
pagenum: 15; title: c. 1st Century CE: Invention of the Runes
pagenum: 17; title: 1st Century CE: Apollonius of Tyana
pagenum: 19; title: c. 120: Basilides of Alexandria
pagenum: 21; title: 2nd Century: Magic on Trial
pagenum: 23; title: 155: Valentinus Loses a Papal Election
pagenum: 25; title: 3rd Century: The Corpus Hermeticum
pagenum: 27; title: 244: Plotinus Begins Teaching in Rome
pagenum: 29; title: c. 300: Zosimos of Panopolis
pagenum: 31; title: 330: Death of Iamblichus of Chalcis
pagenum: 33; title: 363: Last Pagan Emperor of Rome
pagenum: 35; title: 396: End of the Eleusinian Mysteries
pagenum: 37; title: 538: The Edicts of Justinian
pagenum: 39; title: 573: Merlin and the Battle of Arderydd
pagenum: 41; title: c. 800: Jabir ibn Hayyan
pagenum: 43; title: 9th Century: Canon Episcopi
pagenum: 45; title: 1118: Founding of the Knights Templar
pagenum: 47; title: 1208: The Albigensian Crusade
pagenum: 49; title: c. 1230: Origins of the Cabala
pagenum: 51; title: 1256: Translation of Picatrix
pagenum: 53; title: 1271: Fall of Harran
pagenum: 55; title: 1279: Abraham Abulafia Goes to Saronno
pagenum: 57; title: 1307: Arrest of the Knights Templar
pagenum: 59; title: 1327: Cecco d'Ascoli Burned at the Stake
pagenum: 61; title: 1382: The Philosopher's Stone
pagenum: 63; title: 1418: Origin of the Tarot
pagenum: 65; title: 1428: The Great Valais Witch Trials Begin
pagenum: 67; title: 1464: Translation of the Corpus Hermeticum
pagenum: 69; title: 1486: The Malleus Maleficarum
pagenum: 71; title: 1494: Johannes Reuchlin's On the Miraculous Word
pagenum: 73; title: 1526: Paracelsus Comes to Basel
pagenum: 75; title: 1533: Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy
pagenum: 77; title: 1555: The Prophecies of Nostradamus
pagenum: 79; title: 1559: John Dee Schedules a Royal Coronation
pagenum: 81; title: 1570: Isaac Luria Arrives in Safed
pagenum: 83; title: 1575: The Benandanti
pagenum: 85; title: 1587: The Legend of Faust
pagenum: 87; title: 1600: Giordano Bruno Burned at the Stake
pagenum: 89; title: 1610: The Visions of Jacob Boehme
pagenum: 91; title: 1611: Johannes Bureus Interprets the Runes
pagenum: 93; title: 1614: The First Rosicrucian Manifesto
pagenum: 95; title: 1628: Casting Spells for the Pope
pagenum: 97; title: 1630: Gerard Thibault's Academy of the Sword
pagenum: 99; title: 1647: William Lilly's Christian Astrology
pagenum: 101; title: 1694: Rosicrucians Arrive in Pennsylvania
pagenum: 103; title: 1717: The First Masonic Grand Lodge
pagenum: 105; title: 1736: Passage of the Witchcraft Act
pagenum: 107; title: 1744: The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg
pagenum: 109; title: 1746: Founding of the Hellfire Club
pagenum: 111; title: 1767: The Élus Coens
pagenum: 113; title: 1778: Franz Anton Mesmer Comes to Paris
pagenum: 115; title: 1781: Tracing the Tarot to Egypt
pagenum: 117; title: 1783: Etteilla Publicizes Tarot Divination
pagenum: 119; title: 1795: Alessandro Cagliostro Dies in Rome
pagenum: 121; title: 1798: Druids Celebrate the Autumn Equinox
pagenum: 123; title: 1801: Francis Barrett's The Magus
pagenum: 125; title: 1820: Johann Georg Hohman's The Long Lost Friend
pagenum: 127; title: 1821: Thomas Taylor Translates On the Mysteries
pagenum: 129; title: 1844: The Visions of Andrew Jackson Davis
pagenum: 131; title: 1848: Birth of Spiritualism
pagenum: 133; title: c. 1850: The "Voodoo Queen"
pagenum: 135; title: 1855: Eliphas Lévi's Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic
pagenum: 137; title: 1862: Jules Michelet's The Sorceress
pagenum: 139; title: 1874: The Brotherhood of Eulis
pagenum: 141; title: 1875: The Theosophical Society
pagenum: 143; title: 1884: The Martinist Order
pagenum: 145; title: 1887: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
pagenum: 147; title: 1892: The First Salon de la Rose+Croix
pagenum: 149; title: 1897: The First Hoodoo Drugstore
pagenum: 151; title: 1899: Charles Godfrey Leland's Aradia, or The Gospel of the Witches
pagenum: 153; title: 1902: Guido von List's Vision of the Runes
pagenum: 155; title: 1904: Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law
pagenum: 157; title: 1910: The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck
pagenum: 159; title: 1912: Carl Jung Breaks with Sigmund Freud
pagenum: 161; title: 1913: Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophical Society
pagenum: 163; title: 1914: Evangeline Adams Acquitted of Fortune-Telling
pagenum: 165; title: 1917: The Thule Society
pagenum: 167; title: 1921: Margaret Murray's The Witch-Cult in Western Europe
pagenum: 169; title: 1922: Alfred Watkins Discovers the Leys
pagenum: 171; title: 1924: Harry Houdini Battles Fake Mediums
pagenum: 173; title: 1925: The "Wars of the Roses"
pagenum: 175; title: 1926: The Fulcanelli Enigma
pagenum: 177; title: 1928: Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages
pagenum: 179; title: 1929: End of the Order of the Star in the East
pagenum: 181; title: 1935: Dion Fortune's The Mystical Qabalah
pagenum: 183; title: 1936: Dane Rudhyar's The Astrology of Personality
pagenum: 185; title: 1948: Raymond Palmer Founds Fate Magazine
pagenum: 187; title: 1954: Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today
pagenum: 189; title: 1960: The Modern Alchemical Revival
pagenum: 191; title: 1969: John Michell's The View Over Atlantis
pagenum: 193; title: 1979: Wicca Goes Mainstream
pagenum: 195; title: 1983: Ralph Blum's The Book of Runes
pagenum: 197; title: 2012: The End of the Thirteenth Baktun
pagenum: 199; title: Notes and References
pagenum: 200; title: Index
pagenum: 206; title: Image Credits
pagenum: 211; title: About the Author
pagenum: 212