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Israel Regardie (1907–1985), occult writer, magician, pupil of Aleister Crowley [47] C. F. Russell (1897–1987), American occultist and founder of the magical order G.B.G. [48] Alex Sanders (1926–1988), founder of Alexandrian Wicca; Phyllis Seckler (1917–2004), American occultist and writer, and a lineage holder in the A∴A∴ tradition ...
Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation is a 2009 book by Mitch Horowitz published by Bantam Books.The book is focused on the role that new religious movements play in the history of the United States; Horowitz argues that these movements, often marginalized or ignored by mainstream culture, played a substantial role in shaping American society.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... American occult writers (1 C, 90 P) Pages in category "American occultists"
Unification Church (统一教; tǒngyī jiào), known as "The Moonies" in the US, founded by Korean-American Sun Myung Moon in Busan in 1954, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1997. [10] Sanban Puren Pai (三班仆人派; sān bān púrén pài), a Christian sect founded by Xu Wenku in the 1990s, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1999.
Figures, in fact, like Winthrop, who were crucial and more influential than has been supposed in the gestation of this city on a hill, this veritable republic of magic, this Occult States of ...
Esoteric schools of thought are schools, currents or movements which have an occult system of thought based on esoteric knowledge. They aid to prepare the individual toward spiritual evolution . It almost always deals with some system of esoteric cosmology and contain some common themes as rebirth , occult history of human evolution, planes of ...
New Age - Western esoteric religious movement based on occultism, Spiritualism, New Thought and Theosophy that grew rapidly in 1970s and was started due to the counterculture of the 1960s New Thought - 19th century religious movement in the United States that combined elements of ancient Greek , Roman , Chinese , Taoist , Hindu , Buddhist and ...
The New Believers: A Survey of Sects, 'Cults', and Alternative Religions, is a book by David V. Barrett covering the origin, history, beliefs, practices and controversies of more than sixty new religious movements, including The Family International (previously known as the Children of God), International Church of Christ, Osho (Rajneesh), Satanism, New Kadampa Tradition, Wicca, Druidry, chaos ...