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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.
American occult writers (1 C, 90 P) Pages in category "American occultists" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
Author Mitch Horowitz in Occult America: ... but their faith was also instrumental in liberation movements from abolitionism to women’s rights. During the 20th century, ...
Heathenism (also Heathenry, or Greater Heathenry), is a blanket term for the whole Germanic neopagan movement. Various currents and denominations have arisen over the years within it. Some of these denominations follow white supremacy, and some of the groups listed here follow folkish ideology. Europe. Scandinavia. Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagið ...
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
In May 2005 the then Prime Minister of France, in a circulaire, [32] which stressed that the government must exercise vigilance concerning the cult phenomenon, [32] said that the list of movements attached to the Parliamentary Report of 1995 had become less pertinent, based on the observation that many small groups had formed: scattered, more ...
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 ...