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Category : Astrology
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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The Occult and Biological Journal
Author: Occult Scientific Mentalities
Author: Brian VickersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521338363
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The essays in this volume present a collective study of one of the major problems in the recent history of science: To what extent did the occult 'sciences' (alchemy, astrology, numerology, and natural magic) contribute to the scientific revolution of the late Renaissance? These studies of major scientists (Kepler, Bacon, Mersenne, and Newton) and of occultists (Dee, Fludd, and Cardano), complemented by analyses of contemporary official and unofficial studies at Cambridge and Oxford and discussions of the language of science, combine to suggest that hitherto the relationship has been too crudely stated as a movement 'from magic to science'. In fact, two separate mentalities can be traced, the occult and the scientific, each having different assumptions, goals, and methodologies. The contributors call into question many of the received ideas on this topic, showing that the issue has been wrongly defined and based on inadequate historical evidence. They outline new ways of approaching and understanding a situation in which two radically different and, to modern eyes, incompatible ways of describing reality persisted side-by-side until the demise of the occult in the late seventeenth century. Their work, accordingly, sets the whole issue in a new light.
The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health
Author: The Esoteric
Author: Hiram Erastus ButlerPublisher:
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Category : Occultism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Human Nature
Author: American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated
Author: The Problem of Disenchantment
Author: Egil AspremPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438469926
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Challenges the conventional view of a disenchanted and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world. Max Weber famously characterized the ongoing process of intellectualization and rationalization that separates the natural world from the divine (by excluding magic and value from the realm of science, and reason and fact from the realm of religion) as the disenchantment of the world. Egil Asprem argues for a conceptual shift in how we view this key narrative of modernity. Instead of a sociohistorical process of disenchantment that produces increasingly rational minds, Asprem maintains that the continued presence of magic and enchantment in peoples everyday experience of the world created an intellectual problem for those few who were socialized to believe that nature should contain no such incalculable mysteries. Drawing on a wide range of early twentieth-century primary sources from theoretical physics, occultism, embryology, radioactivity, psychical research, and other fields, Asprem casts the intellectual life of high modernity as a synchronic struggle across conspicuously different fields that shared surprisingly similar intellectual problems about value, meaning, and the limits of knowledge. The Problem of Disenchantment is, in its entirety, extraordinarily well researched, argued, and writtenrepresenting at once the most complete and nuanced treatment of the notion of disenchantment within this network of scientific, religious, philosophical, and esoteric discourses and currents. Nova Religio
The Sphinx
Author: Harmony
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Category : Mental healing
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Goal of Life; Or, Science and Revelation
Author: Hiram Erastus ButlerPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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