Author: Kirt Burdick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578556444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Enter a criminal underworld of brutal faeries, sinister schemes, and restless spirits.
Fae Archaic
Author: Kirt Burdick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578556444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Enter a criminal underworld of brutal faeries, sinister schemes, and restless spirits.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578556444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Enter a criminal underworld of brutal faeries, sinister schemes, and restless spirits.
Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition
Author: Richard Kaczynski
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583945768
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
A rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more than “the Beast,” as this authoritative biography shows. Perdurabo—entitled after the magical name Crowley chose when inducted into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—traces Crowley’s remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a boarding house as the world’s foremost authority on magick. Along the way, he rebels against his conservative religious upbringing; befriends famous artists, writers, and philosophers (and becomes a poet himself); is attacked for his practice of “the black arts”; and teaches that science and magick can work together. While seeking to spread his infamous philosophy of, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” Crowley becomes one of the most notorious figures of his day. Based on Richard Kaczynski’s twenty years of research, and including previously unpublished biographical details, Perdurabo paints a memorable portrait of the man who inspired the counterculture and influenced generations of artists, punks, wiccans, and other denizens of the demimonde.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583945768
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
A rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more than “the Beast,” as this authoritative biography shows. Perdurabo—entitled after the magical name Crowley chose when inducted into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—traces Crowley’s remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a boarding house as the world’s foremost authority on magick. Along the way, he rebels against his conservative religious upbringing; befriends famous artists, writers, and philosophers (and becomes a poet himself); is attacked for his practice of “the black arts”; and teaches that science and magick can work together. While seeking to spread his infamous philosophy of, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” Crowley becomes one of the most notorious figures of his day. Based on Richard Kaczynski’s twenty years of research, and including previously unpublished biographical details, Perdurabo paints a memorable portrait of the man who inspired the counterculture and influenced generations of artists, punks, wiccans, and other denizens of the demimonde.
The Star in the West
Author: John Frederick Charles Fuller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Works of Aleister Crowley
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585093502
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This is Volume One of a three-volume set, comprising much of Crowley's early material, written mostly between 1898-1902. His earliest works, written between 1887-1897, were almost entirely destroyed by authorities due to their offensive nature. In writing the material that appears in this volume, Crowley toned things down a notch and moved away from the more lurid and graphic sexual themes he had been primarily focused on. He concentrates almost entirely on religion and mythology in this collection. This reflects a time in his life when he was awakening to an important mystical and spiritual level. It can be seen by the reader how Crowley continues to grow and mature into more advanced ideas in the two remaining volumes, as well. It is hard to think of Crowley as a poet, but his style and advanced mystical vocabulary are unique and go beyond that of everyday poets. His plays are also interesting. Crowley once said that the last play, "Tanhauser: The Story of All Time," contained the theory of special relativity, which Einstein clarified more fully and scientifically three years later, in 1905. This volume contains four poems, five plays, four sections of shorter poems, an Epilogue, and an interesting Appendix on Qabalistic Dogma.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585093502
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This is Volume One of a three-volume set, comprising much of Crowley's early material, written mostly between 1898-1902. His earliest works, written between 1887-1897, were almost entirely destroyed by authorities due to their offensive nature. In writing the material that appears in this volume, Crowley toned things down a notch and moved away from the more lurid and graphic sexual themes he had been primarily focused on. He concentrates almost entirely on religion and mythology in this collection. This reflects a time in his life when he was awakening to an important mystical and spiritual level. It can be seen by the reader how Crowley continues to grow and mature into more advanced ideas in the two remaining volumes, as well. It is hard to think of Crowley as a poet, but his style and advanced mystical vocabulary are unique and go beyond that of everyday poets. His plays are also interesting. Crowley once said that the last play, "Tanhauser: The Story of All Time," contained the theory of special relativity, which Einstein clarified more fully and scientifically three years later, in 1905. This volume contains four poems, five plays, four sections of shorter poems, an Epilogue, and an interesting Appendix on Qabalistic Dogma.
Menelaus in the Archaic Period
Author: Anna R. Stelow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192596608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
While there have been many studies devoted to the major heroes and heroines of Homeric epic, among them Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen, the figure of Menelaus has remained notably overlooked in this strand of scholarship. Menelaus in the Archaic Period is the first book-length study of the Homeric character, taking a multidisciplinary approach to his depiction in archaic Greek poetry, art, and cult through detailed analysis of ancient literary, visual, and material evidence. The volume is divided into two parts, the first of which examines the portrayal of Menelaus in the Homeric poems as a unique 'personality' with an integral role to play in each narrative, as depicted through typical patterns of speech and action and through intertextual allusion. The second part explores his representation both in other poetry of the archaic period - including lyric poetry and Simonides' 'Plataea elegy ' - and also archaic art and local Sparta cult, drawing on the literary, archaeological, and inscriptional evidence for the cult of Menelaus with Helen at Therapne. The depiction of Menelaus in archaic art is a particular focal point: Chapter 4 provides a methodology for the interpretation of heroic narrative on archaic Greek vases through iconography and inscriptions and establishes his conventional visual 'identity' on black figure Athenian vases, while an annotated catalogue of images details those that fall outside the 'norm'. Menelaus emerges from this comprehensive study as a unique and likeable character whose relationship with Helen was a popular theme in both epic poetry and vase painting, but one whose portrayal evinced a significant narrative range, with an array of continuities and differences in how he was represented by the Greeks, not only within the archaic period but also in comparison to classical Athens.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192596608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
While there have been many studies devoted to the major heroes and heroines of Homeric epic, among them Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen, the figure of Menelaus has remained notably overlooked in this strand of scholarship. Menelaus in the Archaic Period is the first book-length study of the Homeric character, taking a multidisciplinary approach to his depiction in archaic Greek poetry, art, and cult through detailed analysis of ancient literary, visual, and material evidence. The volume is divided into two parts, the first of which examines the portrayal of Menelaus in the Homeric poems as a unique 'personality' with an integral role to play in each narrative, as depicted through typical patterns of speech and action and through intertextual allusion. The second part explores his representation both in other poetry of the archaic period - including lyric poetry and Simonides' 'Plataea elegy ' - and also archaic art and local Sparta cult, drawing on the literary, archaeological, and inscriptional evidence for the cult of Menelaus with Helen at Therapne. The depiction of Menelaus in archaic art is a particular focal point: Chapter 4 provides a methodology for the interpretation of heroic narrative on archaic Greek vases through iconography and inscriptions and establishes his conventional visual 'identity' on black figure Athenian vases, while an annotated catalogue of images details those that fall outside the 'norm'. Menelaus emerges from this comprehensive study as a unique and likeable character whose relationship with Helen was a popular theme in both epic poetry and vase painting, but one whose portrayal evinced a significant narrative range, with an array of continuities and differences in how he was represented by the Greeks, not only within the archaic period but also in comparison to classical Athens.
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
ARCHAIC ROOTS OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH
Author: S.V. Zharnikova
Publisher: WP IPGEB
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
S. V. Zharnikova book is dedicated to ancient roots Russian folk culture. The book examined the artistic creativity, folk songs, traditions and rituals, have survived in the same forms as in the north of Russia, and India. Many of them for the first time are explained on the basis of ancient Aryan texts. S. V. Zharnikova of the book readers will learn about the origins of the age-images of folk songs, tales, epics, conspiracies. About the complex symbolism of the ancient ornaments, which are more than twenty thousand years, dispatches from the North Russian weavers and embroiderers to the present day.
Publisher: WP IPGEB
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
S. V. Zharnikova book is dedicated to ancient roots Russian folk culture. The book examined the artistic creativity, folk songs, traditions and rituals, have survived in the same forms as in the north of Russia, and India. Many of them for the first time are explained on the basis of ancient Aryan texts. S. V. Zharnikova of the book readers will learn about the origins of the age-images of folk songs, tales, epics, conspiracies. About the complex symbolism of the ancient ornaments, which are more than twenty thousand years, dispatches from the North Russian weavers and embroiderers to the present day.
The Academy
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Archaic Smile of Herodotus
Author: Stewart Flory
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814318270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814318270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description