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Western esotericism and rituals of initiation /
"For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry - the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation - Bogdan examines the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - the most influential of all nineteenth-century occultist initiatory societies - and Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large-scale Western esoteric New Religions Movements."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429471558 1429471557 9780791480106 0791480100 |