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OCCULT BOOKS for sincere seekers after Truth and Wisdom [100] Also influenced by artificial somnambulism was the religion of New Thought, founded by the American mesmerist Phineas P. Quimby (18021866). The truth surpasses the faculties of ordinary men: only well-prepared and well-educated men can be aware of it . As the great Irish esotericist John Heron Lepper wrote, one could say that the existence of secret or closed societies [namely mystery schools] in which certain teachings or practices are passed on to chosen individuals who must undergo a series of tests responds to a very general predisposition of human nature. [104] Subsequent leaders of the Society, namely Annie Besant (18471933) and Charles Webster Leadbeater (18541934) interpreted modern theosophy as a form of ecumenical esoteric Christianity, resulting in their proclamation of Indian Jiddu Krishnamurti (18951986) as world messiah. [103] His Traditionalist ideas strongly influenced later esotericists like Julius Evola (18981974) and Frithjof Schuon (19071998). A feature that, moreover, has always been present in the Mediterranean area since ancient times. HVOSwm)B[eXQ\6%L1["pCDKy 1gLl}Vn={=s>s- ] O8.>tTvV,0 \4$T6`d|l[ly4s)0 /8" ]bTmPs0G? fCRbnizzz Y'G}&_b@LfclYh8sh1EH4`keLb||=BG OrgTH)Q oVw=.U6#>3c-NSsyhP_y6":^2leB/iF"7/}#}R"`a2$-Pb(pi,D}P.d$I1e2OccJ%3zp["fIt:T~t qKd).Z:i,qnz:YcENb#BZ$={h2l Relief representing Demeter, Kore-Persephone and Triptolemus from the Eleusinian mystery school. (In other words, thumb to thumb, index to index, etc.) [7][8] 0000007775 00000 n Following his death, followers founded the Swedenborgian New Churchthough his writings influenced a wider array of esoteric philosophies. The ancient mysteries, as Piero Coda has pointed out, has generally the following features: 3) The commitment not to talk about what it is seen nor spoken out; 4) Sharing salvation () through the communion (of the initiated) with a suffering fate () and the rebirth of the deities; 5) The community of the initiated are strictly separated from that of the uninitiated; As Aim Solignac wrote, The unifying principle of the multiple meanings of the words , , , , , and their equivalents, is the idea of a more or less immediate communication from gods to men, and from a mysterious initiation of men to the gods, to their action and to their essence. In fact, Maximus of Tyre, rhetorician and philosopher and an initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, stated that: All things, indeed, are full of enigmas, both among poets and philosophers, whose reverence of the truth I much more admire then the liberty of speech adopted by the moderns. Arthur Versluis, Methods in the Study of Esotericism, Part II: Mysticism and the Study of Esotericism, in, tree of life as represented in the Kabbalah, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, International Association for the History of Religions, Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, "The Ritual Dimension of Western Esotericism: The Rebirth Motif and the Transformation of Human Consciousness", "Alkimia Operativa and Alkimia Speculativa.