The Occult in Culture
How the occult shaped music, film, art, and popular imagination — and the figures, from Crowley onward, who carried it there.
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The Occult in Popular Culture
Esoteric ideas have circulated in the popular imagination of Europe and North America for at least two centuries, and in the last hundred years they have…
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The Occult in Music, Film, and Art
The twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a particularly rich period for the cultural absorption of occult material, and three fields in…
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Figures Who Shaped Modern Occultism
The period between the 1850s and the 1970s was, in the Western world, the most significant period of occult revival since the Renaissance, and it produced…
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Famous Occultists Through History
The Western esoteric tradition is long, and the figures who have shaped it are numerous. This article offers a short tour, in chronological order, of…
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Aleister Crowley: Life, Works, and Legacy
Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley on 12 October 1875 in Royal Leamington Spa, was an English occultist, mountaineer, poet, and founder of…