Showing posts with label mysticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mysticism. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Perchta and the History of Oliebollen

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It's the night before New Year's Eve and Willie Wilde 's best friend, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Tex) comes to call on him...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

What's-her-name: The Most Dangerous Woman of the 1890s

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"Editha Jackson" THE coming and going of Ann O'Delia Diss Debar are mysteries for there is no record of her birth and no ...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

The Occult Magic of 1890s Writers: Hermeticism

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Writing about Bram Stoker, W.B. Yeats, Maude Gonne, and Constance Wilde’s involvement in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn , made it...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The Perplexing Spiritualism of 1890s Writers: Christian Mysticism

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Writing a comprehensive post on Christian mysticism might be as challenging as writing my novel. Yet, it feels integral to that process b...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Spiritualist Frauds and the Writers Who Loved Them

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  I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference. No? Nor in materialisation. No? Nor in astral bodies. No? Nor in the re...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde only wrote one novel and a handful of plays, leaving some of us hungry for more. But wait! There is more! One lucky blogger ...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Talking to the Dead

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Do you believe in ghosts? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did! The idea of communicating with the dead fascinated him and leaves me puzzling over how...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

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Interest in alternative spirituality and the occult peaked before the Second World War, but mysticism was already becoming popular in the la...
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