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Magick Matters
"The esoteric path of the hermetic tradition has informed the Western way from the classical mystery schools to the dawning of the Aquarian Age. It has preserved and modified the ancestral Earth mysteries and explored the inner world, balancing the way of the goddess with the way of the god. In its ranks priest, magician, Sibyl, prophet, mystic, alchemist and qabalist have used the skilful means of the perennial wisdom to transmit the gnosis of the gods. Their goal has been to achieve the Grail, to find the philosopher's stone, and to reassemble the scattered body of light, of which we are all a part. Through the practical exercises in this book, the guardianship...>>
"This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how much of Scripture is historically false--yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed the primeval world and that direct us today toward a deep, inner, authentic experience of the truly sacred.
From a historical perspective, the Bible is shockingly, provably wrong--a point supported by today's best archaeological and historical scholarship but not well understood by (or communicated to) the public. Yet this emphatically does not mean that the Bible isn't, in some very real measure, true, argues scholar of mysticism Richard Smoley.
Smoley reviews the most authoritative historical evidence to demonstrate that figures such as Moses, Abraham, and Jesus are not only...>>
