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The Legacy of Luxor | John Michael Greer
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May 19, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late last year, before veering off on several necessary tangents, we brought the story of American occultism up to the point when the Theosophical Society was hitting its stride. Now that we can return to the story, let’s circle back to the same point in history. Lodges of the T.S., as it was usually called for short, were springing up all over the United States, a ...
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BOOKS: The Doctrine Of High Magic: Introduction | John Michael Greer
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May 12, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- With this post we begin a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the modern magical rev ...
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Conversation as Commons | John Michael Greer
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May 5, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- A little while back I fielded yet another attempt to bully me into censoring my comments pages. It was the same schtick as always. One of my commenters had expressed a poin ...
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The Flight From Thinking | John Michael Greer
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Silvanasono, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsApril 21, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- For more than a year now I’ve been devoting a post or two each month to the magical history of the United States, an ...
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BOOKS: The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic: Preliminaries | John Michael Greer
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April 14, 2021 (EciSophia.net) -- Last month we wrapped up three years of monthly discussions of The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune, arguably the 20th century’s most important work of occult philoso ...
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Rice and Beans in the Outer Darkness | John Michael Greer
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Red Beans and Rice at Angeline's Louisiana Kitchen - Berkeley, Calif.. Photo Credit: Arnold Gatilao from Fremont, Calif., USA, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons March 31, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Psyc ...
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A Sense of Déjà Vu | John Michael Greer
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April 7, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Déjà vu -- the sudden insistent feeling that you’ve encountered the present moment before -- can be one of the oddest of human experiences. Sometimes, though, it happ ...
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A Useful Kind of Madness | John Michael Greer
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March 17, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- Like the last two installments in this blog’s discussion of the magical history of America -- which you can read here and here -- this post will discuss one of the facto ...
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Strange Days Dawning | John Michael Greer
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Back slowly away from the crazy person Brace for serious trouble March 3, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Late in 2019, I wrote a series of posts entitled “Dancers at the End of Time,” sketching out certain ...
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A Gathering of Long Lost Friends | John Michael Greer
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Feb. 17, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- Regular readers will be aware that many of last year’s posts on this blog were devoted to what we might call the history of American magic, or perhaps the magical his ...
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The Last Years of Progress | John Michael Greer
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Feb. 3, 2021 (EcoSophia) -- No, I’m not going to put much time here into discussing the last few weeks of political gyrations in the United States. I grant that it was highly entertaining to watch po ...