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The Traveler’s Key to Northern India
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDescribes the historical background and religious significance of temples, shrines, palaces, and pilgrimage sites, and includes information on their art, architecture and legends This book is in [...]
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Robert Somerlott – Here, Mr. Splitfoot: An Informal Education in…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsChapters include occult stars, identifying spirits, poltergeists, crystal-gazers, host of prophets, occult kaleidoscope, bibliography, index. A witty and informal exploration into modern read [...]
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S. Giedion – The Eternal Present: Volume I: The Beginnings of Ar…
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Professor Giedion, well known as an historian of architecture, is concerned in this latest work with a problem that in his view has come more and more into the the […]
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The Way of Cartouche: An Oracle of Ancient Egyptian Magic
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWritten by Murry Hope, the book delves into the mystical practices of ancient Egypt, offering insights into magick studies and divination. This book is in Good readable condition. It has […]
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The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taugh…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, goes the ancient saying. This concept is at the root of the computational worldview, which basically says that very complex […]
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Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Reading these books one is brought yet again to hope that our society as a whole will be seriously drawn to a more systematic study of the deeper aspects of […]
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Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods: Images of the Commune
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis is the first English translation of a highly appealing volume originally published in French in 1993. Informed by a sense of wonderment at divine doings, it treats the ancient […]
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Louis Marin – To Destroy Painting
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-92) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation. To Destroy Painting, [...]
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Hal Foster – The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End o…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption […]
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Foundations of High Magick: The Magical Philosophy
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe definitive work on Western mystic traditions which traces the origins and re-interprets Occultism for modern day readers. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and […]
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Ioan Couliano – The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early…
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis pioneering study interprets the mythology of dualism from Gnosticism to the medieval Cathars to modern nihilism. Couliano shows that, far from being “historically” transmitted, [...]
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Egon Sendler – The Icon: Image of the Invisible
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA comprehensive study of the theology of the Icon and its history, the aesthetics of the Icon and its structures, and the techniques and steps to paint an Icon, this […]
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The Art of the Icon: a Theology of Beauty
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA presentation on the biblical and patristic vision of beauty, applied then to contemporary movements in art. A ‘theology of the icon’ from a personal point of view, as well […]
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Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Hermetica are a body of mystical texts written in late antiquity, but believed during the Renaissance (when they became well known) to be much older. Their supposed author, a […]
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The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPhilosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the representation of the deity, its possibilities and its proscriptions. The Forbidden Image traces the [...]
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Arnold I Davidson – Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemo…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn a book that moves between philosophy and history, and with lasting significance for both, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the […]
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Bojana Mojsov – Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBojana Mojsov tells the story of the cult of Osiris from beginning to end, sketching its development throughout 3,000 years of Egyptian history. Draws together the numerous records about Osiris [...]
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Revelations: Art of the Apocalypse
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis concise but illuminating introduction to the sources, symbolism, and meanings of the biblical Book of Revelation brings together visionary images by some of the greatest artists of Western [...]
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Rudolf Wittkower – Allegory and the Migration of Symbols
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This book has a taxonomy of sets of similar symbols with which the history of their locations, uses, and meanings can be put together to see the whole. Well researched […]
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F.M Cornford – From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origi…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis exploration of early Western philosophy traces the religious roots of science and systematic speculation. Cornford, a distinguished historian of ancient philosophy, combines deep classical [...]
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Lonnie Liston Smith / Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge – Jaz…
$15.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylCoursing through the cosmic pulse of Jazz-Funk is the inimitable influence of Lonnie Liston Smith. For over five decades, the legendary keyboardist and bandleader has been a driving force in […]
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Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
$16.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“The music from Sun Ra’s Chicago-based band of the 1950s (some of the same tunes, but different performances, also appear on Evidence’s Planet Earth/Low Ways) is quite [...]
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George Benson – Goodies
$15.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Verve needed one more album from Benson after he signed with A&M/CTI, and ended up with a strange grab-bag in which Benson plays superbly throughout, whatever the odd goulash of […]
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Hüsker Dü – Eight Miles High
$12.00 | 7", Used Items, VinylThe classic Byrds cover. Live version of Masochism World on the B-side. Label: SST Records – SST 025 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: US Released:
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The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsZeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more […]
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Burren Archaeology: A Tour Guide
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Burren in County Clare contains one of the more dense concentrations of archaeological remains in Ireland. Its monuments illustrate the story of human activity since it was first settled […]
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An Assemblage of Spirits : Idea and Image in New Ireland
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDescribes the daily life and culture in Papua New Guinea, and shows examples of carved architectural panels, masks, dance ornaments, figures, friezes, and poles This book is in Good readable […]
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Paradise: A History of the Idea that Rules the World
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the Church in the Middle Ages to the people who prepare sucidide bombers, there is always someone promsing a better tomorrow, if only we do what they say. Although […]
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language, Theory, Mythology, …
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and [...]
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Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Ex…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGoodman reexamines our notions of the nature of reality by studying the ritual postures of native art assumed by her subjects during trance states. For readers desiring to discover this […]
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Jolande Jacobi – Complex/Archetype/Symbol in the Psychology of C…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAs an associate of C. G. Jung for many years, Jolande Jacobi is in a unique position to provide an interpretation of his work. In this volume, Dr. Jacobi presents […]
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America, the Sorcerer’s New Apprentice: The Rise of New Age Sham…
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsReincarnation, Eastern mysticism, channeling, psychic phenomena. Is America at the threshold of a glorious new age of enlightenment? Or have we, in our search for higher levels of human [...]
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Julius Evola – The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in…
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this important study of the meaning of the Grail, one of Europe’s greatest esoteric philosophers discloses the pre-Christian and initiatic sources of this symbolic motif that is so [...]
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Walter Burkert – Greek Religion
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in […]
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Henry Corbin – Avicenna and the Visionary Recital
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), [...]
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Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArtists and writers reconsider the relationship between the body and electronic technology in the twenty-first century through essays, artworks, and an encyclopedic “Abecedarius of the New [...]
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Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class Etcetra in Ancient Egypt
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArchaeologies of Social Life is a fascinating new perspective on everyday life in ancient Egypt. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
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Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt : The One and the Many
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA work of extraordinary distinction, Hornung’s book will appeal to anyone interested in ancient Egypt, in ancient religion, and in the history of religion, as well as students and scholars […]
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Michael Slavin – The Book of Tara
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Book of Tara is written by local and respected historian, Michael Slavin, and examines the many aspects and beliefs associated to the sacred Hill of Tara itself and why […]
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Lucian Krukowski – Art and Concept: A Philosophical Study
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAddressing the important and timely question of what it is to know something as an artwork, this volume explores the relationship between works of art and the concepts, evaluations, descriptions, [...]
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Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTwelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work [...]
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Henri Focillon – The Life of Forms in Art
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this beautiful meditation on the art-historical problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881–1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is [...]
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Bruce Mau – Massive Change
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMassive Change is a modern, illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide. This book is part of a broader research project […]
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Moshe Idel – Messianic Mystics
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this stimulating book one of the world’s leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience. Moshe Idel calls upon his profound [...]
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Gnostic Faustus: The Secret Teachings Behind the Classic Text
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Gnostic Faustus, Ramona Fradon shows the legend of Doctor Faustus to be a composite Gnostic creation myth that reveals the process of spiritual salvation. Nearly every element of […]
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The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe amazing surprise New York Times bestseller, filled with “breathtaking glimpses into worlds that heretofore have been little explored” (Foreward) They say that history is written [...]
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D’Arcy Thompson – On Growth and Form
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsClassic of biology and modern science sets forth seminal “theory of transformation” that one species evolves into another not by successive minor changes in individual body parts [...]
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Frances Colpitt – Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThese essays on abstract painting by eleven of its most incisive critics trace the development of such critical issues as hard-edge painting, deductive and serial structure, monochrome [...]
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David F. Greenberg – The Construction of Homosexuality
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg’s [...]
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The Magus of Freemasonry: The Mysterious Life of Elias Ashmole–S…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsElias Ashmole (1617-1692) was the first to record a personal account of initiation into Accepted Freemasonry. His writings help solve the debate between operative and “speculative” origins of [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction