The Occult UndergroundJust when it seemed that Science and Reason had scored their greatest triumphs, the mid-mineteenth century witnessed an astonishing rebirth of occultism and anti-rationalism: the beginnings of the movement we now call New Age. A secret tradition of knowledge rejected by the Christian or Scientific establishments suddenly became emboldened to seek publicity and converts. |
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Page 116
... prophet . There were two broad paths along which new sects could travel the road to some sort of new compromise with scientific rationalism ; or the track which wound back in time toward a fresh assertion of the fundamental truths of ...
... prophet . There were two broad paths along which new sects could travel the road to some sort of new compromise with scientific rationalism ; or the track which wound back in time toward a fresh assertion of the fundamental truths of ...
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... Prophet and Pilgrim , pp . 21-40 . Among the radical Swedenborgians may be ranked the elder William James , father of William and Henry . 52 . 41. Schneider and Lawton , Prophet and Pilgrim , pp . 47 and 42. Thomas Lake Harris , Arcana ...
... Prophet and Pilgrim , pp . 21-40 . Among the radical Swedenborgians may be ranked the elder William James , father of William and Henry . 52 . 41. Schneider and Lawton , Prophet and Pilgrim , pp . 47 and 42. Thomas Lake Harris , Arcana ...
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... prophet , the producer of miraculous hosts and formerly of cardboard boxes . Eugène Vintras . When he was last considered , it was as a heretic whose miracles and prophecies were very like those of the official Church . He considered ...
... prophet , the producer of miraculous hosts and formerly of cardboard boxes . Eugène Vintras . When he was last considered , it was as a heretic whose miracles and prophecies were very like those of the official Church . He considered ...
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