DICTIONNAIRE DES SCIENCES OCCULTES, DE LESOTERISME ET DES ARTS DIVINATOIRES
Book Details + Condition: Sand/Jean-Cyrille Godefroy (Paris), 1984. Lovely large hardcover with decorated boards. 431 pages, with illustrations throughout. Written in the original French by Hervé Masson. From the cover (translated): Occultism, magic and their corollary, initiatory societies, are experiencing renewed interest today. However, the doctrines, myths, rites and traditions are so numerous that the layman finds it very difficult to identify with them. Hervé Masson's dictionary remedies this by analyzing the main doctrines separately and emphasizing the close links which make all particular esotericisms one and the same esotericism. The secret rites by which the passage from the world of darkness to that of light is carried out, the myths on which these rites are based, the schools of thought, the great initiates. are in turn analyzed or presented. The amount of documentation, drawn from the best sources, is such that this dictionary - unique to date - is aimed at both the specialist and the layman. Contents include:
- Definition and universality
- The use of myths and symbols
- The use and development of paranormal faculties
- Panorama of esoteric metaphysics
- Of immanence as fall and death and of transcendence as salvation
- The opposition of Good and Evil
- Cosmic and spiritual implications
- Doctrines and adepts
- And more.
Firm binding; a bit of rubbing to corners and edges; light shelf wear to boards; interior is clean and free of markings.
