The Wisdom of Israel Regardie Volume I - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Wisdom of Israel Regardie Volume I: Selected Introductions, Prefaces and Forewords [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Israel Regardie, eds Christopher S Hyatt and William S Hyatt, introduction Lon Milo DuQuette This volume is the first of three that bibliographic records assure me to have been edited by […]
Freemasonry and Catholicism - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Freemasonry and Catholicism: An Exposition of the Cosmic Facts Underlying These Two Great Institutions as Determined by Occult Investigation [Amazon, Bookshop, Internet Archive, Local Library] by Max Heindel This book has been my first significant reading in the “Rosicrucian” instructions of Max Heindel, an erstwhile Theosophist who lectured, published, and organized […]
Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity - The Hermetic Library Blog
Kent Navalesi reviews The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Mark Letteney. (n.b. book is Open Access, and available as gratis download in full book PDF, and chapter by chapter in PDF and HTML, from the publisher.) Hardcover out now, paperback due June 2025. This […]
A Sacred Kingdom - The Hermetic Library Blog
Kent Navalesi reviews A Sacred Kingdom: Bishops and the Rise of Frankish Kingship, 300-850 [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Michael Edward Moore, part of the Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law series It’s been a while since I finished this (long) book, so I’ll just leave a small blurb. A Sacred Kingdom […]
A Century of Miracles - The Hermetic Library Blog
Kent Navalesi reviews A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312–410 [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by H A Drake In this clearly-argued and vividly-illustrated book, H.A. Drake takes a fresh look at a well-worn topic in late antique studies: the fourth-century transformation of the once-pluralistic Roman Empire into a self-consciously Christian, […]
The Mass and its Mysteries Compared to the Ancient Mysteries - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Mass and its Mysteries Compared to the Ancient Mysteries (La Messe et ses Mysteres Compares aux Mysteres Anciens) [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher] by Jean-Marie Ragon, trans John Lenoir John Lenoir has recently (2011) published his own English translation of Jean-Marie Ragon’s La Messe et ses Mysteres Compares aux Mysteres Anciens (1844). This book […]
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