Traces the ancient Qabalistic, Greek, and Egyptian roots of the Western esoteric systems, and how the initiation tradition has been handed down from adept to neophyte.
Step beyond the intellectual mind and enter the realm of the spirit with this guidebook to spiritual growth and self-awareness. The reader will learn that intuition is the inner voice of the spirit, and the foundation of a mystical life.
During the 1850s, a surprising number of Americans believed that the deceased could be contacted through trance mediums and séances. Many of the radical leaders of the anti-slavery, women’s rights, Temperance, prison reform, and labor reform movements were involved in spiritualism and used it as a conduit for social and political change.