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Islamic Art from the Collection, Oct. 23, 2020 - Dec
It Comes in Many Forms: Islamic Art from the Collection, Oct. 23, 2020 - Dec. 18, 2021 This exhibition presents textiles, decorative arts, and works on paper that show the breadth of Islamic artistic production and the diversity of Muslim cultures. Throughout the world for nearly 1,400 years, Islam’s creative expressions have taken many forms—as artworks, functional objects and tools, decoration, fashion, and critique. From a medieval Persian ewer to contemporary clothing, these objects explore migration, diasporas, and exchange. What makes an object Islamic? Does the artist need to be a practicing Muslim? Is being Muslim a religious expression or a cultural one? Do makers need to be from a predominantly Muslim country? Does the subject matter need to include traditionally Islamic motifs? These objects, a majority of which have never been exhibited before, suggest the difficulty of defining arts from a transnational religious viewpoint. These exhibition labels add honorifics whenever important figures in Islam are mentioned. SWT is an acronym for subhanahu wa-ta'ala (glorious and exalted is he), a respectful phrase used after every mention of Allah (God). SAW is an acronym for salallahu alayhi wa-sallam (may the blessings and the peace of Allah be upon him), used for the Prophet Muhammad, the founder and last messenger of Islam. AS is an acronym for alayhi as-sallam (peace be upon him), and is used for all other prophets before him. Tayana Fincher Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Fellow Costume and Textiles Department RISD Museum CHECKLIST OF THE EXHIBITION Spanish Tile, 1500s Earthenware with glaze 13.5 x 14 x 2.5 cm (5 5/16 x 5 1/2 x 1 inches) Gift of Eleanor Fayerweather 57.268 Heavily chipped on its surface, this tile was made in what is now Spain after the fall of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1238–1492). -
Secret Traditions in the Modern Tarot: Folklore and the Occult Revival
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The Tarot of the Bohemians : the Most Ancient Book in the World
IBSOLUTE KET TO OCCULT SCIENCE THE TAROT ÜF THE BOHEMIANS The Most Ancient Book in the World FOR THE USE OF INITIATES By papus TRANSLATED BY A. P. MORTON SECOND EDITION REVISED, WITH PREFACE B Y A. E. WAITE ILLUSTRATED WITH N UMEROU S PLATES AND WOODCUTS LONDON WILLIAM RIDER & SON, LIMITED 164 ALDERSGATE STREET, E.C. 1910 Absolute Key to Oocult Science Frontispicce 2) BVÜ W Wellcome Libraty i forthe Histôry standing Il and ififcteï -, of Medi Printed by Ballantyne, HANSON &* Co. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION An assumption of some kind being of common con- venience, that the line of least résistance may be pursued thereafter, I will open the présent considéra- tion by assuming that those who are quite unversed in the subject hâve referred to the pages which follow, and hâve thus become aware that the Tarot, on its external of that, side, is the probable progenitor playing-cards ; like these, it has been used for divination and for ail but that behind that is understood by fortune-telling ; this it is held to hâve a higher interest and another quality of importance. On a simple understanding, it is of allegory; it is of symbolism, on a higher plane; and, in fine, it is of se.cret doctrine very curiously veiled. The justification of these views is a different question; I am concerned wit>h ihe statement of fact are and this being said, I can that such views held ; pass to my real business, which" is in part critical and in part also explanatory, though not exactly on the elementary side. -
The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic the CHARLES WALKER COLLECTION LIST of CATEGORIES
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The Theosophical Seal by Arthur M. Coon the Theosophical Seal a Study for the Student and Non-Student
The Theosophical Seal by Arthur M. Coon The Theosophical Seal A Study for the Student and Non-Student by Arthur M. Coon This book is dedicated to all searchers for wisdom Published in the 1800's Page 1 The Theosophical Seal by Arthur M. Coon INTRODUCTION PREFACE BOOK -1- A DIVINE LANGUAGE ALPHA AND OMEGA UNITY BECOMES DUALITY THREE: THE SACRED NUMBER THE SQUARE AND THE NUMBER FOUR THE CROSS BOOK 2-THE TAU THE PHILOSOPHIC CROSS THE MYSTIC CROSS VICTORY THE PATH BOOK -3- THE SWASTIKA ANTIQUITY THE WHIRLING CROSS CREATIVE FIRE BOOK -4- THE SERPENT MYTH AND SACRED SCRIPTURE SYMBOL OF EVIL SATAN, LUCIFER AND THE DEVIL SYMBOL OF THE DIVINE HEALER SYMBOL OF WISDOM THE SERPENT SWALLOWING ITS TAIL BOOK 5 - THE INTERLACED TRIANGLES THE PATTERN THE NUMBER THREE THE MYSTERY OF THE TRIANGLE THE HINDU TRIMURTI Page 2 The Theosophical Seal by Arthur M. Coon THE THREEFOLD UNIVERSE THE HOLY TRINITY THE WORK OF THE TRINITY THE DIVINE IMAGE " AS ABOVE, SO BELOW " KING SOLOMON'S SEAL SIXES AND SEVENS BOOK 6 - THE SACRED WORD THE SACRED WORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Page 3 The Theosophical Seal by Arthur M. Coon INTRODUCTION I am happy to introduce this present volume, the contents of which originally appeared as a series of articles in The American Theosophist magazine. Mr. Arthur Coon's careful analysis of the Theosophical Seal is highly recommend to the many readers who will find here a rich store of information concerning the meaning of the various components of the seal Symbology is one of the ancient keys unlocking the mysteries of man and Nature. -
Lo Shu, Window to the World of the Wondrous: Bragdon, Lissitzky, Malevich
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The Extraordinary Form and New
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Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation
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The Baphomet a Discourse Analysis of the Symbol in Three Contexts
UPPSALA UNIVERSITY Department of Theology History of Religions and Social Sciences of Religion C2, 15 credits Spring 2013 Supervisor: Eva Hellman The Baphomet A discourse analysis of the symbol in three contexts by Carl Karlson-Weimann Abstract This essay examines how the Baphomet symbol is understood in three different contexts. Firstly, the understanding of the Baphomet is analysed in the book Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, written by the French 19th century occultist Éliphas Lévi. Secondly, I analyse the symbol in The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey, the person responsible for having introduced Satanism to modernity. Thirdly, the Baphomet as understood in contemporary metal music culture is analysed. Ultimately, I find the Baphomet to be viewed as a symbol associated with Satan, but in very different ways. The reason to why these differences exist I find to be partially explained by the initial mystery surrounding the Baphomet. The understanding of the Baphomet depends also on the role of Satan in each context. Due to Satan representing different things in the three different contexts, so does the Baphomet. Keywords: Baphomet, Western esotericism, Satanism, occulture, discourse theory, Éliphas Lévi, Anton Szandor LaVey, metal music, culture, religion Table of contents 1 Introduction.....................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Introductory remarks and purpose statement.....................................................................1 -
The Kabalistic and Occult Tarot of Eliphas Levi
The Kabalistic and Occult Tarot of Eliphas Levi The Kabalistic and Occult Tarot of Eliphas Levi / Eliphas Levi, Daath Gnosis / 324 pages / Lulu.com, 2016 / 1300783117, 9781300783114 / 2016 This is a compilation of Eliphas Levi's writings on the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot and their corresponding Hebrew letters. It includes the ""Magic Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum,"" some extracts from the ""Major Keys and the Clavicles of Solomon"" and the Editor's Appendix is a large collection of Levi's drawings and diagrams for easy reference. "The science of signs begins with the science of letters. Letters are absolute ideas. Absolute ideas are numbers. Numbers are perfect signs. In using ideas with numbers, one can operate upon the ideas like one can operate upon number and arrive at the mathematics of truth. The tarot is the key of letters and numbers..." "Now, the tarot that we have today ... has come to us from Egypt passing through Judea. The keys of this tarot, in fact, correspond with the letters of the hebraic alphabet, and some of its figures even reproduce the same form of the characters of this sacred alphabet." DOWNLOAD FILE HERE http://relevantin.org/2f8sbNS.pdf The Kabbalistic Prayer, The Book Of Formation, And The Magical Ritual Of The Sanctum Regnum / 212 pages / Eliphas Levi / Religion / Dec 1, 2005 / ISBN:1425482465 / This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because DOWNLOAD FILE HERE http://relevantin.org/2f8s0ls.pdf The Ritual of Transcendental Magic / 244 pages / ISBN:9783849606497 / Eliphas Levi / This is the complete English version of Eliphas Levi's treatise on ritual magic. -
[Aleister] Crowley
A REEVALUATION OF TI-IE LITERARY WORKS OF EDWARD ALEXANDER [ALEISTER] CROWLEY A Thesis Presented to The School of Graduate Studies Drake University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts by Charles Nicholas Serra II April 1991 A REEVALUATION OF THE LITERARY WORKS OF EDWARD ALEXANDER [ALEISTER] CROWLEY by Charles Nicholas Serra Il Approved by Committee: ~~.;.,. Dean of the School of Graduate Studies Dedicated to four instrumental people: For Aleister Crowley, who quested after "the light that never shone on land or sea"; for B. H. who provided patronage and patience; for Grace Eckley, who managed to nurse me through; and for L. L., "my Gitana, my Saliya," who has all the answers I lack, now in the ineffable. Unpublished Copyright. all rights reserved. 1991 1 A REEVALVATION OF THE LITERARY WORKS OF EDWARD ALEXANDER [ALEISTER] CROWLEY Table of Contents Page Abstract ., . ............. ..... ... .......... u Section One: Yeats and the Golden Dawn . Section Two: Augoeides, Maturity and Mysticism. ...... .. ..... 17 Section Three: Literary Decline, the War Years 36 Works Consulted. ...... ...... .. ........................... 44 Notes. .......... ....... ............ 49 Textual Appendix. ......................................... IA 11 A REEVALVAnON OF THE LITERARY WORKS OF EDWARD ALEXANDER [ALEISTER] CROWLEY Abstract For the last fifty years the poetry and prose of Edward Alexander [Aleister] Crowley (1875-1947) has been systematically ignored by scholars and critics on the narrow grounds that it deals with the occult sciences, is pornographic, or simply because detractors did not agree with Crowley's personal philosophy or life. Since the mid 1970's, however, academics have become increasingly interested in the mystical and occult content of William Butler Yeats's poetry, praising it for the same characteristics which have always been labeled "defects" in Crowley's work. -
A Qabalistic Examination of Symbolist Poetry and the Music of Claude Debussy
The Muse of Secrecy: A Qabalistic Examination of Symbolist Poetry and the Music of Claude Debussy Author Churchill, Christina Published 2020-06-03 Thesis Type Thesis (PhD Doctorate) School School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc DOI https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/1355 Copyright Statement The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/394685 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au The Muse of Secrecy: A Qabalistic Examination of Symbolist Poetry and the Music of Claude Debussy Christina Churchill MMus Perf Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of Doctor of Philosophy August 2019 School of Humanities Griffith University i Abstract The Qabalah played an important role to a number of esoteric and cultural groups in Paris from the 1840s through to the end of the 19th century. This Qabalistic brand of esotericism was spearheaded by Eliphas Lévi who combined facets of the Cabala of the Renaissance that held a Christian view of ancient Jewish Kabbalah, with Gnostic, Hermetic, Pythagorean, and Neoplatonic sources. Initiates sought the hidden and cryptographic meaning of Qabalistic texts and were attracted to the concept of a Divine language and its evocatory potential. This thesis shows how esoteric ideas were circulated though networks and clubs, including Le Chat Noir, Librairie de l'Art indépendant, and Mallarmé’s Tuesday salons. It argues that the Qabalah was especially important in these circles through the influence of Lévi, Gérard Encausse (Papus), and Joséphin Péladan. Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, and Debussy, along with other Symbolist poets and composers such as Villiers de l’Isle Adam, J.-K.