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3. See Lon Milo DuQuette, My Life with the Spirits (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1999); Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ceremonial Magic and the Power of Evocation (Tempe, AZ: New Falcon Publications, 2006); Carroll “Poke” Runyon, The Book of Solomon’s Magick (Silverado, CA: Church of the Hermetic Sciences, 2004).
4. J. Kent Clark, Goodwin Wharton (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1984).
5. Thomas, op. cit.
6. Jane Williams-Hogan, “Swedenborg,” in Wouter J. Hanegraaff et al., eds., Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
7. Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell. From Things Heard and Seen (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1867).
8. Quoted by John Selwyn Gummer, “Swedenborg,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
9. Robert Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968).
10. Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry (New York: Basic Books, 1970).
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. At this point, it may be as well to note that from the days of Gassner onward, spirit contact became progressively less concerned with angels and devils (although some such contacts did persist) and more involved with the souls of the dead.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Alan Gauld, A History of Hypnotism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Justinus Kerner, The Seeress of Prevorst: Being Revelations Concerning the Inner-Life of Man, and the Inter-Diffusion of a World of Spirits in the One We Inhabit (London: Patridge & Brittan, 1845)
23. Ibid.
24. Gauld, A History of Hypnotism.
25. Ibid.
26. Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998).
27. Ibid.
12: REVOLUTIONARY SORCERER
1. As a novice in the Benfratelli of Cartegirone, Cagliostro substituted the names of notorious prostitutes for the names of the saints while giving a Scripture reading at supper.
2. The ability to gather information about someone by means of subtle clues in their reactions.
3. http://www.faust.com/index.php/legend/cagliostro/letter-to-the-french-people/ (accessed December 3, 2011).
4. Eliphas Lévi, The History of Magic, trans. Arthur Edward Waite (London: Rider & Son, 1922).
13: HISTORY REPEATS
1. E. M. Almedingen, The Romanovs (London: The Bodley Head, 1966).
2. Colin Wilson, Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (London: Panther Books, 1978).
3. Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (London: Vintage Classics, 2008).
4. Quoted in Colin Wilson, Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs.
14: DIRECT GUIDANCE
1. http://www.controverscial.com/Paddy%20Slade.htm (accessed December 4, 2011).
2. Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1984).
3. A. H. Z. Carr, Napoleon Speaks (New York: Viking Press, 1941).
4. Judy Hall, Napoleon’s Oracle (London: Cico Books, 2003).
5. Paul Brunton, A Search in Secret Egypt (New York: Weiser, 1992).]
15: AN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
1. James 1:5, KJV.
2. The phrase is Smith’s own, although copies of the plates show a script that appears to bear little resemblance to Egyptian hieroglyphic or demotic.
3. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith (accessed January 17, 2012).
4. See http://lds.about.com/od/mormons/a/church_membership.htm (accessed January 19, 2012).
5. Richard N. and Joan K. Ostling, Mormon America: The Power and the Promise (New York: HarperOne 2007).
16: IS EVERYBODY THERE?
1. Ruth Brandon, The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983).
2. “Spiritualism,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica 2009 Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2009).
3. Quoted in Brandon.
4. Brandon, op. cit.
5. Ibid.
6. Ronald Pearsall, The Table-Rappers (London: Michael Joseph, 1972).
7. Montague Keen, Arthur Ellison, and David Fontana, “The Scole Report,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 58, pt. 220 (November 1999).
8. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, “Cooke, Grace,” in Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991).
9. Fran Rosen-Bizberg, Orion Transmissions Prophecy: Ancient Wisdom for a New World, vol. 1 (Jordanów, Poland: Fundacja Terapia Homa, 2003).
10. The most sympathetic of the white community were Utah’s Mormons, who were familiar with the concept of visionary revelation.
11. The idea has much in common with the Mormon belief in “endowment garments,” which protect pious wearers from evil. Some scholars have even argued that the Mormon doctrine was the inspiration of the Native American belief. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance (accessed January 21, 2012).
17: THE SPIRITS GO TO WAR
1. A similar phenomenon occurred a century later with the publication of Stephen Hawking’s Brief History of Time.
2. Eliphas Lévi, The History of Magic, trans. Arthur Edward Waite (London: Rider & Son, 1922).
3. Lewis Spence, The Occult Causes of the Present War (London: Rider & Co., n.d.).
4. I was to hear the same argument, half a century later, from a member of Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement.
5. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2011).
6. Once again we have an echo of Jaynes’s theories, but again dated differently.
18: THE SPIRITS AND THE FÜHRER
1. Arthur J. Magida, The Nazi Séance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
2. By, for example, the Society for Psychical Research.
3. Magida, op. cit.
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jan_Hanussen (accessed December 11, 2011).
5. http://www.steinschneider.com/biography/hanussen/page18.htm (accessed December 11, 2011).
6. Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks: A Series of Political Conversations with Adolf Hitler on His Real Aims (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2006).
7. John Toland, Adolf Hitler (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976).
8. Henry Ashby Turner Jr., ed., Hitler: Memoirs of a Confidant (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985).
9. Trevor Ravenscroft, The Spear of Destiny (New York: Weiser, 1982).
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Johannes_Stein (accessed December 12, 2011).
11. See, for example, the training program offered by the Jersey-based Servants of the Light (http://www.servantsofthelight.org) or the writings of Dion Fortune, who founded the Society of the Inner Light (http://www.innerlight.org.uk) based in London.
12. Timothy W. Ryback, Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008; Kindle edition).
13. Ernst Schertel, Magic: History/Theory/Practice (Boise, ID: Cotum, 2009).
19: A MUSEUM OF SPIRIT CONTACT
1. Birgit Menzel, “The Occult Revival in Russia Today and Its Impact on Literature,” The Harriman Review, published online at http://www.fb06.uni-mainz.de/inst/is/russisch/menzel/forschung/00786.pdf (accessed November 22, 2012).
2. Peter Popham, “Politics in Italy: The Séance That Came Back to Haunt Romano Prodi,” The Independent (London), December 2, 2005.
3. See, among other works, my own Astral Doorways
(London: Aquarian Press, 1972).
4. Samir Khan, “Expectations Full,” http://publicintelligence.net/expectations-full-jihadi-manual/ (accessed November 22, 2012).
5. Ibid.
20: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPIRIT KIND
1. The term derives from Spiritualism where it describes the appearance of small objects in the séance room out of thin air.
2. In Ivan Cooke, The Return of Arthur Conan Doyle (Hampshire, UK: White Eagle Publishing Trust, 1975).
3. Ibid.
4. Jean Overton Fuller, The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuburg: Aleister Crowley’s Magical Brother and Lover (Oxford, UK: Mandrake of Oxford, 2005).
5. Aleister Crowley, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley (New York: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1987).
6. Fuller, op. cit.
7. Israel Regardie The Golden Dawn (Chicago: Aries Press, 1940). Quoted in translation.
8. Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley: The Biography (London: Watkins Publishing, 2011).
9. Ibid. Other sources suggest her message was that “they” were waiting for Crowley.
10. Ibid.
11. Quoted in Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010).
12. In reality a simple room in their apartment designated for magical purposes.
13. Quoted in Kaczynski, op. cit.
14. Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law: Liber AL vel Legis, available at http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/engccxx.htm (accessed January 28, 2012).
15. Ibid.
21: THREE CONJURATIONS
1. The account that follows draws on Elizabeth M. Butler, Ritual Magic (Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998).
2. H. P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, vol. 2 (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1972).
3. My version of the Inquiry’s findings also draws on Butler, op. cit.
4. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, a well-known English playwright, poet, and novelist with a considerable interest in the occult.
5. Eliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual, trans. Arthur Edward Waite (London: Rider & Co., 1896).
6. Elizabeth M. Butler, op. cit.
7. Gerald Brittle, The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2002).
22: SPIRIT TRANSFERS, SPIRIT POWERS
1. As W. E. Butler.
2. He later lost his second leg to the same condition.
3. Dolores has also claimed health benefits, notably a strengthened immune system.
4. She died on November 26, 2010.
5. 1 Kings 10, KJV.
6. Song of Solomon 1:1, KJV.
7. Ibid.
8. Emma Hardinge Britten, Nineteenth Century Miracles: Or Spirits and Their Work in Every Country of the Earth (New York: Lovell & Co., 1884).
9. Ruth Brandon, The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983).
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dunglas_Home (accessed, January 31, 2012).
11. Britten, op. cit.
12. See http://www.victorzammit.com/book/chapter12.html (accessed January 17, 2013).
13. Britten, op. cit.
14. Revelation 12:7–9, KJV.
15. From Canon H. R. Charles, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (Oxford, UK: The Clarendon Press, 1913).
16. Ibid.
17. Although it is probably true to suggest the New Age movement has carried these beliefs to a wider Western audience than at any other time in history.
18. G. R. S. Mead, trans., “The Corpus Hermeticum,” Internet Sacred Text Archive
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
23: A SKEPTICAL INQUIRY
1. James Randi, The Supernatural A-Z: The Truth and the Lies (London: Headline, 1995).
2. http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia (accessed February 2, 2012).
3. Randi, The Supernatural A-Z, op. cit.
4. Jasper Maskelyne, White Magic (London: Stanley Paul & Co, n.d.; probably late 1930s).
5. Ibid.
6. Jim Steinmeyer, Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible (London: William Heinemann, 2003).
7. John Gordon Melton, “Spiritualism,” in Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica 2009 Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2009).
8. http://unleashyourdreams.co.uk/Unleash_Your_Dreams/_Box_Of_Delights_Seance_Kit_.html (accessed February 3, 2012).
9. http://www.spr.ac.uk/main/ (accessed February 3, 2012).
10. January 2012.
11. James Randi, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, op. cit.
12. http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Facts_on_PostConviction_DNA_Exonerations.php (accessed February 5, 2012).
13. http://www.ghost-science.co.uk/2010/08/spiritualism-the-birth-of-a-lie (accessed February 5, 2012).
14. William Crookes, “Notes of an Enquiry into the Phenomena Called Spiritual During the Years 1870–1873,” Quarterly Journal of Science (January 1874).
15. Robert McLuhan, Randi’s Prize (Kibworth Beauchamp, UK: Troubador, 2010).
16. McLuhan, op. cit.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
24: THE BICAMERAL THEORY
1. Jaynes, op. cit.
2. Quoted by Jaynes.
3. Eugen Herrigal, Zen in the Art of Archery (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953).
4. Jaynes, op. cit.
5. Martian Genesis (London: Piatkus Books, 1998) and The Atlantis Enigma (London: Piatkus Books, 1999).
25: SPIRITS OF THE DEEP MIND
1. Ellenberger describes it as “vaguely resembling a mixture of Italian and French.”
2. Back on Earth, the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine was not made by the Wright brothers until the end of 1903.
3. Jung’s family history claimed illegitimate descent from Goethe.
4. Ellenberger, op. cit.
5. Then generally believed to be caused by physical lesions of the nervous system resulting from the original trauma.
6. Theodore Flournoy, From India to the Planet Mars, trans. Daniel B. Vermilye (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900).
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ellenberger, op. cit.
10. C. G. Jung, Psychology and the Occult (London: Ark, 1987).
11. Ibid.
12. Butler, op. cit.
13. Ibid.
14. Paschal Beverly Randolph, Seership: Guide to Soul Sight (Quakertown, PA: Confederation of Initiates, 1930).
15. Butler, op. cit.
16. Ibid.
26: PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS
1. http://theshadowlands.net/places/uk.htm (accessed February 7, 2012).
2. In a private conversation with the present author.
3. Some sources put the figure as high as twenty-seven thousand.
4. Accounts vary. In some, the armies appeared in the sky overhead; in others, the apparitions fought across the fields and hills of the original battle.
5. Eric Maple and Lynn Myring, Haunted Houses, Ghosts and Spectres (London: Usborne, 1979).
6. J. H. Brennan, Time Travel: A New Perspective (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1997).
7. Colin Wilson, Beyond the Occult (London: Bantam Press, 1988).
8. Brennan, Time Travel, op. cit.
27: THE GEIST THAT POLTERS
1. An East Frankish historical text composed by monks in the tenth century CE and covering a period between the reigns of Louis the Pious (died 640 CE) and the accession of Louis III in 900 CE.
2. Survey quoted in http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/p/poltergeist.html (accessed February 9, 2012).
3. Which stood on the site of the present Zouch Manor.
4. Richard Cavendish, ed., Encyclopedia o
f the Unexplained: Magic, Occultism, and Parapsychology (London: Penguin, 1995).
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist (accessed July 16, 2012).
28: THE BOGGLE THRESHOLD
1. Joseph H. Peterson, ed., The Lesser Key of Solomon (York Beach, ME: Weiser Books, 2001).
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Joseph H. Peterson, ed. and trans., Grimorium Verum (Scott’s Valley, CA: CreativeSpace Publishing, 2007).
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (York Beach, ME: Weiser, 2001).
15. Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Ceremonial Magic (New York: University Books, 1961).
16. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, trans., The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage (Chicago: de Laurence, 1948).
17. Frank Klaassen, “English Manuscripts of Magic, 1300–1500: A Preliminary Survey,” in Claire Fanger, Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998).
18. Flournoy, op. cit.
19. Blake W. Burleson, Jung in Africa (London: Continuum, 2005).
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (London: Fontana, 1971).
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Richard Noll, The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement (London: Fontana, 1995).
29. Richard Noll, The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Gustav Jung (London: Macmillan, 1997).
30. Ibid.