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Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
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This chapter explores the use of drugs in the occult milieu of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The focus is fin de siècle occultism. While it examines the significance of drug use in the life and work of key figures such as W. B. Yeats, Helena Blavatsky, and Aleister Crowley, it also looks at little-known but important occultists such as Paschal Beverly Randolph and Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet, as well as organizations such as the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and the Order of the Golden Dawn. There is also some analysis of temperance discourses within Theosophy and particularly Spiritualism. Finally, there is an overview of drug use in post-Crowleyan Thelemic thought later in the twentieth century.
Title: Occultism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
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This chapter explores the use of drugs in the occult milieu of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The focus is fin de siècle occultism.
While it examines the significance of drug use in the life and work of key figures such as W.
B.
Yeats, Helena Blavatsky, and Aleister Crowley, it also looks at little-known but important occultists such as Paschal Beverly Randolph and Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet, as well as organizations such as the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and the Order of the Golden Dawn.
There is also some analysis of temperance discourses within Theosophy and particularly Spiritualism.
Finally, there is an overview of drug use in post-Crowleyan Thelemic thought later in the twentieth century.
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