SCHOLAR ISLAND

"St. Petersburg, London, Paris, Genoa, Cairo, Columbo, Galle, Madras, Benares, Calcutta, were connected by invisible threads of common hopes and common expectation. And the more people I met, the more this side of my journey took hold of me. It was as though there grew out of it some secret society, having no name, no form, no conventional laws, but closely connected by Community of ideas and language. I often thought of what I myself had written in Tertium Organum about people of a "new race". And it seemed to me that I had not been far from the truth, and that there is actually carried on the process of the formation, if not of a new race, at least of some new category of men, for whom there exist different values than for other people."

Ouspenski

"In his 1964 book Love Me Do, Michael Braun even suggested that to the media and the London-based establishment they (The Beatles) were actually a new kind of people."

"Now returns the Golden Age of Saturn, now appears the Immaculate Virgin. Now descends from heaven a divine Nativity. O! Chaste Lucina (Goddess of Maternity), speed the Mother's pains, haste the glorious Birth, and usher in the reign of thy Apollo. Thy consulship, O Pollio, shall lead this glorious Advent, and the New World Order (Novus Ordo Seclorum) shall then begin to roll. Thenceforth whatever vestige of Original Sin remains, shall be swept away from the earth forever, and the Son of God shall be the Prince of Peace!"

-Virgil The Fourth Eclogue

"Don't think that the way things are now, is the way

they're going to be. We have other stars, other

worlds; and you will see a purer light and marvel more

intensely at the Elysian sun."

-Aeneid

"In March 1604 the astronomer Kepler observed new stars in the constellations of Serpentarius and Cygnus. In the days when astronomy and astrology were inextricably linked, Kepler, like many a Continental astro-prophet, saw this epiphany of stellar magic as an intelligible sign from the Architect of the Universe.

   Kepler himself predicted the onset of great political changes and the possible appearance of a new religious sect. Other men predicted nothing less than the inauguration of a New Age, even a golden age. It was, after all, widely believed that such an age would precede the final rolling up of the scroll of time and space. A final outpouring of divine and natural knowledge would be set before the intellectually hungry and the spiritually inquisitive. Men's minds were moved to contemplate the end of the world-and the beginning of a new one."

-Tobias Churton

The Magus of Freemasonry

   "After leaving the presidency, Theodore Roosevelt summed up his political convictions by founding a radical political movement named the "New Age" movement. This was the movement of Jacob Rus, out of which the Progressive Party was spawned. There was no coincidence in this use of "new Age" and the European use of the same 'New Age," as short form for  "Age of Aquarius." Roosevelt's association with the Gnostic cult-center known as the New York Museum of natural History, out of which Margaret Mead, clomping her great horned witch's staff through those corridors, played her key coordinating role in the launching of the rock-drug-sex counterculture."

-Lyndon H. LaRouche, jr.

"....To become a "tribe" would have been tantamount to a new act of "dropping out" of American culture. In the wake of the Sixties (and the emerging reaction against all liberatory idealism) such an action could not be permitted. The very word "tribe" had taken on a new taint of radicalism. Tribalism implied the rejection of mainstream America with all its racism, oppression, and boredom-its war and its "Prison of Work." If the isolate communities had been grated a kind of exemption from this Society of the Spectacle, who would be next? Millions of Americans would like to "become Indians," from the hippies to the boy scouts. Cotton Mather would have understood. Such impulses must be crushed."

Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American DropOut Culture

Ed by Ron Sakolsky & James Koehnline

   "The masterpiece of the encyclopediasts  (most of whom happened to be philosophes) was the monumental  Encyclopedia of Sciences, Arts, and Trades (1743-1751). The Encyclopedia was the flame of the Enlightenment, the fulfillment of Cardinal Wolsey's dream of flooding the world with print containing "learning against learning." It brought so much learning (secular learning, as against scriptural learning) that it became its own paradigm demanding radical change in existing norms. The Enlightenment called for a "new age" that placed Reason above any Church, above even the Bible. The new age issued in the elegant neo-Gnostic religion of Deism, the thinking man's alternative to Roman Catholicism and its imperious hold on the human conscience."

-F. Tupper Saussy

Rulers of Evil

"Man is not bad, except as he is made so by arbitrary morality. he is bad because religion, the state, and bad examples pervert him. when at last reason becomes the religion of men, then will the problem be solved."

-Adam Weishaupt

   "The Enlightenment as a historical period is generally reckoned by later historians to have begun with Locke and then spread to the rest of Europe. While the transmission and reception of his thought in the different social and intellectual contexts produced different strains or schools of thought, many thinkers throughout Europe were in general agreement that a new age was dawning, an age of reason. In 1759, Jean d 'Alembert, the French mathematician and Encyclopediast, spoke for the intellectual class of his age when he declared that "our century is the century of philosophy par excellence. If one considers without bias the present state of our knowledge, one cannot deny that philosophy among us has shown progress. The idea of the progress in enlightenment had taken such hold of European thought that Voltaire could claim that the young graduate of a French Lycee knew more that the philosophers of antiquity. Kant summarized the goals and aspirations of this "century of lights." Enlightenment" he argued, "is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Saper Aude! "Have Courage to use your own understanding!-that is the motto of enlightenment. " Laziness and cowardice enslave human beings to others, and they cannot be freed by revolution but only by the growth of reason. Thus, for Kant "nothing is required for this enlightenment....except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters. This is not a vain or utopian hope in his view, for "we do have clear indications that the way is now being opened for men to proceed freely in this direction....The inclination to and vocation for free thinking....finally even influences the principles of government, which finds that it can profit by treating men, who are now more than machines, in accord with their dignity."

Michael Allen Gillespie

The Theological Origins of Modernity

"Sometimes after assembling together, and sitting a while in silent mediation, they were taken with a mighty trembling, under which they would express the indignation of God against all sin. at other times they were affected, under the power of God, with a mighty shaking; and were occasionally exercised in singing, shouting, or walking the floor, under the influence of spiritual signs, shoving each other about,-or swiftly passing and repassing each other, like clouds agitated by a mighty wind. from these strange exercises, the people received the name of Shakers, and by some, were called shaking Quakers.

An account of the origin of the name given to a small sect broken away from their Quaker faith in 1747

"They begin by sitting down, and shaking their heads, in a violent manner, turning their heads half round, so that their face looks over each shoulder, their eyes being shut; while they are thus shaking, one will begin to sing some odd tune, without words or rule; after a while another will strike in; and then another; and after a while they all fall in, and make a strange charm:-Some singing without words, and some with an unknown tongue or mutter, and some with a mixture of English. The mother, so called, minds to strike such notes as make a concord, and so form the charm. When they leave off, they drop off, one by one, as oddly as they come on; in the best part of their worship every one acts for himself, and almost every one different from the other; one will stand with his arms extended, activing over odd postures, which they call signs; another will be dancing, and sometimes hopping on one leg about the floor; another will fall to turning round, so swift that if it be a woman, her cloaths will be so filled with the wind, as they were kept out by a hoop; another will be prostrate on the floor; another will be talking with somebody; and some sitting by, smoaking their pipe; groaning moast dismally; some trembling extremely; others acting as though all their nerves were convulsed; others swinging their arms with all vigor, as if they were turning a wheel &tc. Then all break off, and have  a spell of smoaking, and sometimes great fits of laughter."

description of Shaker worship by an apostate and serious enemy

Richard Francis

And The Word: The Story of Ann Lee Female Messiah: Mother Of the Shakers The Woman with the Sun at her Back

"Jules Verne seems to be saying throughout the length of his opus that from the time of his advent, the human beings can decide to emerge from the earthly "spheroid," accelerate the "transmutation," and prepare for the coming of a new realm, that of pure Spirit. This, at least, is the end that Verne assigns the efforts of men, most particularly the scientific revolution experienced at the end of the nineteenth century, with science becoming the instrument of this transformation. Humanity, however, seems to have taken another path, which, far from leading to the ultimate metamorphosis, seems to be leading into a dead end or to a murderous catastrophe."

-Mireille Courtrix-Gonaux and Pierre Souffrin

The Secret Message of Jules Verne: Decoding his Masonic, Rosicrucian, and occult Writings. by Michel Lamy

   "Things only grew worse. After 1897, Verne's books seem to prove his total lack of enthusiasm, as if a spring had been broken. Did he have the feeling that he had wasted his life? He had been guilty of neglecting his wife and particularly his son, Michel, and it seems quite likely that he realized this and that his late reconciliation with Michel was connected to this realization. Yet beyond this personal aspect, we might ask if he had the feeling that he had been working for the forces of evil. Like Nemo, hadn't he scorned humanity and overlooked love? Hadn't he pursued a Luciferian quest, and hadn't he contributed to the opening of one of those airlocks dear to Lovecraft, which permitted the gods of the antiworld to manifest among us? Hadn't he contributed to hastening the advent of a colossal Walpurgis Night?"

-Michel Lamy

The Secret Message of Jules Verne

   "The Freemason does not pretend to dogmatic certainty, nor vainly imagine such certainty attainable. He considers that if there were no written revelation, he could safely rest the hopes that animate him and the principles that guide him, on the deduction of reason and the convictions of instinct and consciousness.

   He studies the wonders of the Heavens, the framework and revolutions of the Earth, the mysterious beauties and adaptations of animal existence, the moral and material constitution of the human creature, so fearfully and wonderfully made; and is satisfied that God IS."

-Albert Pike

  "Members (of the Royal Society) included Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, and Christopher Wren. These were some of the chief laborers constructing a new machine. Together and separately they were fashioning the first cogs and wheels of that whirring rational device, the Enlightenment. The dreamy romanticism that had passed for thought until then-magic, alchemy, astrology, even religion-was being buried, and a shiny new mechanical creature was being put together piece by piece; the universe, newly seen!"

-David Standish

Hollow Earth

"The great central fact in human life is the coming into a conscious vital realization of our oneness with the Infinite Life, and the opening of ourselves fully to the Divine inflow. In just the degree that we come into a conscious realization of our oneness with the Infinite Life, and open ourselves to the Divine inflow, do we....exchange dis-ease for ease, in harmony for harmony, suffering and pain for abounding health and strength. To recognize our own divinity and our intimate relation to the Universal, is to attach the belt of our machinery to the power-house of the Universe."

-Ralph Waldo Trine

   "The Aquarian era would also be a New Age. This phrase appeared in the 1880s, when John Ballou Newbrough claimed to channel a text published as OAHSPE: A New Age Bible, and the usage spread with the dawn of the twentieth century: this was also the era of the new woman, the new state, and of New Thought itself. Aleister Crowley dated his New Aeon from the channeling of his new scripture the "Book of the Law" in 1904. Writers of the 1920s and 1930s presented themselves as advocates of a New Age of occult enlightenment, and Alice Bailey did much to popularize the dual terms "New Age" and "Aquarian". In 1935, Paul Foster Case published a study of the Great Seal of the United States, studying "its history, symbolism, and message for the New Age. Southern California-based Corinne Heline wrote on themes like Color and Music in the New Age and Music in the New Age and The New Age Bible Interpretation, the latter from her own New age Press."

-Philip Jenkins

Mystics And Messiahs: Cults and New Religions In American History

"....No one in the Age of Aquarius seemed concerned to offer reasons for what they believed, much less to gather evidence to support their conclusions. The New age was credulity gone wild-belief in healing crystals, channeling of entities, out-of-body experiences, pyramid power, sorcery, and prosperity for all. LSD visions were assumed to be true. est offered enlightenment in two weekends. Swamis, enlightened masters, and neoshamans spoke knowingly of the being of the One and the Truth. Channelers in trance gave voice to Seth, Ramtha, or other four-thousand-year-old entities. Light therapists cleaned your aura, realigned your chakras, and purged you of negative energy. Mystic Traders advertised that "you will enter into Nirvana with one endless step if you wear the zen Enso T-Shirt ($18.95) and you can tune your Body, Mind and Spirit to the Universe with the fabulous Cosmic OM Tuning fork ($34.95 plus handling and shipping). The creators of new therapies promised that their nostrums and theirs alone would heal the alienated. Common ground, a catalogue of resources for personal technologies, therapies, and self-proclaimed healers, most all of them making superlative claims. The good, the bad, and the ridiculous advertise their spiritual wares side by side."

-Sam Keen

Hymns to an Unknown God

See book: "The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil Killed the fifties and Ushered In a New Age for America" by Don Lattin

"....the greatest influence on Victoria Woodhull, however, was the "New Age" philosopher Stephen Pearl Andrews, who sought her out the month she moved into 15 East Thirty-eighth Street.

   With his flowing gray hair and beard and his abstracted air, Andrews cut a striking figure. For the past four years he had lived with his second wife, Esther, a Spiritualist, magnetic healer, and trance speaker. Their boarding-house on the corner of fourteenth Street near the Academy of Music had become the center for a group of radical Spiritualists who believed his vision of a utopia society, which he called the Pantarchy. Andrews, as leader, called himself the Pantarch. He declared that the Pantarchy would "replace the corrupt system that was evolving to afford plunderers' profits to the few, while demeaning the dignity of labor" and predicted "a grad domestic revolution" whose keystone was his long-held belief in free love."

-Barbara Goldsmith

Other Powers: The Age Of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

"They eat whenever they are hungry. They drink when they are thirsty, at any hour of the day, without regard for the proscribed fasts. They spend their time doing nothing and sleeping. In summertime, when night falls, they lie down to sleep in the open air, men and women together, and they say that this is of no consequence."

Timothy writing about the Christian Gnostics

"There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or in any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier. Mankind has as much right to scrap its machinery and live on the land, if it really likes it better, as any man has to sell his bicycle and go for a walk, if he likes that better. It is obvious that the walk will be slower, but he has no duty to be fast. And if it can be shown that machinery has come into the world as a curse, there is no reason whatever for our respecting it because it is marvelous and practical and productive curse. There is no reason why we should not leave all its powers unused, if we have really come to the conclusion that the powers do us harm."

-G.K. Chesterton

"It loved Jesus and Buddha, Tolstoi, and Nietzsche, liberalism and socialism and anarchism, Unitarianism and Ethical Culture and the wisdom of the East, free love and monogamy, wealth and ascetic virtue. It was scientific and poetic and adored Nature and exalted man. It was pacifist and admired successful brutality. It was precious and went in for simplicity. It was soft..."

Gilbert Seldes (1920s Historian)

   "Yet the question of the literal existence of a secret Brotherhood or "initiatic chain" continues today. Some occult philosophers have been of two minds about it. In Tertium Organum, the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky wrote that humanity was evolving into a new form of consciousness and that people in whom this new consciousness was emerging were "beginning to recognize one another' "Watchwords, signs and countersigns are already being established." Ouspensky said, and the "selection goes on in all races and nations of the earth." This suggests that the "new consciousness" Ouspensky recognized was widespread, not located in a specific group. Yet, after writing Tertium Organum, Ouspensky spent the rest of his life searching for what he called the "Inner Circle," and actual society of "awakened" human beings, a kind of Rosicrucian Brotherhood, an idea he absorbed in his early days in the Theosophical Society." That secret or occult societies have existed, and continue to exist, isn't denied: writing this book would be difficult if they didn't. Yet, I wonder if the sensibility or state of mind associated with some of these groups require actual contact and "initiation" into them. Can one have a Rosicrucian sensibility without ever having met an "actual" Rosicrucian? The Tarot and Cabala scholar Paul Foster Case though so. "One becomes a Rosicrucian," he wrote, "one does not join the Rosicrucian's."

-Gary Lachman

Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen

"If Maier and Fludd carried the hermetic-alchemical Rosicrucian torch, other sympathizers continued the utopian, educative impulse. One such was John Comenius, with whose despairing Labyrinth of the World this chapter began. Comenius' name may not be familiar to most English-speaking readers, but in central Europe he's a national hero. His birthday is a national holiday. In Hungary, a teachers' college and an adult education program are named after him. Rembrandt painted his portrait. Although a symbol of Czech nationalism, Comenius is an international figure as well, as is appropriate for a Rosicrucian thinker. he was asked to be the first president of Harvard University, and UNESCO offers a Comenius Medal for outstanding achievements in education. With this in mind, his epithet of "teacher of nations" is apt."

-Gary Lachman

Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen

"What you're seeing happening is almost a biological corrective.....In the 1960s you had this incredible surge of activity that wanted to explore the culture. That went back to itself and is now reemerging as the New Age....If you really look at the New Age....It's an attempt to create a synthesis of cultural movements. And America the melting pot's the place where the synthesis is being created. Right now you've got everything from Native American traditions to Zen Buddhism, all flowing into one pot."

Ehud Sperling

"Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself" the country legend looks back at a life in which his family left the Oklahoma Dust Bowl for California, he did time at San Quentin, became a huge country star-and did everything his own way. His famed 'Okie from Muskogee" an antihippie* diatribe which captured the Vietnam-era cultural divide, weirdly coincided with his being adopted by Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Gram parsons and the Grateful dead. (Keith Richards is among those who discuss his influence in the film......

* hippies loved this song 

"We are on the verge of the new age, a whole new world.

Mankind's consciousness, our mutual awareness is going to make a quantum leap.

Everything will change. You will never be the same.

All this will happen just as soon as you're ready."

-Paul Williams

Das Energi

"America has been gripped by an epidemic of sudden personality change. The college student leaves school without warning and is discovered by his parents selling flowers on a street corner. The wealthy executive, taking full responsibility for his fate, quits his job at a moment's notice to sit on the bench and play the flute. A young mother abandons her children after having a 'personal encounter with the Holy Spirit'....Are these changes good or bad? Are they permanent? What's really behind them? Who's susceptible? Me? My kinds? Everyone?

Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman

THE REAL WOODSTOCK?

   "The offices of 'Woodstock, N.Y." as the theologate was now called to distinguish it from its original Maryland location and heritage, were located in Manhattan, at 119th Street and Riverside Drive, in the Ecumenical Center of Union Theological Seminary. Residences for the Jesuit "community," meanwhile, were now scattered among a cluster of apartments at five locations ranging along Manhattan's Upper West Side from 95th Street to 125th Street.

   The emphasis now was placed on personal freedom of young Jesuits in formation, and on a sense of responsibility. Inevitably, many of the "substantial's" of Jesuit life were affected. Poverty, obedience, and chastity all fell quickly by the wayside. Each young Jesuit now received a monthly allowance, opened a checking account, and managed his own budget, for all the world like any up-and-coming New Yorker.

  It was perhaps unavoidable that some of these new Jesuit "residences" became nothing more than "crash pads" and beer-and-coffee stops, where the young men came and went as they pleased. They experimented with unorthodox living-room liturgies, went on dates just like "regular guys," and were not accountable in any effective manner to any Superior either for studies or the practice of religious life.

   Along with everything else, personal decorum changed. Beards, sideburns, long hair tied at the back in ponytails all sprouted on preening young men anxious to "fit in." Turtleneck sweaters, slacks, jeans, cut-offs, and sneakers all seemed preferable to clerical clothes and round collars."

Malachi Martin

The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church

      "Asserting that "in recent years, the Church has summoned us to a greater solidarity with the poor, and to more effective attempts to attack the very causes of mass poverty, " the Congregation stated "we have found it difficult to understand the Church's emphasis on changing the structures of society. " But" the promotion of justice" was a matter of growing urgency. Therefore, by concentrating on the issues of human rights, refugees, minorities, exploitation of peasants, workers, women, and the helpless, the Society would be committing itself to "the promotion of a more just world order, greater solidarity of rich countries with poor, and a lasting peace based on human rights and freedom....We must strive for international justice and an end to the arms race...." by those "works of justice," Jesuits would be foreshadowing the new age which is to come...."

-Malachi Martin

The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church

"An it harm none, do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

Wiccan

"There are some striking parallels between the Mithrasian religion and the Golden Dawn. Not the least of these is the practice of correspondences which both organization brought to a pinnacle of sophistication. Both organizations wee inclined to secrecy: In the case of the Golden Dawn, this secrecy extended to the very existence of the organization. The Golden Dawn was known however, in those circles from which it would be most likely to draw potential candidates for membership-suitably mysterious publicity and word of mouth ensured that.

-D. Jason Cooper

Mithras

"Some of the older generation of New Age prophets retained their devoted followings. When seekers of the 1970s bought books to to guide their spiritual quest, they were usually rediscovering the thinkers and prophets of thirty or forty years earlier, including Theosophists like Krishnamurti, G.I. Gurdjieff (who first came to America in 1924) , and P.D. Ouspensky. Also venerated was Charles Fort, the source for a vast body of lore concerning UFOs and inexplicable events, which he collected between 1910 and 1932. The scientific study of extrasensory perception dates from J.B. Rhine's 1934 book of the hat name. From a quite different context, it was in 1932 that the memoir Black Elk Speaks introduced a White audience to the riches of Native American spirituality and shamanism, and Black Elk's words proved a major inspiration to many hopeful White imitators in the 1960s and beyond. Another guru whom seekers were likely to encounter was Aldous Huxley whose book The Doors of Perception alerted a new generation tot he mystical effects of psychedelic drugs. Though drugs seemed to be distinguishing feature of the new mystical consciousness of the 1960s their use had a long history in the occult world, and drugs had played a key role in A leister Crowley's ritual at lest since the opening years of the century. His intimate familiarity with the topic is evident from his 1922 novel, Diary of a Drug Fiend, Huxley himself had lived in southern California since the late 1930s, and he undertook his experiment with mescaline in 1953. Once again, what seem to be the most radical departures of the 1960s have parallels to the earlier New Age radical departures of the 1960s have parallels in the earlier New Age."

-Philip Jenkins

Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History

   "Well in advance of the "love generation," anarchists, vegetarians, nature enthusiasts, free-love advocates, Theosophists, psychoanalysts, artists, poets, occultists, and philosophers who rejected an increasingly materialist mainstream society were drawn to the beautiful and curiously spiritual atmosphere of Pioda's Monescia. Two of the early pioneers arrived in 1900, a Montenegrin piano teacher named Ida Hoffman, and Henri Oedenkoven, the won of a wealthy Belgian industrialist. They rechristened the hill Monte Verita, the "Mountain of Truth," and from their modest beginnings as a "co-operative vegetarian colony" grew an impressive attempt at ringing in the New Age. The site attracted a clutch of esoteric and cultural notables. The novelist Hermann Hesse, the dancer Isadora Duncan, the choreographer Rudolf von Laban, the anarchistic psychoanalyst Otto Gross, the philosopher Ludwig Klages, the occultist Theodor Reuss, the spiritual scientist Rudolf Steiner, and the anarchist Erich Muhsam (later murdered by the Nazis) were some who came to participate in what was called the "new life." This initial experiment ended in 1920, when Oedenkoven and Hoffman moved to South America, but in the 1930s the site became famous once again when the Polish socialite Olga Frobe-Kapteyn opened her nearby Casa Gabriella, Here she invited C.G. Jung to preside over the annual Eranos Conferences, which continued for decades. Over the years, people like the historian of religion Mircea Eliade, the cabala scholar Gershom Scholem, the mythologist Joseph Campbell, the philosopher Jean Gebser, the esotericist Henry Corbin, and others met in an atmosphere of esoteric thought and natural beauty. Frobe-Kapteyn had originally planned for the auditorium she had built to be used by the Theosophist Alice Bailey, but for some reason, Bailey declined, suggesting darkly that the area was associated with black magic and witchcraft...."

-Gary Lachman

Politics and the Occult

"Crowley is often credited with what has become the Wiccan Crede, 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' (now usually prefixed by 'An it hurt none...') In fact it originated from Francois Rebelais, nearly four centuries earlier, in his famous scurrilous satire The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel, first published in 1532. In that book, for the monks and nuns of the Abbey of Theleme:

'In all their rule, and strictest tie of their order, there was but this one clause to be observed,   DO WHAT THOU WILT

Because men that are free, well born, well bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour."

Crowley used the phrase in his Liber Legis or Book of the Law (dictated to him by Aiwass, a spirit speaking for the Egyptian god Horus, in 1904). Largely, it must be said, because of Crowley's own hedonism, the maxim has been much misinterpreted. It never meant 'You're free to do whatever you like,' a recipe for self-indulgence. The point of the precept is that for the esoteric adept one's will should be totally in line with the will of God, so that one acts always within the will of God. It was also intended by Crowley to be half of a greeting; the response should be 'Love is the law, love under will'., which fills out the meaning considerably."

David V. Barrett

The New Believers

"My main idea had been to found a community on the principles of the Book of the Law, to form an archetype of a new society. The main ethical principle is that each human being has his own definite object in life. He has every right to fulfill this purpose, and none to do anything else. It is the business of the community to help each of its members to achieve this aim; in consequence all rules should be made, and all questions of policy decided, by the application of this principle to the circumstances. We have thus made a  clean sweep of all the rough and ready codes of convention which have characterized past civilizations. Such codes, besides doing injustice to the individual, fail by being based on arbitrary assumptions which are not only false, but insult and damage the moral sense. Their authority rests on definitions of right and wrong which are untenable. As soon as Nietzsche and others demonstrated that fact, they lost their validity. The result has been that the new generation, demanding a reason for acting with ordinary decency, and refusing to be put off with fables and sophistries, has drifted in anarchy. Nothing can save the world but the universal acceptance of the Law of Thelema as the sole and sufficient basis of conduct. Its truth is self-evident. It is as susceptible of the strictest mathematical demonstration as any other theorem in biology. It admits that each member of the human race is unique, sovereign and responsible only to himself. In this way  it is the logical climax of the idea of democracy. Yet at the same time it is the climax of aristocracy by asserting each individual equally to be the centre of the universe."

-Aleister Crowley

Confessions

"The upsurge of occult speculation was well fitted to the Aquarian Age, a phrase used much in the early twentieth century, and one that would become very familiar in the 1960s. The term requires explanation. During different historical eras, the sun is located in different houses of the zodiac, each of which is believed by astrologers to determine the character of those centuries under its influence. When the dominant sign was Taurus, around 1500 B.C., this constellation controlled the ancient era of bull cults and bull sacrifice. Near the birth of Jesus, the sun entered the sign of Pisces, and the next two thousand y ears were dominated by the religion of Christianity, whose earliest symbol was a fish. During the twentieth century, the sun would enter a new house, that of Aquarius, and according to occult belief this event would be marked by a profound new spirituality, a time of mystical enlightenment and enhanced intuition, possibly symbolized by the appointment of a new messianic figure-hence the stir over Krishnamurti. Aquarian terminology was popularized by Levi H. Dowling's book The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, an esoteric account of Jesus' life. The book first appeared in 1907, and its numerous reprintings indicate its continued popularity in the Theosophical and mystical subculture up to the present day. In 1918, an Aquarian Ministry, practicing New Thought principles, was founded at Santa Barbara. In 1921, the Curtiss's proclaimed The Message of Aquaria."

Philip Jenkins

Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions In American History

"Therefore, in the latihan of Subud we do not have a teaching; there is nothing we have to learn or do, because all that is required of us is complete surrender....

   So this divine power, which works in us during the latihan, will bring to each person what is already in himself....the latihan of two people can never be the same, because everyone is different from everyone else. it is clear, then, that there cannot be a theory or spiritual teaching in Subud because each person is different. Whatever he needs and whatever he receives will differ from what somebody else needs and receives....

   Every person will find for himself the right way towards God, and what may be the right way for one may be completely wrong for another....you must become your own self and you must develop your inner self if you want to find the way to God. You must not follow or imitate anyone else, because you must find your own way to God...it is God who will lead you towards himself and what really happens in the latihan is that you will be introduced to your real inner self-to the real I."

Bapak (Muhammed Subuh)

"The new meaning of soul is Creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation Of the new psychological type And with him or her Will come the new civilization."

Otto Rank

"....Man is wiser than his intellect....his whole organism has a wisdom and purposiveness which goes well beyond his conscious thought.....i think men and women, individually and collectively are inwardly and organismically rejecting the view of one single culture-approved reality. I believe they are moving inevitably toward the acceptance of millions of separate, challenging exciting informative individual perceptions of reality. I regard it as possible that this view-like the simultaneous and separate discovery of the principles of quantum mechanics by scientists in different countries-may begin to come into effective existence in many parts of the world at once. If so, we should be living in a totally new universe, different from any in history."

-Carl Rogers

"On the Mystic Path the ego casts everything aside that separates it from God. It seeks to know even as it is known; and as the mind cannot know God, it even casts away the mind to enter into the Divine Union. All that is not God to it is dross; and it purges and refuges the soul until nothing remaineth but pure spirit. This is a steep and narrow way, though swift and sure."

Dion Fortune

"If we are to avert a collective catastrophe….some fundamental changes will be necessary…..in our awareness and appreciation of the world. A new world view is needed, one that is holistic, nonexploitative, ecologically sound, long-term, global, peaceful, humane and cooperative."

Peter Russell

"He (Lloyd Arthur Meeker 1907-1954) finally looked to himself and came to the profound realization that he was completely responsible for the state of his world and the quality of his experience in it. He knew he could not continue like the mass of humanity, victim or victor in the world of circumstance. He saw and experienced a life of peace and value." 

"You are the means by which the invisible becomes visible."

Lloyd Arthur Meeker

"Our ulterior aim is nothing less than Heaven on Earth,-the conversion of this globe, now exhaling pestilential vapors and possessed by unnatural climates, into the abode of beauty and health, and the restitution to Humanity of the Divine Image, now so long lost and forgotten."

Charles Dana (Mar 7 1841)

Autobiography of Brook Farm

   "People's Park was born on April 20,1969, when a group calling itself the Robin Hood Commission seized a vacant lot owned by the University of California and set to work rolling out sod, planting trees, and, perhaps most auspiciously, putting in a vegetable garden. Calling themselves "agrarian reformers," the radicals announced that they wanted to establish on the site the model of a new cooperative society built from the ground up; that included growing their own "uncontaminated" food. One of the inspirations for the commission's act of civil disobedience was the example of the Diggers in seventeenth-century England, who had also seized public land with the aim of growing food to give away to the poor. In People's Park that food would be organic, a word that at the time brimmed with meanings that went far beyond any particular agricultural method."

-Michael Pollan

Omnivore's Dilemma

"A great rucksack revolution, thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier."

-Jack Kerouac

   "The hippie rock fans had re-created carnival-and more. To most participants rock festivals were something beyond temporary interruptions in otherwise dull and hardworking lives. These events were the beachheads of  a new, ecstatic culture meant to replace the old repressive one-or, as Jim Miller puts it, "a bucolic and cosmopolitan utopia, world of benign liberty, happy nonconformity, and miraculously non possessive individualism, an egalitarian city-state where the dancers with the face paint freaking freely in the crowd were now as much the stars as anyone's music up on the stage."

-Barbara Ehrenreich

Dancing In the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

  "He was born in 1837. At the age of 35, Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., experienced a mystical event that changed his life. On a spring evening in 1872, he was riding home in a Hansom cab from an evening of poetry reading with friends. He was feeling inspired and energized by the works of Wordsworth, Shelley, browning, and his favorite, Walt Whitman. According to a biographer: "All at once, without warning of any kind, he found himself wrapped around by a flame-colored cloud. For an instant he thought of fire-some sudden conflagration in the city. The next instant he realized that the light was from within himself." Immediately, Bucke's consciousness was opened to "exultation," followed by "intellectual illumination impossible to describe," Into his brain steamed "one lightning flash of ....splendor." Twenty-seven years later, he delivered an address to the American Medico-Psychological Association on his concept of a new level of consciousness developing in mankind. He believed that it was only a matter of time before natural evolution would bring humans to a state of super consciousness. Where the hidden realities of our day-today world would be revealed by way of "understanding the life and order of the universe."

Barry Windsor-Smith

Opus II

"Is that the stars in the sky? Or is raining far from now?"

-Jimi Hendrix 1967

Love or confusion, ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?

   "I was unaware of it, but an epidemic had broken out across the country. Late adolescents in suburbs like ours had suddenly gone berserk, running away to other cities to have sex and not go to college, ingesting every substance they could get their hands on, not just clashing with their parents but rejecting and annihilating everything about them. For a while, the parents were so frightened and so mystified and so ashamed that each family, especially mine, quarantined itself and suffered by itself."

-Jonathan Franzen

The Discomfort Zone

"That was a real Dionysian festival!"

-Joseph Campbell  (after attending a Grateful Dead Concert)

"Divine Action, as it appears through the actions and interactions of the individual, is anything that springs from the desire to bring unity rather than separation, to participate rather than isolate; to create rather than destroy, to understand with the heart rather than attack with the mind."

Lloyd Arthur Meeker

"When a group of conscious people each agree to commit themselves to surrendering to the inner impulse, the intensity of the group energy is magnified. This means that Divine energy has a bigger area available, which means that more of it can be made manifest than if the same number of people were surrendering in separate places, unknown to each other."

Lloyd Arthur Meeker

"To Emissaries, this is known as Divine Identity, or True Identity. Most people are not in touch with their own True Identity, but most Emissaries believe that we can begin to come more conscious of our True Identity by choosing to act with greater awareness of the effect of all our actions, great and small, and by consciously taking full responsibility for our behavior and how it affects everyone around us."

Kate Hall

"The individual who says "I am God!" should thus be aware that what he or she seeks to emulate and embody is not an all powerful creator but a compassionate and giving servant, a nourisher of all life who lives and works amidst the ordinary and the seemingly trivial and is, in His/Her/Its love. The most vulnerable and accessible being of all."

David Spangler

   "By contrast, the Western Sufi current became associated in the d1960s with the New Age revival, which was followed by the growth of Sufi groups claiming an Islamic character. Charles Upton, a translator of Rabiya, came to Sufism from the Beat writers' millieu in san Francisco, as did the poet Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore-the first of the Bay Area authors, aside from some African Americans, to publicly become Muslim. The award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the eighty-seven-year-old British writer Doris Lessing in 2007 may represent the pinnacle of intellectual influence reached by the Western Sufis. But the Sufism of Doris Lessing is profoundly different from that of contemporary Islamic mystics whose endeavors, often tragic, in the Balkans, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia I have narrated here. Lessing's involvement with Sufism has always been controversial among scholars of Islamic metaphysics, because she drew her Sufi inspiration from a curious person of Afghan origin who called himself Idries Shah and wrote many books on mysticism. very little of Idries Shah's work is well founded, aside from a sole insight: that a great shamanic cultural system extended from central Asia across the Arctic to the heart of indigenous America. I encountered this hypothesis in the American West forty years ago and, after much reflection, reading, travel, and empirical observation, made it my own. still, while he has been taken up by certain Nqshbandi Sufis, Idries Shah is generally viewed as a charlatan.

Stephen Schwartz

The Other Islam

"Pursue not the outer entanglements. Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things, and dualism vanishes by itself."

Seng-Tsan (a.D. 600)

   "Although not generally known, the term New Age has a very disturbing origin. In 1942, a Tokyo University professor Chikao Fujisawa first used the term as a subtitle to his booklet On the Divine Mission of Nippon. The subtitle: A Prophecy of the Dawn of a New Age. His booklet was subsequently reprinted as part of a larger work, Tokyo Record, written by Otto Tolischus. In his treatise, Fujisawa espoused what one would not normally associate with the New Age movement. Fujisawa was, in fact, an unrepentant fascist who was convinced Japan had a "divine mission for the salvation of disoriented mankind."

Gregory M. Kanon 

The Great UFO hoax

   "It was Hitler's initiative in propounding a 'New Order' for the post-war world which induced first the British, then the Americans, to think out their own plans. The odd way in which it began has only recently come to light. In November 1940 Harold Nicolson, the politician and writer who was then serving in the British Ministry of information, wrote to his friend Maynard Keynes, the economist who was then unpaid adviser to the Treasury. Nicolson wanted Keynes to launch a campaign to counteract the Nazi propaganda of Dr. Funk, the German banker and finance minister, who was broadcasting to Europe about a post-war New Order; and Nicolson enclosed some German broadcasts with some British government comments making fun of the German promises to abolish the role of gold. Keynes replied pointing out that he too, did not believe in the gold standard and that 'about three quarters of the German broadcasts would be quite excellent if the name of Great Britain were substituted for Germany or the Axis.....'Soon afterwards the British ambassador in Washington, Lord Halifax, also asked Keynes to reply to the German promises; and Keynes now began seriously to work out his own ideas for a post-war economic system based on a new kind of international bank. While Churchill's war cabinet was desperately trying to stave off military defeat in North Africa, Keynes was calmly envisaging the economic problems of the post-war world (in his six volumes of war memoirs Churchill only mentions Keynes once). (see collected writings of J.M. Keynes Vol. XXV)

Anthony Sampson

The Money Lenders 

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, NY Times, Time magazine & other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated & prepared to march towards a world govt. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

-David Rockefeller, Baden-Baden, Germany ,1991

"All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a New World Order."

-Attorney General Robert Kennedy (1967)

   "Saddam Hussein's reign of terror is about to end. he will go quickly, but not alone: in a parting irony, he will take the UN down with him. Well, not the whole UN. The 'good works' part will survive, the low-risk peacekeeping bureaucracies will remain, the chatterbox on the Hudson (sic) will continue to bleat. What will die is the fantasy of the UN as the foundation of a new world order. As we sift the debris, it will be important to preserve, the better to understand the intellectual wreckage of the liberal conceit of safety through international law administered by international institutions."

-Richard Perle (March 21, 2003, the very even of the invasion of Iraq)

"In my view the Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power: political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. All this is to be done in the interest of creating a more peaceful, more productive world community. What the Trilateralists truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved. They believe the abundant materialism they propose to create will overwhelm existing differences. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future."

-Senator Barry Goldwater

With No Apologies

"The case for government by elites is irrefutable....government by the people is possible but highly improbable."

-Senator J. William Fulbright (1963

"Further world progress is now possible only through the search for a consensus of all mankind in movement toward a new world order."

-President Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)

"Beware of men and movements that speak the language of Babel. Regardless of whether they are Communists or Fascists, Universalists or Deists, Socialists or Capitalists, Alchemists or Templars, Liberals or Conservatives: beware of their New World Order; beware of their Peace In Our Time; beware of their New Age; beware of their Fraternal Harmony; beware of their Novus Ordo Saeculorum. It is merely part and parcel of that same Tower of Babel impulse which God cursed so long ago. It is merely a new sprig from the primordial root of humanism: man seizing his own destiny and making a name for himself in the annals of history."

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

"Come lest us build ourselves a City and a Tower whose top reaches the Heavens; let us make a Name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad to the uttermost parts of the earth."

Genesis

"The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a New World Order can emerge."

George Herbert Walker Bush (speaking before a joint session of Congress)

" The Future belongs not to man, but to superman, who is already born and lives among us. A higher race is rapidly emerging among humanity , and it is emerging by reason of its quite remarkable understanding of the world and of life."

Nietzsche

"and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

-Nietzsche

"And so, for the first time in my life perhaps, I took the lamp and leaving the zone of everyday occupations and relationships where everything seems clear, I went down into my inmost self, to the deep abyss whence I feel dimly that my power of action emanates. But as I moved further and further away from the conventional certainties by which social life is superficially illuminated, I became aware that I was losing contact with myself. At each step of the descent a new person was disclosed within me of whose name I was no longer sure, and who no longer obeyed me. And when I had to stop my exploration because the path faded from beneath my steps, I found a bottomless abyss at my feet, and out of it comes-arising I know not from where-the current which I dare to call MY life."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"We, who are brothers and sisters, children of God, families of life on earth, friends of nature and of all people, children of humankind calling ourselves Rainbow Family Tribe, humbly invite: all races, peoples, tribes, communes, men, women, children, individuals-out of love; all nations and national leaders-out of respect; all religions and religious leaders-out of faith; all politicians-out of charity to join with us in gathering together for the purpose of expressing our sincere desire that there shall be peace on earth, harmony among all people"

The first Rainbow Gathering 1972

"When the Creator had compounded the whole he divided it into as many psyches as there are stars and allotted each psyche a star. And the one who lives his appointed time well will travel again to this state and live a blessed life according to his true nature."

-Plato

"Plotinus, likewise, teaches that we are all 'eternal stars', explaining, 'A star is the representative generated by each psyche when it enters the cosmos"

"Every Man and Every Woman is a Star"

-Aliester Crowley

   "I was only one of many millions who that morning had the same doubts. I suppose one knows one's self for one's self when one returns from sleep or insensibility by the familiarity of one's bodily sensations, and that morning all our most intimate bodily sensations were changed. The intimate chemical processes of life were changed, its nervous metaboly. For the fluctuating, uncertain, passion-darkened thought and feeling of the old time came steady, full-bodied, wholesome processes. Touch was different, sight was different, sound all the senses were subtler; had it not been that our thought was steadier and fuller, I believe great multitudes of men would have gone mad. But, as it was, we understood. The dominant impressions I would convey in this account of the Change is one of enormous release, of a vast substantial exaltation. There was an effect, as it were, of light-headedness that was also clear-headedness, and the alteration in one's bodily sensations, instead of producing the the mental obfuscation, the loss of identity that was a common mental trouble under former conditions, gave simply a new detachment from the tumid passions and entanglements of the personal life.

   In this story of my bitter, restricted youth that I have been telling you, I have sought constantly to convey the narrowness, the intensity, the confusion, muddle, and dusty heat of the old world. It was quite clear to me, within an hour of my awakening, that all that was, in some mysterious way, over and done. That, too, was the common experience. Men stood up: they took the new air into their lungs-a deep long breath, and the past fell from them; they could forgive, they could disregard, they could attempt....And it was no new thing, nor miracle that sets aside the former order of the world. It was a change in material conditions, a change in the atmosphere, that at one bound had released them. Some of them it had released to dead.....Indeed, man himself had changed not all. We knew before the Change, the meanest knew, by glowing moments in ourselves and others, by histories and music and beautiful things, by heroic instances and splendid stories, how fine mankind could be, how fine almost any human being could upon occasion be; but the poison in the air, its poverty in all the nobler elements which made such moments rare and remarkable-all that has changed. The air was changed, and the Spirit of Man that had drowsed and slumbered and dreamt dull and evil things, awakened, and stood with wonder-clean eyes, refreshed, looking again on life."

H.G. Wells

In the Days of the Comet

"Many uneasy intellectuals....fear that the counter culture arrives, not trailing clouds of glory, but bearing the mark of the beast. No sooner does one speak of liberating the non-intellective powers of the personality than, for many, a prospect of the starkest characters arises: a vision of rampant, antinomian mania, which in the name of permissiveness threatens to plunge us into a dark and savage age."

-Theodore Roszak

The Making of a Counter Culture

"We live in the New World Order, just as people under Augustus Caesar did. Not a future thing to be feared or avoided, the New World Order is a present reality to be identified, understood, and dealt with in a way most pleasing to God. It was God, after all, who established the New World Order. We can read about it in the Bible. In fact, the Bible is the only record we have that publicly and truthfully sets forth the essentials of the Order's origins and development through time."

F. Tupper Saussy

Rulers of Evil

 "Type the phrase "Hollow Earth" into your favorite search engine, and prepare to be amazed at the amount of material that turns up. Google produced 2,100,000 hits the last time I looked."

"David Standish

Hollow Earth

"Throughout his life Halley pursued far-ranging interests and scientific investigations. Elected to the Royal Society in 1678 at the age of twenty-two, over the years he presented papers to that body on a hodgepodge of subjects." The annals of the Royal Society are littered with enterprising papers by Halle," writes Lisa Jardine in Ingenious Pursuits, "on everything from the global patterns of trade winds, to the mechanics of diving bells, the rise and fall of mercury in the barometer, compass variation, and the beneficial effects of opium-taking." Of the last, he tried it and liked it. "Instead of sleep," he wrote in his January 1690 paper, "which he did design to procure by it, he lay waking all night, not as if disquiet with any thoughts but in a state of indolence, and perfectly at ease, in whosoever posture he lay."

-David Standish

Hollow Earth

"I truly believe there is a great work to be done on the occult history of humanity."

-George Sand

See Book: "The Secret History of the World: As laid down by the Secret Societies" by Mark Booth

"We are placed in this world, as in a great Theatre, where the sources and causes of every event are entirely concealed from us; nor have we either sufficient wisdom to foresee, or power to prevent these ills, with which we are continually threatened. We hang in perpetual suspense between life and death, health and sickness, plenty and want; which are distributed among the human species by secret and unknown causes, whose operation is oft unexpected and always unaccountable.

   These unknown causes, then, become a constant object of our hopes and fears; constantly while the passions are kept in perpetual alarm by our curious expectation of the events, those powers, on which we have so much a dependence."

-David Hume

"Has our earth today become a great theatre or stage? Are we all becoming programmed, operatic actors and singes whose performance is harmonized and presided over by a ruling elite? Is this the goal of the elite to rebuild the Temple, to make the entire earth into a Free Masonic temple of reason and nature? Is a deceived mankind now marching happily forward into the bold new future to the tune of the great musician Pan, the horned god, as he plays marvelous compositions on his Magic Flute?"

-Texe Marrs

Dark Majesty

"It is to be expected that advances in psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have.....Education should aim at destroying free will, so that after pupils have left school they shall be incapable, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school master would have wished."

-Bertrand Russell

The Impact of Science on Society

"Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy because the government will tell them that they are so."

-Bertrand Russell

".....I also halfway remember thinking about a random passage from On The Road. Something about only wanting to be around people who were like Roman candles. What the hell was Kerouac thinking?. Fuck hanging out with people who are like Roman candles. They'll just blow up in your face. From here on out, if I somehow don't die, I only want to know boring middle-of-the-road mutherfuckers. No more vampires. No more CIA fucks. No more Kalki the destroyer wannabes.

Then everything went fuzzy and disappeared."

-Will Clarke

Lord Vishnu's Love Handles

   "Robert Ornstein, the Beatles, Richard Jones, Ruth Benedict, John Vasconcellos, Margaret Mead, the Sierra Club, the Weyerhaeuser Corporation, and two or three people who live within shouting distance of you who read this are all speaking for the new evolution. for the new human destined to emerge when the whole mind is celebrated. We are standing in the sunlight. We are bathing in a new knowing. Humankind revels in the simultaneity of discovery. In recorded history there are uncounted numbers of cases where humans reached the same threshold of knowing at once. Each person reading this has discovered an insight into self, nature, or the human made world that was shared by one or more of the most remarkable minds in history. Each of us has suffered as well the caustic reminder by one less confident in discovery that our insight was first reported by Aristotle, Madame Curie, or Maslow....years before. The rational put-down was aimed at creating an historical harness for our metaphoric mind. a harness designed to keep us within the safe constraints of mindwork so that the record keepers could predict our behavior for decades to come with mythical accuracy.

   The day that normative statistics were first described was the day of inquisition for the metaphoric mind. The bell-shaped curve of normative knowing pretends to be a system of inclusion, when in reality it is a system of exclusion. The norm-makers' charade of value-free description always measures that which must define a specific quality. That is, if I choose to measure your height, I assign a value to height, I must exclude your weight, probably your sex, and certainly I must exclude whether or not you like lilacs."

Bob samples

The Metaphoric Mind: A celebration of creative consciousness

"A new world is only a new mind!"

-William Carlos Williams

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Book: "Morning of the Magicians" by Pauels & Bergier

Book: "The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary" by Karl von Eckharthausen

Book: "Meetings With Remarkable Men" Gurdjieff

Book: "Turn Off Your Mind" by Gary Lachman

Book: "A Dark Muse" by Gary Lachman

Book: "The Magic Circle of Rudolf II; Alchemy and Astrology of Renaissance Prague" by Peter Marshall

Book: "The Movement of the Free Spirit" by Raoul Vaneigem

Book: "HPB, The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky..." by Sylvia Cranston

Book: The New Age Movement and the Biblical Worldview: Conflict and Dialogue" by John P. Newport

Book: "New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought" by Wouter Hanegraaff

Book: "Rosicrucian Enlightenment" by Francis Yates

Book: "Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times." By tristram Stuart

Book: "The esoteric origins of the American Renaissance" by Arthur Versluis

Book: "From Counterculture to Cyberculture" by Fred Turner

Book: "Gone to Croatan: The Origins of North American DropOut Culture" ed by Ron Sakolsky & James Koehnline

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