Jan Olof Bengtsson

A Brief History of Secret Knowledge Routledge, 2005 Amazon.co.uk Back cover: A controversial issue of public debate during the recent years, esotericism can be described as the search for an absolute but hidden knowledge that people claim to access through mystical vision, the mediation of higher beings, or personal experience. In Western cultural history these claims often led to conflicts with more established forms of scriptural religions and with reductionist interpretati

Semi-totalitarian Swedish socialist state television reports that the Hare Krishna movement has been criticized by “many” for being a...

“It is not the function of this book to defend Traditionalism, but it seems clear that those who condemn Traditionalism as not serious...

Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit Inner Traditions, 1994 ( Il mistero del Graal , 1937) Amazon.com From the Back cover: “Evola writes in lively prose, filled with rfascinating and concrete details…Such an encounter with a totally original mind is a rarity in these days of bland consensus, and a thrilling one whetehr one agrees with Evola or not…To read his descriptions of the higher spiritual states is like watching a champion mountain-climber on a vertical gla