India and the occult : the influence of south Asian spirituality on modern western occultism /
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Yoga and Tantra become attractive to some major exponents of Western occultism. In a gesture typical of the syncretic tendency in Esotericism, Yoga is by these Westerners often identified as an Eastern form of magic, since the two disciplines were co...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in new religions and alternative spiritualities.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Idea of India in the Imaginary of Western Occultism 1. A Web of Relations : Interpreting Indian Yoga and Tantra as Forms of Esotericism
- 2. The Great Beast as a Tantric Hero : The Role of Yoga and Tantra in Aleister Crowley's Magick
- 3. Solve et Coagula: Attitudes toward the Ambrosial Aspects of Human Seed in Certain Yogic Traditions and in Sexual Magick of Aleister Crowley
- 4. Dion Fortune : The Shakti of the Age
- 5. Secrets of Typhonian Tantra : Kenneth Grant and Western Occult Interpretations of Indian Esotericism
- 6. When Yoga Becomes Magick : Dadaji Mahendranath, His Disciples, and the East-West Order.