Best of
Occult

1988

Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals


Jamie Sams - 1988
    now, revised and expanded to include eight additional cards, this unique and powerful divination system draws upon ancient wisdom and tradition to teach the healing medicine of animals. Medicine Cards and found its way into the hearts and hands of many, guiding the way to healing the body, emotions, mind, and spirit, and providing insight into and understand of one's unique purpose in life.

Calendar of the Soul: The Year Participated


Rudolf Steiner - 1988
    These meditative verses--one for each week of the year--help awaken a feeling of unity with nature while also stimulating self-discovery. Through intensive work, Steiner's unique meditations will lead to a greater feeling of unity with the surrounding world. This budget-priced pocket version features Owen Barfield's pioneering translation-- "paraphrased for an English ear" --based on more than fifty years studying this text. As Barfield asserts, no simple translation can convey the real thrust of these verses. Because of this, he tries to "suggest" rather than simply reproduce the original in exact English translations. The Calendar of the Soul is a translation of "Anthroposophischer Seelenkalender," included in Wahrspruchworte (GA 40).

Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural


Howard Schwartz - 1988
    It seems that a demon daughter of the legendary Lilith had made her home in the mirror and would soon completely possess the unsuspecting girl. Such tales of terror and the supernatural occupy an honored position in the Jewish folkloric tradition. Howard Schwartz has superbly translated and retold fifty of the best of these folktales, now collected into one volume for the first time. Gathered from countless sources ranging from the ancient Middle East to twelfth-century Germany and later Eastern European oral tradition, these captivating stories include Jewish variants of the Pandora and Persephone myths and of such famous folktales as The Fisherman and His Wife, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Bluebeard, as well as several tales from the Middle Ages that have never before been published. Focusing on crucial turning points in life--birth, marriage, and death--the tales feature wandering spirits, marriage with demons, werewolves, speaking heads, possession by dybbuks (souls of the dead who enter the bodies of the living), and every other kind of supernatural adversary. Readers will encounter a carpenter who is haunted when he makes a violin from the wood of a coffin; a wife who saves herself from the demoness her husband has inadvertently married by agreeing to share him for an hour each day; and the age-old tale of Lilith, Adam's first wife, who refused to submit to him and instead banished herself from the Garden of Eden to give birth to the demons of the world. Drawn from Rabbinic sources, medieval Jewish folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral tradition, these stories will equally entrance readers of Jewish literature and those with an affection for fantasy and the supernatural.

The Michael Handbook: A Channeled System for Self Understanding


José Luis Stevens - 1988
    It describes how people operate through roles, goals, attitudes and chief features. It explains soul ages and how the number of lifetimes you have had affects the way you see the world. The authors provide easy to understand examples including famous people, nations, and historical events. This system is one of the many channeled message being presented to assist the rapidly changing consciousness of humanity. The source of the information is Michael, a higher plane being who communicates with us through channels and trans-mediums.

The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings Of The Seventeenth Century


Stanislas Klossowski de Rola - 1988
    By the 17th century, the complex pictorial language of symbols which encoded its theories and secrets had reached a highpoint of elaboration and sophistication. With the spread of printing, the iconography of alchemy began to flower as never before.

Moon Signs: The Key to Your Inner Life


Donna Cunningham - 1988
    It throws light on such mysteries as why an Aquarian like Ronald Reagan is no radical, and why a Virgo like Raquel Welch is no virgin. Reagan's Moon is in conservative Taurus, and Welch's is in sexy Scorpio.In this eye-opening volume, world-famous astrologer and therapist Donna Cunningham unravels the often bewildering effects of lunar influence: a person's potential for intimacy...sense of security...family ties...susceptibility to indulgence in food or drink...career ambition...as well as how men and women respond differently to the same lunar promptings in love and life.Cunningham provides all the information you need to determine your own and others' Moon signs -- and analyze their power. Moon Signs also charts the daily, monthly, and yearly courses of the moon, which create those predictable mood swings -- our "emotional weather".The time-honored tradition of astrology has today come into its own as a resource for human development and spiritual insight. For astrological novices and veterans alike, Cunningham's invaluable guide will pave the way to a more profound understanding of the uncharted and sometimes dark side of the soul.

Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner


Scott Cunningham - 1988
    It is a book of sense and common sense, not only about magick, but about religion and one of the most critical issues of today: how to achieve the much needed and wholesome relationship with our Earth. Cunningham presents Wicca as it is today: a gentle, Earth-oriented religion dedicated to the Goddess and God. Wicca also includes Scott Cunningham's own Book of Shadows and updated appendices of periodicals and occult suppliers.

Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics


Manly P. Hall - 1988
    A code of rules is presented in concise form which, if faithfully followed, will protect both the individual and society.

Foundations of Practical Magic: An Introduction to Qabalistic, Magical and Meditative Techniques


Israel Regardie - 1988
    The emphasis throughout is on practical methods of releasing the vast inner potential on which magic depends, with the aim of finding the jewel of a new life a life full of creative possibilities based on a radical renewal of consciousness."

Tarot - Mirror of the Soul: Handbook for the Aleister Crowley Tarot


Gerd B. Ziegler - 1988
    The result is a magnificent art deco work rich in Egyptian symbolism, alchemy and magic, and contains kabalistic and astrological attributions. It has become one of the most popular and influential Tarot decks ever created.Tarot: Mirror of the Soul provides an accessible, indepth guide to the Crowley/Harris Thoth Tarot. It explores different ways of working Thoth Tarot, guiding your inner exploration, sometimes pointing the way to handle daily situations or difficult decision-making.The author, Gerd Ziegler, has studied and practiced humanistic and spiritual therapy in-depth. First published by Weiser Books in 1988, his Tarot—Mirror of the Soul remains a widely respected classic on the interpretation of the Crowly/Harris Thoth.

Basic Fears & How to Correct Them


Manly P. Hall - 1988
    Guidance oh how to deal with life's conditions that are beyond one's control.

Planetary Magick: The Heart of Western Magick


Osborne Phillips - 1988
    Through the use of this complete ceremonial system, level after level of the psyche will be opened up harmoniously and safely, and your creative potential will be enhanced.

The Revival of Magick


Aleister Crowley - 1988
    His subjects include mysticism, magick, humor, social satire, drugs, psychoanalysis, religious fundamentalism, "pop" occultism, art, divination, mythology, and drama. Also included are several passionate essays and epistlatory letters on Crowley's new religious philosophy, Thelema. Editorial annotations, bibliography, index.

Master Numbers: Cycles of Divine Order


Faith Javane - 1988
    Faith Javane, one of the most respected numerologists in the country, reveals the significance of these power indicators, both in our personal lives and in a historical and cosmic sense. She looks at the progression of the master numbers as the journey the soul takes as it seeks to master the different levels of understanding. Javane also analyzes the two single-digit numbers that, when added together, equal a master number, for example 2+9=11. These numbers within numbers "test" how well we have learned the lessons of the master numbers and whether we are ready to move on to the next level.

The Cult Of Pan In Ancient Greece


Philippe Borgeaud - 1988
    The author found in the material a personal resonance, found that Pan spoke to him of certain mysteries, and indeed provoked him-in the midst of his scholarly apparatus-to poetry.

Astrology and Vibrational Healing


Donna Cunningham - 1988
    

The Judgments of Nativities


Ali Al-Khayyat Abu Ali Al-Khayyat - 1988
    It includes the Latin Editor's introduction. The Judgments of Nativities, a book on natal astrology, was written in the early ninth century, and James H. Holden has included an introductory essay on Arabian astrology and has provided explanatory footnotes, appendices and a glossary of astrological terms. James H. Holden is Research Director of the American Federation of Astrologers and is the author of A History of Horoscopic Astrology in addition to translating numerous other works, all of which are available at www.astrologers.com.

The Merlin Tarot (Book and Cards)


R.J. Stewart - 1988
    Based entirely upon the adventures of Merlin, drawn directly from authentic twelfth-century sources, it is a modern restatement of a set of primal, powerful magical images which predate the earliest known set of tarot cards by over 300 years.

Music, Mysticism and Magic: A Sourcebook


Malcolm Godwin - 1988
    The collection reflects the view that from whatever age music emanates there is a close link between music, mysticism and magic and as illustration the author includes the spiritual and philosophical dimensions of the work of Plato, Plutarch, Kepler, Balzac, Gurdjieff, Schopenhauer and Stockhausen, Wagner and Schumann - none of these names may appear related but the common ground is shared through music.

The Occult in Art


Owen S. Rachleff - 1988
    

Wit and Wisdom of the Immortals


Manly P. Hall - 1988
    Presents witticisms and apothegms from the sages of ancient Greece and Rome, including anecdotes applicable to contemporary times.