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J.-K. Huysmans
A critical biography of a major novelist and art critic from the late nineteenth-century French decadent movement. J.-K. Huysmans (1848–1907) is often hailed as a forerunner of modernist letters. While his novel À rebours / Against Nature remains infamous for its reclusive protagonist retreating into a realm of artifice and dreams, Huysmans’s literary contributions are far-reaching. Ruth Antosh explores Huysmans’s life and work, illustrating how both reflect an uneasy era of profound social and artistic change. In this context, Huysmans’s correspondence, early fiction, art criticism, and surrealist novel En rade / Stranded demand greater critical attention. Antosh argues that Huysmans’s life should be understood as an unwavering quest for spiritual and aesthetic fulfillment.
The Rediscovery of Gnosticism (2 vols.)
Preliminary Material /Bentley Layton -- The Domestication of Gnosis /Henry Chadwick -- Gnosis and Psychology /Gilles Quispel -- The Challenge of Gnostic Thought for Philosophy, Alchemy, and Literature /Carsten Colpe -- Lying Against Time: Gnosis, Poetry, Criticism /Harold Bloom -- In Search of Valentinus /G. C. Stead -- Religio-Historical Observations on Valentinianism /Ugo Bianchi -- Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John /Gilles Quispel -- Valentinianism and the Gospel of Truth /R. McL. Wilson -- The Dog and the Mushrooms /Rowan A. Greer -- Self-Generating Principles in Second-Century Gnostic Systems /John Whittaker -- La Gnose Valentinienne et les Oracles Chaldaïques /Michel Tardi...
Children of Lucifer
Satanism adopts Satan, the Judeo-Christian representative of evil, as an object of veneration. This work explores the historical origins of this extraordinary 'antireligion.'
A Popular History of Witchcraft
First published in 1937, this volume offers an overview of witchcraft and its practices and history, written by Montague Summers. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves—all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the “Malleus Maleficarum”, in 1928. Contents include: “Of the Practice and Profession of Witchcraft; of the Contact; and the Familiar”, “Of the Practice of Witchcraft; of the Malice and Mischief of Witches; of the Devi's Mark; and of the Grimore”, “Of the Witch Covens and their Grand Masters; of their Journey to the Sabbat; and of the Sabbat Orgy”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “Witchcraft and Black Magic” (1946) and “The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism” (1947). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Satanism: A Social History
For the first time, Massimo Introvigne proposes a general social history of Satanism and anti-Satanism, from the French Court of Louis XIV to the Satanic scares of the late 20th century, satanic themes in Black Metal music, the Church of Satan, and beyond.
Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival
This classic study of the French magician Eliphas Lévi and the occult revival in France is at last available again after being out of print and highly sought after for many years. Its central focus is Lévi himself (1810-1875), would-be priest, revolutionary socialist, utopian visionary, artist, poet and, above all, author of a number of seminal books on magic and occultism. It is largely thanks to Lévi, for example, that the Tarot is so widely used today as a divinatory method and a system of esoteric symbolism. The magicians of the Golden Dawn were strongly influenced by him, and Aleister Crowley even believed himself to be Lévi's reincarnation. The book is not only about Lévi, however...
The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca
Praise for the previous editions:"Clearly the best reference work on the subject now available."
Là-bas
Huysmans est passionné par la démonologie et le surnaturel. Son héros, Durtal, est un historien amené à s'interroger sur la doctrine chrétienne et le satanisme. Il abandonne " l'adultère, l'amour, l'ambition, tous les sujets apprivoisés du roman moderne, pour écrire l'histoire de Gilles de Rais. " " Le mal d'âmes ", comme disait Mallarmé, à la fin du siècle, et " le bizarre attardement, au Paris actuel, de la démonialité ". Gilles de Rais mène le bal par l'intermédiaire d'un historien, Durtal, assoiffé de surnaturel et dont l'initiation sera faite par l'épouse hystérique et perverse d'un grand écrivain catholique. Messes noires et invocations sataniques s'ensuivent, qu'organise un prêtre excommunié, le chanoine Docre, qui s'est fait tracer sur la plante des pieds l'image de la croix afin de pouvoir la piétiner constamment et dont les plus innocents plaisirs sont de nourrir les souris blanches avec des hosties consacrées. Dans ce monde du sabbat et du blasphème, la raison ne survit que réfugiée dans une tour de Saint-Sulpice, où la femme du sonneur de cloches mitonne à l'intention des rares rescapés de divins pot-au-feu.
