| Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation Contributor(s): Bogdan, Henrik (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791470709 ISBN-13: 9780791470701 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: Historical exploration of masonic rituals of initiation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Freemasonry & Secret Societies - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
| Dewey: 130 |
| Series: Suny Series, Western Esoteric Traditions |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.4" W x 9.02" (0.78 lbs) 247 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry--the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation--Bogdan examines the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn--the most influential of all nineteenth-century occultist initiatory societies--and Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large-scale Western esoteric New Religions Movements. |