The Divine Mystery

About this book

Incubi, succubi and other hostile beings occupy a striking place in R. Swinburne Clymer's The Divine Mystery. He examines traditions that imagined spirits approaching humans through desire, dreams and forbidden contact.

The book ranges through demonology, the soul's survival and the language of Christian and Rosicrucian esotericism. Material concerning elemental beings appears alongside religious argument and speculative ideas about the human interior life. Its claims belong to a historical occult system and should not be treated as evidence of supernatural activity. The direct discussion of sexual demons gives this volume a distinctive, sometimes unsettling character.