Consciousness & the inner worlds
Follow the subtle body, thought and the astral world through Theosophical accounts.
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Ideas that open
other worlds.
Explore spiritual traditions, esoteric ideas and the worlds they describe. Follow a question all the way to its original source.
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Alchemy & transformation
Explore the vessel, the stone and the language of transformation in historical sources.
Tarot & its symbols
Read the figures and symbols of the cards alongside their historical interpretations.
The Egyptian afterlife
Explore Maat, the judgment of the heart and the funerary texts that describe them.
An idea in its own words
Go back to the book.
Redgrove introduces alchemy as more than an attempt to manufacture gold. He describes a philosophy joined to experimental work, then distinguishes a transcendental interpretation concerned with spiritual perfection. His opening discussion provides a historical author's account of how material and spiritual aims were related and debated.
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A guided route through connected accounts.
Journeys beyond the familiar
Visit the sea palace, Moonland and the lost years of Visu through Davis’s Japanese tales.
Fairies & the otherworld
Meet the Welsh fairy family, lake beings and the changeling account in British Goblins.
Angels & rebellion
Three contrasting figures in Milton’s Paradise Lost: loyalty, guardianship and rebellion.
The Egyptian judgment of the soul
Explore Maat, the heart in judgment and the Book of the Dead through their retained accounts.
Follow your curiosity.
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