Japanese legends, Davis retelling
Laughing Festival at Wasa
A procession of communal laughter linked to a god’s missed meeting.
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Japanese legends, Davis retelling
A procession of communal laughter linked to a god’s missed meeting.
Egyptian funerary religion
Truth, justice, and cosmic order represented in funerary judgment.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
The Kingdom in Lévi’s symbolic scale, representing creation and completing the Tarot decade with the four tens.
Living water, knowledge and the World of Light
Explore Mandaeism through living water, repeated baptism, the World of Light, John the Baptist, Mandaic scriptures and communities in Iraq, Iran and diaspora.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
A horse-skull visiting custom with songs of admission and festive dancing.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
The principle of appearance and material manifestation in the collection’s Shaiva explanation.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
The little world through which human structure corresponds with the greater world.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
Victory in Lévi’s symbolic scale, the enduring triumph of intelligence and justice associated with the Tarot sevens.
Buddhist traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
Release from the fetters of individuality, explained by the collection through a broken pot and open space.
Celtic fairy traditions
November Eve as a dangerous threshold in Irish Otherworld narratives.
Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic
The ten primary notions used as a scale for names, numbers and creation.
Kami, shrines and the life of communities
Explore Shinto through kami, shrines, purification, matsuri, Japanese myths, Ise Jingu and the changing relationship between religion, community and the state.
The Gurus, divine oneness and service
Explore Sikhism through Guru Nanak, the Guru Granth Sahib, divine oneness, the Khalsa, langar, the Five Ks and service in everyday life.
Modern religious movements · Mediumship & the afterlife
Explore Spiritualism’s beliefs, mediumship, history and churches, with spirit photography and debates about evidence for communication after death.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Séance practice interpreted through a Theosophical account of unseen agents.
Welsh customs as described by Wirt Sikes
An Easter Monday custom at Aberconwy, involving proclaimed rules about rising early and mock punishment in the stocks.
Japanese star-lovers tradition, Davis account
The festival of the Weaving Lady that Davis connects with paper poems, bamboo and the reunion of celestial lovers.
God the Parent and the Joyous Life
Explore Tenrikyo through Nakayama Miki, God the Parent, the Joyous Life, Jiba, the Service, hinokishin and its teachings about the mind and rebirth.
Progressive revelation and the unity of humanity
Explore the Bahá’í Faith through Bahá’u’lláh, progressive revelation, human unity, sacred writings, prayer, the calendar and its elected institutions.
Dante, Inferno
Farinata’s explanation of foresight combined with ignorance of present events.
Dante, Inferno
The group defined in the poem by the belief that spirit dies with the body.
Dante, Purgatorio
The mountain cannot be climbed upward once daylight has gone.
Dante, Purgatorio
Requests for prayer link the waiting spirits to people still on earth.
Modern esotericism · Will, magick & religious life
Explore Thelema’s understanding of True Will, its sacred text and divine figures, with Aleister Crowley’s history, ritual practice and the distinct roles of O.T.O. and A∴A∴.