The Secret Source
The Law of Attraction and its Hermetic Influence Throughout the Ages
Published on 13. March 2012
216 pages
978-1-934170-31-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Secret Source reveals the actual occult doctrines that gave birth to ?The Law of Attraction? and later inspired the media phenomenon known as The Secret. Follow the trail into ancient Egypt to uncover where the law of attraction was first recorded, and how it was brought back to America to foment the New Thought movement and the prosperity cults of modern times.
The new, enlarged edition will have a new section on Sex Magic and its relationship with the law of attraction.
Maja D'Aoust conducts popular lectures on esoterica.
Adam Parfrey is releasing this fall a visual history of fraternal orders, Ritual America.
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The law of Attraction and its Hermetic Influence Throughout the Ages
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Maja D'Aoust lectures at the Philosophical Research Society; Adam Parfrey editor of Apocalypse Culture and is this Fall publishing "Ritual America," his visual history of secret societies in America.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Thoughts Have Wings
- Section One: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of the Mind Cure
- Animal Magnetism
- The Rise of Spiritualism
- Phineas Quimby's Mesmeric Adventures
- Quimby and the Founding of Christian Science
- Proponents of the Mental Cure
- Warren Felt Evans
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
- Charles and Myrtle Fillmore
- Prentice Mulford
- Thomas Troward
- The Rosicrucian and Hermetic Brotherhoods
- The Hermetic Origins of the Mind Cure
- Faith Healings
- Giant Fiery Flying Serpents
- Section Two: The Kybalion and Prosperity Consciousness
- The Yogi and the Three Initiates
- The Seven Hermetic Laws as Stated in The Kybalion
- From Thought Vibration, or The Law of Attraction in the Thought World by William Walker Atkinson
- The Secret Source of Properity Consciousness
- Orison Swett Marden
- Wallace D. Wattles
- Charles F. Haanel
- Napoleon Hill
- Dale Carnegie
- Ernest Holmes
- Norman Vincent Peale
- Catherine Ponder
- The Right to be Rich by Wallace D. Wattle
- Section Three: Hermes-Who Was He?
- Hermes Trismegistus
- Asclepius
- Enoch and Metatron
- Enki
- Pythagoras
- Moses and Ankhenaton
- Enter Christian Doctrine and the Burning of the Books
- The Pyre of Ancient Wisdom
- The Hermetic Christ
- Hermes Kriophorus
- The Caducei of Hermes, Moses and Jesus
- Further Usurpation of Pagan Symbols
- The Blending of the Holy Texts
- Hermetic Influence on Christian Scripture
- Section Four: The Source of the Source: Holy Knowledge, or Demonic Insurrection?
- Hermes the Angel
- Adam, the Hermaphrodite Angel
- Horny Angelic Beings
- Fallen Angels and the Daimons
- Section Five: Holy Hermetic Writings
- The Book of Thoth
- The Emerald Tablet
- The Torah, the Emerald Tablet and the Holy Grail
- Discovering Hermes' Emerald Tablet
- Balinus / Apollonius of Tyana
- Attraction of the Sexes
- Eulis, Affectional Alchemy
- Energized Enthusiasm, A Note on Theurgy
- Why Some Secrets Should be Kept
- Solomon's Secret
- Bibliography
