Category: Spirituality

Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus

Including works by Arturo Reghini, Giulio Parese, Ercole Quadrelli, and Gustave Meyrink

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Inner Traditions, 2001 (Introduzione alla Magia quale scienza dell’Io, Vol. 1, 1971)

“The essays of the UR Group constitute the most complete and the highest magical teaching ever set before the public…The ultimate goal is the identification of the individual with the Absolute. This is a powerful and disturbing book, and a classic. One can be quite certain that it will still have readers centuries from now.”

Joscelyn Godwin, author of Harmonies of Heaven and Earth

In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian esotericists formed the mysterious UR Group. Their goal: to bring their individual Selves into such a state of superhuman power and awareness that they would be able to act “magically” on the world. Their methods: the practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of rare Hermetic texts.

Introduction to Magic, appearing for the first time in English, includes breathing and visuclization exercises and instructions for evoking awareness of the “subtle body”; intoning words of power; utilizing i mages, sybols, and magical fragrancesf; interaccting with entities; and creating a “magical chain.” Among the texts translated are the Tibetan teachings of the Diamond Thunderbolt Path, the “Grand Papyrus of Paris” of the Mithraic mystery cult, rare alchemical treatises, and the writings of literary occultist Gustav Meyrink. Anyone who has exhausted the possibilities of the mundane world and is ready to take the steps necessary to purify the soul in the light of knowledge and the fire of dedication will find a number of expert mentors here.

Editions Traditionelles, 2013 (1923)

La Boîte à Livres

Résumé:

Dans cet ouvrage dont la première édition date de 1952 [?!], on trouve un exposé sur les origines du spiritisme ainsi qu’une analyse serrée des théories spirites. Cet examen permet à René Guénon d’aborder, chemin faisant, des données traditionnelles sur la constitution de l’homme et du monde, et d’apporter sur bien des points touchant à la cosmologie et au domaine du psychique, des clartés que l’on ne pouvait rencontrer ailleurs, à l’époque.

My article ‘The Hare Kṛṣṇa Movement and Western Cultural Identity: Education, Preaching, Conversion’ is now available in the new issue of the ISKCON Studies Journal, the journal of the ISKCON Studies Institute, a subdivision of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

For those not familiar with the system of Sanskrit transliteration used in academic publications in the field of Hindu studies and indology, I add that “Kṛṣṇa” can of course also be written without diacritics, as “Krishna”); the diacritics were added by the editor. The Hare Krishna movement is a colloquial name for ISKCON, i.e. the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

Perennial Books, 1964

Contents:

Preface

The Past in the LIght of the Present

The Rhythms of Time

The Present in the Light of the Past

Freedom and Equality

Intellect and Reason

The Meeting of Extremes

Talks on the Intuition of Eternal Life

The Dawn Horse Press, 1978

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This is a book of great humor, of great freedom, of celebration and enjoyment of the Infinite God. It is a book of love and feeling of the highest order. It is not an exhaustive or systematic presentation of the spiritual Way that Bubba Free John teaches, but a sketch of it in Bubba’s own words, in living response to his devotees. Bubba Free John says:

“The universe is not a machine of death. But you will not become certain of Eternal LIfe through any egoic pursuit of certainty, knowledge, or information. All the forms of information ultimately contradict one another. You will realize that certainty only through submission, through intelligent response to this Teaching, through your moral commitment, through love, through the energy of the whole body-being. You will enjoy a different Vision, not a vision realized through knowledge or egoic independence, but the Vision realized through the paradoxical disposition of the devotee: the Vision of Eternal Life, the Vision of God.”

The event of Bubba Free John is an occasion for rejoicing, for, without any doubt whatsoever, he is destined to become the first Western Avatar to appear in the history of the world. His Teaching contains the most concentrated wealth of transcendent wisdom found anywhere, I believe, in the spiritual literature of the world, modern or ancient, Eastern or Western.

Ken Wilber, editor, Re-Vision magazine; author, The Spectrum of Consciousness

It is obviouis, from all sorts of details, that he knows what IT’s all about…a rare being. It looks like we have an Avatar here. I can’t believe it, he is really here. I’ve been waiting for such a one all my life.

Alan Watts, September 14, 1973

California, 1900

Sulliver, 2007 (1970)     Amazon.fr

Description de l’ouvrage:

Réédition attendue d’un ouvrage de référence, publié pour la première fois en 1970, ce livre d’une extraordinaire actualité montre d’une part la parfaite adéquation entre la teneur des révélations, aussi transcendantes soient-elles, et les exigences logiciennes de la pensée humaine et pose d’autre part les hases d’un véritable “oecuménisme ésotérique”, si tant est que ce dernier terme ait encore un sens en ces temps de confusion.

Au scepticisme et au relativisme moderne, aux “méandres de la théologie” et au sectarisme religieux, Schuon oppose ici l’intelligence de la métaphysique et les intuitions décisives de la sagesse intemporelle et universelle qui lui permettent d’aborder sans détours les plus épineuses difficultés de la spiritualité.

Métaphysicien d’exception et vrai philosophe, Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) signait là l’un de ses ouvrages majeurs.

Frithjof Schuon (Wikipédia)

Gallimard, 1990 (1976)

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Selon Guénon, le monde moderne est un monde finissant qui ne saurait échapper à son destin, car la marche descendante du présent cycle temporel est inexorable.

La seule issue possible pour ceux qui veulent réagir contre cette tendance est la voie initiatique, quelles qu’en soient les difficultés. En effet, celle-ci implique deux conditions essentielles : un accord intellectuel fondamental sur les principes métaphysiques des doctrines traditionnelles et une transmission initiatique authentiquement valable, c’est-à-dire fort éloignée des multiples contrefaçons et pseudo-initiations qui foisonnent à notre époque.

Là-dessus, le message de Guénon n’a jamais varié et ses avertissements sont toujours aussi présents en 1990 qu’au début du siècle.