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Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation

Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation

Bogdan, Henrik

Paperback

Series: Suny Western Esoteric Traditions

Secret SocietiesAnthropology

ISBN10: 0791470709
ISBN13: 9780791470701
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 3 2008
Pages: 247
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Historical exploration of Masonic rituals of initiation.

For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry-the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation-Bogdan examines the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn-the most influential of all nineteenth-century occultist initiatory societies-and Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large-scale Western esoteric New Religions Movements.

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