About this title: Just before the turn of the century, a renegade Russian aristocrat named Madame Blavatsky came to America claiming that man was descended not from the ape but from spiritual beings. Thus began Theosophy, the very first "new age" religion. This thought-provoking and often hilarious study delineates the course of Theosophy and other sects which have come down through the years. Photos.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Schocken
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780805210248ISBN:0805210245
Description: Very Good. Isbn matches softcover. very clean w/ light edgewear w/ clean text. solid binding FAST SHIPPING W/ CONFIRMATION. NO PRIORITY OR INTERNATIONAL ORDERS OVER 4LBs. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Schocken
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780805210248ISBN:0805210245
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Schocken
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780805241259ISBN:0805241256
Description: Good. I am a hardcover book that you will find to be internally free of any marking, soiling, or once dog eared pages all which remain crisp and bright. My binding is snug, spine straight, and my dust jacket is clean and bright showing a moderate reduction to their original glossy luster with spots of light to moderate edge wear. It is no secret that the market fluctuates on all commodities including media items, and it is always possible that we have overvalued a product listed. Therefore if ... read more
Description: Fine; Collectible. Collectible stated 1st US Edition (1995 HC), 1st printing with 10 full numberline. Ex Lib Copy in excellent condition with stamp. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are nice and clean. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Edition: F First Edition
Binding: H hardcover
Publisher: Schocken Books
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780805241259ISBN:0805241256
Description: Good in J Good jacket. First American Edition; First Printing; Dustjacket lightly rubbed, very lightly bumped/soiled; back board ever-so-slightly soiled; top and fore edges very barey soiled, bottom edge very barely soiled/bumped; binding tight; interior intact and very clean; a nice copy. read more
Description: Good. 0805210245 A used but readable copy with markings and general wear. Paperback. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"This is a good general introduction into the Spiritualist movements of the latter part of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. These started out as fads and cons that the decline of organized religion in the West left people susceptible to, but developed over time into trends of thought that exercised considerable appeal to and influence over a surprising number of serious writers, artists, and even scholars of a sort--Aldous Huxley and Cristopher Isherwood, for example. The book traces the competitions and arguments that continually fed the process of fragmentation that the movement was subject to: with so little in the way of acknowledged evidence or authority to rest on, and with the appearance of many charismatic individuals claiming spiritual insight and the right to leadership, this fragmentation seems to have been inevitable.
It is a fascinating story, told with a sane skepticism. The book, however, keeps such an ironic distance to the material that one comes away with little real sense of how it could have developed any intellectual appeal at all, and it doesn't attempt anything more than the scantiest of sketches of the actual systems of belief themselves. It focuses rather on personalities.
The book was also rather carelessly written--on the few topics on which I knew something I noticed several lapses: names, dates and such, that could easily have been checked had Washington had a mind to."
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