The Garden of Hermetic Dreams (Dedalus Occult Reader)
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Book Description
People have enjoyed stories of magic and the supernatural for ages, but in the late 18th century, tales of the occult became something more than a source of thrilling entertainment. At the dawn of the modern age, numerous writers found in the occult a powerful antidote to the rising scientification of human experience. In these reports from the dark side, the weird, enigmatic and unexplainable became symbols of the human spirit's resistance to the new rational world.
The Dedalus Occult Reader brings together for the first time a unique collection of European fiction, including passages from Valery Bruisov, Andre Bely, William Beckford, Honore Balzac, Jacques Cazotte, J.K.Huysmans, Bulwer-Lytton, de Maupassant, de Nerval, Goethe, E.T.A. Hoffmann , Arthur Machen, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Potocki and Robert Irwin, offering some of the finest flowers and bizarre blooms from the hermetic gardens of literary occultism.
About the Author
Gary Lachman is a founding member of the Blondie and wrote some of the band's early hits. Before moving to London in 1996 and becoming a full time writer, he studied philosophy, taught English literature, was a university science writer and managed a metaphysical bookstore. He is author of A Dark Muse, Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Aquarian Age, and, as Gary Valentine, New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop and Others 1974-1981.
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