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Figure 20: Edward Coley Burne-Jones, “The Depths of the Sea” (1885) [Cosmo Monkhouse, British Contemporary Artists (New York, 1899), 71] Burne-Jones hated marriage, opposed female suffrage, and told his studio assistant that “women ought to be locked up. In some place where we could have access to them but that they couldn’t get out from.” 46 As the next deadly humorous picture by Charles Dana Gibson suggests: 42
Figure 21: Charles Dana Gibson, “In the Swim” (1909)[Charles Dana Gibson, Americans, 1900)] women had become the ultimate consumers, consumers of men and all the things that men stood for. No man could hope to keep “in the swim of things” when women were around. Such was the fierce and misogynist reaction occasioned by the manifest changes in the position and rights of women. “No century,” claims Peter Gay, “depicted woman as vampires, as castrator, as killer, so consistently, so programmatically, and so nakedly as the nineteenth.” 47 As I said at the beginning of this essay, the intense backlash against women that I have described and Gay sums up so succinctly is a mark of the actual advances made by women as they gained entrance into the public world of men. There were many factors involved in the progress towards women rights, but among these certain currents of esoteric thought must be given their due. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote in the introduction to the Woman’s Bible: 43
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Page 6: greater proximity with a world and
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Page 19 and 20: Figure 1: Thomas Cooper Gotch, “T
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is thus “the very Ens, or Being m
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The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine
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Figure 14: A portrayal of the cosmo
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necessary to delineate a central fe
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the lower world in the form of fier
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etween the Heaven and the Earth, wh
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in the hands of such societies, “
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ideology in the face of lost fortun
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anders/ als Abscheidung der Seele v
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car c’est inutilement qu’ils em
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Mercurium/ und wird genennt Spiritu
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p. 293). 78 Cassius, De Auro, pp. 9
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y the same hand (including a recipe
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und guten wercken der Liebe gegen d
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Schneider, Lexikon alchemistisch-ph
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(though there were often variable p
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Alchim. 674) speaks of the Stone as
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Apian’s Inscriptiones as proof of
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perpetuum, Catholicon.” 203 Cf. e
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“The Teutonicks Writings’: Tran
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Among Hartlib’s international net
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“True Repentance” and “True R
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a complete if unreliable edition of
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had made this impression on him, a
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appointed a treasurer and collector
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Wonders, wherein wee live or come,
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Charles I had supplied the funds fo
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Mysterious Art” was indeed widesp
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Christi College, Cambridge. On 22 A
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this achievement the poet and futur
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singularities” Hotham “made the
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to Fox. 91 About this time Durand b
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Llwyd as Yr ymroddiad neu Bapuryn a
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Bibliographic Note Unlike the compl
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21 F.A. Janssen, “Böhme’s Werc
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5-12 February 1649 p. 21. Thomason
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‚The Flood’ of 1524 - The First
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Pamphlets But before I get to this
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to the faculty of astrology at the
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Illustration II: Carion A year late
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days itself. Johannes Carion commen
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Illustration: Dürer And the artist
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6 Zambelli: 249f. 7 Fischer: 195. 8
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Book Reviews 180
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Lima, Robert, Stages of Evil: Occul
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as a blanket epithet that functions
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of historical detective work tracin
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Terror in Eugene O’Neill’s The
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the historical chapters (chapters o
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Brutus Jones). As in the previous c
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critical of Jungian depth psycholog
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Urban, Hugh B., Magia Sexualis: Sex
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