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“No noble and exalted life exists, without knowledge of devils and demons, and without continual struggle against them.”~ Father Jacobus The Glass Bead Game was Hermann Hesse’s last published work, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946 largely on its merits. Most of Hesse’s novels explore themes of Eastern spirituality and esoteric doctrines, and The…

In The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit, Julius Evola examines the Grail Legend from a spiritual perspective, particularly in terms of a pre-Christian initiatory tradition. As such, the Grail is not a physical object, but is seen as a transcendent element or state of spiritual enlightenment.  This post may contain affiliate…

I had high expectations for The Possibility of an Island, having just finished Whatever and thinking I’d found a kindred spirit in Michel Houellebecq. The novel is loosely based on the Raëlian movement, the UFO religion that says humans were created by extraterrestrials called the Elohim who will one day return to earth. (World teachers like Jesus and…

Honoré de Balzac’s primarily novels were studies of French society in the nineteenth century. But on a few occasions he branched out into something more personal, and meant for the few, when he delved into short novels based on the writings of the Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg. Séraphîta was first published in a literary magazine in 1834…

Kerry BoltonRevolution from AboveArktos Media, 2011 Revolution from Above, written by scholar Dr. Kerry Bolton, isn’t the typical book on New World Order conspiracy theories. Usually such books are poorly cited from speculative sources and veer more toward opinion than scholarship. Bolton’s work is the gold standard for books about the secret ties between the World Controllers such as…