Wed 13 Sept
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The Occult Revival - History Seminar
19th century Paris, the Golden Dawn, Blavatsky, Crowley -- and 20th century modernism -- in Western Esoteric history, with Dr Sasha Chaitow
Time & Location
13 Sept 2023, 19:00 – 21:30
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About The Event
The end of the 19th century saw an unprecedented public resurgence of occultism, and in this exciting lecture / seminar, Dr Sasha Chaitow examines the famed flowering, taking in the fin-de-siècle French Occult Revival, the Order of the Golden Dawn, Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, and their groups. The occult revival was largely due to the aftermath of the French Revolution and its secularism; it was framed by the crumbling of European empires, during which ominous forces were gathering which would ultimately lead to the outbreak of the First World War. The occult revival occasioned a flowering of the arts not seen since the Renaissance, and its ideas filtered through twentieth century culture -- seen in modernist art and literature, as well as in elements of science and medicine.
Before the seminar date (13 September) you will listen to Dr Sasha Chaitow's pre-recorded lecture and read through some source texts, both…