The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor: Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism

By Joscelyn Godwin

The airtight Brotherhood of Luxor, energetic within the final a long time of the nineteenth century, was once the one order of its time that taught sensible occultism within the Western secret culture. this can be the 1st entire and undistorted account, tracing the origins, founders, and practices of this very secretive order, which counted between its individuals the various recognized figures of overdue 19th-century occultism, spiritualism, and Theosophy, together with Max Theon, Peter Davidson, Thomas Henry Burgoyne and Paschal Beverly Randolph. This scholarly paintings offers all of the fabrics for revisioning the historical past, assigning the airtight Brotherhood of Luxor its rightful position as probably the most influential esoteric orders of its time.

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