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dc.contributor.authorCarr, Annabel
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-05
dc.date.available2011-12-05
dc.date.issued2006-01-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2123/7922
dc.description.abstractThe retrospective catechisation of largely bygone beliefs is a naturally difficult assignment. An even more slavish task attends those philosophies which are not merely antiquated but which belonged, during their time of eminence, to a tradition of deliberate secrecy. An attempt to crack the ‘orphic’ codes of any such occult tradition will rely on a well-formed understanding of its position on the wider esoteric map as well as an appreciation of the clandestine nature of esoteric movements in general. Indeed, the seasoned esoteric historian will be closely familiar with the sentiment of Trithemius’s seventeenth-century caution to Agrippa: “... communicate vulgar secrets to vulgar friends, but higher and secret to higher, and secret friends only”. The would-be decrypter must therefore accept as inflexible the possibility that his or her quest might yield at best fragmentary fruits, for, as French warns in his biography of John Dee, the knotty complexity of old esoteric manuscripts “must necessarily elude modern readers”en_AU
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.subjectJohn Deeen_AU
dc.subjectspiritismen_AU
dc.subjectcelestialen_AU
dc.titleGrounding the Angels: An Attempt to Harmonise Science and Spiritism in the Celestial Conferences of John Deeen_AU
dc.typeThesis, Honoursen_AU


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