Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

  1. Colin Wilson and Faculty X

  2. Discovering Swedenborg

  3. Jan Potocki and the Saragossa Manuscript

  4. Éliphas Lévi: The Professor of Transcendental Magic

  5. The Alchemy of August Strindberg

  6. The Inimitable Madame B.

  7. Rudolf Steiner: The Dweller on the Threshold

  8. Manly Palmer Hall: The Secret Teacher

  9. Dion Fortune: Psychic Warrior

10. Aleister Crowley: The Beast Himself

11. Julius Evola: Mussolini’s Mystic

12. Jung and the Occult

13. Ouspensky in London

14. Jean Gebser: Leaping into the Unknown

15. Owen Barfield and the Evolution of Consciousness

16. The Strange Death of James Webb

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