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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
6th Century BCE: Pythagoras Comes to Crotona
5th Century BCE: Empedocles Invents the Four Elements
Late 5th Century BCE: The First Horoscopes
347 BCE: Death of Plato
186 BCE: Rome Outlaws the Bacchic Mysteries
1st Century BCE: Miriam the Alchemist
33 CE: Death of Jesus
57 CE: Fall of Mona
c. 1st Century CE: Invention of the Runes
1st Century CE: Apollonius of Tyana
c. 120: Basilides of Alexandria
2nd Century: Magic on Trial
155: Valentinus Loses a Papal Election
3rd Century: The Corpus Hermeticum
244: Plotinus Begins Teaching in Rome
c. 300: Zosimos of Panopolis
330: Death of Iamblichus of Chalcis
363: Last Pagan Emperor of Rome
396: End of the Eleusinian Mysteries
538: The Edicts of Justinian
573: Merlin and the Battle of Arderydd
c. 800: Jabir ibn Hayyan
9th Century: Canon Episcopi
1118: Founding of the Knights Templar
1208: The Albigensian Crusade
c. 1230: Origins of the Cabala
1256: Translation of Picatrix
1271: Fall of Harran
1279: Abraham Abulafia Goes to Saronno
1307: Arrest of the Knights Templar
1327: Cecco d’Ascoli Burned at the Stake
1382: The Philosopher’s Stone
1418: Origin of the Tarot
1428: The Great Valais Witch Trials Begin
1464: Translation of the Corpus Hermeticum
1486: The Malleus Maleficarum
1494: Johannes Reuchlin’s On the Miraculous Word
1526: Paracelsus Comes to Basel
1533: Cornelius Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy
1555: The Prophecies of Nostradamus
1559: John Dee Schedules a Royal Coronation
1570: Isaac Luria Arrives in Safed
1575: The Benandanti
1587: The Legend of Faust
1600: Giordano Bruno Burned at the Stake
1610: The Visions of Jacob Boehme
1611: Johannes Bureus Interprets the Runes
1614: The First Rosicrucian Manifesto
1628: Casting Spells for the Pope
1630: Gerard Thibault’s Academy of the Sword
1647: William Lilly’s Christian Astrology
1694: Rosicrucians Arrive in Pennsylvania
1717: The First Masonic Grand Lodge
1736: Passage of the Witchcraft Act
1744: The Visions of Emanuel Swedenborg
1746: Founding of the Hellfire Club
1767: The Élus Coens
1778: Franz Anton Mesmer Comes to Paris
1781: Tracing the Tarot to Egypt
1783: Etteilla Publicizes Tarot Divination
1795: Alessandro Cagliostro Dies in Rome
1798: Druids Celebrate the Autumn Equinox
1801: Francis Barrett’s The Magus
1820: Johann Georg Hohman’s The Long Lost Friend
1821: Thomas Taylor Translates On the Mysteries
1844: The Visions of Andrew Jackson Davis
1848: Birth of Spiritualism
c. 1850: The “Voodoo Queen”
1855: Éliphas Lévi’s Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic
1862: Jules Michelet’s The Sorceress
1874: The Brotherhood of Eulis
1875: The Theosophical Society
1884: The Martinist Order
1887: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
1892: The First Salon de la Rose+Croix
1897: The First Hoodoo Drugstore
1899: Charles Godfrey Leland’s Aradia, or The Gospel of the Witches
1902: Guido von List’s Vision of the Runes
1904: Aleister Crowley’s The Book of the Law
1910: The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck
1912: Carl Jung Breaks with Sigmund Freud
1913: Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophical Society
1914: Evangeline Adams Acquitted of Fortune-Telling
1917: The Thule Society
1921: Margaret Murray’s The Witch-Cult in Western Europe
1922: Alfred Watkins Discovers the Leys
1924: Harry Houdini Battles Fake Mediums
1925: The “Wars of the Roses”
1926: The Fulcanelli Enigma
1928: Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages
1929: End of the Order of the Star in the East
1935: Dion Fortune’s The Mystical Qabalah
1936: Dane Rudhyar’s The Astrology of Personality
1948: Raymond Palmer Founds Fate Magazine
1954: Gerald Gardner’s Witchcraft Today
1960: The Modern Alchemical Revival
1969: John Michell’s The View Over Atlantis
1979: Wicca Goes Mainstream
1983: Ralph Blum’s The Book of Runes
2012: The End of the Thirteenth Baktun
Notes and References
Image Credits
About the Author
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