03041nam 2200733Ia 450 991095501620332120240417033537.0978079148010607914801009781429471558142947155710.1515/9780791480106(CKB)1000000000473982(OCoLC)140200220(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575862(SSID)ssj0000270375(PQKBManifestationID)11213178(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270375(PQKBWorkID)10261819(PQKB)11635102(MiAaPQ)EBC3407436(MdBmJHUP)muse6541(Au-PeEL)EBL3407436(CaPaEBR)ebr10575862(OCoLC)923405174(DE-B1597)682301(DE-B1597)9780791480106(Perlego)2673641(EXLCZ)99100000000047398220060622d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWestern esotericism and rituals of initiation /Henrik Bogdan1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20071 online resource (249 p.) SUNY series in Western esoteric traditionsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791470695 0791470695 Includes bibliographical references and index.Western esotericism -- Rituals of initiation, secret societies -- Historical background -- The craft degrees of Freemasonry -- High or additional degrees of Freemasonry -- The Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn -- Modern pagan witchcraft or wicca.For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry—the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation—Bogdan examines the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—the most influential of all nineteenth-century occultist initiatory societies—and Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large-scale Western esoteric New Religions Movements.SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.FreemasonryInitiation ritesOccultismWiccaFreemasonry.Initiation rites.Occultism.Wicca.130Bogdan Henrik1812639MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955016203321Western esotericism and rituals of initiation4365123UNINA