LEADER 03041nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910955016203321 005 20240417033537.0 010 $a9780791480106 010 $a0791480100 010 $a9781429471558 010 $a1429471557 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791480106 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473982 035 $a(OCoLC)140200220 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575862 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000270375 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11213178 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270375 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10261819 035 $a(PQKB)11635102 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407436 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6541 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407436 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10575862 035 $a(OCoLC)923405174 035 $a(DE-B1597)682301 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791480106 035 $a(Perlego)2673641 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473982 100 $a20060622d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWestern esotericism and rituals of initiation /$fHenrik Bogdan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series in Western esoteric traditions 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791470695 311 08$a0791470695 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWestern 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. 330 $aFor more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry?the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation?Bogdan examines the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn?the most influential of all nineteenth-century occultist initiatory societies?and Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large-scale Western esoteric New Religions Movements. 410 0$aSUNY series in Western esoteric traditions. 606 $aFreemasonry 606 $aInitiation rites 606 $aOccultism 606 $aWicca 615 0$aFreemasonry. 615 0$aInitiation rites. 615 0$aOccultism. 615 0$aWicca. 676 $a130 700 $aBogdan$b Henrik$01812639 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955016203321 996 $aWestern esotericism and rituals of initiation$94365123 997 $aUNINA