The vestment of power -- The adornment of silence : secrecy and symbolic power in American Freemasonry -- The secret doctrine : the advertisement of the secret in the Theosophical Society and the Esoteric Section -- The seduction of the secret : eros and magic in twentieth-centu…
"Urban focuses on six modalities of religious secrecy, each illustrated by one primary example. He starts with nineteenth-century Scottish Rite Freemasonry, then moves to the Theosophical Society of the late nineteenth century; the sexual magic of a Russian-born Parisian mystic,…
"Urban focuses on six modalities of religious secrecy, each illustrated by one primary example. He starts with nineteenth-century Scottish Rite Freemasonry, then moves to the Theosophical Society of the late nineteenth century; the sexual magic of a Russian-born Parisian mystic,…
