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Mirror of the free, Nicholas Swift: on the origin of the Tarot

Mirror of the free, Nicholas Swift: on the origin of the Tarot

by Katinka Hesselink - Spirituality on November 24, 2011

Those of you who are into Western Esotericism and Tarot will be glad to hear that Nicholas Swift has taken Blavatsky up on the hints she gave in her letters and looked at the Babylonian cylinders. Blavatsky Collected Writings Vol XIV pp 106, 94 and 174, p. 12 of the book under review. This is not [...]

The Occult Roots Of Nazism, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

The Occult Roots Of Nazism

by Katinka Hesselink - Spirituality on April 10, 2010

THE book about one of the most controversial topics in occult history: the relationship between Nazism and occultism. Few people outside the occult or Neo Nazi subcultures (which don’t have a large overlap, fortunately) know much about the topic in this book. It is important both as a permanent warning to occultists, as well as [...]