In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa. I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate, and the wonderful facts which he relates, soon changed ...

The uninitiated can find Rav Michael Laitman on YouTube, the video-sharing Web site. The white-bearded Jewish mystic is on camera, answering questions about the meaning of life posed by famous Israeli ...

Everyone loves a secret, and they’re more accessible than ever these days inside the Philosophical Research Society, hidden in plain sight at 3910 Los Feliz Blvd. “We’ve driven past this place for 30 ...

The orthodox view of Christianity is that Jesus preached the same doctrine to all men—there was no inner circle of “initiates” with special knowledge, as in Gnosticism and the mystery religions. The ...

Introduction: WHAT IS THE OCCULT? (And What Is It Doing in America?) Religious history, like literary or any cultural history, is made by genius, by the mystery of rare human personalities. —HAROLD ...