The Revival of the Occult Philosophy: Cabalistic Magic and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Christian Cabala

Cabalistic Magic

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Renaissance Esotericism

Occult Philosophy

Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers

William Wynn Westcott

This thesis examines the history of the Western magical tradition through the establishment and development of cabalistic magic and its revival in nineteenth-century England. It analyzes how the synthesis of esotericism begun in the Renaissance by scholars like Pico della Mirandola, Reuchlin, and Agrippa was concluded by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, co-founder of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Butler, Alison L.

Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Religious Studies

2000-08

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