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„Šatí se v otrávených rouchách Formy“ : Vývoj „stezky levé ruky“ coby negativní esoterické kategorie v anglofonní kultuře, 1875-1972

Title in English "They Clad Themselves in Poisoned Robes of the Form" : Development of the 'Left-Hand Path' as a Negative Esoteric Category in Anglophone Culture 1875 - 1972
Authors

MOKRÝ Matouš

Year of publication 2023
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The paper will try to map the earlier, derogatory use of the collocation "Left-Hand Path" in the Anglophone milieu as a necessary step towards understanding the historical development of the later esoteric current of the same name. Probes into the texts of Helena P. Blavatsky, Arthur E. Waite, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, and Dennis Wheatly will demonstrate the elaboration of this term as a designation of various spiritually and socially subversive egoistic forces and of its function as a polemical category legitimizing one's own spiritual, societal, and political positions.
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