Darkness Visible: Elizabethan Black Magic, Part I
The men of the English Renaissance prided themselves on their rationality and their freedom from the barbarous superstitions of the Middle Ages
Author: Thomas Fleming
Greek I.40 Irregular Adjectives with audio ΑΝD CORRECTIONS
One common type of irregular adjective and two oddballs.
Victorian Poems: Yeats
Here are three poems–I may add one or two more–of William Butler Yeats that show the influence of his lifelong interest in the occult.
If You Know, You Know
You know you are living in an ideological tyranny, when……Please fill in the blanks. I’ll start with a few.
Victorian Poems: Ernest Dowson
These are several poems of Ernest Dowson (1867-1902). Everyone who has any knowledge of English verse is familiar with his most famous poem, “Cynara,” which has suffered the indignity of being quoted in O’Neil’s play “Long Day’s Journey” and parodied by Cole Porter.
Darkness Visible: Newton, Conclusion–Alchemy
The 17th century in Europe was a bridge between the unbridled arrogance of the Renaissance and the technocratic self-confidence projected in the Enlightenment.
Italian II.0 UPDATED 06/11 and 06/16
Anyone who wishes to follow, in however desultory a fashion, this Italian course should register by June 10.
Darkness Visiible: Newton 3
The great English writers of the Elizabethan era and the 17th century owed a great deal to the Renascence of classical learning, which had taken place in Italy. One aspect of this Renaissance, however, involved an attempt to revive ancient paganism or rather anti-Christian neo-paganism.
Darkness Visible: Newton, part 2
Isaac Newton was deservedly knighted for his great accomplishments, but it is a mistake to minimize either his occult interests or his bad character.
Darkness Visible: Part I Sir Isaac Newton, Preface
This is the first section of the first part of a series of articles on the central significance of occultism . Like many of the fathers of modern science and Enlightenment–René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Elias Ashmole, and Robert Boyle–Isaac Newton was a devoted alchemist and occultist.
