San Antonio College Library

A professional magician exposes mystics, mediums, psychic surgeons, and others who claim to possess supernatural or paranormal powers, demonstrating how their feats are little more than well-planned tricks that any competent magician can duplicate.

"Offering a radical new approach to the nature and value of occult thought, Lehrich's book posits magic as a mode of theory that is intrinsically subversive of normative conceptions of reason and truth. In elucidating the deep parallels between occult thought and academic discourse. Lehrich demonstrates that sixteenth-century occult philosophy often touched on issues that have become central to philosophical discourse only in the past fifty years."--Jacket....

The cults and the occult: what are they saying? Why do they attract so many people? How should you respond? Edmond C. Gruss answers those questions and more in this helpful introduction to and expose of the leading cults, the occult, and related movements. Gruss offers a wealth of pertinent scripture to refute false doctrines and points the reader to the best resources for futher study of each subject. Revised and greatly expanded, this new edition...

"The study of Egypt as the fount of all wisdom and stronghold of hermetic lore, already strong in antiquity, Hornung (Egyptology, U. of Basel) calls Egyptosophy. Though it was soundly rebuffed by Egyptology, based on conventional science and history, he thinks its continuing impact on western culture"--Publisher's description.

"For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry - the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation - Bogdan examines the development of...