A Brief Guide to Secret Religions
by Barrett, David V.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-06-28
Publisher(s): Perseus Books Group
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Summary
Every period of history has produced a crop of cults with their messiahs, faith healers, charlatans, gurus, preachers, and prophets. Expert David Barrett provides readers with a fully definitive work and examines the proliferation of esoteric and main-world religions on everything from Christian cults, Mormons, and Scientology, to Wicca, Chaos Magic, Satanism, and many more.
Author Biography
David V. Barrett has been writing about new religions and esoteric movements for many years. In A Brief Guide to Secret Religions he reveals a comprehensive and unbiased introduction to contemporary esoteric and occult beliefs and the allure of ancient wisdom in the modern world. This fascinating book offers an accessible overview of a large number of these movements and beliefs, getting to the heart of their practices and ideas.
Table of Contents
| What I Believe … | p. x |
| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Notes | p. 16 |
| New Age Movements | p. 19 |
| Theosophy | p. 23 |
| Anthroposophy | p. 34 |
| Alice Bailey | p. 37 |
| Benjamin Creme, Maitreya and Share International | p. 41 |
| G. I. Gurdjieff | p. 44 |
| Subud | p. 50 |
| Independent Episcopal Churches and the Apostolic Succession | p. 56 |
| I AM Movement | p. 65 |
| Church Universal and Triumphant | p. 70 |
| Emissaries/Emissaries of Divine Light | p. 82 |
| Findhorn | p. 92 |
| Sir George Trevelyan and the Wrekin Trust | p. 96 |
| Template Network (formerly Emin) | p. 99 |
| UFO Groups and Millennial Expectations | p. 113 |
| Aetherius Society | p. 119 |
| Raelian Movement | p. 127 |
| Alternative History | p. 139 |
| Other New Age and Holistic Groups | p. 142 |
| Personal Development Movements | p. 147 |
| Notes | p. 151 |
| Hermetic, Occult or High Magic Groups | p. 163 |
| Kabbalah | p. 165 |
| Tarot | p. 175 |
| Rosicrucian Groups | p. 179 |
| Fraternitas Rosae Crucis | p. 183 |
| AMORC | p. 186 |
| Church of Light | p. 188 |
| Rosicrucian Fellowship | p. 190 |
| Lectorium Rosicrucianum | p. 192 |
| Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn | p. 195 |
| Ordo Templi Orientis and Thelema | p. 212 |
| Schools of Occult Science | p. 219 |
| Builders of the Adytum | p. 220 |
| Society of the Inner Light | p. 226 |
| Servants of the Light | p. 231 |
| Fraternity of the Golden Circle | p. 236 |
| Temple of Starlight | p. 238 |
| Avalon Group | p. 240 |
| London Group | p. 242 |
| Chaos Magic | p. 244 |
| Satanism | p. 248 |
| Satanic Ritual Abuse | p. 255 |
| Notes | p. 265 |
| Neo-Paganism | p. 275 |
| Shamanism | p. 277 |
| Witchcraft | p. 280 |
| Wicca | p. 285 |
| Other Varieties of Witchcraft | p. 299 |
| Clan of Tubal Cain and 1734 | p. 303 |
| Church of All Worlds | p. 309 |
| Druidry | p. 316 |
| Fellowship of Isis | p. 328 |
| Heathenry/Northern Tradition | p. 330 |
| Pagan Federations | p. 341 |
| Notes | p. 346 |
| Coda | p. 355 |
| The Church of Scientology: An Esoteric Movement? | p. 357 |
| Notes | p. 366 |
| Bibliography | p. 369 |
| Index | p. 382 |
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