" The Occult Isn’t Just a Batty Idea in America's Attic"


	" The Occult Isn’t Just a Batty Idea in America's Attic"

rochester92

6-10-2007 12:46 PM

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occult, alternative history, eso-research

rochester92 says:

Writer and publisher Mitch Horowitz knows from whence he speaks concerning the history of the occult in America.

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		The Occult Isn’t Just a
Batty Idea in America’s Attic</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mitchhorowitz.com/occult-americas-attic.html"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana">The arcane 
		practices grouped under the name of occultism – from Spiritualism to 
		divination to witchery – represent an unheralded thought movement in our 
		national life. It not only placed horoscopes in nearly every daily 
		newspaper, but transformed a young nation into the launching pad for the 
		revolutions in alternative spirituality that marked religious culture in 
		the twentieth century. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mitchhorowitz.com/occult-americas-attic.html"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana">This was no triumph 
		of illogic. More than any other society, America historically married 
		modern rationality to spiritual innovation. Throughout the country’s 
		first century of existence, Freemasons, Transcendentalists, and 
		Spiritualists developed a pastiche of mythical and arcane ideas on 
		American soil, nourishing the young nation’s spiritual and intellectual 
		culture: </FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F258C669-4CA7-4C09-9339-EC8937754E45/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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