Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky's Theosophy by Julie Chajes (Oxford University Press, 2019) Hardcover

Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky's Theosophy by Julie Chajes (Oxford University Press, 2019) HardcoverChajes, Julie. Recycled Lives: A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky's Theosophy, Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Hardcover. 215 pages. Condition: Very Good

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twelfth-century Jews and Christians were simultaneously rediscovering the feminine as an aspect of the Godhead after having abandoned it in favor of either an abstract

which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners

religious practices

Informed by studies on witchcraft in early modern Europe

both culturally and politically

Elf Queens and Holy Friars offers a detailed account of the church's attempts to suppress or redirect belief in such things as fairy lovers

a close reading of Pico’s works reveals new insights into the ways that angels were thought of

These tools allow for that primordial differentiation

and suggests that the regulation and punishment of magic in the Tudor period were comparatively and perhaps surprisingly gentle

the interiorization of the divine attributes in ecstatic Kabbalah

charms and protective talismans – in everyday life