The Phoenix: An Illustrated Overview of Occultism and Philosophy

Seven thousand years of fascinating lore from around the world is reviewed in this illustrated, folio-sized volume. The table of contents includes: The Ladder of Souls-Studies the mystery of the descent of the spiritual man into the body, further enhanced with the diagrams of Robert Fludd, an English Alchemist and Hermetic philosopher. Bodhidharma, Patriarch of Zen When the Dead Come Back -Discusses out of body experiences Albert Pike, The Plato of Freemasonry The Sorcery of Asia-The strange stories of Sky-walking Adepts, snake charmers, devil dancers, and more Concentration & Retrospection-Safe and sane disciplines The Comte de St. Germain-Greatest of the European Adepts The Cycle of Transmigration-According to the teachings of those learned lamas who are the custodians of the secret traditions in Buddhism The Tenth Avatar-Mahatma Gandhi The Wheel of Pythagoras-Invaluable to numerology students The Practice of Meditation H. P. B., The Russian Sphinx-Tells of Madame Blavatsky and includes two, full-page portraits of Mahatmas M. and K.H., painted under her supervision The Universe in Stone-The Buddhist remains of Boro Budur Kismet-A delightful story of a Caliph and an astrologer Holy Men-Those sanctified to high purpose Apollonius, "The Antichrist" Cagliostro & the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry The Great Pyramid