The Occult
Establishment
James Webb
A Library Press Book
1976
Open Court Publishing Company
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ContentsChapter 3
‘Wise Men from the East
Chapter 4
‘The Conspiracy against the World
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The Magi of the North
Chapter 6
‘The Hermetie Academy
Chapter 7
The Great Liberation
Chapter 8
‘A Grammae of Unseason
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Preface
T sap any seu to wit ts bk wen 1 cord a
I had fret to come to terme vith another completely neglected
historical development. My stating point had been an atempt to
verify or disprove rome of the claims made about a eatonship
between Nazism and the occult. My puzzletent grew wih every ad
vance in knowledge, Save relationship obviously existed, But i was
not that of popular superstition. An acquaintanceship with oocult
habits of thought began to reveal esoteric lore inthe mest ualikely
places. What did this mean? I soon discovered that despite the im
Inense amount of mates onthe subject, noone had bothered to di
cover what he occult” in fact, So my fist step toward understan-
‘ing the problems diacutsed inthis book was a preliminary quest for
‘the mteaning ofthe “occult” and its extracrdiary revival atthe end
of the last cea
‘The result of this fist investigation was The Occult Under