The Great Figures of Magic:  Magic derives is name from the art of the Magi, the Persian priesthood of olden days.  In this set Dr. Hoeller explores the practitioners of the art and their philosophy from the magic of Jesus’ mission as revealed in Gnostic scriptures, Magic in the Middle Ages, and the occult revival of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and beyond.

Along the way we see the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the one truly seminal organization dedicated to the study and practice of Ceremonial Magic as well as the Kabbalah, Tarot and diverse divinatory modalities.  Dr. Hoeller presents the fascinating personalities of some of the leading members and the quintessential teachings and magical practices of all times.

The individual titles are:

• Myths of the Magical Enlightenment: Count Cagliostro and Count de St. Germain. Cagliostro, the Magical Martyr and his Egyptian Rite of Masonry. Myths of initiation and ceremonial practices of enlightenment. The Count de St. Germain, the greatest mystery man of history; friend of kings and high noblemen, this adept predicted the French Revolution and practiced Alchemy and Magic. 74:18 #301401
• Eliphas Levi; Master of Magic. Alphonse Louis Constant (Eliphas Levi), the great reviver of Magic and Kabbalah exerted a huge influence on 19th and 20th Century esotericism and is not without influence today. This talk offers Gnostic and Jungian insights into Levi’s teachings, life and times. 78:59 #301402
• Magicians of the Golden Dawn and their Magic. The most important movement, responsible for the revival of Magic, Tarot, the I Ching, and Esoteric Fraternal Lodge work in two centuries. Rev. Woodford, William Wynn Wescott. Dr. Woodman, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and his wife Moina, Arthur Edward Waite, prolific esoteric author and creator of the Waite Tarot Deck, Paul Foster Case, perpetuator of the Golden Dawn Tradition in America, and founder of the Builders of the Adytum. 96:04 #301403
• The Literary Magicians of the Golden Dawn. The lives and works of W.B. Yeats and Dion Fortune. William Butler Yeats, greatest poet of the English language of his time; disciple of H.P. Blavatsky; prominent adept of the Golden Dawn. Novelist Dion Fortune (Violet Firth) and her synthesis of Psychology, Paganism, and early Feminism. The Magical Tarot and practices of imaginative thaumaturgy. 81:30 #301404
• Aleister Crowley, Pioneer and Experimenter. Controversial poet, mountain climber and magician Aleister Crowley, and his many interests, including sex magic. Israel Regardie, the biographer and protagonist of Crowley. The shadow of Eliphas Levi as the inspiration of Crowley. 79:59 #301405
• Albert Pike; Masonic Magus. Civil War general, philosopher and creator of Scottish Rite Masonry in America, Pike reformed much of Masonry to reflect the Mysteries of Greece, Egypt and other ancient lands. Greatly revered by such esotericists as H.P. Blavatsky, A.E. Waite and Manly P. Hall, Pike has still much to say to us today. 71:27 #301406
• Jesus the Magician: The Magic of Christ. Prof. Morton Smith established the thesis that Jesus was a Magician. This is the Gnostic amplification of this thesis. Why Christian Orthodoxy could not come to terms with the Magic of Jesus. 79:59 #301407
• Simon Magus, the Gnostic Magician. The archetypal Magician and First Gnostic: His story and teachings. 72:27 #301408
• The Magical defeat of Evil. Is there a Gnostic Magic that can defeat evil? 77:28 #301409

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