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	HBH547
	Author: Lewis Spence
	Publisher: B.R. Publishing Corporation
	Language: English
	Edition: 2025
	ISBN: 9789348610416
	Pages: 451
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	11.00 X 8.50 inch
	1.21 kg

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About the Book It is a pity that for such a long time Lewis Spence's An Encyclopaedia of Occultism should have remained out of print first published in 1920. And for two reasons. First, because no encyclopaedia of occultism was in existence before Spence's publication; and secondly, because Spence's Encyclopaedia of Occultism met, to a great extent, the renewed interest in occultism. Renewed because for a long time the dazzling success of science in all fields of knowledge made people sceptic and taught them to doubt the credibility of the occult sciences, psychic science, magic, demonology, spiritism and mysticism. But in the first decade of the 20th century interest in occultism was suddenly revived owing to the scientific experiments performed by scientists like Sir Oliser Lodge, and the Society of Psychical Research. It was during that time that Lewis Spence's Encyclopaedia was brought out. It is fully illustrated and the entries are arranged alphabetically as in all other encyclopaedias. In collecting information for his encyclopaedia Spence has cast his net wide and far. Both western and eastern occultism have supplied him material and India has supplied him a great many.

In compiling an encyclopaedia of this kind it is natural that the editor's own interest in the subject will influence his choice of material as well as its handling, but Spence has consigned his own belief in occultism to the background and proceeds on the general assumption that there are "more things in heaven and earth" that our science dreams of. The result is an encyclopaedia which is a rich nugget of information- information that is difficult to gather and hard to come by.

About the Author James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (1874-1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar. Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and vice-president of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society. He founded the Scottish National Movement.

Preface In attempting to compile a volume which might serve as a handbook or work of reference to the several occult sciences, I have not lost sight of the extensive character of the subject, which, now that I have completed my task, is more than ever painfully perceptible. Excur-sions into the literature of the occult, of a somewhat extensive kind, led me to the belief that popular misconceptions concerning its several branches were many and varied. Regard-ing definitions there did not appear to be any substantial agreement, and application to encyclopedias and ordinary works of reference generally resulted in disappointment. That a department of human thought so pregnant with interest and so abounding in vitality should not hitherto have been reduced to presentation in reference form struck me as singular; and I resolved to do what I could to supply what seemed to me a very real literary and scientific necessity. That I have been entirely successful is too much to hope. But I have made a beginning, and this volume may inspire a more worthy hand to the compilation of a more perfect handbook of the subject. The science of Anthropology has of late years done much to elucidate questions relating to the origins of magic, and in writing this volume I have freely applied its principles. I have not, however, permitted scientific considerations to blind me to the marvellous and romantic character of the material in which I have laboured. Indeed, I am convinced that had I in any way attempted to subvert this innate quality of the occult to purely scientific considerations-however worthy of statement-the romance inherent in it would, by reason of its very native force have defeated such an intention, and, even if arrayed in the poorest of verbiage, would still retain its marvellous powers of attraction, no estimate of which can be too high.

I have relegated the subject of methods and theories to the introduction. It remains to thank the many kind friends who have assisted me actively and by advice in the compilation of this volume. My assistants, Miss Mavie Jack and Miss K. Nixey, have placed me under a deep debt of obligation by their careful collection, arrangement and independent work upon the extensive literature relative to psychic science. To Mr. David MacRitchie, F.S.A. (Scot.), F.R.A.I., late President of the Gypsy Lore Society, I owe thanks for the article " Gypsies." The late Lieut. William Begg collected much Theosophical matter; and Mr. W. G. Blaikie Murdoch has rendered me the greatest assistance with difficult biographical material. My lamented friend, the late Mr. A. J. B. Graham, greatly smoothed my path by throwing light on legal questions.

Introduction THE Sciences known as "occult" may with every reason be regarded as the culture-grounds of the science of to-day. As everyone knows, alchemy was the forerunner of chemistry, astrology the direct ancestor of astronomy, and magnetism of hypnotism. But these sub-jects and their kindred arts have another claim upon our attention and interest, for in their evolution we can trace many of the beginnings of philosophic and ethical processes, the recovery of which renders their examination and study as important to the whole under-standing of the history of man as that of theology or the new mythology. A generation ago it was the fashion to sneer at the occult sciences. But to-day, men of science in the foremost files of thought have placed them on the dissecting slab as fit subjects for careful examination. The result of their analysis during the past twenty years, if it has not permitted us to pierce the veil which divides man and the "supernatural," has, at all events, served to purge our sight sufficiently to enable us to see things on this side of it with a clearer vision, and to regard such researches with a more tolerant eye than hitherto. For example the fact of ghostly appearances is proven, whatever may be their nature, hallucinatory or otherwise, gold has been manufactured, if in small quantities, the theory of thought transference is justified, and hypnotism is utilized in ordinary, medical practice.

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