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The Occult Establishment James Webb
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.

Original research on this subject pioneered by Hoffman. The symbolism and ritual of the occult appealed to the anti-establishment; hippies were looking further than flowers, thinkers were pressing the boundaries. Positive proof in the The French Revolution, one of Europe's most important political upheavals, was largely the work of Masonic lodges dedicated to the overturning of the monarchy and an end of the established Catholic religion. Mesmer had developed his pantheistic theory of 'Animal Magnetism', which resulted in the famous faith-healing sessions at his clinic in Paris. James Webb made a name for himself with his fascinating, if sceptical, histories of occultism, The Occult Underground (1974, first published in Britain as The Flight from Reason, 1971) and The Occult Establishment (1976). Occult Establishment', Open Court, 1976, p.352). The fulfillment of Nostradamus's prophesy through the founding of the Theosophical Society and the re-establishment of the original mysteries. In 1585 Dee pledged the government of Britain to the service of the occult establishment, in an infernal compact with Prague Rabbi Judah Loew. The struggle against the occult enemies of mankind; the race of the Rakshasas. Back in 1930 Ralph Shirley, the editor of the London Occult Review, Britain's leading journal of esoteric sciences, endorsed “the suspicion that the ranks of occultism are secretly working for disintegration and revolution. This connection between occultism and anti-establishment thinking is not alien to us, as Surette notes: just think of the hippies!