Occultism, folklore, mythology scholarship
Lewis Spence
1874 – 1955
James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, folklorist, and occult scholar. He compiled landmark reference works including An Encyclopaedia of Occultism (1920) and A Dictionary of Mythology (1910), and was a prominent populariser of Atlantis theories and pre-Columbian Mesoamerican mythology. A Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, he published over forty books that remain influential in occult scholarship.
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Grimoires and Ceremonial Magic
Primary grimoire and ceremonial magic texts covering the Key of Solomon, Goetia, pentacles, Abramelin, spirit catalogues, seals, consecrations, and ritual practice.
Gnosticism and Apocrypha
Gnostic and apocryphal texts covering Pistis Sophia, the Book of Enoch, early Christian gnosis, pseudepigrapha, mystical revelation, and esoteric Christian cosmology.
Ceremonial Magic
Ritual magic texts focused on consecration, invocation, planetary and angelic operations, magical tools, and structured ceremonial practice.
Gnosticism
Gnostic texts and studies on revelation, emanation, demiurgic cosmology, salvation through knowledge, and esoteric readings of Christianity.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah and Qabalah texts on the Tree of Life, divine names, emanation, symbolism, magic, meditation, and esoteric biblical interpretation.
Folklore Studies
Folklore studies texts on folk tales, fairy belief, superstition, regional customs, oral tradition, and the collection of vernacular belief.
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