As the 19th century began to wane the world of the occult took a strange turn. Long gone were the how-to grimoires of the prior century; replaced by scientific and historical treatises of the same subject material. Charles Leland; releasing his work "Aradia" in 1899; is no exception to this change. Leland here describes an occult and religious order of witches stemming from the ancient Roman tradition; still extant as he states; in the 19th century in Tuscany. Driven underground by christian oppression; it nonetheless thrived. Here we see; in Lelands seminole work; one of the first comprehensive mentions of the feminine aspect of the left hand path; and one of the first historical (or quasi-historical) texts referring to christianity not as the golden; shining liberator; but as a fallen ideology which supplanted the pagans which had been more virtuous and beautiful than them; extracting thus the ire of the christian priests and monks. 93 pages. Illustrated.
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