Post-Blake New Age and modern reenchantment: Theosophy, New Thought, mysticism, folklore theory, neopagan revival, depth psychology, and mythopoesis.
Folders
Atlantis and Lost Worlds — Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Atlantis, Lemuria, and lost-continent literature: Donnelly, Scott-Elliot, Bulwer-Lytton, Blavatsky, and the era's most influential Atlantis hoax. (8)
Blakean — William Blake's poems, illuminated books, prophetic works, prose, letters, and notebook pieces in a work-level Aquarian shelf. (32)
Earth Mysteries — Flat-earth, hollow-earth, and pyramidology classics alongside foundational geology: Rowbotham, Teed, Reed, Gardner, Seiss, Wake, Cosmas Indicopleustes, and James Hutton. (16)
Esoteric Encyclopedia — Encyclopedic modern surveys of esoteric symbolism, mystery traditions, and comparative occult philosophy. (1)
Folklore Theory — Studies of folklore, superstition, and belief — the scholarship of the uncanny. (37)
Fortean Anomalies — Charles Fort's catalogues of scientifically excluded data: The Book of the Damned and its method of radical doubt toward orthodox explanation. (1)
Fourth Way and Ouspensky — Fourth Way and Ouspensky-adjacent modern mystical philosophy: cognition, self-development, higher consciousness, and the occult mind after disenchantment. (1)
Freemasonry — Freemasonic ritual, symbolism, moral instruction, fraternal history, and speculative traditions from modern Masonic literature. (10)
History of Anthropology — Historical anthropology and comparative religion texts preserved with explicit context for period categories, evidence, and superseded theories. (12)
History of Law and Social Practice — Historical studies of law, proof, punishment, coercion, social institutions, and the religious meanings attached to legal practice. (1)
History of Religion and Ritual — Historical studies of religious development, ritual, kingship, and comparative method, retained with explicit period and source boundaries. (26)
Natural Lore — Historical works on natural lore, animal symbolism, legend, and the boundaries between folklore and natural history. (1)
Neopagan Revival — Modern pagan revival, Wicca, witchcraft recovery, post-Romantic nature religion, and neighboring links to Celtic, folklore, and psychical research materials. (7)
New Age Christianity — Modern alternative Christian, esoteric Jesus, and New Age gospel texts where direct revelation, hidden-life narratives, and universalist spiritual synthesis reshape Christian inheritance. (3)
New Thought and Mental Science — New Thought, mental science, affirmation, prosperity metaphysics, and practical spirituality of mind. (8)
Occult Revival and Neo-Hermeticism — Historical works from the modern occult revival, including ceremonial, Hermetic, Theosophical, alchemical, and New Thought syntheses. (11)
Secret Societies and Sub Rosa — Historical scholarship on the Knights Templars, the Bavarian Illuminati, and the secret societies of the medieval and early-modern West. (3)
Spiritualism and Psychical Research — Modern spiritualism, psychical research, spirit photography, apparitions, and paranormal investigation as part of post-Blake reenchantment. (6)
Swedenborgianism — Emanuel Swedenborg's visionary Christianity, correspondential exegesis, New Church theology, and religious afterlife literature. (3)
Theosophy — Theosophical texts and modern esoteric synthesis after Blavatsky. (7)
Glossary — A shelf-specific slice of the Good Works Glossary for Aquarian and modern esoteric terms.
Introduction to Aquarian Thought — A source-critical introduction to Aquarian thought — a Good Works Library term for modern spiritual seeking, synthesis, reenchantment, and new religious creativity after disenchantment.
Reader's Guide to Aquarian Thought — A source-critical guide to the Aquarian shelf as a contested modern field: prophetic imagination, religious experience, critique, esoteric synthesis, folklore theory, mental science, revival, skepticism, and new mythmaking.