Aquarian

Post-Blake New Age and modern reenchantment: Theosophy, New Thought, mysticism, folklore theory, neopagan revival, depth psychology, and mythopoesis.

Folders

  • Atlantis and Lost WorldsNineteenth- 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)
  • BlakeanWilliam Blake's poems, illuminated books, prophetic works, prose, letters, and notebook pieces in a work-level Aquarian shelf. (32)
  • Earth MysteriesFlat-earth, hollow-earth, and pyramidology classics alongside foundational geology: Rowbotham, Teed, Reed, Gardner, Seiss, Wake, Cosmas Indicopleustes, and James Hutton. (16)
  • Emersonian (7)
  • Esoteric EncyclopediaEncyclopedic modern surveys of esoteric symbolism, mystery traditions, and comparative occult philosophy. (1)
  • Folklore TheoryStudies of folklore, superstition, and belief — the scholarship of the uncanny. (37)
  • Fortean AnomaliesCharles 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 OuspenskyFourth Way and Ouspensky-adjacent modern mystical philosophy: cognition, self-development, higher consciousness, and the occult mind after disenchantment. (1)
  • FreemasonryFreemasonic ritual, symbolism, moral instruction, fraternal history, and speculative traditions from modern Masonic literature. (10)
  • History and Philosophy of Science (18)
  • History of AnthropologyHistorical anthropology and comparative religion texts preserved with explicit context for period categories, evidence, and superseded theories. (12)
  • History of Law and Social PracticeHistorical studies of law, proof, punishment, coercion, social institutions, and the religious meanings attached to legal practice. (1)
  • History of Religion and RitualHistorical studies of religious development, ritual, kingship, and comparative method, retained with explicit period and source boundaries. (26)
  • Jamesian (4)
  • Meister EckhartMeister Eckhart's sermons and treatises on detachment, spiritual poverty, divine birth, and the soul's union with God. (8)
  • Modern Mystical PhilosophyModern mystical, existential, and philosophical writings at the edge of theology, attention, and spiritual practice. (1)
  • Mythomancy (39)
  • Natural LoreHistorical works on natural lore, animal symbolism, legend, and the boundaries between folklore and natural history. (1)
  • Neopagan RevivalModern pagan revival, Wicca, witchcraft recovery, post-Romantic nature religion, and neighboring links to Celtic, folklore, and psychical research materials. (7)
  • New Age ChristianityModern 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 ScienceNew Thought, mental science, affirmation, prosperity metaphysics, and practical spirituality of mind. (8)
  • Nietzschean (5)
  • Nostradamus and ProphecyNostradamus scholarship and Western prophetic literature: Charles A. Ward's annotated study of the Prophecies. (1)
  • Oahspe and New Revelations (1)
  • Occult Revival and Neo-HermeticismHistorical works from the modern occult revival, including ceremonial, Hermetic, Theosophical, alchemical, and New Thought syntheses. (11)
  • Ottoian (1)
  • Philosophy of Religion (41)
  • RastafariRastafari scripture, reasoning, prophetic writing, Afro-Caribbean religious imagination, Ethiopianism, and liberation thought. (4)
  • Schopenhauerian (6)
  • Secret Societies and Sub RosaHistorical scholarship on the Knights Templars, the Bavarian Illuminati, and the secret societies of the medieval and early-modern West. (3)
  • Spiritualism and Psychical ResearchModern spiritualism, psychical research, spirit photography, apparitions, and paranormal investigation as part of post-Blake reenchantment. (6)
  • SwedenborgianismEmanuel Swedenborg's visionary Christianity, correspondential exegesis, New Church theology, and religious afterlife literature. (3)
  • TheosophyTheosophical texts and modern esoteric synthesis after Blavatsky. (7)
  • Thoreauvian (5)
  • Trowardian (5)
  • Underhillian (2)

Pages

  • GlossaryA shelf-specific slice of the Good Works Glossary for Aquarian and modern esoteric terms.
  • Introduction to Aquarian ThoughtA 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 ThoughtA 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.