X. 22 it really is attention-grabbing to notice that the time period Bohemian, that means an unconventional lifestyle, derives from sixteenth century Bohemia, whose capital Prague, below the rule of thumb of Rudolph II, used to be a haven for alchemists, magicians, astrologers and Rosicrucians, attracting, between others, such figures because the polymath John Dee and his disreputable affiliate, Edward Kelly. See Francis Yates' The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. 23 Ibid. p. xv. 24 Ibid. P. xx. 25 C. G. Jung thoughts, desires, Reflections (London: Flamingo, 1983) pp. 201, 214. 26 Rene Daumal Powers of the observe (San Francisco: urban lighting fixtures Books, 1994). 27 an outstanding English creation to Nerval's hermeticism is Gerard de Nerval The Mystic's difficulty by way of Bettina L. Knapp (Alabama: collage of Alabama Press, 1980). 28 Ibid. p. one zero five. 29 Sieburt p. xxii. 30 Norman Glass, advent to his translation of trip to the Orient (London: Peter Owen, 1972) p. 18. 31 he's additionally, by the way, liable for the word "The pen is mightier than the sword. " 32 For Bulwer-Lytton's hyperlink to the Nazis and the occult, see Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier vintage The Morning of the Magicians (1963). Later students, such a lot significantly Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (The Occult Roots of Nazism (1985) ), have exploded Pauwels' and Bergier's contentions, yet they nonetheless make for reliable examining. 33 E. G. E. Bulwer-Lytton the arrival Race (Alan Sutton Publishing: Phoenix Mill, 1995) pp. eight, 10. 34 Joscelyn Godwin The Theosophical Enlightenment (Albany: nation college Press of recent York, 1994) p. 195. 35 it really is attainable that this bizarre script is the version for Blavatsky's Senzar, the prehistoric language of The booklet of Dzyan. 36 Joanna Richardson, creation to Baudelaire chosen Poems (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975) p. 12. 37 one other resource of the philosophy of soreness used to be Baudelaire's pal Eliphas Levi, or particularly Alphonse Louis consistent (he hadn't but replaced his name). Baudelaire and relentless met on a number of events and labored jointly on at the very least one undertaking, a scandalous e-book entitled Les Mysteres Galans des Theatres de Paris, a kind of mid-19th century similar of Hollywood Babylon. He and relentless have been additionally in short participants of Blanqui's political association, the Societe Repub- licaine primary. In 1845, a decade earlier than turning into a magician, consistent released a publication entitled Le Livre des Larmes, an essay at the worth of discomfort as an ethical strength which we will imagine Baudelaire was once conscious of. interestingly, consistent had additionally written and released a poem entitled Correspondances within the following 12 months. 38 Nicolas Berdyaev The which means of the inventive Act (New York: Collier Books, 1962) p. 223. 39 Robert Martin Adams creation to Tomorrow's Eve, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (Chicago: college of Illinois Press, 1982) p. x. forty A. W. Raitt creation to merciless stories, Villiers de 1'Isle-Adam (Oxford: Oxford collage Press, 1985) translated through Robert Baldick, p. x. Satanic Occultism even supposing within the well known brain it really is obvious as synonymous with occultism, Satanism right is admittedly purely , small department of the occult, person who sprang out of the most trunk in really fresh occasions; the traditional airtight writings, for instance, the important physique of alchemical and esoteric wisdom, haven't any idea of a satan nor make any point out of an evil precept.