Showing posts with label booklet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label booklet. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
The True Fortune Teller: Now Available!
This is yet another of the fortune teller works I am so fond of. This one is quite short but dense and contains several novel inclusions- it is, as far as I know, the only work which prognosticates by nail shape and color (at least among works I've edited currently) and the tree picture is itself a sort of oracle used with a blindfold to tell general fortune.
It partly plagiarizes the 1790s Fortune Teller of Mrs Bridget and contains the same origin story and astrological section. The author is not known and the source work is not dated but I speculate it dates to shortly after the Philosophical Merlin and thus the 1830s or so based on the oracle type, the font and format of the initial work, and the obvious post-Mrs Bridget date.
I had help with the tree image from Sandra Kishi Glenn, whose website you can find here at this link. Many thanks for the rendering!
29 pages.
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Karma (Besant): Now Available!
This is one of a series of four booklets written in the early 20th century by Besant to show the basic premises of Theosophy to newcomers. It was out of a realization, on her part, it seems, that much Theosophical literature was too long and/or obtuse to be understood unless a person was relatively highly literate or already trained in Theosophy.
It is an intermediate primer on karma and related topics from the Buddhist tradition as westernized (slightly) by the occultists of the era.
58 pages.
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