Many thanks for posting this link to me. I found it highly informative and an eye opener!

I like your sympathetic treatment of the late professor Goodrick-Clarke’s introductory work on esotericism. I am one of those mature students (with a background in both humanities and social science) with no specific academic knowledge in the field of W.E, but an interest that has grown over the years, both through personal enquiry and other academic areas. Goodrick-Clarke’s book has been most beneficial.

I recently came across the Phoenix Rising Academy through a link from the academic study of magic mailing list, it looks like a good organisation, you must be very proud of the academy.
Keep up the good work!

With Best wishes,

Stuart

As always, the proverbial “devil” lurks in the qualitative accuracy of scholarly provenance and perspicuity of cognitive detail evinced.

Thank you so much for such an enspirited and empowering glimpse into the complexities and nuances of enlightened and enlightening scholarship.

A work that might usefully be included in the canon of contemporary scholarly references that cast additional light on the intricacies of these entangled interpretive lineages, adding variant context and perspective, is Joanne Pearson’s (2007) Wicca and the Christian Heritage: Routledge. I am engaged in doctoral research into Aleister Crowley’s “cognitive hermeneutics” & Jo is a former supervisor of mine at Cardiff, whose lucid approach to difficult topics in this concise volume I found to be extremely coherent and well-written.