Notes

• "Here in one volume are both descriptions of the great occult thinkers and selections from their work. Meet Monsieur Mesmer, the master hypnotist; Madame Blavatsky; the Illuminati; the Rosicrucians; the writers and thinkers Baudelaire, Strindberg, Goethe, Huysmans, Swedenborg, Balzac, and of course Aleister Crowley a.k.a. the Great Beast 666. All are here, along with many others, and all are linked by a fascination with the Other Side. Works of brilliance, sometimes even of genius were produced under the influence of occultism. Yet, not too infrequently, it also opened the door on a peculiar kind of madness."–BOOK JACKET