Tag: Marc Demarest

• April 13, 2018

  Marc Demarest on the Armchair Occultist, Godfrey Higgins: Modern Occultism, and the Professionalization of History

  THE ARMCHAIR OCCULTIST: GODFREY HIGGINS, ANACALYPSIS AND MODERN OCCULTISM LECTURE Emma Hardinge Britten Archive. The Church, Christian Spiritualists, and the professional establishment sought to control the influence of occultists. Anacalypsis becomes a popular rediscovery of literature at the time Isis Unveiled is published. Marc Demarest explains how the tyros of Occult Literature and Mythography (1820s-1870s)…