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Lords Of The Lefthand Path Forbidden Practices And Spiritual Heresies Stephen E Flowers by Stephen E. Flowers 9781594776922, 159477692X, B008COVH5I instant download after payment.
Examines the left-hand path and reveals the masters of the tradition
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Explores the practices and beliefs of many left-hand path groups,
including the Cult of Set, the Hell-Fire Club, and heretical Sufi,
Zoroastrian, Christian, and Muslim sects
• Investigates many
infamous occult personalities, including Helena Blavatsky, Aleister
Crowley, the Marquis de Sade, and Anton LaVey
• Explains the
true difference between the right-hand path and the left-hand
path--union with and dependence on God versus individual freedom and
self-empowerment
From black magic and Satanism to Gnostic sects
and Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, the left-hand path has been linked to many
practices, cults, and individuals across the ages. Stephen Flowers,
Ph.D., examines the methods, teachings, and historical role of the
left-hand path, from its origins in Indian tantric philosophy to its
underlying influence in current world affairs, and reveals which
philosophers, magicians, and occult figures throughout history can truly
be called “Lords of the Left-Hand Path.”
Flowers explains that
while the right-hand path seeks union with and thus dependence on God,
the left-hand path seeks a “higher law” based on knowledge and power. It
is the way of self-empowerment and true freedom. Beginning with ancient
Hindu and Buddhist sects and moving Westward, he examines many alleged
left-hand path groups, including the Cult of Set, the Yezidi Devil
Worshippers, the Assassins, the Neoplatonists, the Hell-Fire Club, the
Bolsheviks, the occult Nazis, and several heretical Sufi, Zoroastrian,
Christian, and Muslim sects. Following a carefully crafted definition of
a true adherent of the left-hand path based on two main
principles--self-deification and challenge to the conventions of “good”
and “evil”--the author analyzes many famous and infamous personalities,
including
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