The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies Beth O'Leary at home in our gardens

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The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies Beth O'Leary at home in our gardensA profound understanding of the surrealists' connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works. Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost "psychic" and magical powers. Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists