Contents
List of Illustrations 000
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
Part I: Esoterica
1. What Is the Occult? 000
Interlude: Erasing the Grooves: On Cold Feet 000
2. Toward an Occult Poetics 000
Interlude: Mysteries of the Unknown 000
3. H. P. Blavatsky and the Magic of Esoteric Language 000
4. On Textual Occultism 000
Part II: Exoterica
Interlude: Re-membering Crowley 000
5. Aleister Crowley and the Hermeneutic of Authority 000
Interlude: On Stolen Letters and Lettered Secrets 000
6. The Death of the Modern Magus: "The Masses" and Irony's Other
000
7. Prime-Time Satanism: Stock Footage and the Death of Modern
Occultism 000
8. The Allegory of The Ninth Gate 000
Epilogue: The Fool's Yapping Cur 000
Appendix 1: Scholarship on Occultism 000
Appendix 2: Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law 000
Notes 000
Selected Bibliography 000
Index 000