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John Mandeville

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Traditional and Initiatic Symbolism in the Alexander Romance, Part II

The Great Crab attacks Alexander and his men in the country of the North.

In the previous article, I attempted to explain some of the traditional and initiatory symbolism that appears in the so-called Alexander Romance, specifically the ea...

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Traditional and Initiatic Symbolism in the Alexander Romance, Part I

Alexander the Great descends into the sea in an early bathyscaphe.

I find endlessly fascinating the many insights with which a close reading of forgotten or neglected texts can sometimes reward the patient student.

Take, for instance, the...

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The Hollow Earth

If you’ve ever had any truck with some of the more peculiar imaginative traditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, then you’ve certainly come across fictional representations of the so-called “Hollow Earth,” the terra conca...

3 years ago
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Some Thoughts on Theosophical "Elementals"

The Theosophists have an interesting cosmological scheme.

Now, when I say interesting, I do not therefore mean that it is a correct one; just that it is fascinating in its syncretic eclecticism, and sometimes even hints at truer and deeper...

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The Regression of the Castes

To many observers, the present world dispensation is a bewildering thing to behold.

I suppose I should say, parenthetically, that this is self-evident only to those of a more or less reasonable or sane mental temperament; for there are tho...

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  • John Mandeville

    I am a scholar, a folklorist, a collector of intellectual curios, an explorer of little-known byways of forgotten lore; I am a Traditionalist, a Perennialist, an antiquarian, an anti-modernist, and a terminal bibliophile.

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