Toward Ecosophy

I'm delighted to announce the reappearance of an occult classic:  Theurgy: The Art of Effective Worship by Mouni Sadhu. 

His real name was Mieczyslaw Demetriusz Sudowski.  (That's him below on the right.)  Born in Poland in 1897, he got involved in the thriving Polish occult scene after the First World War, and also studied in Paris with French occultists. After the Second World War he lived in Brazil for a while, then spent some time in India studying with the great Hindu teacher Sri Ramana Maharshi, before settling in Melbourne, Australia for the rest of his life. A lifelong Roman Catholic, he wrote a series of books on Christian occultism and mysticism that drew from Catholic and Orthodox traditions, as well as Hermeticism and Hindu traditions.  Most of these have been out of print for many years, but that's now changing. 

To my mind Theurgy is the most important of his books, simply because it's the only English-language work known to me that presents the 19th- and early 20th-century French tradition of Christian theurgy in sufficient detail for practical use. (Theurgy?  That's the practical art of invoking the divine to heal, bless, and protect human beings.)  There's been a promising revival of Christian occultism in recent years, but what I've seen has mostly derived from medieval, Renaissance, and early modern sources; the material in Theurgy is different. It starts by outlining the theory of Christian theurgy, goes from there to basic theurgic prayer, then to more advanced practices, and finally to theurgic ceremonies. Like most of his later books, it assumes you also have access to Concentration and The Tarot, his two most famous books -- but I'm glad to say those will also be back in print shortly. 

Interested?  You can order a copy here. I'll be discussing some of Mouni Sadhu's other works in a later post on this journal.