Editorial A tarot deck used by Violeta Parisi, one of the hundreds of witches across the country practicing magic to help their national team, in Buenos Aires on Dec. 15, 2022. (Anita Pouchard Serra/The New York Times)
EditorialAn image from video of Krista Schwimmer, during a remote tarot session — she and her husband have been conducting virtual consultations since early in the coronavirus pandemic, in Los Angeles, Dec. 27, 2020. (Cole Barash/The New York Times)
EditorialFigulus, Print, Even Varro, though schooled in the Stoicism of Aelius Stilo and in skeptical Antiochean Platonism, requested a Pythagorean funeral for himself. The 19th-century historian Theodor Mommsen compared the occult interests of the Late Republi...
EditorialNigidius, Print, Even Varro, though schooled in the Stoicism of Aelius Stilo and in skeptical Antiochean Platonism, requested a Pythagorean funeral for himself. The 19th-century historian Theodor Mommsen compared the occult interests of the Late Republ...
EditorialA sphere with occult symbols. A bird sits on the sphere. A half circle of eyes and faces. . Des gottseeligen hocherleuchteten Jacob Bo?hmens ... (the threefold life of man). Amsterdam, 1682. Source: 765.f.11, p. frontispiece. Language: Dutch.
EditorialThomas Tryon, vegetarian, student of astrology and the occult sciences, died 1709. Engraving by R. Grave from James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, London, 1819.