Joscelyn Godwin

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[justify]Joscelyn Godwin (born 16 January 1945 at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England) is a composer, musicologist and translator, known for his work on ancient music, paganism and music in the occult.

He was educated as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, then at Radley College (Music Scholar), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Music Scholar; B.A., 1965, Mus. B., 1966, M.A. 1969).

He moved to the U.S. in 1966 to undertake post-graduate work in musicology at Cornell University, where he gained his Ph.D. in 1969 with a dissertation on "The Music of Henry Cowell". He then taught at Cleveland State University for two years before moving to Colgate University Music Department in 1971.

Amongst his work is the first complete English language translation (1999) of one of the first illustrated printed texts, the incunabulum Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499).


He continues to teach in the music department at Colgate University, where he often teaches semester-long courses delving into the life and work of a single composer.[/justify]

Joscelyn Godwin - Arktos The Polar Myth.pdf
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... Polar-Myth

Joscelyn Godwin - Music and the Occult French Musical Philosophie.pdf
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... ilosophies

Joscelyn Godwin - Mystery Religions in the Ancient World.pdf
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... ient-world

Joscelyn Godwin - The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor.pdf
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... d-of-Luxor

Joscelyn Godwin - Athanasius Kircher a Renaissance Man and The Quest For Lost Knowledge.pdf
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... -knowledge

Joscelyn Godwin - Mystery of the Seven Vowels.pdf
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... ven-Vowels


Bibliography

[small]Robert Fludd. Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds (London: Thames & Hudson, 1979; also published in French, Greek, Spanish and Japanese). Currently available from Adventures Unlimited Press.

Athanasius Kircher. A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge (London: Thames & Hudson, 1979; also published in French, German, Spanish & Japanese)

Mystery Religions in the Ancient World (London: Thames & Hudson, 1981; also published in Greek, Japanese)
Harmonies of Heaven and Earth. The Spiritual Dimension of Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde (London: Thames & Hudson, 1987; also published in French, German, Japanese; partly published in Spanish). Currently in print from Inner Traditions International.

Music and the Occult. French Musical Philosophies 1750-1950 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press/London: Boydell & Brewer, 1995; previously published in French; also published in Japanese)

The Mystery of the Seven Vowels in Theory and Practice (Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1991; also published in Italian)

Arktos (1993 subtitled "The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival") (Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1993, also published in German, Japanese, Greek, French, Italian and Spanish). Currently in print from Adventures Unlimited Press.

The Theosophical Enlightenment (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994)

Johann Friedrich Hugo Von Dalberg (1760-1812): Schriftsteller, Musiker, Domherr (co-authored with Michael Embach; Mainz: Gesellschaft fur mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, 1998)

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, (1999, translation)

The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance (Grand Rapids: Phanes Press/London: Thames & Hudson, 2002)

The Real Rule of Four (New York: The Disinformation Company, 2004; also published in French and Portuguese)

The Golden Thread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2007)[/small]

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[---][center][large]Arktos :[/large]
The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival[/center][---]

[justify]Arktos is the first book ever written on the archetype of the Poles: celestial and terrestrial, North and South.
This engrossing and sometimes hair-raising voyage through cosmology, occultism and conspiracy theory leads to startling revelations about the secrets of the Poles. The author investigates legends of a Golden Age, which some claim ended in a prehistoric catastrophe, a shift in the earth's axis. This is examined in the light of the latest geological theories, as are predictions of a coming pole-shift. The perennial fascination of these ideas is shown to be part of a "polar tradition" of hidden wisdom. There are many recorded tales of an ancient race said to have lived in the Arctic regions, which later spread through the Northern Hemisphere. This Aryan Race entered the pantheon of Nazi Germany.
The author examines the origins of modern neo-Nazi ideology, its "polar" inspiration, and its links with other arcana, including the survival of Hitler, German bases in Antarctica, UFOS, the Hollow Earth, and the hidden kingdoms of Agartha and Shambhala. However, "Arktos" differs from most writings on these subjects in its responsible and scholarly treatment, and its extensive use of foreign-language sources.[/justify]

[center]Joscelyn Godwin - Arktos The Polar Myth.pdf (7.98 MB)
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... Polar-Myth[/center]

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[---][center][large]Music and the Occult :[/large]
French Musical Philosophies[/center][---]

[justify]This book is an adventure into the unexplored territory of French esoteric philosophies and their relation to music. Occultism and esotericism flourished in nineteenth-century France as they did nowhere else. Many philosophers sought the key to the universe, some claimed to have found it, and, in the unitive vision that resulted, music invariably played an important part. These modern Pythagoreans all believed in the Harmony of the Spheres and in the powerful effects of music on the human soul and body.
The book begins with the anti-Newtonian `color harpsichord' of Père Castel, and closes with the disciples of René Guénon and their fierce anti-modernity. The major forces in between Fabre d'Olivet, Charles Fourier, Wronski, Lacuria, Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, and their disciples -were truly Renaissance men, ranging over the whole field of learning.
For them music was a blend of science and art that could bringinsight into the cosmic order and even into the mind of God: a `speculative music' in the tradition of Pythagoras, Plato, Ficino, and Kepler, which is generally thought to have died with the coming of the Enlightenment. On the contrary, as this book shows, it flourished more vigorously than ever. A widely published musicologist and authority on esotericism, Godwin is able to give a clear and concise context for these philosopher's often surprising beliefs,and he demonstrates how this `speculative music' influenced composers such as Satie and Debussy, who were familiar with occultism. His long study of music and the Western esoteric tradition makes him uniquely qualified to unravelthe strange story of these forgotten sages.[/justify]

[center]Joscelyn Godwin - Music and the Occult French Musical Philosophie.pdf (7.56 MB)
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... ilosophies[/center]

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[---][center][large]Mystery Religions in the Ancient World[/large][/center][---]

[justify]A lively, illustrated overview of the variety of mystery religions that flourished at the dawn of the Christian era. In clear, enlightened text and striking images, Mystery Religions holds up a "distant mirror" to our own times, showing that the quest for spiritual illumination from Eastern religions, and emphasis on spiritual development and experience, and a concern for hidden knowledge are deeply rooted in Western culture.
Mystery Religions brings the myths, the magic, their rites and the wisdom of a bygone age to compelling life, making them comprehensible to modern readers...
Here is a compelling account of the forms mystery religions took, from the cults of Mithras, Dionysus, and Orpheus to those of the Goddess, esoteric Christianity and Judaism, and Gnosticism. Godwin offers a rich and varied selection of illustrations; the symbolism of paintings, statues, releifs, and other visual imagery provides a wealth of additional information about these religions.[/justify]

[center]Joscelyn Godwin - Mystery Religions in the Ancient World.pdf (7.28 MB)
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... ient-world[/center]

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[---][center][large]The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor :[/large]
Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order
of Practical Occultism[/center][---]

[justify]The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, active in the last decades of the 19th century, was the only order of its time that taught practical occultism in the Western Mystery Tradition.
This is the first complete and undistorted account, tracing the origins, founders, and practices of this very secretive order, which counted among its members many of the well-known figures of late 19th-century occultism, spiritualism, and Theosophy, including Max Theon, Peter Davidson, Thomas Henry Burgoyne and Paschal Beverly Randolph.

This scholarly work provides all the materials for revisioning the history, assigning the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor its rightful place as one of the most influential esoteric orders of its time. [/justify]


[center]Joscelyn Godwin - The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor.pdf (7.85 MB)
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... d-of-Luxor[/center]

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[---][center][large]Athanasius Kircher :[/large]
A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge[/center][---]

[justify]ATHANASIUS KIRCHER (1602-80) stands out as one of the last all-encompassing minds, living in the age of Descartes and Newton, but expounding his knowledge in the light of a unified, spiritual world-view. For this true Renaissance man the whole cosmos was a glorious theophany waiting to be explored.
Kircher was a Jesuit and an archaeologist, a phenomenal linguist, and at the same time an avid collector of scientific experiments and geographical exploration. He probed the secrets of the subterranean world, deciphered archaic languages, experimented with alchemy and music-therapy, optics and magnetism.
Egyptian mystery wisdom, Greek, Cabbalistic and Christian philosophy met on common ground in Kircher's work, as he reinterpreted the history of man's scientific and artistic collaboration with God and Nature; his sumptuous, encyclopaedic volumes were revered throughout Europe. His gigantic oeuvre is approached here through the engravings that are such a striking feature of his books. Most of them are reprinted now for the first time, together with annotations and an introduction to Kircher's life and work.
The author was born in England and lives in the United States, where he is Associate Professor of Music at Colgate University, New York State. He has also published in this series Robert Fludd : Hermetic philosopher and surveyor of two worlds (1979).[/justify]

[center]Joscelyn Godwin - Athanasius Kircher a Renaissance Man and The Quest For Lost Knowledge.pdf (12.2 MB)
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... -knowledge[/center]

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[---][center][large]The Mystery of the Seven Vowels :[/large]
In Theory and Practice[/center][---]



[justify]The seven vowels which we use every day in speech depend on the phenomenon of harmonics which is at the very basis of music.
When we hear vowels we are hearing the laws of harmony which are ultimately the laws of number that are said to govern the universe.
This is the first book on the subject to appear in English and brings together the fields of linguistics harmony, mythology, history of religions, and occult philosophy.

Scholarly, yet practical, this book gives instructions for discovering one's own healing, centering, and uplifting tones.[/justify]



[center]Joscelyn Godwin - Mystery of the Seven Vowels.pdf (3.36 MB)
http://www.balderexlibris.com/index.php ... ven-Vowels[/center]