India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism (Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities)

Introduction: The Idea of India in the Imaginary of Western Occultism 1. A Web of Relations: Interpreting Indian Yoga and Tantra as Forms of Esotericism 2. The Great Beast as a Tantric Hero: The Role of Yoga and Tantra in Aleister Crowley's Magick 3. Solve et Coagula: Attitudes toward the Ambrosial Aspects of Human Seed in Certain Yogic Traditions and in Sexual Magick of Aleister Crowley 4. Dion Fortune: The Shakti of the Age 5. Secrets of Typhonian Tantra: Kenneth Grant and Western Occult Interpretations of Indian Esotericism 6. When Yoga Becomes Magick: Dadaji Mahendranath,His Disciples, and the East-West Order