Chinese Occultism (Annotated)

In Chinese Occultism, Paul Carus surveys the symbolic, divinatory, and metaphysical traditions that Western readers of his era often grouped under "the occult": the Yijing, yin-yang cosmology, spirit beliefs, geomancy, demonology, and ritual practices. Written in a lucid, comparative prose characteristic of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religious scholarship, the book situates Chine...