The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies Beth O'Leary possibly the wealthiest heiress in

possibly the wealthiest heiress in 1890s America

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The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies Beth O'Leary possibly the wealthiest heiress inA profound understanding of the surrealists' connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works. Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost "psychic" and magical powers. Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists