Just before the beginning of the month, I finished my first reading of Gary Lachman’s 2015 book “Secret Teachers of the Western World.” There’s no doubt in my mind. It is quite outstanding. It’s the best of the texts I’ve been studying since the Western Esotericism course was announced by Oxford’s ContEd.

And, now that I’ve put it down, I feel a great big black aching hole in my intellectual landscape. Lachman says it all. In one concise volume. Eminently readable. Beautifully informative. It’s as though the ContEd element was so infinitesimally minuscule, it left nothing there save a great vast gaping empty void. Black, Stark, and Aching. Stretching from January through April.

Thank goodness there were the postlude conversations with Susan Leybourne.

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