Rudolf Steiner is one of the well known authors of the late pre-modern occult world. A student of theosophy who became the head of anthroposophy, his works were profuse, but among all of these, "Occult Significance of Blood" stands out as perhaps the best. Speaking of interbreeding and the spiritual result, the race question (then in vogue in philosophical circles) and the biological concept of blood in general, Steiner's work is highly indicative of its date of origin and symbolizes the confusion of the 1910s.

"Gunpowder as a War Remedy" is one of the most interesting works of homeopathy ever crafted. The result of the mind of John H Clarke, his other works ranged from the social and political to the generally medical including a massive Materia Medica referred to here in this shorter booklet. The usage of tincture of gunpowder by Clarke, here, is claimed as effective for blood poisoning and skin disorders among other things. A man of his time, he refers, somewhat funnily, to germ theory as an actual theory as opposed to an observable facet of science. Written during the first World War, the...

The Primitive Physic of John Wesley was first crafted in the middle of the 1700s; more than a century later it remained in print in several forms, a testament to its continued use as a tract of folk medicine, proto-homeopathy, and its function as a general pragmatic herbal of sorts. Proposing treatments (receipts) for over one hundred conditions and diseases, including both the chronic and acute, the fatal and the annoying, Wesley's work must of necessity be included in any competent catalog of herbal or early medical works of note.

The Canadian Herbal is more than merely a guide to medicinal or edible plants. Concocted nearly two centuries ago, it is in essence a medical receipt book filled with herbal recipes and folk medicine to which is affixed a number of botanical species briefly described in use and form. Containing recipes against dropsy, dysentery, scalds, cuts, and consumption among many others, the work is somewhat dense and broken apart into many dozens of sections each covering a different disease or species; a good piece of herbal history from the Americas.

"Demons and Tongues" is an interesting early 20th century look at the opinions of the Pillar of Fire movement in regards to the Pentecostal assembly and demonology twain with the same. With a quasi-eugenic approach and a focus on Revelation, this manuscript is at once interesting and perhaps dated in the christian body. Speaking of the goals of Satan, that old Devil of antiquity, and the way this being uses heresy, it shuns the very concept of speaking in tongues and relegates it to the depraved and demonic.

"Magic and Witchcraft" is one of the better attempts at a condensed but comprehensive guide to some of the more interesting tales of witchery from times past. Written in the middle of the 19th century, it details some of the notorious trials of the burning times, a few tales of Satan, and a pair of extremely interesting stories from antiquity, including the infamous Lamia. Its treatment of these subjects is at once full of secular-era ridicule and the twain tendency of the times to render all non-christian activities to the explicitly fallen and degenerated. In doing so however this work is...

For thousands of years man has pledged his mind towards the task of creating utopia; is it able to be achieved? Regardless, can states be improved from their general modern form by any means? The natural tendency towards change over time is in accordance with scientific principles- this tendency has for some time been a disadvantage with governance and society- I submit that it can be tempered and advantageous. I here say that states can be improved more easily than most people believe.