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Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 part one domesticating the occult 1. The Undomesticated Occult 17 2. The Mahatmas in Clubland: Manliness and Scientific Spirituality 41 3. “A Deficiency of the Male Element”: Gendering Spiritual Experience 67 4. “Buggery and Humbuggery”: Sex, Magic, and Occult Authority 94 part two political alchemies 5. Occult Body Politics 121 6. The Divine Hermaphrodite and the Female Messiah: Feminism and Spirituality in the 1890s 152 7. A New Age for Women: Suffrage and the Sacred 177 8. Ancient Wisdom, Modern Motherhood 206 Conclusion 227 Notes 235 Works Cited 265 Index 285 This page intentionally left blank ...