Joscelyn Godwin (born 16 January 1945 at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England) is a composer, musicologist, and translator, known for his work on ancient music, paganism, and music in the occult.
Biography
He was educated as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, then at Radley College (Music Scholar), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Music Scholar; B.A., 1965, Mus. B., 1966, M.A. 1969).
Bibliography
Books authored or co-authored
Robert Fludd. Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds. London: Thames & Hudson, 1979; also published in French, Greek, Spanish and Japanese. Currently available from Adventures Unlimited Press. Athanasius Kircher. A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge. London: Thames & Hudson, 1979; also published in French, German, Spanish & Japanese. Mystery Religions in the Ancient World. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981, ; pbk, 1982, ; also published in Greek, Japanese. Harmonies of Heaven and Earth. The Spiritual Dimension of Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde. London: Thames & Hudson, 1987; also published in French, German, Japanese; partly published in Spanish. Currently in print from Inner Traditions International. Music and the Occult. French Musical Philosophies 1750–1950. Rochester: University of Rochester Press/London: Boydell & Brewer, 1995; previously published in French; also published in Japanese. The Mystery of the Seven Vowels in Theory and Practice. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1991; also published in Italian. Arktos (1993 subtitled "The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival"). Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1993, also published in German (two different editions), Japanese, Greek, French, Italian and Spanish. Currently in print from Adventures Unlimited Press. The Theosophical Enlightenment. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Johann Friedrich Hugo Von Dalberg (1760–1812): Schriftsteller, Musiker, Domherr. Co-authored with Michael Embach. Mainz: Gesellschaft für mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, 1998. (In German) The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press/London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. The Real Rule of Four. New York: The Disinformation Company, 2004; also published in French and Portuguese. The Golden Thread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2007. Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World. London: Thames and Hudson, 2009. . Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions, And Occult Revelations. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2011. . Upstate Cauldron: Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015. . The Forbidden Book, a Novel. Co-authored with Guido Mina di Sospiro. Revised edition, New York: The Disinformation Company, 2011 (electronic book). Print edition: San Francisco: Disinformation (an imprint of RedWheel/Weiser), 2013. . Foreign language editions in Spanish, Danish, Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, Polish, Romanian, and Thai. Forbidden Fruits, an Occult Novel. Co-authored with Guido Mina di Sospiro. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2020. .