He moved with it when it left its original location at 58 JFK St., where it was called Shambala, over a decade ago.
A phone call interrupts the quiet ambience of the store.
The woman on the line is inquiring about whether the book she ordered--How to Know the Higher World--has come in.
"All kinds of people shop here," Johnson says with a smile after assuring her that the book had arrived.
He lists some recent hot sellers, proof of the customers' diversity: Horns and Crescent, a Cambridge-based pagan magazine; Tibetan jewelry and books; and Conversations With God, Neale Donald Walsch's New York Times bestseller.
While customers are drawn to the bookstore's atmosphere, Seven Stars does a large part of its business is done in special orders from around the world.
"We had one of our customers who got a degree from Oxford tell us that there are only three esoteric, occult top-level bookstores in the world, and we are one of them," Johnson says proudly.
Also, each year a Sorbonne professor from Paris comes to Boston and orders books from the store.
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