Access to Western EsotericismSUNY Press, 5 дек. 1994 г. - Всего страниц: 369 This is the first systematic treatment of esotericism to appear in English. Here is also a historical survey, beginning with the Alexandrean Period, of the various esoteric currents such as Christian Kabbalah, Theosophy, Alchemy, Rosicrucianism, and Hermeticism. Common characteristics of these currents are the notion of universal interdependency and the experience of spiritual transformation. The author establishes a rigorous methodology; provides clarifying definitions of such key terms as gnosis, theosophy, occultism, and Hermeticism; and offers analysis of contemporary esotericism based on three distinct pathways. The second half of the book presents a series of studies on several important figures, works, and movements in Western esotericism studies devoted to some of the most characteristic and illuminating aspects that this form of thought has taken, such as theosophical speculations on androgyny, rosicrucian literature, and Masonic symbolism. The book is completed by a rich and selective Bibliography conceived as a means of orientation and a tool for research. |
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METHODOLOGY AND REFLEXIONS | 3 |
II Some Key Concepts | 19 |
III Reflections on Tradition or The Three Paths of Esotericism Today | 35 |
A SHORT HISTORY OF WESTERN ESOTERIC CURRENTS ESSAY ON PERIODIZATION | 49 |
Ancient and Medieval Sources of Modern Esoteric Currents | 51 |
II Escotericism in Medieval Thought | 53 |
III Initiatory Quests and Esoteric Arts | 55 |
Esotericism at the Heart of the Renaissance and in the Flames of the Baroque | 58 |
A Ontological Androgyny | 203 |
B Primitive Adam and Failed Androgyny | 216 |
Dialects and Oppositions | 232 |
Philosophies and the Life of the Couple | 245 |
E Knowledge and Reintegration | 258 |
F Badder and His Time | 272 |
Neognostic Cosmologies and Traditional Gnosis | 275 |
Introduction | 298 |
Naturphilosophie and Theosophy | 61 |
III Reading the World and Myth | 66 |
Esotericism in the Shadow of the Enlightenment | 71 |
II From the Arts of Reading to the Art of Subtle Fluids | 74 |
III A Century of Initiations | 78 |
From Romantic Knowledge to Programmatic Occultism | 82 |
II Universal Tradition and Occultism | 86 |
III Esotericism in Initiatory Societies and in Art 18481914 | 90 |
TwentiethCentury Esotericisms | 95 |
II The Four Winds of the Tradition | 100 |
III Arts and Humanities | 105 |
Faith and Knowledge in Franz von Badder and in Modern Gnosis | 113 |
The Inner Church and the Heavenly JerusalemFoundation of a Cosmic Anthropology According to Franz von Badder and Christian Theosophy | 135 |
The Temple of Solomon in EighteenthCentury Masonic Theosophy | 147 |
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz as Pilgrimage of the Soul | 163 |
Aspects of the Chivalric Imagination in EighteenthCentury Alchemy Freemasonry and Literature | 177 |
Love and Androgyny in Franz von Badder | 201 |
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Esotericism and Islam | 338 |
Esotericism Literature and Art | 339 |
Journals and serials | 342 |
A Word about Libraries | 346 |
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