Access to Western Esotericism

Access to Western Esotericism

Occultism -- History

A systematic treatment of esotericism, including a historical survey of various esoteric currents with clear definitions of key terms, studies on several important figures, works, and movements in Western esotericism, and an extensive bibliography.

Antoine Faivre

Albany : State University of New York Press

Series: SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.

Bk. 1. Approaches to Western Esoteric Currents. Pt. 1. Methodology and Reflexions. Pt. 2. A Short History of Western Esoteric Currents (Essay on Periodization). Ch. 1. Ancient and Medieval Sources of Modern Esoteric Currents. Ch. 2. Esotericism at the Heart of the Renaissance and in the Flames of the Baroque. Ch. 3. Esotericism in the Shadow of the Enlightenment. Ch. 4. From Romantic Knowledge to Programmatic Occultism. Ch. 5. Twentieth-Century Esotericisms -- Bk. 2. Studies in Esotericism. Faith and Knowledge in Franz von Baader and in Modern Gnosis. The Inner Church and the Heavenly Jerusalem -- Foundations of a Cosmic Anthropology According to Franz von Baader and Christian Theosophy. The Temple of Solomon in Eighteenth-Century Masonic Theosophy. The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz as Pilgrimage of the Soul. Miles Redivivus: Aspects of the Chivalric Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Alchemy, Freemasonry, and Literature. Love and Androgyny in Franz von Baader.

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