Access to Western Esotericism 0791421775, 0791421783, 9780791421772

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Access to Western Esotericism
Contents
Part One: Methodology and Reflexions
Part Two: A Short History of Western Esoteric Currents
Chapter 1: Ancient and Medieval Sources of Modern Esoteric Currents
Chapter 2: Esotericism at the Heart of the Renaissance and in the Flames of the Baroque
Chapter 3: Esotericism in the Shadow of the Enlightenment
Chapter 4: From Romantic Knowledge to Programmatic Occultism
Chapter 5: Twentieth-Century Esotericisms
Faith and Knowledge in Franz Von Baader and in Modern Gnosis*
The Inner Church and the Heavenly Jerusalem
The Temple of Solomon in Eighteenth-Century Masonic Theosophy
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz as Pilgrimage of the Soul
Love and Androgyny in Franz von Baader
Introduction
General Works
Alchemy
Esoteric Freemasonry
From the Second (Corpus Hermeticum) to the Fifteenth Century
Renaissance and Seventeenth Century
Eighteenth Century
Romanticism and "Naturphilosophie"
End of the Nineteenth Century Through the Twentieth Century
Concerning Tradition
Esotericism and Islam
Esotericism, Literature, and Art
Journals and Serials
A Word About Libraries
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