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Access to Western esotericism

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SUNY Press, 1994 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 369 pages
  

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This review concerns the first half of the book: Antoine Faivre's “Approaches to Western Esoteric Currents” is composed of two sections. The first, “Methodology and Reflexions,” sets the tone for the ... Read full review

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Contents

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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JSTOR: Access to Western Esotericism
Access to Western Esotericism. By ANTOINE FAIVRE. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994. Pp. x+369. $19.95 (cloth). The esoteric history of the study in North America of ...
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Access to Western Esotericism by Antoine Faivre
Access to Western Esotericism by Antoine Faivre. State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY, 12246, 1994; 369 pp., $19.95. ...
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First Grade and Next Term : In Pursuit of Mysteries
Access to Western Esotericism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. ... Read Book One, Part Two of Access to Western Esotericism and the first ...
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Hermes on the Seine: by Erik Davis
A number of his works have recently been translated, including The Eternal Hermes, The Golden Fleece and Alchemy, and Access to Western Esotericism, ...
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Access to Western Esotericism,14, 35-47 and —Questions of Terminology Proper ... 14 Access to Western Esotericism, 13-15. Of course, the implication of the ...
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Access to Western Esotericism av Faivre, Antoine
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On Jung's role in the recent history of Western esotericism see Antoine Faivre, Access to Western Esotericism Albany: SUNY, 1994; Gerhard Wehr, ...
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Institute for Hermetic Studies
"Access to Western Esotericism" by Antoine Faivre is a dense book, yet it is that very density that makes it a cornerstone for research into Western ...
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Tarot University arkletters: Open Secrets of the Early Renaissance
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About the author (1994)

Antoine Faivre, the most prominent scholar of esotericism to have appeared since Mircea Eliade, is Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes(Section des Sciences Religieuses, Sorbonne), University Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, and director of the Cahiers de l'Hermetisme (Albin Michel). His other books in english translation include Access to western Esotericism and Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: STudies in Western Esotericism.

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