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The Awestern Esoteric Traditions

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Author : Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-14

The Awestern Esoteric Traditions written by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-14 with Religion categories.

The Western Esoteric Traditions offers a concise history of a distinct form of philosophical spirituality extending from Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism in the early Christian era up until the present. New paradigms in medicine and science attest to the continuity of esoteric ideas into the twenty-first century.

The Western Esoteric Traditions A Historical Introduction

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Author : Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2008-10-14

The Western Esoteric Traditions A Historical Introduction written by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-14 with Religion categories.

Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the natural world while also relating the humanity to the universe through a harmonious celestial order. This introduction to the Western esoteric traditions offers a concise overview of their historical development.Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke explores these traditions, from their roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism in the early Christian era up to their reverberations in today's scientific paradigms. While the study of Western esotericism is usually confined to the history of ideas, Goodrick-Clarke examines the phenomenon much more broadly. He demonstrates that, far from being a strictly intellectual movement, the spread of esotericism owes a great deal to geopolitics and globalization. In Hellenistic culture, for example, the empire of Alexander the Great, which stretched across Egypt and Western Asia to provinces in India, facilitated a mixing of Eastern and Western cultures. As the Greeks absorbed ideas from Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia, they gave rise to the first esoteric movements.From the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, post-Reformation spirituality found expression in theosophy, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. Similarly, in the modern era, dissatisfaction with the hegemony of science in Western culture and a lack of faith in traditional Christianity led thinkers like Madame Blavatsky to look East for spiritual inspiration. Goodrick-Clarke further examines Modern esoteric thought in the light of new scientific and medical paradigms along with the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. This book traces the complete history of these movements and is the definitive account of Western esotericism.

The Western Esoteric Traditions

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Author : Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

The Western Esoteric Traditions written by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Occultism categories.

This introduction to the Western esoteric traditions offers a concise overview of their historical development. The author explores these traditions, from their roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism in the early Christian era up to their reverberations in modern day's scientific paradigms.

Magic And Mysticism

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Author : Arthur Versluis
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2007-05-22

Magic And Mysticism written by Arthur Versluis and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-22 with Religion categories.

Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements. Topics covered include alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and many more. Magic and Mysticism is ideal for students of Mysticism and New Religious Movements, as well as for general readers of Metaphysics and Esoterica.

Western Esotericism

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Author : Antoine Faivre
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2010-10-06

Western Esotericism written by Antoine Faivre and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-06 with Religion categories.

Widely received in France, this brief, comprehensive introduction to Western esotericism by the founder of the field is at last available in English. A historical and pedagogical guide, the book is written primarily for students and novices. In clear, precise language, author Antoine Faivre provides an overview of Western esoteric currents since late antiquity. The bulk of the book is laid out chronologically, from ancient and medieval sources (Alexandrian hermetism, gnosticism, neoplatonism), through the Renaissance up to the present time. Its coverage includes spiritual alchemy, Jewish and Christian Kabbalah, Christian theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Illuminism, 'mystical' Free-Masonry, the Occultist current, Theosophical and Anthroposophical Societies, the Traditionalist School, and 'esotericism' in contemporary initiatic societies and in New Religious Movements. Faivre explores how these currents are connected, and refers to where they appear in art and literature. The book concludes with an annotated bibliography, which makes it an essential resource for beginners and scholars alike.

The Adepts In The Western Esoteric Tradition

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Author : Manly Palmer Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950

The Adepts In The Western Esoteric Tradition written by Manly Palmer Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Occultism categories.

Theosophy Imagination Tradition

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Author : Antoine Faivre
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2000-02-17

Theosophy Imagination Tradition written by Antoine Faivre and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-17 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

A historical and interpretive study of three aspects of Western esotericism from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

New Age Religion And Western Culture

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Author : Wouter J. Hanegraaff
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1997-11-20

New Age Religion And Western Culture written by Wouter J. Hanegraaff and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-20 with Religion categories.

Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularization of those esoteric traditions during the nineteenth century.

True Esoteric Traditions

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Author : M. Dale Palmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

True Esoteric Traditions written by M. Dale Palmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Civilization, Western categories.

TRUE ESOTERIC TRADITIONS is a hard-bound book written, over more than 30 years, by a lawyer-historian that traces the source of Western cultural values back to Egypt. The Introduction is written by Dr. Albert Doss, an Egyptian psychiatrist, Freemason, & Rosicrucian. The book refutes academics who say that the Exodus by Moses out of Egypt is only a myth, & gives new time & place that it did happen. That Exodus also explains the mystery & location of King Solomon's gold mines as being in Northern Saudi Arabia. It also refutes that Jesus died on a cross in Israel in AD 33 & says that he lived to be an old man & died in India. A picture of his grave site in India is included. This book is very kind to Freemasons & Rosicrucians but is very tough on the Christian churches & accuses them of not following the teachings of Jesus. It could be controversial & is already being translated into other languages. This is one of the most compact books you will ever read. It has a thousand pages of information condensed into 350 pages & should be in every library. It sells for $29.00 US.

Western Esotericism And Rituals Of Initiation

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Author : Henrik Bogdan
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01

Western Esotericism And Rituals Of Initiation written by Henrik Bogdan and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Religion categories.

For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry—the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation—Bogdan examines the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—the most influential of all nineteenth-century occultist initiatory societies—and Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large-scale Western esoteric New Religions Movements.