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• Cover
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• Foreword
• 1 What is Western esotericism?
• From definitions to prototypes
• The rest of the west: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• 2 A very short history
• Gno-sis in Hellenistic culture
• The secrets of nature: Magic, astrology, alchemy
• The Renaissance
• Naturphilosophie and Christian theosophy
• Initiatic societies
• The modernist occult
• Esotericism after World War II
• 3 Apologetics and polemics
• Early Christianity and the Church of Rome
• Protestantism
• Modernity
• 4 Worldviews
• Metaphysical radicalism
• Platonic mediation
• Alchemical mediation
• 5 Knowledge
• Reason, faith and gnosis
• Alterations of consciousness
• 6 Practice
• Control
• Knowledge
• Amplification
• Healing
• Progress
• Contact
• Unity
• Pleasure
• 7 Modernization
• History and truth
• Correspondences and causality
• The expanding horizon of religion
• Evolution
• The impact of psychology
• The religious supermarket
• 8 Between the disciplines
• Religion, philosophy, science
• The visual arts
• Literature
• Music
• The social sciences and popular culture
• 9 Sources and resources
• Organizations, libraries, teaching programmes
• General literature
• Gno-sis in Hellenistic culture
• The secrets of nature: Magic, astrology, alchemy
• The Renaissance
• Naturphilosophie and Christian theosophy
• Initiatic societies
• The modernist occult
• Esotericism after World War II
• Notes
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• Copyright