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Esotericism, Art, and Imagination
Edited by Arthur Versluis, Lee Irwin, John Richards, and Melinda Weinstein
Esotericism, Art, and Imagination is a uniquely wide- ranging collection of articles by scholars in the field of Western esotericism, focusing on themes of poetry, drama, film, literature, and art. Included here are articles illuminating such diverse topics as the Gnostic fiction of Philip Pullman, alchemical images, the Tarot, surrealism, esoteric films, and much more. This collection reveals the richness and complexity of the intersections between esotericism, artistic creators, and their works. Authors include Joscelyn Godwin, Cathy Gutierrez, M. E. Warlick, Eric Wilson, and many others.
CONTENTS
• Introduction, Part I, John Richards
• Introduction, Part II, Arthur Versluis
ESOTERIC THEATERS
• Theater and Initiation: Euripides’s Bacchae, Melinda Weinstein
• Esoteric Cinema, Eric Wilson
• Hex and the City: Texts for Occult Performance
in Late Capitalism, Lance Gharavi
ESOTERIC PAINTING
• Philosophic Mercury: Evolution of the Alchemical Feminine, M. E. Warlick
• Le Jeu de Marseille: The Breton Tarot as Jeu de Hasard, Giovanna Costantini
• The Esoteric Art of Cecil Collins, Arthur Versluis
ESOTERIC POETRY
• William Blake, George Cumberland, and the Visionary Art of Exotic Erotica, Marsha Keith Schuchard
• Vladimir Solovyov’s Poems of Wisdom, Mystery, and Love, George M. Young
• Mirror, Mask and Anti-self: Forces of Literary
Creation in Dion Fortune and W. B. Yeats, Claire Fanger
ESOTERIC FICTION
• Esotericism without Religion: Philip Pullman's
His Dark Materials, Joscelyn Godwin
• "Knowing In Terms of Togetherness": D. H. Lawrence and Esotericism, Glenn Alexander Magee
• Faux Catholic: The History of a Gothic Subgenre from Monk Lewis to Dan Brown, Victoria Nelson
ESOTERIC PHOTOGRAPHY
• Dark Materials: The Chemical Wedding of Photography and the Esoteric, Chris Webster
• A Mirror with a Memory: Spirit Photography and the Future of Ghosts, Cathy Gutierrez
ESOTERIC GARDENS
• Enlightenment and Freemasonry in Eighteenth-
century Venice: The Hermeticism of Querini's Garden at Altichiero, Patrizia Granziera
• Advent Garden and the Waldorf Imagination:
Esotericism, Ritual, and Childhood, Sarah W. Whedon
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Volume IX (2007)
Volume IX (2007) **Contents**Introduction . . . 5
Angel in the House or Idol of Perversity?: Women in Nineteenth-Century Esotericism by Allison P. Coudert . . .8
Of Ether and Colloidal Gold: The Making of a Philosophers’ Stone by Hereward Tilton . . . 49
‘The Teutonicks Writings’: Translating Jacob Boehme into English and Welsh by Ariel Hessayon . . . 129
‘The Flood’ of 1524: The First Mass-media Event in European History by Gustav Adolf Schoener . . . 166
Book Reviews: Robert Lima, Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater and Drama, Sophia Heller, The Absence of Myth, Hugh B. Urban, Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism, and Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried: William Blake and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision . . . 179-202
New Books of Interest
More New Books of Interest
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Volume VIII (2006)
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Volume VIII (2006) Contents
Articles
Introduction
Folk Magic and Protestant Christianity in Appalachia
by John Richards, West Virginia State University
VIII(2006): 7-57
The Dionysian Body: Esotericism in the Philosophy of Norman O. Brown
by Melinda Weinstein, Lawrence Technological University
VIII(2006): 58-82
Hermetic Melancholia and the Suffering of Androids
by Eric G. Wilson, Wake Forest University
VIII(2006): 83-111
Magical Dream Provocation in the Later Middle Ages
by Frank Klaassen, University of Saskatchewan
VIII(2006): 120-147
Christian Theosophy
by Arthur Versluis, Michigan State University
VIII(2006): 136-181 Reviews
Claire Fanger on G. Hedegârd, ed., Liber Iuratus Honorii: A Critical Edition of the Latin Version of the Sworn Book of Honorius, (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2002) . . . 182
Arthur Versluis on Mark Sedgwick, Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century, (New York: Oxford UP, 2004) . . . 186
and
James G. Cowan, “Journey to the East” . . . 191-198
Volume VII (2005)
Articles
Recent Books in BriefMore Recent Books in Brief
Volume VI (2004)
Articles
Emerson's Gnostic Democracy by Eric G. Wilson VI (2004): 1-15
The Divine Ark: Jane Lead's Vision of the Second Noah's Ark by Julie Hirst VI (2004): 16-25
The Elixir of Life by James Cowan VI (2004): 26-30
Daoist Alchemy in the West: The Esoteric Paradigms by Lee Irwin VI (2004): 31-51
Reviews
Recent Books Reviewed in Brief (VI (2004)
Review of Robert Wang, _The Rape of Jewish Mysticism_Recent Traditionalist Books
Selected Papers from the First ASE Conference
The Coming of a 'Little Prophet': Astrological Pamphlets and the Reformation by Gustav-Adolf Schoener VI (2004): 59-66Exotericism and Esotericism in Thirteenth Century Kabbalah by Harvey J. Hames VI(2004)
For more papers from the ASE Conference, click here to go to the ASE website
Volume V (2003)
Articles
Sun Ra: From Ephrata (F-Ra-Ta) to Arkestra by David W. Stowe V(2003): 1-26 Mysticism, and the Study of Esotericism Methods in the Study of Esotericism, Part II by Arthur Versluis V(2003): 27-40 Freemasonic Symbolism and Georgian Gardens by Patrizia Granziera V(2003): 41-72 The Curious Case of Hermetic Graffiti in Valladolid ms 40/8 by Eric Vogt V(2003): 73-94
William Blake and the Radical Swedenborgians by Robert Rix V(2003): 95-137
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Book Reviews
Review of Erik Hornung, The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West Reviewed by Lee Irwin V(2003): 219-220
Review of Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets Reviewed by Arthur Versluis V(2003): 221
Books in Brief New Books of Interest V(2003): 225-226
Recent Books Received Recent Books V(2003): 227
Archives
Liber Salomonis: Sepher Raziel (British Library Sloane MS 3826)
transcribed by Don Karr Part I Part II
V(2003)
Volume IV (2002)
Articles
What is Esoteric? Methods in the Study of Western Esotericism by Arthur Versluis IV(2002): 1-15In Our Series: Studies in American Esotericism Powwowing: A Persistent American Esoteric Tradition by David Kriebel IV(2002): 16-28 (for printable version, click here)
Astrology: Between Religion and the Empirical by Gustav-Adolph Schoener IV(2002): 29-60New Series: Phenomenological Studies
Within This Darkness: Incarnation, Theophany, and the Primordial Revelation
by Tom Cheetham IV(2002): 61-95
New Series: Eye on Society Magic and Cyberspace by Nevill Drury IV(2002): 96-100
A New Theory of Musick by Dr. Francis Lee IV (2002): 101-103
Selected Letters of Louis-Claude de Saint-MartinIV(2002): 104-112
Reviews
Review of Jean Borella's The Sense of the Supernatural and The Secret of the Christian Way by Arthur Versluis
IV (2002): 107-108
Noteworthy Books: Current Issue IV (2002): 109-113
Recent Traditionalist Books
IV (2002): 113
New! Report from Aarhus, Denmark Colloquium on Art and Alchemy and John Dee Conference
Volume III (2001)
Articles[Editor's note: These articles are lengthy, full-length studies, so they take a couple minutes to load. Be patient—it'll be worth it!]
Lee Irwin, "Western Esotericism, Eastern Spirituality, and the Global Future,"
Esoterica III(2001): 1-47 (for printer-friendly version, click here)
Harry Oldmeadow, "The Western Quest for 'Secret Tibet',"
Esoterica III(2001): 48-107
(for printable version, click here)
John of Morigny, Prologue to Liber Visionum [c. 1304 - 1318]
Translated, Edited, and Introduced
by Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson (New format: pdf files)
Esoterica III(2001): 108-217
Hugh B. Urban, "The Omnipotent Oom: Tantra and Its Impact on Modern Western Esotericism,"
Esoterica III(2001): 218-259 (for printable version, click here)
Reviews
Review of Noel Brann, Trithemius and Magical Theology: A Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe (Albany: SUNY, 1999) by Christopher Celenza Esoterica III(2001): 260-264
A Review Essay on Robert Sardello by Lee Irwin Esoterica III(2001): 265-276
Review of Antoine Faivre and Wouter Hanegraaff, eds., Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion, (Leuven: Peeters, 1998) by Claire Fanger
Esoterica III(2001): 277-287
Review of Steven Wasserstrom's Religion After Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos, (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999)
by Arthur Versluis
Esoterica III(2001): 288-292
Review of Russell Hvolbek's Mysticism and Experience, (Lanham: UPA, 1998) by Arthur Versluis
Esoterica III(2001): 293-294
Archival Works and Exhibitions
Liber Lunae And Other Selections from British Library, MS. Sloane 3826, transcribed by Don Karr
Esoterica III(2001): 295-318
An Exhibition of Paintings with Commentary by John Eberly:
An Esoterica Painting Exhibition
Volume II(2000)
Articles[Editor's note: These articles are lengthy, full-length studies, so they take a couple minutes to load. Please be patient—it will be worth it!]
Wouter Hanegraaff, "Sympathy or the Devil: Renaissance Magic and the Ambivalence of Idols" pp. 1-44
(for printable version, click here)
Marsha Keith Schuchard,"Why Mrs. Blake Cried: Blake, Swedenborg, and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision"
pp.45-93
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Paul Wesley Hofreiter, "Notes on Piano Sonata 19"
pp. 94-99
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Online Art Exhibition featuring the Work of Don Karr
Book Reviews Harold Bloom, Omens of the Millennium pp. 100-106
Ted Anton, Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu pp. 107-113
Kathleen Rosenblatt, Daumal, pp. 114-116
Michael J.B. Allen, Synoptic Art pp. 117-122
Adamantius pp. 123-124
Charles Leland, Aradia pp. 125-129
Jan Bondeson, The Feejee Mermaid pp. 130-131
Eliot Wolfson, Circle in the Square pp. 132-138
Theo Paijmans, John Worrell Keely pp. 139-141
Walter Benjamin's Radio Talks for Children pp. 142-143
Moshe Hallamish, An Introduction to Kabbalah, and Moshe Idel, Messianic Mystics, pp. 144-147
Archival Works
Dionysius the Areopagite, The Celestial Hierarchy pp. 148-202 Mystical Theology pp. 203-211
Courtesy of Michigan State University Libraries' Digital Services:
H. C. Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, (London: 1651)
Volume I (1999)
Articles, "Some Remarks on the Study of Western Esotericism"
Wouter Hanegraaff
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 3-19
(for printable version, click here)
"Western Esotericism and the Harmony Society"
Arthur Versluis
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 20-47
(for printable version, click here)
"Another Eve: A Case Study in the Earliest Manifestations of Christian Esotericism"
Laura Hobgood-Oster
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 48-60
(for printable version, click here)
"Following Lucifer: Miltonic Evil as Gnostic Cabala"
Philip Beitchman
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 61-78
(for printable version, click here)
"Stages of Ascension in Hermetic Rebirth"
Dan Merkur
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 79-96
(for printable version, click here)
"Things Done Wisely by a Wise Enchanter: Negotiating the Power of Words in the Thirteenth Century"
Claire Fanger
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 97-132
(for printable version, click here)
"The Alchemy of the Voice at Ephrata Cloister"
Jan Stryz
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 133-159
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Archival texts
Georg von Welling, Opus Mago-Cabalisticum et Theosophicum(1735) Esoterica I(1999): pp. 160-171
Johannes Kelpius, A Short, Easy and Comprehensive Method of Prayer, (1761 trs.) Esoterica I(1999): pp. 172-198
George Rapp, Thoughts on the Destiny of Man (1824/1825)
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 199-204
Hirtenbrief, [Pastoral Letter] as distributed by the Harmony Society (1855) Esoterica I(1999): pp. 205-241
Book reviews
Brian Gibbons, Gender and Mysticism
Esoterica I(1999):242-243
Andrew Weeks, German Mysticism and Boehme
Esoterica I(1999):244-245
Jean Servier, ed., Dictionnaire critique de L'Ésotérisme,
Esoterica I(1999):246-247
Archives
Liber Salomonis: Sepher Raziel (British Library Sloane MS 3826)
transcribed by Don Karr Part I Part II
V(2003)
Articles[Editor's note: These articles are lengthy, full-length studies, so they take a couple minutes to load. Be patient—it'll be worth it!]
John of Morigny, Prologue to Liber Visionum [c. 1304 - 1318]
Translated, Edited, and Introduced
by Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson (New format: pdf files)
Esoterica III(2001): 108-217
An Exhibition of Paintings with Commentary by John Eberly:
An Esoterica Painting Exhibition
Articles[Editor's note: These articles are lengthy, full-length studies, so they take a couple minutes to load. Please be patient—it will be worth it!]
"Western Esotericism and the Harmony Society"
Arthur Versluis
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 20-47
(for printable version, click here)
"Another Eve: A Case Study in the Earliest Manifestations of Christian Esotericism"
Laura Hobgood-Oster
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 48-60
(for printable version, click here)
"Following Lucifer: Miltonic Evil as Gnostic Cabala"
Philip Beitchman
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 61-78
(for printable version, click here)
"Stages of Ascension in Hermetic Rebirth"
Dan Merkur
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 79-96
(for printable version, click here)
"Things Done Wisely by a Wise Enchanter: Negotiating the Power of Words in the Thirteenth Century"
Claire Fanger
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 97-132
(for printable version, click here)
"The Alchemy of the Voice at Ephrata Cloister"
Jan Stryz
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 133-159
(for printable version, click here)
Archival texts
Georg von Welling, Opus Mago-Cabalisticum et Theosophicum(1735) Esoterica I(1999): pp. 160-171
Johannes Kelpius, A Short, Easy and Comprehensive Method of Prayer, (1761 trs.) Esoterica I(1999): pp. 172-198
George Rapp, Thoughts on the Destiny of Man (1824/1825)
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 199-204
Hirtenbrief, [Pastoral Letter] as distributed by the Harmony Society (1855) Esoterica I(1999): pp. 205-241
Book reviews
Brian Gibbons, Gender and Mysticism
Esoterica I(1999):242-243
Andrew Weeks, German Mysticism and Boehme
Esoterica I(1999):244-245
Jean Servier, ed., Dictionnaire critique de L'Ésotérisme,
Esoterica I(1999):246-247