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Published byUK: Equiuox Publishing Ltd.,
Unit
6,
The
Village,
101
Amies St., London
SWll
2JWUSA: DBBC,
28
Main Street, Oakville,
CT
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Plrst published
2005
<D
Kocku
von
Stuckrad
2005
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Printed and
bound
in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd,
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CONTENTS
Foreword by Nicholas Goodrick-ClarkePreface
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION:
WHAT
IS
ESOTERICISM?
Some
Scholarly ViewsReligious Pluralism and
the
'Esoteric Ficld
of
Discourse'
CHAPTER
2
ESOTERICISM
IN
THE
ANCIENT
WORLD
Philosophical Religion, Religious Philosophy
Hermetism:
The
Founding
of
a Tradition
What
is
'Gnosis'?Transmission
into
the
Middle
Ages
CHAPTER
3
THE KABBALAH: UNDERSTANDING THE HIDDEN
Vll
Xl
2
6
12
12
18
2326
IN
THE REVEALED
31
Prehistory:
Hekhalot
Mysticism and Esoteric Biblical Exegesis
31
The
Classical Kabbalah:
From Southern
France to Israel 35
CHAPTER
4
THE RENAISSANCE: RE-INVENTING THE
ANCIENT
WORLD
44
Esotericism in
the
Middle Ages 45
The
Birth
of
Modern
Esotericism 49
CHAPTER
5
ESOTERICISM
IN
THE CONFESSIONAL AGE
62
The
Mysteries
of
Nature:
Magia naturalis 62
Kabbalah and
Occult
Philosophy 70
Complex
Identities
81
Apocalypticism, Alchemy and
Natural
Science
in
Protestantism 94
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