Chronology · Timeline
Chronology
Twenty-First Century
30 moments, 2001 to 2025.
- 2001
Peterson's edition of the Lemegeton
Joseph H. Peterson publishes a critical English edition of the Lesser Key of Solomon from the British Library manuscripts.
Liber XXVIII · Solomonic Magic - 2001
Salem victims exonerated
Massachusetts clears the remaining people convicted in 1692 who had not been named in earlier pardons.
Liber XXXV · Witchcraft & Wicca - 2001
Aries relaunched by Brill
The Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism begins a new series under Wouter Hanegraaff's editorship.
Liber XV · History & Scholarship - 2003
Pritzker Zohar begins
Stanford University Press issues the first volumes of Daniel Matt's annotated English translation of the Zohar from a critical Aramaic text.
Liber XX · Kabbalah - 2005
ESSWE founded
The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism is established to support the new academic field and its biennial conferences.
Liber XV · History & Scholarship - 2005
Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism
Brill publishes Hanegraaff's two-volume reference work, a landmark consolidation of the field.
Liber XV · History & Scholarship - 2006
The Gospel of Judas published
National Geographic publishes the restored Coptic text from the Codex Tchacos, a Sethian Gnostic work presenting Judas as Jesus's confidant.
Liber IX · Gnosticism - 2007
Véronèse's critical Ars Notoria
Julien Véronèse publishes a critical Latin edition and study of the Ars Notoria's medieval versions.
Liber XXVIII · Solomonic Magic - 2007
Pentacle approved for US veterans' graves
The US Department of Veterans Affairs settles a lawsuit and adds the Wiccan pentacle to its approved emblems of belief.
Liber XXXV · Witchcraft & Wicca - 2008
Fraudulent Mediums Act repealed
The 1951 successor to the Witchcraft Act is replaced in Britain by consumer-protection regulations.
Liber VII · Divination - 2009
Jung's Red Book published
The illuminated record of Jung's visionary 'confrontation with the unconscious' appears in facsimile for the first time.
Liber XXX · Symbols - 2011
Death of Kenneth Grant
The leader of the Typhonian Order and author of the Typhonian Trilogies dies in England.
Liber XXXII · Thelema - 2012
Esotericism and the Academy
Hanegraaff traces how Western culture rejected esoteric knowledge; Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke dies the same year.
Liber XV · History & Scholarship - 2013
The Satanic Temple founded
Activists led by Lucien Greaves found a non-theistic group using Satanic symbolism to campaign for religious pluralism and church–state separation.
Liber XXIV · Satanism - 2013
Blue plaque for Doreen Valiente
Brighton honours Valiente with a commemorative plaque, the first for a modern witch.
Liber XXXV · Witchcraft & Wicca - 2013
Journal Correspondences launched
An open-access peer-reviewed journal for the study of esotericism begins publication.
Liber XV · History & Scholarship - 2015
The Book of Oberon published
Daniel Harms, James R. Clark and Joseph Peterson edit an Elizabethan grimoire from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Liber XXVIII · Solomonic Magic - 2015
Baphomet statue unveiled in Detroit
The Satanic Temple displays its bronze Baphomet, created to protest Ten Commandments monuments on public land.
Liber XXIV · Satanism - 2017
Pritzker Zohar completed
Volume twelve completes the Stanford translation of the Zohar, the most extensive English rendering to date.
Liber XX · Kabbalah - 2017
Mallinson and Singleton's Roots of Yoga
Translations of premodern yoga texts present the history of hatha practice on the basis of manuscript research.
Liber VIII · Eastern Mysticism - 2018
Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim
A record-breaking New York exhibition brings the Theosophically inspired abstract painter to a global audience.
Liber XXXIII · Theosophy - 2019
Attrell and Porreca's Picatrix
The first complete English translation of the Latin Picatrix restores the medieval Western form of the astral magic classic.
Liber XIII · High Magick - 2019
Satanic Temple recognised; Aquino dies
The US tax authority recognises The Satanic Temple as a church, and the Temple of Set's founder Michael Aquino dies.
Liber XXIV · Satanism - 2021
Trento Clavicula fragment published
Matteo Cova identifies two leaves of c. 1380–1410 as the oldest known Key of Solomon text.
Liber XXVIII · Solomonic Magic - 2021
Death of Antoine Faivre
The French founder of esotericism as an academic field dies in Paris at 87.
Liber XV · History & Scholarship - 2022
Hanegraaff's Hermetic Spirituality
Hanegraaff's Cambridge study reads the Hermetica as records of spiritual practice and altered states.
Liber XII · Hermeticism - 2022
Apologies to accused witches
Scotland's First Minister apologises to those accused under the Witchcraft Act, Catalonia's parliament pardons victims, and Massachusetts exonerates Elizabeth Johnson Jr.
Liber XXXV · Witchcraft & Wicca - 2023
Connecticut absolves accused witches
Connecticut's legislature formally exonerates people convicted of witchcraft in the 1640s–60s and apologises for the miscarriage of justice.
Liber XXXV · Witchcraft & Wicca - 2025
AI redates the Dead Sea Scrolls
The 'Enoch' model, combining radiocarbon and handwriting analysis, suggests several scrolls are older than previously thought.
Liber XV · History & Scholarship - 2025
ESSWE's tenth conference in Vilnius
The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism holds its tenth biennial conference on 'Esotericism and Rationality'.
Liber XV · History & Scholarship