Liber XV · History & Scholarship
Liber XV · History & Scholarship
Chapter IV
Periods & Movements
8 min readEsotericism in Late Antiquity: Hermetism, Gnosis and TheurgyEsotericism in late antiquity: the Hermetica, Gnostic movements, Neoplatonic theurgy, the Greek magical papyri and how later ages read them as ancient wisdom.7 min readEsotericism in the Enlightenment: Lodges, Seers and MagnetistsEsotericism in the Enlightenment: Christian theosophy, high-degree Freemasonry, Swedenborg, Martinism, mesmerism and Cagliostro in the Age of Reason.7 min readEsotericism in the Middle Ages: Magic, Kabbalah and HermesEsotericism in the Middle Ages: the Arabic Hermes, Latin translations, astral and ritual magic, alchemy, Kabbalah and the theologians who judged the occult.6 min readEsotericism in the Renaissance: Hermes, Kabbalah and the MagusEsotericism in the Renaissance from Ficino's Hermes and Pico's Kabbalah to Agrippa, Paracelsus, Dee and Bruno, and how historians since Yates have read it.6 min readPeriods and Movements in the History of Western EsotericismThe main periods and movements of Western esotericism, from late antique Hermeticism and the Renaissance to Rosicrucians, occultism and the New Age.7 min readTraditionalism: René Guénon and the Perennialist SchoolTraditionalism, the movement founded by René Guénon: the primordial tradition, critique of modernity, Schuon's perennialism, Evola's politics and its legacy.