Lux in Tenebris
The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism
Peter J. Forshaw (ed.), Leyde, Brill, 2016
Description
The eighteen original interdisciplinary essays in Lux in Tenebris explore the alchemical, magical, kabbalistic, rosicrucian and theosophical verbal and visual symbolism in the history of Western Esotericism, from the middle ages to the present day.
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Table of contents
Preliminary Material
Introduction: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism
Visual and Acoustic Symbols in Gikatilla, Neoplatonic and Pythagorean Thought
Transfiguration and the Fire within: Marsilio Ficino on the Metaphysics and Psychology of Light
The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo: Alchemy, Rhetoric, and Deification in the Renaissance
Agrippa’s Cosmic Ladder: Building a World with Words in the De Occulta Philosophia
Imagining the Image of God: Corporeal Envisioning in the Theosophy of Jacob Böhme
Dreams and Symbols in The Chemical Wedding
The Mind’s Eye: Images of Creation and Revelation in Mystical Theology and Theosophy
Where Geometry Meets Kabbalah: Paul Yvon’s Esoteric Engravings
De Sapientia Salomonis: Emanuel Swedenborg and the Kabbalah
The Arcanes of the World. Symbols and Mystical-Allegorical Exegesis in Emanuel Swedenborg’s De Cultu et Amore Dei
Signs in the Sky: The Tobol’sk Chronicle and Celestial Divination in Russia, 1695–1734
Myth and Magic: Victorian Enoch and Historical Contexts
The Juncture of Transcendence and Concretion: Symbolique in René Schwaller de Lubicz
The Symbology of Hermeticism in the Work of Julius Evola
The Iconography of Coniunctio Oppositorum: Visual and Verbal Dialogues in Ithell Colquhoun’s Oeuvre
Modern Angels, Avant-Gardes and the Esoteric Archive
The Death of the Author and the Birth of the Luciferian Reader: Ur-images, Postmodernity and Semiotic Self-Apotheosis
Esoteric Theories of Color
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
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