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The Western Esoteric Traditions - A Historical Introduction (Hardcover)
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The Western Esoteric Traditions - A Historical Introduction (Hardcover)
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Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own
right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the
natural world while also relating the humanity to the universe
through a harmonious celestial order. This introduction to the
Western esoteric traditions offers a concise overview of their
historical development.
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke explores these traditions, from their
roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism in the early
Christian era up to their reverberations in today's scientific
paradigms. While the study of Western esotericism is usually
confined to the history of ideas, Goodrick-Clarke examines the
phenomenon much more broadly. He demonstrates that, far from being
a strictly intellectual movement, the spread of esotericism owes a
great deal to geopolitics and globalization. In Hellenistic
culture, for example, the empire of Alexander the Great, which
stretched across Egypt and Western Asia to provinces in India,
facilitated a mixing of Eastern and Western cultures. As the Greeks
absorbed ideas from Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia, they gave
rise to the first esoteric movements.
From the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries,
post-Reformation spirituality found expression in theosophy,
Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. Similarly, in the modern era,
dissatisfaction with the hegemony of science in Western culture and
a lack of faith in traditional Christianity led thinkers like
Madame Blavatsky to look East for spiritual inspiration.
Goodrick-Clarke further examines Modern esoteric thought in the
light of new scientific and medical paradigms along with the
analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. This book tracesthe
complete history of these movements and is the definitive account
of Western esotericism.
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