Lux in tenebris : the visual and the symbolic in western esotericism / edited by Peter J. Forshaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forshaw, Peter J., editor.

Christine Hikawa Fund.

Series:

Aries book series. Texts and studies in Western esotericism ; v. 23.

Aries book series. Texts and studies in Western esotericism ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occultism.

Occultism in art.

Signs and symbols.

Symbolism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Lux in Tenebris' is a collection of eighteen original interdisciplinary essays that address aspects of the verbal and visual symbolism in the works of significant figures in the history of Western Esotericism, covering such themes as alchemy, magic, kabbalah, angels, occult philosophy, Platonism, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy. Part I: Middle Ages & Early Modernity ranges from Gikatilla, Ficino, Camillo, Agrippa, Weigel, Bohme, Yvon, and Swedenborg, to celestial divination in Russia. Part II: Modernity & Postmodernity moves from occultist thinkers Schwaller de Lubicz and Evola to esotericism in literature, art, and cinema, in the works of Colquhoun, Degouve de Nuncques, Bruskin, Doitschinoff, and Perez-Reverte, with an essay on esoteric theories of colour.

Contents:

Lux in Tenebris:The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism; PART 1: Middle Ages and Early Modernity; 1: Visual and Acoustic Symbols in Gikatilla, Neoplatonic and Pythagorean Thought; 2: Transfiguration and the Fire within: Marsilio Ficino on the Metaphysics and Psychology of Light; 3: The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo: Alchemy, Rhetoric, and Deification in the Renaissance;

4: Agrippa's Cosmic Ladder: Building a World with Words in the De Occulta Philosophia5: Imagining the Image of God: Corporeal Envisioning in the Theosophy of Jacob Böhme; 6: Dreams and Symbols in The Chemical Wedding; 7: The Mind's Eye: Images of Creation and Revelation in Mystical Theology and Theosophy; 8: Where Geometry Meets Kabbalah: Paul Yvon's Esoteric Engravings; 9: De Sapientia Salomonis: Emanuel Swedenborg and the Kabbalah; 10: The Arcanes of the World. Symbols and Mystical-Allegorical Exegesis in Emanuel Swedenborg's De Cultu et Amore Dei;

11: Signs in the Sky: The Tobol'sk Chronicle and Celestial Divination in Russia, 1695-1734PART 2: Modernity and Postmodernity; 12: Myth and Magic: Victorian Enoch and Historical Contexts; 13: The Juncture of Transcendence and Concretion: Symbolique in René Schwaller de Lubicz; 14: The Symbology of Hermeticism in the Work of Julius Evola; 15: The Iconography of Coniunctio Oppositorum: Visual and Verbal Dialogues in Ithell Colquhoun's Oeuvre; 16: Modern Angels, Avant-Gardes and the Esoteric Archive;

17: The Death of the Author and the Birth of the Luciferian Reader: Ur-images, Postmodernity and Semiotic Self-Apotheosis18: Esoteric Theories of Color; Index of Names; Index of Subjects;

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Lux in tenebris

ISBN:

9789004334953

9004334955

OCLC:

961266854

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