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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forshaw, Peter J., editor.

Series:

Aries book series ; Volume 23.

Aries Book Series, 1871-1405 ; Volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occultism.

Occultism in art.

Signs and symbols.

Symbolism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

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 andamp; Early Modernity ranges from Gikatilla, Ficino, Camillo, Agrippa, Weigel, Böhme, Yvon, and Swedenborg, to celestial divination in Russia. Part II: Modernity andamp; 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 Pérez-Reverte, with an essay on esoteric theories of colour. Contributors are: Michael J.B. Allen, Susanna Åkerman, Lina Bolzoni, Aaron Cheak, Robert Collis, Francesca M. Crasta, Per Faxneld, Laura Follesa, Victoria Ferentinou, Joshua Gentzke, Joscelyn Godwin, Hans Thomas Hakl, Theodor Harmsen, Elke Morlok, Noel Putnik, Jonathan Schorsch, György Szönyi, Carsten Wilke, and Thomas Willard.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Peter J. Forshaw

Introduction: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism / Peter J. Forshaw

Visual and Acoustic Symbols in Gikatilla, Neoplatonic and Pythagorean Thought / Elke Morlok

Transfiguration and the Fire within: Marsilio Ficino on the Metaphysics and Psychology of Light / Michael J.B. Allen

The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo: Alchemy, Rhetoric, and Deification in the Renaissance / Lina Bolzoni

Agrippa’s Cosmic Ladder: Building a World with Words in the De Occulta Philosophia / Noel Putnik

Imagining the Image of God: Corporeal Envisioning in the Theosophy of Jacob Böhme / Joshua Levi Ian Gentzke

Dreams and Symbols in The Chemical Wedding / Thomas Willard

The Mind’s Eye: Images of Creation and Revelation in Mystical Theology and Theosophy / Theodor Harmsen

Where Geometry Meets Kabbalah: Paul Yvon’s Esoteric Engravings / Carsten L. Wilke

De Sapientia Salomonis: Emanuel Swedenborg and the Kabbalah / Susanna Åkerman-Hjern

The Arcanes of the World. Symbols and Mystical-Allegorical Exegesis in Emanuel Swedenborg’s De Cultu et Amore Dei / Francesca Maria Crasta and Laura Follesa

Signs in the Sky: The Tobol’sk Chronicle and Celestial Divination in Russia, 1695–1734 / Robert Collis

Myth and Magic: Victorian Enoch and Historical Contexts / György E. Szönyi

The Juncture of Transcendence and Concretion: Symbolique in René Schwaller de Lubicz / Aaron Cheak

The Symbology of Hermeticism in the Work of Julius Evola / Hans Thomas Hakl

The Iconography of Coniunctio Oppositorum: Visual and Verbal Dialogues in Ithell Colquhoun’s Oeuvre / Victoria Ferentinou

Modern Angels, Avant-Gardes and the Esoteric Archive / Jonathan Schorsch

The Death of the Author and the Birth of the Luciferian Reader: Ur-images, Postmodernity and Semiotic Self-Apotheosis / Per Faxneld

Esoteric Theories of Color / Joscelyn Godwin

Index of Names / Peter J. Forshaw

Index of Subjects / Peter J. Forshaw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-33495-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004334953 DOI