Dark Side of the Enlightenment Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason

Name: Dark Side of the Enlightenment Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
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ISBN: 9780393079463

ISBN-10: 0393079465

ISBN-13: 9780393079463

Edition: 2013

Authors: John V. Fleming

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Although there is lively disagreement concerning the precise definition and dates of the European Enlightenment, scholars generally include among its principal features great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion and the retreat of the concept of the supernatural before the advance of empirical science. In this book John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of enlightenment were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the “darker” pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His engaging topics include the stubborn survival of the miraculous, the Enlightenment roles of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, and the widespread pursuit of…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.49" long x 1.37" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



List of Illustrations


A Brief Word to the Reader


Introduction: The Light and the Dark



Valentine Greatrakes, the Stroker



The Convulsionists



The Rosy Cross



The Freemasons



Three Occult Arts



Cagliostro Ascending



Cagliostro Declining



Julie De Krudener Mondaine



Julie De Krï¿½dener Dï¿½vote


Index