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| Preface to the Present Edition | |
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| Approaches to Western Esoteric | |
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| Methodology and Reflections | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Some Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections on "Tradition," or The Three Paths of Esotericism Today | |
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| A Short History of Western Esoteric Currents (Essay On Periodization) | |
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| Ancient and Medieval Sources of Modern Esoteric Currents | |
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| Esoteric Currents in the First Eleven Centuries | |
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| Esotericism in Medieval Thought | |
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| Initiatory Quests and Esoteric Arts | |
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| Esotericism at the Heart of the Renaissance and in the Flames of the Baroque | |
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| Philosophia perennis, a Discovery of Humanism | |
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| The Germanic Contribution: Naturphilosophie and Theosophy | |
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| Reading the World and Myth | |
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| Esotericism in the Shadow of the Enlightenment | |
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| Sunburst of Theosophy | |
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| From the Arts of Reading to the Art of Subtle Fluids | |
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| A Century of Initiations | |
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| From Romantic Knowledge to Programmatic Occultism | |
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| The Era of Naturphilosophic and the Great Syntheses | |
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| Universal Tradition and Occultism | |
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| Esotericism in Initiatory Societies and in Art (1848-1914) | |
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| Twentieth-Century Esotericisms | |
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| Gnoses in the Wake of the Western Tradition | |
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| The Four Winds of the Tradition | |
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| Arts and Humanities | |
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| Studies In Esotericism | |
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| Faith and Knowledge in Franz von Baader and in Modern Gnosis | |
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| The Inner Church and the Heavenly Jerusalem-Foundations of a Cosmic | |
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| Anthropology According to Franz von Baader and Christian Theosophy | |
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| The Temple of Solomon in Eighteenth-Century Masonic Theosophy | |
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| The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz as Pilgrimage of the Soul | |
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| Miles Redivivus: Aspects of the Chivalric Imagination in Eighteenth-Century Alchemy, Freemasonry, and Literature | |
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| Love and Androgyny in Franz von Baader | |
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| -Introduction | |
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| Ontological Androgyny | |
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| Primitive Adam and Failed Androgyny | |
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| Situations of Human Love: Dialectics and Oppositions | |
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| Situations of Human Love: Philosophies and the Life of the Couple | |
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| Knowledge and Reintegration | |
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| Baaderand His Time | |
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| The Metamorphoses of Hermes: Neognostic Cosmologies and Traditional Gnosis | |
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| A Bibliographical Guide To Research | |
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| Introduction | |
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| General works | |
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| Alchemy | |
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| Esoteric Freemasonry | |
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| From the second to the 15th century | |
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| Renaissance and the seventeenth century | |
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| Varia | |
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| The Reception of Alexandrian Hermetism | |
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| Christian Kabbalah | |
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| Paracelsism and Philosophy of Nature | |
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| Rosicrucianism | |
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| Theosophy | |
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| Eighteenth century | |
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| Romanticism and Naturphilosophie | |
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| Late nineteenth century and the twentieth century | |
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| Concerning "Tradition" | |
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| Esotericism and Islam | |
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| Esotericism, Literature and Art | |
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| Journals and serials | |
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| A word about Libraries | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |