Rider Haggard and the imperial occult : : hermetic discourse and Romantic contiguity /

Rider Haggard and the imperial occult : : hermetic discourse and Romantic contiguity / / by Simon Magus.

In Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult , Simon Magus offers the first academic monograph on the world of occult thought which lies behind and beneath the fictional writing of H. Rider Haggard. It engages with a broad scope of religious, philosophical and anthropological ideas. Many of these were i...

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Superior document:Aries book series : texts and studies in Western esotericism ; Volume 31
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Magus, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Aries book series ; Volume 31.
Physical Description:1 online resource (425 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Methodological Reflections and Considerations
  • 1.1  Hermeneutics and Historicism: Appropriation
  • 1.2  Nachleben, Mnemohistory and Reception
  • 1.3  Narratology and Intertextuality
  • 1.4  Methodological Agnosticism and Empirico-Criticism
  • 2 Critical and Theoretical Framework
  • 2.1  The Narratives of Religious Legitimisation are as Follows:
  • 2.2  Intellectual Currents
  • 2.3  Principal Ideas.
  • 3 Prolegomena
  • 3.1  A New Trajectory
  • 3.2  Haggard's Theological Discourse
  • 3.3  The Theological Overture to Imperial Occultism; Anglican Scholasticism: Essays and Reviews (1860) and the Anti-Essayist Responsa
  • 3.4  Religious Dynamics under Imperialism
  • 3.5  East is East? The Imperial Occult and the East-West Discourse
  • 3.6  Hermetic Discourse
  • 3.7  Of Orchids and Ostriches: Biographical Notes and Preliminary Critique
  • 3.8  Haggard's Language Skills
  • 3.9  New Imperialism, New Journalism and New Romance
  • 3.10  The Fin-de-Siècle Occult Milieu
  • 3.11  Research Questions
  • PART 1
  • The Veil of Isis: Christian Egyptosophy and Victorian Egyptology
  • 1 Introduction to Part 1
  • 1 Atenism
  • 1 Moses and Akhenaten
  • 2 Amarnamania
  • 2 Original Monotheism
  •   Exoteric and Esoteric Religion
  • 1 Wallis Budge, Christian Egyptosophist and Psychic Gramophone Needle
  • 3 Osiride Christology and Ancient Egyptian Psychology
  • 1 The Passion of Osiris
  • 2 The Ka of Rider Haggard: Ancient Egyptian Psychology
  • 4 Uroborus and Uraeus
  •  Cyclical and Linear Time
  • 5 Mnemohistory and Metageography of Egypt
  • 1 Moses and the Route of the Exodus
  • 6 An Archaeology of the Imaginal
  • 1 Artefactual Fictions
  • PART 2
  • Isis Veiled: Romanticism and the New Romance
  • 1 Introduction to Part 2
  • 7 The One God and Hidden Nature
  • 1 Φύσις κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ.
  • 8 The Initiates of Sais
  • 1 The Visions of Harmachis: Initiation, Anacalypsis and Gnosis
  • 2 Kataphasis
  • 3 Apophasis
  • 4 Initiatic Death and Katabasis
  • 5 Anacalypsis, Gnosis and Palingenesis
  • 9 The Ayesha Mythos and the Alchemical  She
  • 1 The Genesis of She
  • 2 Ayesha and Kallikrates: Old Flames Never Die?
  • 3  The Alchemical She
  • 4 Érōs and Agápē: The Swedenborgian Androgyne
  • 5 The Ayesha Mythos: Love, Sex and Death
  • 6 The Ayesha Letters
  • 7 (Curtain Fall for an Interval of Two Thousand Years).
  • 10 Romance and the Providential Aesthetic
  • 1 Haggard's 'Fatalism'
  • 11 The Sublime and the Numinous
  • 1 The Chiaroscuro of the Sublime
  • 2 Landscape and Geopiety
  • 12 The Noetic Organ of Imagination
  • 1 'Empire of the Imagination'? On the Death of an Old Trope.
  • 2 The Imagination and Reason: Coleridge, Milton, and Kant
  • 3 A Theology of the Imagination
  • 4 Bulwer-Lytton, Blavatsky and Haggard: A Triangle of Art
  • 5  The Occult lore of Zanoni, Dawn and She: Natural Supernaturalism
  • PART 3
  • Isis Unveiled: Theosophy: From Theosophia Antiqua to Religious Pluralism
  • 1 Introduction to Part 3
  • 13 Graven Images
  • Victorian Constructions of Buddhism
  • 1 Doctrinal Approximations and Hybridity
  • 2 Patristic Theories of Soul Origin
  • 3 Divide et Impera? Comparison and Dialogue
  • 4 Buddha and Christ
  • 5  Haggard's Logos Theology: Friedrich Max Müller and Religionswissenschaft
  • 14 Egyptian Hermes in England
  • 15 Occult Science
  • 1 Experiments of Youth: Spiritualism or Spiritism?
  • 2 Theosophical Allusions
  • 3 Haggard's Reception of Theosophy
  • 4 Monads
  • 5 Devachan
  • 6 Mahatmas
  • 7 Psychometry and the Clairvoyant Imagination
  • 8 Reincarnation and Cyclical Ascendant Metempsychosis: The Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial
  • 9 Paulinism in Blavatsky and Haggard
  • 10 The Theosophical Reception of Haggard
  • 11 Contemporary Dialogues: The Aporia of Science and Religion: 'Have We Lived on Earth before? Shall We Live on Earth Again?'
  • 16 Reincarnation and Related Concepts
  • 1 Figura and Typos: Figural Phenomenal Prophecy, Pauline Typology and Hermeneutics
  • 2 Sympathie and Innate Affinities
  • 17 The Cartography of the Lost World
  • 1 Empire of Religion: Victorian Anthropology and the Rise of Comparative Religious Studies
  • 2 Andrew Lang, Psycho-Folklorist
  • 3 uNkulunkulu and Inkosazana-y-Zulu: Haggard on Zulu Spirituality
  • 4 Bishop Colenso's Mission
  • 5 Phoenician Zimbabwe and Biblical Ophir
  • 6 Haggard and Atlantis: Theosophical Esoteric Ethnology
  • 18 The Truth of the Metaphysical Novel
  • 1 Bulwer-Lytton and Rider Haggard on Fiction
  • 2 Myth with Footnotes
  • 3 Biblical Narratives and the Metaphysical Novel
  • Conclusions
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1   Letter to E. Coleman Rashleigh, 3 January 1920.
  • Appendix 2   Letter to Miss Kaye - Smith, 7 November 1921.
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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