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

• Superior document: Aries Book Series, Volume 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Forshaw, Peter J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Aries book series ; Volume 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (516 pages) :; illustrations.

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.

Table of 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.