基本説明
古典古代から現在に至る西洋におけるキリスト教異端のグノーシスの伝統と秘教思想の全貌を180人以上の寄稿者による約400項目にて、カバーする初の包括的なレファレンス。グノーシス主義から、ヘルメス主義、占星術、錬金術、魔術まで、ルネッサンスのヘルメス学の伝統から、薔薇十字、キリスト教神智学まで、フリーメーソンから19世紀のオカルティズム、そして現代のニューエージまで。
This one volume edition is an unabridged version of the two volume edition published in 2005.
Full Description
This is the first comprehensive reference work to cover the entire domain of "Gnosis and Western Esotericism" from Late Antiquity to the present. It contains critical discussions of all its major authors, currents and manifestations, from Gnosticism to the New Age.
This one volume edition is an unabridged version of the two volume edition published in 2005.
Contents
A selection of entries:
Alchemy; Amulets; Aristotelianism; Astrology; Bacon, Francis; Blake, William; Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna; Boehme, Jacob; Bogomilism; Catharism; Christian Theosophy; Comenius, Jan Amos; Clement of Alexandria; Cusa, Nicholas of; Dante Alighieri; Cryptography; Dionysius Areopagita, -Pseudo; Eriugena, Johannes Scottus; Ficino, Marsilio; Freemasonry; Gnosticism; Grail traditions; Hermes Trismegistus; Hermetic Literature; Illuminism; Intermediary Beings; Jewish Influences
Jung, Carl Gustav; Kabbalah; Magic; Manichaeism; Music; Mysticism; Neopaganism; Neoplatonism; New Age Movement; Newton, Isaac; Occult / Occultism; Paracelsus; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni; Reincarnation; Rosicrucianism; Satanism; Scientology; Secrecy; Spiritualism; Steiner, Rudolf; Swedenborg, Emanuel; Tarot; Templars; Valentinus and Valentinians; Witchcraft (15th - 17th Centuries); Zoroaster
