The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 4

Epilogue: Reception (from Rosicrucians to Modern Occulture) & Bibliography

Peter J. Forshaw (Autor)

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366 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70210-3 (ISBN)

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This is the 4th volume of an in-depth examination of the alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala of Paracelsian doctor Heinrich Khunrath of Leipzig (1560-1605) and the novel combination of ‘scripture and picture’ in the complex ‘hieroglyphic’ and ‘theosophical’ figures in his Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609).

This is the 4th volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), ‘one of the great Hermetic philosophers’, whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as ‘one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences’. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of ‘scripture and picture’ in the complex engravings in his Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath’s insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in ‘Oratory and Laboratory’.

Peter J. Forshaw, Ph.D. (2004), London University, is Associate Professor in History of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam. He was editor of the journal Aries (2010-2020), has edited essay collections and published articles and chapters on esotericism and occult philosophy.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introductory Note

7 Epilogue – Reception: from Rosicrucians to Occulture

1 The Seventeenth Century: Rosicrucians, Pietists, Theosophers

2 An Anti-Khunrathian Rosicrucian: Johann Valentin Andreae

3 Pro-Khunrathian Rosicrucians and Paracelsians

4 Censure and Condemnation

5 Republication of Khunrath’s Works

6 The Eighteenth Century: Rejection, Rehabilitation, Revival

7 Interest from the Masonic Order of the Gold- und Rosenkreuz

8 Enlightened Disapproval

9 The Nineteenth Century: Astrologers and Mesmerists

10 The French Occult Revival

11 Theosophists on a Theosopher

12 Accursed Knowledge in Belle Époque Paris

13 British Occultism around the Start of the Twentieth Century

14 Twentieth-Century Images: Rosicrucian, Symbolist and Surrealist

15 Alchemy and Swiss-German Psychology

16 Bibliophilia and Satire

17 Khunrath in the Twenty-First Century

18 Conclusio Operis

Bibliography of Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Aries Book Series ; 40
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Anthroposophie
ISBN-10	90-04-70210-5 / 9004702105
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70210-3 / 9789004702103
Zustand	Neuware