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Volume VII: Special Political Issue
Religion and Secrecy in the Bush Administration:
The Gentleman, the Prince, and the Simulacrum
by Hugh Urban
VII(2005): 1-38
Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and Totalitarianism
by Arthur Versluis
VII(2005): 39-51
Review of Barbara Newman's God and the Goddesses
by Claire Fanger
Volume VI (2004)
Articles
Emerson's Gnostic Democracy
by Eric G. Wilson
VI (2004): 1-15
The Divine Ark: Jane Lead's Vision of the Second Noah's Ark
by Julie Hirst
VI (2004): 16-25
The Elixir of Life
by James Cowan
VI (2004): 26-30
Daoist Alchemy in the West: The Esoteric Paradigms
by Lee Irwin
VI (2004): 31-51
Reviews
Recent Books Reviewed in Brief
(VI (2004)
Review of Robert Wang, The Rape of Jewish Mysticism
Recent Traditionalist Books
Selected Papers from the First ASE Conference
Between 'Essence Religion' and 'Godly Religion': The Italian Communal Esotericism of the Universal Soul Movement
by Massimo Introvigne
VI(2004): 52-58
The Coming of a 'Little Prophet': Astrological Pamphlets and the Reformation
by Gustav-Adolf Schoener
VI (2004): 59-66
Exotericism and Esotericism in Thirteenth Century Kabbalah
by Harvey J. Hames
VI(2004)
For more papers from the ASE Conference, click here to go to the ASE website
Volume V (2003) Contents
Articles
Sun Ra: From Ephrata (F-Ra-Ta) to Arkestra
by David W. Stowe
V(2003): 1-26
Mysticism, and the Study of Esotericism
Methods in the Study of Esotericism, Part II
by Arthur Versluis
V(2003): 27-40
Freemasonic Symbolism and Georgian Gardens
by Patrizia Granziera
V(2003): 41-72
The Curious Case of Hermetic Graffiti in Valladolid ms 40/8
by Eric Vogt
V(2003): 73-94
William Blake and the Radical Swedenborgians
by Robert Rix
V(2003): 95-137
Unleashing the Beast: Aleister Crowley, Tantra, and Sex Magic in Late Victorian England
by Hugh Urban
V(2003): 138-192
The Art of the Law: Aleister Crowley's Use of Ritual and Drama
by Justin Scott Van Kleeck
V(2003): 193-218
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Book Reviews
Review of Erik Hornung, The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West
Reviewed by Lee Irwin V(2003): 219-220
Review of Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets
Reviewed by Arthur Versluis V(2003): 221
Review of Anthony Stevens, Ariadne's Clue: The Symbols of Humankind
Reviewed by Melinda Weinstein V(2003): 222
Review of Sheila Spector's“Wonders Divine”: The Development of Blake’s Kabbalistic Myth and “Glorious Incomprehensible”: The Development of Blake’s Kabbalistic Language Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001
Reviewed by Don Karr V(2003): 223
Review of Tobias Churton's The Golden Builders (London: Signal, 2002)
Reviewed by Christopher McIntosh V(2003): 224
Books in Brief
New Books of Interest
V(2003): 225-226
Recent Books Received
Recent Books
V(2003): 227
Archives
Liber Salomonis: Sepher Raziel (British Library Sloane MS 3826)
transcribed by Don Karr Part I
Part II
V(2003)
Gilpin, Richard, Demonologia Sacra: Or, A Treatise of Satan's Temptations: In Three Parts (Edinburgh: Printed By R. Fleming and Sold at the printing house at Pearsons Closs, 1735)
V(2003)
Volume IV (2002) Contents
Articles
What is Esoteric? Methods in the Study of Western Esotericism
by Arthur Versluis
IV(2002): 1-15
In Our Series: Studies in American Esotericism
Powwowing: A Persistent American Esoteric Tradition
by David Kriebel
IV(2002): 16-28
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Astrology: Between Religion and the Empirical
by Gustav-Adolph Schoener
IV(2002): 29-60
New Series: Phenomenological Studies
Within This Darkness: Incarnation, Theophany, and the Primordial Revelation
by Tom Cheetham
IV(2002): 61-95
New Series: Eye on Society
Magic and Cyberspace
by Nevill Drury
IV(2002): 96-100
A New Theory of Musick
by Dr. Francis Lee
IV (2002): 101-103
Selected Letters of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
IV(2002): 104-112
Reviews
Review of Deborah Harkness's John Dee's Conversations With Angels
by Claire Fanger
IV (2002): 104-106
Review of Jean Borella's The Sense of the Supernatural and The Secret of the Christian Way
by Arthur Versluis
IV (2002): 107-108
Noteworthy Books: Current Issue
IV (2002): 109-113
Recent Traditionalist Books
IV (2002): 113
Review-Essay on Basarab Nicolescu's Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity by
Karen--Claire Voss
IV (2002): 114-116
Volume III (2001) Contents
Articles
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Arthur Versluis, "Editor's Remarks on Esoterica Volume III (2001)"
Lee Irwin, "Western Esotericism, Eastern Spirituality, and the Global Future,"
Esoterica III(2001): 1-47
Harry Oldmeadow, "The Western Quest for 'Secret Tibet',"
Esoterica III(2001): 48-107
John of Morigny, Prologue to Liber Visionum [c. 1304 - 1317]
Translated, Edited, and Introduced
by Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson (New format: pdf files)
Esoterica III(2001): 108-217
Hugh B. Urban, "The Omnipotent Oom: Tantra and Its Impact on Modern Western Esotericism,"
Esoterica III(2001): 218-259
Reviews
Noteworthy Books
Review of Noel Brann, Trithemius and Magical Theology: A Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe (Albany: SUNY, 1999) by Christopher Celenza
Esoterica III(2001): 260-264
A Review Essay on Robert Sardello by Lee Irwin
Esoterica III(2001): 265-276
Review of Antoine Faivre and Wouter Hanegraaff, eds., Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion, (Leuven: Peeters, 1998) by Claire Fanger
Esoterica III(2001): 277-287
Review of Steven Wasserstrom's Religion After Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos, (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999)
by Arthur Versluis
Esoterica III(2001): 288-292
Review of Russell Hvolbek's Mysticism and Experience, (Lanham: UPA, 1998) by Arthur Versluis
Esoterica III(2001): 293-294
Archival Works and Exhibitions
Liber Lunae And Other Selections from British Library, MS. Sloane 3826, transcribed by Don Karr
Esoterica III(2001): 295-318
Volume II(2000) Contents
Articles
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Wouter Hanegraaff, "Sympathy or the Devil: Renaissance Magic and the Ambivalence of Idols" pp. 1-44
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Marsha Keith Schuchard,"Why Mrs. Blake Cried: Blake, Swedenborg, and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision"
pp.45-93
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Paul Wesley Hofreiter, "Notes on Piano Sonata 19"
pp. 94-99
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More to come, including an online art exhibition and an online lecture!
Book Reviews
Harold Bloom, Omens of the Millennium pp. 100-106
Ted Anton, Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu pp. 107-113
Kathleen Rosenblatt, Daumal pp. 144-116
Michael J. B. Allen, Synoptic Art pp. 117-122
Adamantius pp. 123-124
Charles Leland, Aradia pp. 125-129
Jan Bondeson, The Feejee Mermaid pp. 130-131
Eliot Wolfson, Circle in the Square pp. 132-138
Theo Paijmans, John Worrell Keely pp. 139-141
Walter Benjamin's Radio Talks for Children pp. 142-143
Archival Works
Dionysius the Areopagite, The Celestial Hierarchy pp. 148-202 Mystical Theology pp. 203-211
More to come!
Contents of Volume I (1999)
Articles,
"Some Remarks on the Study of Western Esotericism"
Wouter Hanegraaff
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 3-19
"Western Esotericism and the Harmony Society"
Arthur Versluis
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 20-47
"Another Eve: A Case Study in the Earliest Manifestations of Christian Esotericism"
Laura Hobgood-Oster
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 48-60
"Following Lucifer: Miltonic Evil as Gnostic Cabala"
Philip Beitchman
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 61-78
"Stages of Ascension in Hermetic Rebirth"
Dan Merkur
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 79-96
"Things Done Wisely by a Wise Enchanter: Negotiating the Power of Words in the Thirteenth Century"
Claire Fanger
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 97-132
"The Alchemy of the Voice at Ephrata Cloister"
Jan Stryz
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 133-159
Archival texts
Georg von Welling, Opus Mago-Cabalisticum et Theosophicum (1735) Esoterica I(1999): pp. 160-171
Johannes Kelpius, A Short, Easy and Comprehensive Method of Prayer, (1761 trs.) Esoterica I(1999): pp. 172-198
George Rapp, Thoughts on the Destiny of Man (1824/1825)
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 199-204
Hirtenbrief, [Pastoral Letter] as distributed by the Harmony Society (1855) Esoterica I(1999): pp. 205-241
Book reviews
Brian Gibbons, Gender and Mysticism
Esoterica I(1999):242-243
Andrew Weeks, German Mysticism and Boehme
Esoterica I(1999):244-245
Jean Servier, ed., Dictionnaire critique de L'Ésotérisme,
Esoterica I(1999):246-247
Articles, by author
Beitchman, Philip
"Following Lucifer: Miltonic Evil as Gnostic Cabala"
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 61-78
Fanger, Claire
"Things Done Wisely by a Wise Enchanter: Negotiating the Power of Words in the Thirteenth Century"
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 97-132
Hanegraaff, Wouter
"Some Remarks on the Study of Western Esotericism"
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 3-19
"Sympathy or the Devil: Renaissance Magic and the Ambivalence of Idols"* Esoterica II(2000)pp. 1-44, [ faster loading version]
Hobgood-Oster, Laura
"Another Eve: A Case Study in the Earliest Manifestations of Christian Esotericism"
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 48-60
Hofreiter, Paul Wesley
"Notes on Piano Sonata 19"
pp. 94-99
Merkur, Dan
"Stages of Ascension in Hermetic Rebirth"
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 79-96
Schuchard, Marsha Keith
"Why Mrs. Blake Cried: Blake, Swedenborg, and the Sexual Basis of Spiritual Vision"*
pp.45-93
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Stryz, Jan
"The Alchemy of the Voice at Ephrata Cloister"
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 133-159
Versluis, Arthur
"Western Esotericism and the Harmony Society"
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 20-47
Archival Texts
Georg von Welling, Opus Mago-Cabalisticum et Theosophicum (1735)
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 160-171
Johannes Kelpius, A Short, Easy and Comprehensive Method of Prayer, (1761 trs.)
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 172-198
George Rapp, Thoughts on the Destiny of Man (1824/1825)
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 199-204
Hirtenbrief, [Pastoral Letter] as distributed by the Harmony Society (1855)
Esoterica I(1999): pp. 205-241
New! Dionysius the Areopagite: Celestial Hierarchy and Mystical Theology
Book reviews
*Adamantius*Esoterica II(2000): pp. 123-124
Paul Allen, *Synoptic Art*Esoterica II(2000): pp. 117-122
Ted Anton, *Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu*Esoterica II(2000): pp. 107-113
*Walter Benjamin's Radio Talks for Children*Esoterica II(2000): pp. 142-143
Harold Bloom, *Omens of the Millennium* Esoterica II(2000): pp. 100-106
Jan Bondeson, *The Feejee Mermaid* Esoterica II(2000):pp. 130-131
Brian Gibbons, Gender and Mysticism
Esoterica I(1999): 242-243
Charles Leland, *Aradia*Esoterica II(2000): pp. 125-129
Theo Paijmans, *John Worrell Keely*Esoterica II(2000): pp. 139-141
Kathleen Rosenblatt, *Daumal*Esoterica II(2000): pp. 144-116
Jean Servier, ed., Dictionnaire critique de L'Ésotérisme,
Esoterica I(1999): 246-247
Andrew Weeks, German Mysticism and Boehme
Esoterica I(1999): 244-245
Eliot Wolfson, *Circle in the Square* pp. 132-138
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