Lux in Tenebris:The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism

PART 1: Middle Ages and Early Modernity

1: Visual and Acoustic Symbols in Gikatilla, Neoplatonic and Pythagorean Thought

2: Transfiguration and the Fire within: Marsilio Ficino on the Metaphysics and Psychology of Light

3: The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo: Alchemy, Rhetoric, and Deification in the Renaissance

4: Agrippa’s Cosmic Ladder: Building a World with Words in the De Occulta Philosophia

5: Imagining the Image of God: Corporeal Envisioning in the Theosophy of Jacob Böhme

6: Dreams and Symbols in The Chemical Wedding

7: The Mind’s Eye: Images of Creation and Revelation in Mystical Theology and Theosophy

8: Where Geometry Meets Kabbalah: Paul Yvon’s Esoteric Engravings

9: De Sapientia Salomonis: Emanuel Swedenborg and the Kabbalah

10: The Arcanes of the World. Symbols and Mystical-Allegorical Exegesis in Emanuel Swedenborg’s De Cultu et Amore Dei

11: Signs in the Sky: The Tobol’sk Chronicle and Celestial Divination in Russia, 1695–1734

PART 2: Modernity and Postmodernity

12: Myth and Magic: Victorian Enoch and Historical Contexts

13: The Juncture of Transcendence and Concretion: Symbolique in René Schwaller de Lubicz

14: The Symbology of Hermeticism in the Work of Julius Evola

15: The Iconography of Coniunctio Oppositorum: Visual and Verbal Dialogues in Ithell Colquhoun’s Oeuvre

16: Modern Angels, Avant-Gardes and the Esoteric Archive

17: The Death of the Author and the Birth of the Luciferian Reader: Ur-images, Postmodernity and Semiotic Self-Apotheosis

18: Esoteric Theories of Color

Index of Names

Index of Subjects