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

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...

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Main Author: Forshaw, Peter J. 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden BRILL 2016
In:Year: 2016
Series/Journal:Aries Book Ser v.23
Aries Book Series Volume 23
Further subjects:B Signs and symbols
B Occultism in art
B Symbolism
B Electronic books
B Occultism
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Forshaw, Peter J: Lux in Tenebris : The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism. - Leiden : BRILL,c2016. - 9789004334946
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Summary: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
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ISBN:9004334955