Book ID: CBB737588900

Lux in Tenebris: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism (2016)

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Forshaw, Peter J. (Author)


Brill Academic Publishers


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 494 pp.
Language: English

The eighteen original interdisciplinary essays in Lux in Tenebris explore the alchemical, magical, kabbalistic, rosicrucian and theosophical verbal and visual symbolism in the history of Western Esotericism, from the middle ages to the present day.

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Review Didier Kahn (2019) Review of "Lux in Tenebris: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 82-83). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ball, Philip
Bausani, Alessandro
Beltran, Maria Helena Roxo
Ciardi, Marco
Dasen, Véronique
Forrest, Satnam Mendoza
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Anthropozoologica
Azogue: Revista Electrónica Dedicada al Estudio Histórico-Crítico de la Alquimia
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Indiana University
Cambridge University Press
Aracne
Brill
Carocci Editore
Heinemann
Concepts
Alchemy
Magic
Esoteric thought
Occult sciences
Rosicrucians
Symbolism; symbolic representation
People
Dee, John
Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim
Bacon, Roger
Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna
Böhme, Jacob
Buridan, Jean
Time Periods
Ancient
Renaissance
16th century
17th century
Medieval
15th century
Places
Europe
France
England
Persia (Iran)
Rome (Italy)
Germany
Institutions
Theosophical Society
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
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