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

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