Product Description: Now available in one volume This is the first comprehensive reference work to cover the entire domain of “Gnosis and Western Esotericism” from the period of Late Antiquity to the present. Containing around 400 articles by over 180 international specialists, it provides critical overviews discussing the nature and historical development of all its important currents and manifestations, from Gnosticism and Hermetism to Astrology, Alchemy and Magic, from the Hermetic Tradition of the Renaissance to Rosicrucianism and Christian Theosophy, and from Freemasonry and Illuminism to 19th-century Occultism and the contemporary New Age movement...read more

Product Description: El tema de estudio planteado en este libro ofrece una opor-tunidad única para examinar la viabilidad de la búsqueda espiritual en el mundo moderno, un mundo que ha diluido de forma significativa la sensibilidad de los seres humanos para el lenguaje y las formas de la tradición religiosa...read more

Product Description: A historical and interpretive study of three aspects of Western esotericism from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Phanes (fa-nays) means "manifester" or "revealer", and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth".Phanes Press was founded in 1985 to publish quality books on the spiritual, philosophical, and cosmological traditions of the Western world...read more

Product Description: This is the first systematic treatment of esotericism to appear in English. Here is also a historical survey, beginning with the Alexandrean Period, of the various esoteric currents such as Christian Kabbalah, Theosophy, Alchemy, Rosicrucianism, and Hermeticism...read more