The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
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Overview: Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the natural world while also relating the humanity to the universe through a harmonious celestial order. This introduction to the Western esoteric traditions offers a concise overview of their historical development. He explores these traditions, from their roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, & Gnosticism in the early Christian era up to their reverberations in today’s scientific paradigms. While the study of Western esotericism is usually confined to the history of ideas, he examines the phenomenon much more broadly. He demonstrates that, far from being a strictly intellectual movement, the spread of esotericism owes a great deal to geopolitics & globalization. In Hellenistic culture, for example, the empire of Alexander the Great, which stretched across Egypt & Western Asia to provinces in India, facilitated a mixing of Eastern & Western cultures….
Genre: Non-Fiction > Western esotericism
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