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

Epilogue: Reception (from Rosicrucians to Modern Occulture) & Bibliography
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70210-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Aries Book Series

This is the 4th volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), ‘one of the great Hermetic philosophers’, whose Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as ‘one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences’. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of ‘scripture and picture’ in the complex engravings in his Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath’s insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in ‘Oratory and Laboratory’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

J Forshaw, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Eklektizismus, Esoterik, Anthroposophie, Theosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.