Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England, Janacek Bruce

Название: The Occult in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 0333688147 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333688144
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This documentary anthology explores the occult in early modern Europe, presenting magic, witchcraft, astrology, alchemy and other occult themes as parts of an intellectually rigorous and scientifically challenging world view, consistently argued in accordance with its given basic principles.

Автор: Harvey, David Allen (Author)
Название: Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism and Politics in Modern France
ISBN: 087580344X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780875803449
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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The occult sciences have attracted followers and fascinated observers since the middle ages. Beyond Enlightenment examines the social, political, and metaphysical doctrines of Martinism, a French occultist movement and offshoot of Freemasonry that flourished from the late eighteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth century. The French Revolution and the disorder that followed it convinced Martinists that modern society was on the wrong path. For guidance they looked back not to the corrupt Old Regime but rather to a lost golden age of mankind that existed only in their imagination. The Martinists were closely engaged in the political events of their times, and rightly or wrongly, they earned a reputation for secret intrigue and ubiquitous hidden influence.

David Allen Harvey focuses on the Martinists themselves, recreating their own social and political views. He traces the birth of Martinism during the Enlightenment, its revival in the fin de si?cle, and the late nineteenth-century formation of a distinctly Martinist project—the synarchy—aimed at the social and political renewal of France and the greater world. The Martinist doctrines formed a unique synthesis of Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment thought. Harvey maintains that Martinists were a peaceful, esoteric society that rejected both secular materialism and dogmatic Catholicism, seeking to reveal the hand of Providence in history, discover divinely inspired laws of social and political organizations, and enact the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Seeking to explore and analyze the "irrational" side of the "Age of Reason," Beyond Enlightenment is a welcome addition to recent studies of esoteric movements. Historians of culture, religion, and politics in post-Revolutionary France, as well as historians of esotericism and alternative religions will be interested in this engaging and revealing study.