The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 4 - Forshaw, Peter J.; - Prospero Internet Bookshop

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

Epilogue: Reception (from Rosicrucians to Modern Occulture) & Bibliography
 
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This is the 4th volume of an in-depth examination of the alchemy, magic, and Christian cabala of Paracelsian doctor Heinrich Khunrath of Leipzig (1560-1605) and the novel combination of ?scripture and picture? in the complex ?hieroglyphic? and ?theosophical? figures in his Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609).

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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 In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath?s insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in ?Oratory and Laboratory?.
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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