Lux in Tenebris: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism

By Peter J Forshaw

Lux in Tenebris is a collection of eighteen original interdisciplinary essays that address aspects of the verbal and visual symbolism in the works of significant figures in the history of Western Esotericism, covering such themes as alchemy, magic, kabbalah, angels, occult philosophy, Platonism, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy. Part I: Middle Ages & Early Modernity ranges from Gikatilla, Ficino, Camillo, Agrippa, Weigel, B hme, Yvon, and Swedenborg, to celestial divination in Russia. Part II: Modernity & Postmodernity moves from occultist thinkers Schwaller de Lubicz and Evola to esotericism in literature, art, and cinema, in the works of Colquhoun, Degouve de Nuncques, Bruskin, Doitschinoff, and P rez-Reverte, with an essay on esoteric theories of colour.

Contributors are: Michael J.B. Allen, Susanna kerman, Lina Bolzoni, Aaron Cheak, Robert Collis, Francesca M. Crasta, Per Faxneld, Laura Follesa, Victoria Ferentinou, Joshua Gentzke, Joscelyn Godwin, Hans Thomas Hakl, Theodor Harmsen, Elke Morlok, Noel Putnik, Jonathan Schorsch, Gy rgy Sz nyi, Carsten Wilke, and Thomas Willard.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004334947
• ISBN13: 9789004334946
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"