This is the 4th volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mages 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 In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunraths insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in Oratory and Laboratory.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introductory Note
7 Epilogue Reception: from Rosicrucians to Occulture
1The Seventeenth Century: Rosicrucians, Pietists, Theosophers
2An Anti-Khunrathian Rosicrucian: Johann Valentin Andreae
3Pro-Khunrathian Rosicrucians and Paracelsians
4Censure and Condemnation
5Republication of Khunraths Works
6The Eighteenth Century: Rejection, Rehabilitation, Revival
7Interest from the Masonic Order of the Gold- und Rosenkreuz
8Enlightened Disapproval
9The Nineteenth Century: Astrologers and Mesmerists
10The French Occult Revival
11Theosophists on a Theosopher
12Accursed Knowledge in Belle Époque Paris
13British Occultism around the Start of the Twentieth Century
14Twentieth-Century Images: Rosicrucian, Symbolist and Surrealist
15Alchemy and Swiss-German Psychology
16Bibliophilia and Satire
17Khunrath in the Twenty-First Century
18Conclusio Operis
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
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.
