Cirrus@Austlit

'Aries Book Series. Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism is the first professional academic book series specifically devoted to a long-neglected but now rapidly developing new domain of research in the humanities, usually referred to as "Western Esotericism". This field covers a variety of "alternative" currents in western religious history, including the so-called "hermetic philosophy" and related currents in the early modern period; alchemy, paracelsianism and rosicrucianism; Jewish and Christian kabbalah and its later developments; theosophical and illuminist currents; and various ... read moreoccultist and related developments during the 19th and 20th centuries, up to and including popular contemporary currents such as the New Age movement' (Publisher website).