Contents
¿History of the Association for the Study of Esotericism¿
John Richards
Introduction
¿Esotericism, Art, and Imagination¿
Arthur Versluis
Esoteric Theaters
Melinda Weinstein: Theater and Initiation: Euripides¿ Bacchae
Eric Wilson: Esoteric Cinema
Lance Gharavi: Hex and the City: Texts for Occult Performance in Late Capitalism
Esoteric Painting
M. E. Warlick: Philosophic Mercury: Evolution of the Alchemical Feminine
Giovanna Costantini: Le Jeu de Marseille: The Breton Tarot as Jeux de Hasard
Arthur Versluis: The Esoteric Art of Cecil Collins
Esoteric Poetry
Marsha Keith Schuchard: William Blake, George Cumberland, and the Visionary Art of Exotic Erotica
George M. Young: Vladimir Solovyov¿s Poems of Wisdom, Mystery, and Love
Claire Fanger: Mirror, Mask and Anti-self: Forces of Literary Creation in Dion
Fortune and WB Yeats
Esoteric Fiction
Joscelyn Godwin: Esotericism without Religion: Philip Pullman¿s His Dark Materials
Glenn Alexander Magee: ¿Knowing In Terms of Togetherness¿: D.H. Lawrence and Alchemy
Victoria Nelson: Faux Catholic: The History of a Gothic Subgenre from Monk Lewis to Dan Brown
Esoteric Photography
Chris Webster: Dark Materials-The Chemical Wedding of Photography and the Esoteric
Cathy Gutierrez: A Mirror with a Memory: Spirit Photography and the Future of Ghosts
Esoteric Gardens
Patrizia Granziera: Enlightenment and Freemasonry in 18th Century Venice: The Hermeticism of Querini¿s Garden at Altichiero
Sarah W. Whedon: Advent Garden and the Waldorf Imagination: Esotericism, Ritual, and Childhood