| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 474 pages). |
| Series |
Aries book series ; v. 11 |
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Aries book series ; v. 11.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The question of constructing tradition, concepts of origin, and memory as well as techniques and practices of knowledge transmission, are central for cultures in general. In esotericism, however, such questions and techniques play an outstanding role and are widely reflected upon, in its literature. Esoteric paradigms not only understand themselves in elaborated mytho-poetical narratives as bearers of older, hidden, higher knowledge. They also claim their knowledge to be of a particular origin. And they claim this knowledge has been transmitted by particular (esoteric) means, media and groups. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
The Coming of the Masters: The Evolutionary Reformulation of Spiritual Intermediaries in Modern TheosophyHelena Petrovna Blavatsky's Esoteric Tradition; Tradition in Zwei Gestalten? Wissenschaftlicher Traditionsbegriff und Esoterische Traditionslinien in der Deutschen Geschichtsschreibung des 19. Jahrhunderts; The Sociology of the Construct of Tradition and Import of Legitimacy in Freemasonry; Secrecy as Social Capital; Kabbalistic Concepts of Tradition; Revelation and the 'Crisis of Tradition' in Kabbalah: 1475-1575. |
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Sufis as Mythic Bearers of Esoteric TraditionAthanasius Kircher's Construction of the Hieroglyphic Tradition; Vom dämonischen Archetyp zur Konstruktion einer Urtradition. Die Kontroverse über das Geschlecht der Giganten an den Barocken Universitäten; Index of Persons. |
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Occultism.
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Tradition (Theology)
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Tradition (Philosophy)
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Philosophy.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Dreams.
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Occultism. (OCoLC)fst01043123
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Tradition (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01153957
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Tradition (Theology) (OCoLC)fst01153960
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Esoterik.
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Mythos.
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Tradition.
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| Added Author |
Kilcher, Andreas B., 1963-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Constructing tradition. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004191143 (DLC) 2010033349 (OCoLC)657080406 |
| ISBN |
9789004216372 (electronic bk.) |
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9004216375 (electronic bk.) |
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