Features & Benefits
- The book explores the Western esoteric tradition
- Western esoteric tradition has ancient roots and modern expressions
- This tradition regards the cosmos as a spiritual, meaningful being
- It traces the esoteric tradition through the Hermeticists, Kabbalists, Gnostics, and Neoplatonists
- The book covers the beginning of 'the esoteric counterculture' with the fall of Hermeticism in the late Renaissance
- Part three chronicles the rise of 'modern esotericism'