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The Hidden Mothers: Women's Essential Contributions to Modern Esotericism (Female Contribution set)
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Belle-Époque occult revival (Papus, L'Initiation, 1888)Fin-de-siècle French esotericism · late 19th c. CEparallels · medium
Read the original · iapsop ↗Jakob BoehmeChristian theosophy · 1575–1624 CEgrounds · high
“All whatsoever is spoken, written, or taught of God, without the knowledge of the signature is dumb and void of understanding.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— The Signature of All Things, ch. 1, §1, trans. John Ellistone
Jewish Kabbalah (Sefer Yetzirah, Zohar, Lurianic)Jewish esotericism · classical texts c. 12th–16th c. CEgrounds · high
“In thirty-two mysterious paths of wisdom Jah, the Lord of Hosts... engraved and created His world by three Sepharim: by Number, Writing, and Word.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Sepher Yezirah, Ch. I, §1, trans. Isidore Kalisch (1877)
Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)