Originally published: East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2008.

Esotericism, Art, and Imagination is a uniquely wide-ranging collection of articles by scholars in the field of Western esotericism, focusing on themes of poetr

A historical and interpretive study of three aspects of Western esotericism from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imaginat

This is the first systematic treatment of esotericism to appear in English. Here is also a historical survey, beginning with the Alexandrean Period, of the vari