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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"esotericism"”.
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Prophets of the beast: the modernist esotericism of D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats
… emphasis on the relationship between modernist esotericism and antidemocratic politics, and in its insistence that the interconnection between the two constitutes a fundamental part of both authors’ world-views. This study calls for the development of a multivalent understanding of modernism, …
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Ezoterika J. Ivanauskaitės romane „Placebas“ /
… The other task is to show the importance of esotericism in the outlook of the analyzed writing. The thesis consists from introduction, two main chapters, conclusions, references and appendices. In the first chapter Esoterica – a special way of understanding the world the concept of …
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The Theosophical Society and politics: esoteric discourse, esoteric monism, and theosophical identity in late 19th and early 20th century Britain and Ireland
This thesis addresses the connection between esotericism and political ideas in the formative decades of the Theosophical Society, including Irish dimensions. The Theosophical Society provided the most influential and widespread forum for esoteric discourse in the late 19th and early 20th …
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Religion and the Return of Magic : Wicca as Esoteric Spirituality
… magic remained an integral part of western esotericism, of which Wicca in the 1990s is a current manifestation. Using Antoine Faivre's characterisation of esotericism and Wouter Hanegraaffs historical emphasis on esoteric connections, we construct a framework to enable us to assess Wicca as …
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<i>Academicus ille Augustinus</i>? Augustine’s Rehabilitation of Academic skepticism
… Augustine’s early rehabilitation of Academic esotericism as dialogic mystagogy. This “art of hiding the truth” concealed Christian <em>auctoritas</em> to prompt rational inquiry, inviting not just belief in, but understanding of, metaphysical mysteries. For a iii time, Augustine imagined this …
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The Hero's Journey
… these properties, found in my research of esotericism and mythology, with action figures establishes symbolic connections that act as an interface to the spiritual symbolism explored in each piece.</p> <p>The collision of masking tape, shoe polish, flowers; gemstones and repurposed objects …
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Nietzsche's children : a physiological analysis of the scholar's task
… I also discuss the physiological basis of esotericism in Nietzsche's work, as well as Nietzsche's revaluation of the scholarly vi r tue known as Red/ichkeit (or 'honesty'). I conclude wi th comments on the free spirit's relationship to the future.
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Open Secret: Henry Corbin, Elliot Wolfson, and the Mystical Poetics of Deification
… category of deification via the “academic esotericism” (to borrow Jeffrey Kripal’s designation) of these two authors. The goal of undertaking such a dialogical study of each author’s treatment of deification is to journey toward a more mystical, poetic, and, hence, constructive …
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Stoornis
… register. The emphasis is placed on the role of esotericism (compare NAKENNIS and DIE BESOEKER), the influence of modern technology and computers (DIE MEESTER and STAATSGREEP), the juxtaposition of criminal modus operandi and the creative muses (BLOEDGELD and DIE SMOKKELROETE), the role of women …
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Style as Pedagogy in Nietzsche
… as an educator, while taking up the issue of esotericism, or one difficulty in reading a philosopher. Chapter 3 then looks directly at Nietzsche's clarification of style, looking at his ""hints"" about reading him and at how our spiritual degradation, as exemplified in educational institutes, …
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Augustine against the academic doctrine, way of life, and use of philosophical writing.
… that the Academics practiced a form of esotericism. This accusation, largely neglected, helps underscore Augustine's rhetorical strategies to cultivate in his students an awareness of philosophical ironic discourse. Chapter Four focuses upon Augustine's critique of the Academic way of …
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H.P. Blavatsky, theosophy, and nineteenth-century comparative religion
… has featured prominently in histories of Western esotericism, her engagement with late nineteenth-century comparative religion has not been appreciated. This thesis offers the first sustained analysis of H. P. Blavatsky's theosophical comparative religion. Despite the fact that one of the original …
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Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai
… of all things. It is a doctrine central to esotericism but also has roots in prajnāpāramitā (“perfection of wisdom”) literature, important to many schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. How they understand ‘identity’ is central to their philosophy and will reflect in both the practices they advocate …
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Writing the Name: Sergii Bulgakov and the Discipline of Speculation
… achievements has been hampered by his apparent esotericism, particularly in his emphasis on the ‘Divine Wisdom’. My thesis interprets Bulgakov’s writing on the ‘Divine Wisdom’ within his concern with unity and particularly the unity of history. I thus show how Bulgakov’s ‘Sophiology’ is not idle …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… and the esoteric, meet. His interest in Western esotericism is important because of the Victorian occult revival and the ritual magic groups' role in the development of individual psychic explorations. Occultism and the formation of ritual magic groups are a response to deep-seated cultural …
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Rozložení přítomnosti
Jádrem diplomové práce jsou tarotem inspirované velkoformátové obrazy, se kterými autorka pracuje obdobně jako s tradičním balíčkem vykládacích karet. Výsledkem bude instalace obrazů a záznam z akcí, na kterých bude probíhat vykládání těchto velkoformátových obrazů.
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Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields
The greater part of Western Esoterism holds beliefs in five important matrices. This branch of esoterism, rooted in a Hermetic milieu, is labelled dialectical esoterism because of the dialectical relationship between the ‘lower’ (man, earth) and the ‘higher’ (heaven, the divine, God). These five …
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Evolution Esotericized: Conceptual Blending and the Emergence of Secular, Therapeutic Salvation
The esoteric appropriation of evolution in the sense of self-improvement or personal transformation can be better understood by combining a historical approach with conceptual metaphor theory. The dissertation first evaluates the esoteric appropriation historically as a type of religious response …
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Giving voice to the extra-normal self with the extra-normal voice: Improvised exploration through the realms of shamanic chaos magick, insight meditation and gender performance
This thesis documents practice-led research exploring the intersections of, and tensions between, improvised invocation ritual within a chaos magick paradigm and Buddhist insight meditation. I explore the extra-normal self—those aspects of consciousness not usually present, or not usually …