by Christine Payne-Towler
This exercise proposes Faivre's definitions of "Western Esotericism" and "esoteric spirituality", as showcased in his contributions to Modern Esoteric Spirituality (Crossroads Press, 1995) and Access to Western Esotericism (SUNY Press, 1994.) If we are interested in determining when Tarot became esoteric, it seems only logical for us to definie the idea -- what IS esoteric?
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Adam McLean, editor: Treatise on Angel Magic, A: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks
Alain Daniélou: Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness
Ancius Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
Anne Baring and Jules Cashford: Myth of the Goddess, the: Evolution of an Image (Arkana)
- Anonymous (Valentine Tomberg). : Meditations on the Tarot
Antoine Faivre: Eternal Hermes: From Greek God to Alchemical Magus
Antoine Faivre: Access to Western Esotericism (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)
- Arthur Versluis: The Mysteries of Love (Studies in literature and religion)
Arthur Versluis: Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions
- Arthur Versluis: The Mysteries of Love (Studies in literature and religion)
- Bonafacio Bembo: Tarot Cards.The - Painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza Family. An Iconographic and Historical Study.
- Brian Williams: A Renaissance Tarot
C. C. Zain: Sacred Tarot - Manual of the Brotherhood of Light, Series 48, 22-24, 26-33
Caitlin Matthews: Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom : The Divine Feminine from Black Goddess to World-Soul
Charles W. Heckethorn: Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries
- Christian Knorr von Rosenroth: Kabbala denudata (Volkskundliche Quellen : [Reihe] 2, Aberglaube)
Christine Payne-Towler: Underground Stream, the: Esoteric Tarot Revealed
Christine Payne-Towler: Underground Stream: Esoteric Tarot Revealed, The
Christopher I. Lehrich: The Occult Mind: Magic in Theory and Practice
- Corinne Heline: Mysteries of the Holy Grail
- Corinne Heline: The Bible and the tarot,
Dai Leon: Origins of the Tarot: Cosmic Evolution and the Principles of Immortality
Daniel Feldman: Qabalah : The Mystical Heritage of the Children of Abraham
- Daniel Merkur: Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions (S U N Y Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)
- David Fideler: Jesus Christ, Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism
David Fideler: Jesus Christ, Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism
Denis De Rougemont: Love in the Western World (Princeton Paperbacks)
ed. by van der Toorn, et al: Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible
Eugenio Garin: Astrology in the Renaissance: The Zodiac of Life (Arkana)
- Franchino Gaffurio: The Practica Musicae of Franchinus Gafurius
- Franchinus Gafurius (Gaffurius): De Harmonia Musicorum Instrumentorum Opus. Broude Brothers Limited 1970 Edition. A facsimilie of the Milan 1518 Edition
- Fred Gettings: Secret Symbolism in Occult Art
Harold Bayley: Lost Language of Symbolism, the (Dover Books on Anthropology and Folklore)
Henry Cornelius Agrippa: Three Books Of Occult Philosophy (Llewellyn's Sourcebook)
Herbert Silberer: Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts.
- Hugh Schonfield: Essene Odyssey: The Mystery of the True Teacher and the Essene Impact on the Shaping of Human Destiny
Ioan P. Culianu: Eros and Magic in the Renaissance (Chicago Original Paperback)
Irene Gad: Tarot and Individuation: Correspondences With Cabala and Alchemy
John Michael Greer: Corpus Hermeticum, the (Forgotten Books)
- Joscelyn Godwin: Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The Spiritual Dimension of Music from Antiquity to the Avant Garde (*****)
Joscelyn Godwin: The Harmony of the Spheres: The Pythagorean Tradition in Music
Joscelyn Godwin: The Golden Thread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions
Jules Cashford: The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image (Arkana)
Julius Evola: The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art
Julius Evola: Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex
Julius Evola: The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit
- Kirsten J. Grimstad: The Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
Lee Irwin: Gnostic Tarot: Mandalas for Spiritual Transformation
Lester R. Brown: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Third Edition
- Ludovico Lazzarelli: Critical Edition of De Gentiliam Deorum Imaginibus, A - by Ludovico Lazzarelli (Studies in Classics, V. 4)
- Lynn & Prince, Clive Picknett: THE TEMPLAR REVELATION - Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ
- Lynn & Prince, Clive Picknett: THE TEMPLAR REVELATION - Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ
Macrobius: Commentary on the Dream of Scipio by Macrobius (Records of Western Civilization)
- Oswald Wirth: Tarot of the Magicians
- Owen St Victor: The masked Madonna: Studies in the mystical symbolism of the secret sovereign, the queen of heaven (The Christian mysteries)
Papus: Astrology for Initiates: Astrological Secrets of the Western Mystery Tradition
Papus: Divinatory Tarot, the: The Key to Reading the Cards and the Fates
Papus: The Tarot of the Bohemians - The Most Ancient Book In The World For The Use Of Initiates
- Paul Christian: History and Practice of Magic, The
Paul Huson: Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage
Ramona Fradon: The Gnostic Faustus: The Secret Teachings behind the Classic Text
Richard Francis Burton: Book of The Thousand Nights And One Nights, The
Richard Heinberg: Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
Richard Smoley: Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism
Roger Beck: A Brief History of Ancient Astrology (Brief Histories of the Ancient World)
- Ronald Decker: Art and Arcana: Commentary on The Medieval Scapini Tarot
Stanislas Klossowski De Rola: The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan: With Selected Variants from the Latin Edition of 1668
Tobias Churton: Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times
Tobias Churton: Golden Builders, the: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, First Freemasons
- Wouter J. Hanegraaff: Lodovico Lazzarelli 1447-1500: The Hermetic Writings And Related Documents (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)
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