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Lux in TenebrisThe Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism&#160;Editor: Peter J. Forshaw, 2016&#160;The eighteen original interdisciplinary essays in Lux in Tenebris explore the alchemical, magical, kabbalistic, rosicrucian and theosophical verbal and visual symbolism in the history of Western Esotericism, from the middle ages to the present day.(Text by the editor)&#160;Contents:Preliminary MaterialIntroduction: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western EsotericismVisual and Acoustic Symbols in Gikatilla, Neoplatonic and Pythagorean ThoughtTransfiguration and the Fire within: Marsilio Ficino on the Metaphysics and Psychology of LightThe Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo: Alchemy, Rhetoric, and Deification in the RenaissanceAgrippa’s Cosmic Ladder: Building a World with Words in the De Occulta PhilosophiaImagining the Image of God: Corporeal Envisioning in the Theosophy of Jacob BöhmeDreams and Symbols in The Chemical WeddingThe Mind’s Eye: Images of Creation and Revelation in Mystical Theology and TheosophyWhere Geometry Meets Kabbalah: Paul Yvon’s Esoteric EngravingsDe Sapientia Salomonis: Emanuel Swedenborg and the KabbalahThe Arcanes of the World. Symbols and Mystical-Allegorical Exegesis in Emanuel Swedenborg’s De Cultu et Amore DeiSigns in the Sky: The Tobol’sk Chronicle and Celestial Divination in Russia, 1695–1734Myth and Magic: Victorian Enoch and Historical ContextsThe Juncture of Transcendence and Concretion: Symbolique in René Schwaller de LubiczThe Symbology of Hermeticism in the Work of Julius EvolaThe Iconography of Coniunctio Oppositorum: Visual and Verbal Dialogues in Ithell Colquhoun’s OeuvreModern Angels, Avant-Gardes and the Esoteric ArchiveThe Death of the Author and the Birth of the Luciferian Reader: Ur-images, Postmodernity and Semiotic Self-ApotheosisEsoteric Theories of ColorIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects