Aries Book Series

Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism

Editor in Chief: Marco Pasi, University of Amsterdam

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1871-1405
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€96.00$133.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
15
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004226555
Francis Mercury van Helmont's Sketch of Christian Kabbalism
Translated and edited by Sheila A. Spector
As the only English version of Francis Mercury van Helmont’s foundational treatise of Christian Kabbalism, this bilingual edition, with a facsimile of the original Latin facing the translation and author’s footnotes, contains a critical introduction, as well as supplementary endnotes.
€184.00$251.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
14
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004215672
The Petrine Instauration
by Robert Collis
Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia.
€173.00$237.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
13
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004210790
Initiating Women in Freemasonry
By Jan A.M. Snoek
Based on primary sources, this book analyses the historical creation, contents and development of the rituals of the Adoption Rite, with which women were initiated into Freemasonry since 1744. It gives a completely new perspective on this chapter of women's history.
€190.00$246.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
12
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004207127
A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’
by John Edward Fletcher, edited for publication by Elizabeth Fletcher
Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an extraordinary polymath. His fascinating correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a key to the mind-set of the period, and the transition from medieval to modern scientific thinking.
€134.00$174.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
11
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004191143
Constructing Tradition
Andreas B. Kilcher (ed.)
This volume of conference proceedings investigates the various ways and patterns with which esoteric writings and groups establish their own tradition. This involves concepts of origin and memory, ways of legitimising esoteric tradition as well as techniques and practices of knowledge ...
€137.00$177.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
10
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004182844
Kabbalah and Modernity
Edited by Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi, and Kocku von Stuckrad
This volume brings together leading representatives of the recent debate about the persistence of kabbalah in the modern world. It breaks new ground for a better understanding of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.
€113.00$146.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
9
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004182677
Music and Esotericism
Edited by: Laurence Wuidar
This book analyzes the relationships that exist between esotericism and music from Antiquity to the 20th century, investigating ways in which magic, astrology, alchemy, divination, and cabbala interact with music. Ce livre offre un panorama des relations entre l’ésotérisme et la musique de ...
€156.00$202.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
8
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004172395
Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders
Edited by Alexandra Heidle and Jan A.M. Snoek
This volume concentrates on two aspects of the participation of women in Freemasonry: Women’s agency (i.e. the power women gained and exercised in this context) and rituals (i.e. the role of man and women in changing and shaping the rituals women work with).
€166.00$215.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
7
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004168732
Hidden Intercourse
Edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff & Jeffrey J. Kripal
The history of Western esotericism is rich in references to the domains of eros and sexuality, but this connection has never been explored in detail from a critical scholarly perspective. Bringing together an impressive array of top-level specialists, this volume reveals the outlines of a ...
€127.00$165.00
Series:
ARBS
Volume:
6
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004162570
Polemical Encounters
Edited by Olav Hammer and Kocku von Stuckrad
In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie esoteric identities and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history.
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