Part 1: Early Modern Period (15th -18th Centuries)
Angela Voss (Canterbury Christ Church University): ‘‘Diligentia et divina sorte”: Oracular Intelligence in Marsilio Ficino’s Astral Magic'
Georgiana D. Hedesan (University of Oxford): ‘The Rise of the Term ‘Adept’ in Esoteric Usage: From Arabic Philosophy to Early Modern Alchemy’
Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam): ‘A Necessary Conjunction: Cabala, Magic and Alchemy in the Theosophy of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605’
Christopher McIntosh (University of Bremen): ‘The Rosicrucian Diaspora in the Seventeenth Century’
Judith Mawer (University of Exeter): ‘Thomas Vaughan’s Magia Adamica (1650): A Vindication of Magic and Magicians’
Jonathan Barry (University of Exeter): ‘John Henderson (1757-1788) and the Changing Attitudes to the Occult in Enlightenment England’
Part 2: Modern Period (19th Century – present)
Jean-Pierre Brach (Paris-Sorbonne): ‘Psychic Disciplines: The Magnetizer as Magician in the Writings of Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy (1796-1881)’
Tim Rudbøg (University of Copenhagen): ‘H. P. Blavatsky’s ‘Wisdom Religion’ and the Quest for Ancient Wisdom in Western Culture’
Julie Chajes (Tel Aviv University): ‘Orientalist Aggregates: Theosophical Buddhism between Innovation and Tradition’
Jeffrey D. Lavoie (Middlesex Community College): ‘Theosophical Chronology in the Writings of Guido von List (1848–1919): A Link between H.P. Blavatsky’s Philosophy and the Nazi Movement’
Antoine Faivre (University of Paris-Sorbonne): ‘On the Various Uses of the Tarot’
Joscelyn Godwin (Colgate University), ‘Afterword’
