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The Occult Nineteenth Century

Part of the Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities Book Series

Editors: Pokorny, Lukas; Winter, Franz

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55318-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-55317-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 10, 2021

1 - 10 of 18 Chapters

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Introductory Remarks

Pokorny, Lukas; Winter, Franz

Pages: 1 –12

[This chapter introduces the volume’s context and scope, outlining the individual contributions. The guiding theme of the volume is highlighted, namely the triad of mesmerism, occultism, and yoga. Crystallising in the nineteenth century, this triad is presented as a dense and closely intertwined...
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Carl August von Eschenmayer and the Somnambulic Soul

Hanegraaff, Wouter J.

Pages: 15 –35

[Carl August von Eschenmayer (1768–1852) was an important pioneer of Romantic psychology and advocate of Magnetic somnambulism, remembered mostly for his collaboration with Justinus Kerner in the latter’s bestseller Die Seherin von Prevorst (1829). After Karl Immermann had lampooned these two as...
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Priest-Doctors and Magnetisers: Mesmerism, Romantic Medicine, and Catholic Thought in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Sziede, Maren

Pages: 37 –57

[Mesmerism, or animal magnetism, a set of healing techniques, religious practices, and theories of Romantic Naturphilosophie, had far-reaching influence in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was adopted notably in the context of Romantic medicine in the first half of the nineteenth...
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Animal Magnetism and Its Psychological Implications in Hungary

Gyimesi, Júlia

Pages: 59 –83

[Due to the works of János Kováts, Mihály Lenhossék, Ferenc Szapáry, Josa Oroszhegyi, János Mailáth, Adelma Vay, and János Gárdos, animal magnetism became a popular practice and an attractive field of research in nineteenth-century Hungary. Although it generated numerous questions and doubts, it...
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From Fluidum to Prāṇa: Reading Mesmerism Through Orientalist Lenses

Zoehrer, Dominic S.

Pages: 85 –110

[Energy healing has evolved as a key component of the holistic milieu. A broad current of recent energetic practices can be traced to “animal magnetism,” a healing system introduced by the charismatic physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815). Rejected by the nascent science-based medicine of his...
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Total Recall: The “Panoramic Life Review” Near Death as Proof of the Soul’s Timeless Self-Presence in Western Esotericism of the Nineteenth Century

Schlieter, Jens

Pages: 113 –138

[In the nineteenth century, Western esotericism emphatically received reports of near-death experiences, which included a panoramic life review—namely to recall one’s life in a highly accelerated form. For spiritualists and occultists, these narratives gained currency as key evidence of the...
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Stages in the Development of an Occult Linguistics

Hammer, Olav

Pages: 139 –157

[During the final decades of the nineteenth century, historical linguistics rapidly consolidated as an academic field. In particular, the so-called young grammarians developed a paradigm with basic rules for doing comparative linguistic research, along lines that mimicked the natural sciences....
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The Art of Esoteric Posthumousness

Pasi, Marco

Pages: 159 –176

[This chapter focuses on the presence in the history of modern art of what Marco Pasi defines as “esoteric posthumousness.” Posthumousness is the inability or unwillingness of an artist to have their artistic work promoted and recognised during their life. Posthumousness can be esoteric when the...
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Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and Sexual Regeneration

Deveney, John Patrick

Pages: 177 –194

[By the 1890s, the unspoken “open secret” in contemporary occultism was that sexual energy was the vital force that made possible psychic “unfoldment,” spiritual progress, and immortality. This was “regeneration,” the reverse of “generation,” the sexual act that creates man. Regeneration restored...
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The Theosophical Maitreya: On Benjamin Creme’s Millenarianism

Pokorny, Lukas

Pages: 195 –220

[Notably informed by the Theosophical tradition, the Scottish esotericist Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) emphatically places Maitreya at the centre of his millenarian project. In the first half of the chapter, Creme’s bio-/hagiography is introduced and the Buddhist origins of the Maitreya narrative...

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