Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism

by Jimmy Elwing (Editor), Aren Roukema (Editor), Christopher A. Plaisance (Contributor)

The central goal of this journal is indicated by its title. Correspondences was founded in order to provide a freer flow of conversation among those engaged in research and analysis of the wide diversity of traditions gathered under the umbrella of Western esotericism. We continue to operate according to this mandate, encouraging researchers of all levels and backgrounds to dialogue with others inside and outside the field via quality, well-researched articles, while also attempting to widen our scope further to include research produced outside the ivory tower—a structure that social and political pressures are making less and less amenable to those who wish never to leave its high-walled courtyards.

Christopher A. Plaisance. Israel Regardie and the Psychologization of Esoteric Discourse

Wouter J. Hanegraaff. The Globalization of Esotericism

Peter Staudenmaier. The Higher Worlds meet the Lower Criticism: New Scholarship on Rudolf Steiner.

David W. Wood. Exoteric & Esoteric: Methodological Reflections on Vol. 7 of the Rudolf Steiner Critical Edition

Egil Asprem. Patterns of Magicity: A Review of Defining Magic: A Reader

Reviews
Damon Zacharias Lycourinos (ed.). Occult Traditions. Reviewed by Manon Hedenborg-White

Frank Klaassen. The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Reviewed by Egil Asprem

Sheila A. Spector. Francis Mercury van Helmont’s Sketch of Christian Kabbalism. Reviewed by Georgiana D. Hedesan

Angel Millar. The Crescent and the Compass: Islam, Freemasonry, Esotericism, and Revolution in the Modern Age. Reviewed by Justine Bakker.

Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Mito, Magia, Qabbalah. Reviewed by Alessandro Vigorelli Porro.

Ithell Colquhoun, with an introduction and notes by Richard Shillitoe and Mark S. Morrisson. I Saw Water: An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings. Reviewed by Aren Roukema.

Thomas Karlsson. Amongst Mystics and Magicians in Stockholm. Reviewed by Harri Linnera.

177 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2015

About the author

Jimmy Sirén Elwing, rMA (Religious Studies (Mysticism and Western Esotericism), University of Amsterdam, 2013; B.A., Religious Studies, University of Gothenberg, 2011) is a computer systems developer. He co-founded the open-access, peer-reviewed Correspondences: Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism in 2012 with Aren Roukema, where they remain co-editors.