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Western Esotericism
Academic study of Western esotericism is an academic field of research, scholarship, and education that focuses on the history of European and Middle Eastern Esotericism.
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…the importance of the study of Western esotericism goes far beyond a mere “academic interest” in some historical currents and ideas that happen to have been neglected by earlier generations. On the contrary, this domain of research should be recognized as centrally important to historians of religion and culture because it is only by virtue of excluding its basic components—as imagined in the polemical imagination—from the realm of the acceptable that Western culture as such has been able to de
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― Forbidden Knowledge: Anti-Esoteric Polemics and Academic Research
― Forbidden Knowledge: Anti-Esoteric Polemics and Academic Research
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It may interest you that, a day or so ago, attempting to discuss your ideas with regard to sex and religion, my eccentric friend, fixing his eyes rather fiercely upon me, growled abruptly: "Semen is God."
Unwilling to excite him further, I replied: Sir, though I understand perfectly what you mean by Semen, I am unacquainted with the connotation which you attach to the term "God".
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