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Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture

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Hermeticism

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Wouter J. Hanegraaff's historiographic study of how Western esotericism became a scholarly category; supports reception history and category caution rather than one perennial secret doctrine.

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The catalog establishes late-antique Hermetic texts and later Renaissance and modern reception, but it does not support a single unbroken prehistoric science tradition.

Hermeticism is one of the key esoteric bridges in the map. It connects ancient texts, alchemy, Renaissance magic, Kabbalah, Gnosticism comparisons, and modern occultism. Its real history is rich enough without forcing it into unsupported prehistoric claims.
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