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The Mage's Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory, Volume 2
Theosopher & Christian Cabalist
Series: - Aries Book Series, Volume: 38
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This is the 2nd volume in a 4-volume work entitled
The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), ‘one of the great Hermetic philosophers’, whose
Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1609) has been described as ‘one of the most important books in the whole literature of theosophical alchemy and the occult sciences’. Khunrath is best known for his novel combination of ‘scripture and picture’ in the complex engravings in his
Amphitheatre. In this richly illustrated monograph, Forshaw analyses occult symbolism, with previously unpublished material, offering insight into Khunrath’s insistence on the necessary combination of alchemy, magic, and cabala in ‘Oratory and Laboratory’.
Peter J. Forshaw, Ph.D. (2004), London University, is Associate Professor in History of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam. He was editor of the journal
Aries (2010-2020), has edited essay collections and published articles and chapters on esotericism and occult philosophy.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introductory Note
3 Khunrath the Theosopher – a Lover of Divine Wisdom
1 Pre-Modern Uses of the Term Theosophy
2 Characteristics of Early Modern Theosophy
3 Proto-Theosophers and Theophrastia Sancta
4 Valentin Weigel (1533–1588)
5 Johann Arndt (1555–1621)
6 Enthusiasm
7 The Anti-Trinitarians’ Contempt of Divine Tri-Unity
8 An Unorthodox Lutheran?
9 A Faithful Lover of Theosophy
10 Theodidaktos – Taught by God
11 Hermetic Philosophy and Pansophy
12 Khunrath’s Theosopher
13 Qualifications to be a Magus
14 Ora et Labora
15 Ora, Oratio, Oraculum
16 Exegesis: Interpreting the Three Books
17 Labora
18 The Triune Apocalyptic Key
19 I. The Book of God in the Ternary
20 Book of God, Book of Scripture
21 Deus Pater Archetypos – God, the Father, the Archetype
22 Filius Theanthropos – the Divinely-Human Son
23 Spiritus Polypoikilos – Multiform Spirit
24 II. Book of Nature, Book of Creation
25 Χαος – Chaos
26 רוח אלהים – Ruach Elohim – Spirit of the Lord
27 שמים – Schamaim – Heaven
28 Three Heavens
29 1) The Lower Sublunar Heaven
30 2) Rachia: the Firmament of Heaven
31 3) The Super-Supreme Empyrean
32 III. Book of Man, Book of Conscience
33 Ten Grades of Cognition
34 The Threefold Eye and Three Kinds of Vision
35 The Ladder of Conjunction and Union
36 Prologue: Seven Steps to the Sanctuary
37 1) Fides (Faith)
38 2) Meditatio (Meditation)
39 3) Cognitio (Knowledge) and 4) Amor (Love)
40 5) Spes (Hope)
41 6) Oratio (Prayer)
42 7) Conjunctio (Conjunction)
43 8) Frequentia (Concourse & Constant Practice)
44 Gerard Dorn’s Speculative or Meditative Philosophy
45 9) Familiaritas (Familiarity)
46 10) Similitudo (Likeness)
47 Deification
48 Conclusion
49 Ascent and Descent
4 Christian Cabala’s Wonder-Working Word
1 The Origins of Christian Cabala
2 Proto-Kabbalah of the Sepher Yetzirah
3 Bahir: Book of Illumination
4 The Works of Bereshit and Merkavah
5 Zohar: Book of Splendour
6 Ten Sephiroth on the Tree of Life
7 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Genesis of Christian Cabala
8 Exegetical Techniques in Jewish Kabbalah
9 Gematria
10 Notarikon/Notariakon
11 Temurah or Tsiruf
12 Exegetical Examples from Pico’s Conclusions and Heptaplus
13 Johann Reuchlin’s Neo-Pythagorean Cabala
14 On the Wonder-Working Word (1494)
15 On the Cabalistic Art (1517)
16 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy
17 John Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad
18 Sources for Khunrath’s Knowledge of Cabala
19 Other Potential Sources
20 Cabala in Khunrath’s Works
21 Aben – Stone
22 Sol/Shemesh
23 Urim and Thummim
24 Sigillum Dei: Khunrath’s Christian-Cabalist Seal of God
25 1. Circumference: Tetraktys and Decalogue
26 2. The Angelic Hierarchy
27 3. A Prayer for Christians and Jews
28 4. 22 Foundational Letters
29 5. Ensoph – The Infinite
30 6. Emet – Truth
31 7. Sephiroth: Emanations of the Divine
32 8. Shemoth: the Names of God
33 9. יהשוה YHSVH, Pentagrammaton, Verbum Mirificum
34 10. Christ θεανθρωπος
35 A Christian-Cabalist Adam Androgyne
36 Rejection of the Binary
37 Cabalistic Conclusions concerning Khunrath
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introductory Note
3 Khunrath the Theosopher – a Lover of Divine Wisdom
1 Pre-Modern Uses of the Term Theosophy
2 Characteristics of Early Modern Theosophy
3 Proto-Theosophers and Theophrastia Sancta
4 Valentin Weigel (1533–1588)
5 Johann Arndt (1555–1621)
6 Enthusiasm
7 The Anti-Trinitarians’ Contempt of Divine Tri-Unity
8 An Unorthodox Lutheran?
9 A Faithful Lover of Theosophy
10 Theodidaktos – Taught by God
11 Hermetic Philosophy and Pansophy
12 Khunrath’s Theosopher
13 Qualifications to be a Magus
14 Ora et Labora
15 Ora, Oratio, Oraculum
16 Exegesis: Interpreting the Three Books
17 Labora
18 The Triune Apocalyptic Key
19 I. The Book of God in the Ternary
20 Book of God, Book of Scripture
21 Deus Pater Archetypos – God, the Father, the Archetype
22 Filius Theanthropos – the Divinely-Human Son
23 Spiritus Polypoikilos – Multiform Spirit
24 II. Book of Nature, Book of Creation
25 Χαος – Chaos
26 רוח אלהים – Ruach Elohim – Spirit of the Lord
27 שמים – Schamaim – Heaven
28 Three Heavens
29 1) The Lower Sublunar Heaven
30 2) Rachia: the Firmament of Heaven
31 3) The Super-Supreme Empyrean
32 III. Book of Man, Book of Conscience
33 Ten Grades of Cognition
34 The Threefold Eye and Three Kinds of Vision
35 The Ladder of Conjunction and Union
36 Prologue: Seven Steps to the Sanctuary
37 1) Fides (Faith)
38 2) Meditatio (Meditation)
39 3) Cognitio (Knowledge) and 4) Amor (Love)
40 5) Spes (Hope)
41 6) Oratio (Prayer)
42 7) Conjunctio (Conjunction)
43 8) Frequentia (Concourse & Constant Practice)
44 Gerard Dorn’s Speculative or Meditative Philosophy
45 9) Familiaritas (Familiarity)
46 10) Similitudo (Likeness)
47 Deification
48 Conclusion
49 Ascent and Descent
4 Christian Cabala’s Wonder-Working Word
1 The Origins of Christian Cabala
2 Proto-Kabbalah of the Sepher Yetzirah
3 Bahir: Book of Illumination
4 The Works of Bereshit and Merkavah
5 Zohar: Book of Splendour
6 Ten Sephiroth on the Tree of Life
7 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Genesis of Christian Cabala
8 Exegetical Techniques in Jewish Kabbalah
9 Gematria
10 Notarikon/Notariakon
11 Temurah or Tsiruf
12 Exegetical Examples from Pico’s Conclusions and Heptaplus
13 Johann Reuchlin’s Neo-Pythagorean Cabala
14 On the Wonder-Working Word (1494)
15 On the Cabalistic Art (1517)
16 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy
17 John Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad
18 Sources for Khunrath’s Knowledge of Cabala
19 Other Potential Sources
20 Cabala in Khunrath’s Works
21 Aben – Stone
22 Sol/Shemesh
23 Urim and Thummim
24 Sigillum Dei: Khunrath’s Christian-Cabalist Seal of God
25 1. Circumference: Tetraktys and Decalogue
26 2. The Angelic Hierarchy
27 3. A Prayer for Christians and Jews
28 4. 22 Foundational Letters
29 5. Ensoph – The Infinite
30 6. Emet – Truth
31 7. Sephiroth: Emanations of the Divine
32 8. Shemoth: the Names of God
33 9. יהשוה YHSVH, Pentagrammaton, Verbum Mirificum
34 10. Christ θεανθρωπος
35 A Christian-Cabalist Adam Androgyne
36 Rejection of the Binary
37 Cabalistic Conclusions concerning Khunrath
Index
Scholars and students of early modern intellectual and cultural history, the complex relations between occult philosophy, religion, science, and medicine, as manifested in Khunrath’s idiosyncratic interplay of text and image.