Translating Esotericism: Scepticism, Optimism, Agency
(with Mriganka Mukhopadhyay)
Correspondences 11:1 (2023), 1-30.
As our contribution to currents debates about "Western" versus "global" esotericism, in this programmatic article we discuss the relevance of translation to the study of esotericism. Between the "sceptical" and the "optimistic" perspectives on intercultural translation, we defend an intermediary open-ended dialogical approach with central attention to the agency of translators and publishers.
Translating Esotericism: German and Dutch
Correspondences 11:1 (2023), 67-73.
An analysis of how German and Dutch "esoteric" vocabulary relates to its English equivalents, with special attention to the limits of translation.
Generous Hermeneutics: Hans Thomas Hakl and Eranos
Religiographies 2:1 (2023)
An analysis of Hans Thomas Hakl's contribution to the study of the Eranos circle and its influence in the study of religion and esotericism. The core argument is that Hakl's work is based on a "Hermeneutics of Generosity" in contrast with the more common "Hermeneutics of Suspicion" that has informed scholarship on Eranos.
Close Encounters with the Third Kind:
A Hermetic Theory of Imaginal Consciousness
Religiographies 2:1 (2023)
A philosophical analysis of three related metaphysical concepts that are of core importance to the Hermetica: the aiōn, the Platonic chōra, and the Aristotelian phantasia (imagination).
Магнетска гноза: Сомнамбулизам и потрага за апсолутним знањем
Polja 68: 543 (2023)
Serbian translation of my 2010 article "Magnetic Gnosis: Somnambulism and the Quest for Absolute Knowledge."
Livros-textos e introduções ao esoterismo ocidental
Rever: Revista de Estudos da Religião 23:2 (2013)
Portuguese translation of my 2013 article "Textbooks and Introductions to Western Esotericism."
Esoterik und Demokratie: Einige Klarstellungen
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
German translation of my article "Esotericism and Democracy: Some Clarifications" (published on my blog Creative Reading in 2022).
Altered States of Knowledge: The Attainment of Gnōsis in the Hermetica
The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 2:2 (2008), 128-163.
Based on close reading of Corpus Hermeticum I (Poimandres), C.H. XIII and "The Ogdoad and the Ennead", I argue that these central Hermetic treatises must be understood in terms of a spiritual praxis resulting in alterations of consciousness.