polemics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

politics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33

polytheism 1

Pope, Alexander 1

popularization 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

positivism 1, 2, 3

postcolonialism 1

poststructuralism 1, 2, 3, 4

Potter, Jonathan 1, 2

power (discursive) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

power (physics, philosophy of nature, etc.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34

power animals 1, 2

prayer 1, 2

precession of the equinoxes 1

predestination 1

predictions (astrological) 1, 2, 3, 4

‘pre-modern’ 1

Prigogine, Ilya 1, 2, 3

prima materia see primary matter

primary matter 1, 2, 3, 4

‘primitive religion’ 1

Primum Mobile 1, 2, 3

Principe, Lawrence M. 1, 2

prisca theologia 1

procession 1

professional 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

professionalization 1, 2, 3

prognostications (astrological) 1, 2, 3

progress 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

proto hyle see primary matter

protyle 1, 2

Proudfoot Edgar, Carol 1

Prout, William 1, 2, 3

‘pseudo’ (knowledge, science, etc.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Psilopoulos, Dionysious 1

psyche 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

psychedelic experiences 1, 2, 3

psychoanalysis 1, 2, 3, 4

psychologization 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

psychology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35

psychopathology 1

purification 1, 2

Pythagoras 1

quackery 1

qualitative principles in science 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

quantum computation 1

quantum mechanics / quantum physics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Qur’an 1

rabbinical Judaism 1

race 1, 2, 3

radiochemistry 1

Rama 1

Ranke, Leopold von 1

Ranke Graves, Robert von see Graves, Robert

rationality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

rationalization of the cosmos 1, 2, 3

realism 1

reason 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; see also rationality

recapitulation, theory of 1

redemption 1, 2

reductionism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Reformation 1, 2

Regardie, Israel 1

Regiomontanus 1, 2

Reisigl, Martin 1

Reitzenstein, Richard 1

relativism 1, 2

religion passim

– as sui generis 1, 2, 3, 4

– definition of 1, 2

religious studies see academic study of religion

resurrection 1

revelation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

revolution 1, 2 3

Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 1

rhetoric 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Riccioli, P. Giambattista 1

Richelieu, cardinal 1

ritual 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

Roller, Wolfgang 1

Romanes, George John 1

Romanticism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

Roosen, Adelheid 1

Rorty, Richard 1, 2, 3

Rosenberger, Erwin 1

Rosenkreutz, Christian 1

Rosicrucianism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Roth, Joseph 1

Routh, Harald Victor 1, 2

routinization 1, 2, 3, 4

Royal Institution London 1

Royal Society 1, 2

sacred 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

Said, Edward 1, 2

Salome 1, 2

Śankara 1

Sanskrit 1

Sapere Aude see Westcott, Wynn W.

Sarasin, Philipp 1, 2, 3

satire 1, 2

Saturn 1, 2

Scandinavian Center for Shamanic Studies 1, 2

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Schiller, Friedrich 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Schlegel, August Wilhelm 1, 2, 3

Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst 1, 2, 3

Schmieder, Karl Christoph 1

Schmitt, Charles 1

scholasticism 1, 2

Scholem, Gershom 1, 2, 3, 4, 5– 6, 7

Schrödinger, Erwin 1

Schumacher College 1

Schuon, Frithjof 1

Schuré, Edouard 1

Schütz, Alfred 1

science passim; see also exact sciences; natural sciences

– definition of 1

scientific revolution 1, 2

scientification of religion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Scott, Joan W. 1, 2, 3

Scripps Research Institute 1

Sebottendorff, Rudolf von 1

secrets / secrecy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

secret societies 1, 2

secular, the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

secularization 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

secularism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Sedgwick, Mark 1, 2

Seidr 1

sex 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

sexuality 1, 2, 3, 4

Shah, Idries 1

shamanism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 – 8, 9

Shambala 1

Sheldrake, Rupert 1, 2

shtetl 1

Sidgwick, Henry 1

Sigui 1

Silberer, Herbert 1

Simmonite, W.J. 1

Sivers, Marie von 1, 2

Smith, Jonathan Z. 1, 2

social Darwinism 1

Society for Psychical Research 1, 2, 3

Society for Sufi Studies 1

Society for Understanding Fundamental Ideas 1

Socrates 1, 2

Somé, Malidoma 1

soul 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25

socialism 1, 2

sociology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

sociology of knowledge 1, 2, 3, 4

spells 1, 2, 3

Spinoza, Baruch 1

‘spirit helpers’ 1, 2

spirits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

spiritualism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

spirituality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

Stäheli, Urs 1

Starhawk 1

Stirner, Max 1

Stone Age 1

Storm, Hyemeyohsts 1

string theory 1

Strindberg, August 1

Struck, Hermann 1

Sufism 1, 2, 3, 4

sun 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Sun Bear 1

sun spots 1

supernaturalism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

‘superstition’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Surette, Leon 1

Surya, G.W. see Weitzer, Demeter Georgievitz

sustainability 1

Suttner, Berta von 1

Swedenborg, Emanuel 1, 2

Swift, Jonathan 1, 2

synthetic biology 1, 2

systems theory 1, 2, 3, 4

synchronicity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

synergetics 1

Szabó, Lásló E. 1

Tattoni, Antonio 1

Taussig-Rubbo, Mateo 1

Taylor, Bron 1

Taylor, Charles 1

technology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

teleology 1, 2

telescope 1

television 1, 2

texts / textual analysis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ; see also linguistic analysis

theater 1, 2

theology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

‘Theory of Everything’ 74; see also ‘Grand Unified Theory’

theory of relativity 1, 2, 3

Theosophical Society 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Theosophy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 – 8, 9, 10, 11

thermodynamics 1

Thich Nhat Hanh 1

third, the 1, 2, 3, 4

third space 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Thomas, Keith 1

Thoreau, Henry David 1

Thot 1

Tikkun 1

time travel 1

Tingley, Katherine 1, 2, 3

Torah 1

Torfing, Jacob 1

Toronto Theosophical Society 1

Traditionalism 1, 2

trance 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

transcendentalism 1

transmutation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

transmutational alchemy 1

triads 1, 2, 3

truth / truth claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

Turner, Frank Miller 1

Tylor, Edward B. 1

unconscious, the 1, 2

United Lodge of Theosophists 1, 2

unities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

universe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18; see also cosmos

unveiling see veil / veiling

Uranus 1

Urban, Martina 1

Valiente, Doreen 1

values 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Vaughan, Thomas 1

veil / veiling 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Venter, J. Craig135 – 1

Venus 1, 2, 3

Vickers, Brian 1, 2

Victorian period 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Villefranche, Jean-Baptiste Morin de 1

vitalism 1, 2, 3 – 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

Vitebsky, Piers 1

Vogt, J.K. 1

Voltaire 1, 2

Wade, Nicholas 1

Walkowitz, Judith R. 1

Wallace, Alfred Russel 1

Wallenstein, Albrecht von 1

Ward, James 1

Watts, Alan 1

Weber, Max 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Weinberg, Steven 1

Weitzer, Demeter Georgievitz 1

Welling, Georg 1

Westcott, Wynn W. 1

Whewell, William 1

Whistling Elk, Agnes 1

White, Hayden 1, 2

Wicca 1, 2

Wilde, Oscar 1

Wille, Bruno 1

William III, king of England 1, 2

Wissenschaft des Judentums 1, 2, 3

witchcraft 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Wodak, Ruth 1

Wolf, Immanuel 1

wonder 1, 2

world ice theory 1

world soul 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

world spirit 1

Wright, Thomas 1

writing culture debate 1

Yaqui 1, 2

Yates, Frances A. 1

Yelle, Robert 1

Zadkiel 1

Zander, Helmut 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Zantop, Susanne 1

Zeiß, Carl 1

Zeus 1

Zimmermann, Rolf-Christian 1

Zionism 1, 2, 3

zodiac / zodiacal signs 1, 2, 3

Zunz, Leopold 1, 2

Zweig, Arnold 1, 2, 3