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
postcolonialism 1
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
precession of the equinoxes 1
predestination 1
predictions (astrological) 1, 2, 3, 4
‘pre-modern’ 1
prima materia see primary matter
‘primitive religion’ 1
prisca theologia 1
procession 1
professional 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
prognostications (astrological) 1, 2, 3
progress 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
proto hyle see primary matter
Proudfoot Edgar, Carol 1
‘pseudo’ (knowledge, science, etc.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Psilopoulos, Dionysious 1
psychedelic experiences 1, 2, 3
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
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
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
Regardie, Israel 1
Reisigl, Martin 1
Reitzenstein, Richard 1
religion passim
religious studies see academic study of religion
resurrection 1
revelation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
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
Rosenberger, Erwin 1
Rosenkreutz, Christian 1
Rosicrucianism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Roth, Joseph 1
Royal Institution London 1
sacred 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Śankara 1
Sanskrit 1
Sapere Aude see Westcott, Wynn W.
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
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
scientification of religion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
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
secular, the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Seidr 1
Shah, Idries 1
shamanism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 – 8, 9
Shambala 1
shtetl 1
Sidgwick, Henry 1
Sigui 1
Silberer, Herbert 1
Simmonite, W.J. 1
social Darwinism 1
Society for Psychical Research 1, 2, 3
Society for Sufi Studies 1
Society for Understanding Fundamental Ideas 1
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
sociology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
sociology of knowledge 1, 2, 3, 4
Spinoza, Baruch 1
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
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
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
telescope 1
texts / textual analysis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ; see also linguistic analysis
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’
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 space 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Thomas, Keith 1
Thoreau, Henry David 1
Thot 1
Tikkun 1
time travel 1
Torah 1
Torfing, Jacob 1
Toronto Theosophical Society 1
transcendentalism 1
transmutation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
transmutational alchemy 1
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
United Lodge of Theosophists 1, 2
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
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
Wade, Nicholas 1
Walkowitz, Judith R. 1
Wallace, Alfred Russel 1
Wallenstein, Albrecht von 1
Ward, James 1
Watts, Alan 1
Weinberg, Steven 1
Weitzer, Demeter Georgievitz 1
Welling, Georg 1
Westcott, Wynn W. 1
Whewell, William 1
Whistling Elk, Agnes 1
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
world ice theory 1
world spirit 1
Wright, Thomas 1
writing culture debate 1