Med udgangspunkt i kompleksitetstesen undersøger denne artikel, hvordan moderne naturalister og okkultister ’forhandler’ om størrelsen på naturen, altså hvordan de udformer perspektiver og holdninger til hvilke dele af naturen der er inkluderbare, og hvor går grænsen for, hvad der kan betragtes som en del af naturen. Artiklen belyser, hvordan naturalismens fremkomst i 1800-tallet har været...
H. P. Blavatsky’s Later Reception of Hindu Philosophy Tim Rudbøg, PhD, Associate ProfessorCopenhagen Centre for the Study of Theosophy and EsotericismDepartment for Cross-Cultural and Regional StudiesUniversity of Copenhagen, Denmarke-mail: timrudboeg@hum.ku.dkhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5348-2408 ABSTRACT This article explores Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s innovative use of Hindu Philosophy in...
This chapter is concerned with music and esotericism in the 19th century, particularly with the notion of sound in Helena Petrovna Blavatskys Esoteric Instructions. It is, however, by way of introduction deemed necessary to briefly specify these two general concepts. The chapter focuses on three pre-modern ideas related to music and cosmology, which have flourished through Western culture and...