Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe

Nemanja Radulović
FOREWORD.........................................................................................9
Yuri Stoyanov
Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval
Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodo x Pseudepigraphic
and Heretical Literature .....................................................13
Vitalii Shchepanskyi
Hermes Trismegist and the Image of the
Scientist -Magician Sharija Skara in the
Orthodo x Slavic Environment ..........................................29
Jiří Michalík
The initial reception of Paracelsus
in Czech Alchemy .......................................................................45
Rafał T. Prinke
Michael Sendivogius as a Literary Anti -hero ............61
György E. Szönyi
The Modern Adept : A Novel on Alchemy and Its
Hungarian Reception in the Time of the
Enlightenment ...........................................................................79
Martin Javor
Freemasonry Maga zines in Central Europe
in the 18th Century ....................................................................91
Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe
Nemanja Radulović
Esotericism , Orthodo xy and Romanticism
in P. Petrović Njegoš ’s The Ray of the Microco sm.... 103
Ewelina Drzewiecka
“Enlightened Esotericism ”: A Case Study on
Migrating Ideas in the Modern Bulgarian
Tradition ..................................................................................... 119
Eugene Kuzmin
Valerij Brjusov (1873–1924): Selling the Soul
as a Method of Research ..................................................... 133
Konstantin Burmistrov
Russian Emigration of the 1920s–1930s
in Yugoslavia and Esotericism ........................................ 143
Mauro Ruggiero
Otokar Březina , a Czech Poet between
Symbolism and Esotericism ................................................ 153
Jan Miklas-Frankowski
Visio ns from Sa n Fra nci sco Bay as an Example
of Esotoric Inspirations in Czes ław Miłos z’s
Work ............................................................................................. 163
Stanislav Panin
Esoteric Poetry in the Late USSR: The Case
of Jan Koltunov ....................................................................... 175
Pavel Nosachev
The Influences of Western Esotericism on Russian
Rock Poetry of the Turn of the Century .................... 183
Kateryna Zorya
The Post -Soviet Tolkien Spirituality Milieu :
A Comparative Study .............................................................. 193
Massimo Introvigne
Artists and Theosophy in Present -Day Czech
Republic and Slovakia .......................................................... 215
Table of Contents
Spyros Petritakis
“Throughout the Dark , the Light ”: Mapping Out
the Networks of The osophists in Pre - and
Interwar Athens through Specific Case Studies
from Nikolaos Gyzis to Fri xos Aristeas ...................... 225
Nikola Pešić
New Age Healing in Marina Abramović ’s Art ............ 241
Sergej Macura
The Bride of Night : An Esoteric Journey
i n Against the Day ................................................................... 259
Olaf Stachowski
The Art of Howling : A History of European Spirit
Evocation Practice and Its Possible
Hellenistic Roots ...................................................................