Antoine Faivre
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Antoine Faivre (born in Reims June 5, 1934) is a prominent French scholar of Western esotericism.wikipedia
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Western esotericism
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Antoine Faivre (born in Reims June 5, 1934) is a prominent French scholar of Western esotericism.
The academic study of Western esotericism only emerged in the late twentieth-century, pioneered by scholars like Frances Yates and Antoine Faivre.









Wouter Hanegraaff
Wouter J. HanegraaffWouter J[acobus] Hanegraaff
Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme, and is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.


Reims
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Antoine Faivre (born in Reims June 5, 1934) is a prominent French scholar of Western esotericism.









École pratique des hautes études
Ecole Pratique des Hautes EtudesÉcole des Hautes ÉtudesEcole des Hautes Etudes
Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme, and is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.

University of Paris
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Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme, and is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.









Germanic philology
Germanic studiesGermanicGermanic linguistics
Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme, and is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.
Aries (journal)
AriesAries: Journal for the Study of Western EsotericismAries'' (journal)
Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme, and is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.

Rudolf Steiner
SteinerDr. Rudolf SteinerSteiner, Rudolf
27–58(32), Brill publishing; Christopher Schaefer, "Rudolf Steiner as a Social Thinker", Re-vision Vol 15, 1992; and Antoine Faivre, Jacob Needleman, Karen Voss; Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Crossroad Publishing, 1992.









Hinduism and Theosophy
Theosophy and Hinduismreligious philosophy
Prof. Antoine Faivre wrote that "by its content and its inspiration" the Theosophical Society is greatly dependent on Eastern traditions, "especially Hindu; in this, it well reflects the cultural climate in which it was born."





New Acropolis
International Organization New Acropolis
Scholar of Western esotericism Antoine Faivre writes:


Christian theosophy
Theosophytheosophisttheosophical
Scholars of esotericism such as Godwin and Faivre differentiated the tradition of religious illumination from the religious system established in the late nineteenth century by Helena Blavatsky by referring to the latter with a capital letter as Theosophy, and the former with a lower-case letter as theosophy.

Theosophy and music
Music and TheosophyBailly and TheosophyDe Grandis and Theosophy
According to Prof. Antoine Faivre, it is "difficult to discuss" musical esotericism without taking into account the opinion of the composers, in particular, stated in the work by Cyril Scott Music: Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages.






Occult
occultismoccultistoccultists
The scholar of esotericism Antoine Faivre noted that rather than outright accepting "the triumph of scientism", occultists sought "an alternative solution", trying to integrate "scientific progress or modernity" with "a global vision that will serve to make the vacuousness of materialism more apparent".


CESNUR
Bitter WinterCenter for Studies on New Religionsthe Center for Studies on New Religions
Others in the boards of CESNUR and ‘’The Journal of CESNUR’’ include Luigi Berzano, Antoine Faivre, Jean-François Mayer, and Susan J. Palmer.

Academic study of Western esotericism
Western EsotericismEsotericismWestern esoteric studies
In 1979 the scholar Antoine Faivre assumed Secret's chair at the Sorbonne, which was renamed the "History of Esoteric and Mystical Currents in Modern and Contemporary Europe".
Theosophy and literature
Dostoevsky's poem and TheosophyBlavatsky's poetryBulwer-Lytton and Theosophy
In Prof. Antoine Faivre's opinion, Ghost Land, or Researches into the Mysteries of Occultism by Emma Hardinge Britten, one of the founders of the Theosophical movement, is "one of the principal works of fiction inspired by the occultist current".









Richard Smoley
Smoley, Richard
Smoley occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in regard to the academic study of esotericism, pioneered by Antoine Faivre at the Sorbonne and developed by such figures as Wouter Hanegraaff, Joscelyn Godwin, Arthur Versluis, and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.

Idris (prophet)
IdrisIdrīsEnoch
Antoine Faivre, in The Eternal Hermes (1995), has pointed out that Hermes Trismegistus has a place in the Islamic tradition, although the name Hermes does not appear in the Qur'an.


Traditionalist School
TraditionalistTraditionalismTraditional School
Correspondence (theology)
correspondencecorrespondences
Antoine Faivre posits four fundamental elements, necessary conditions for a document, group, or movement to be eligible for consideration by scholars as esoteric.

What Is Theosophy?
In professor Antoine Faivre's opinion, that what Blavatsky called "Theosophy" was in fact only her own doctrine.
