Gegen „die heiligen Gesetze der Logik“

Max Müller's lecture 'Theosophy, or Psychological Religion' marked a long dispute between Müller and members of the Theosophical Society over fundamental questions of world interpretation. While Müller regarded the laws of logic as 'sacred' and therefore irrefutable, reason in the occult milieu often reflected only a provisional state of humanity's spiritual development. The resulting epistemological gap was often filled by literary paraphrases. This volume uses numerous examples to show how these paraphrases shaped the aesthetics of esoteric currents, thus illustrating the potential of an epistemological analysis of the concept of esotericism.