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A Course in Miracles 239 anti-semitism 3, 13, 60 Abarbanel, Isaac ben Judah 10–11 apocalypse 282 Abner of Burgos 12 n. 28 apokatastasis 39 Abraham ben Eliezer ha-Levi 12 apologetic(s) vii–ix, 137, 234–236, 240, Abraham ibn Ezra 9, 29 242, 245, 250 Abula a, Abraham 7, 16, 43, 48, 49 Arabic 48 n. 100 arcanum 68 academic study of religion 217–219 archaeology 238 Adam 29, 39, 143, 150 argumentation theory xx Adam Kadmon 30–31, 38–41 Arians ix Adamic wisdom 140 Aristotle 138, 160 Adler, H. G. 59 Arndt, Johann 151–152 Adler, Jeremy 56, 59 Arnold, Gottfried 36, 163 Adler, Margot 299 Aron 117–118 Adorno, Theodor W. xiii, 55–58, 60–76 art 17, 56–57, 107, 114 n. 20, 123, 127 Advaita 259, 261 n. 55, 130, 202 n. 3, 215 n. 52 adversus Judaeos literature 10 ascent 147 Agricola, George 237 Aschheim, Steven 74 Agrippa 130 Asclepius 116, 121, 129, 149, 212 Akashic records 231 Ashlag, Judah 85, 97 alchemy vii n. 1, xiv, 30, 97 110, 139, Assman, Jan xi n. 13, 112, 115, 141–143, 146–147, 149–150, 153, 132–133 158–159, 163, 168, 170, 172, 178, Assyria 29 203, 268, 272 astral body 68–69 Alemanno, Yohanan 5 n. 6, 8–9, 11, astral travel 268 n. 90 15, 46 astrology vii n. 1, x, 4, 9–10, 57, 64, altered states of consciousness 49 n. 67, 69, 97–98, 107 n. 2, 110, 143, 205, 101, 124 259 alterity xx, 127 astromagic 9 alternative medicine xix, 97, 254 atheism 32, 59 alternative religion 294–295, 297–298, Augustine ix, 26, 34, 121–124, 129 306 auras 233 American Society of Dowsers 239 Auschwitz 59–62 amulets 130 authenticity 94, 96, 98–99, 101, 304 Amundsen, Christian 267, 272–274, authoritarianism 64 276 n. 150, 283 authority 238 anarchism 90 Aymar, Jacques 235, 237 Andalusia 14 Azande 229 Aner, Karl 158 angel(s) 73, 120, 130, 190, 192–193, 239 Baader, Franz von 214 n. 46 aniconism 127, 130 Bacchelli, Franco 9 n. 17 anima mundi 41 Bahir 7 animation of statues 127 n. 54, 129–131 Bahrdt, Karl Friedrich 160 n. 7 animism 67 Bahya ben Asher ibn Hallewa 9 Anthroposophy 84 Barrès, Maurice 216 Antichrist 189, 191 Basil the Great 26 anti-Judaism 3–4, 8, 13, 18 n. 47 Baumgarten, Sigmund 163 316 index

Beethoven, Ludwig van 73 Burnouf, Emile 223 Behdad, Ali 209 Burns, Dylan xvi Bekker, Balthasar 189 Busi, Giulio 7 Bellarmine, Robert x Byzantine Christianity 26 Belting, Hans 133 n. 68 Benjamin, Walter 57–58, 61–62, Cagliostro, Alessandro di 181, 193 64–65, 67–72, 76 California 95 Berdiaev, Nikolai 31, 215 n. 52 Calvin, Jean 138, 145 n. 15 Berg, Philip 97, 101 Cambridge Platonists 221 Berger, Peter 292 Campbell, Colin 240 Berman, Marshall 223, 224 n. 36 capitalism 18 n. 47 Besançon 127 n. 54 Casanova, Giacomo Girolamo 181 Betz, Hans-Dieter 244, 248–249 Casaubon, Isaac 212, 213 Bèze, Théodore de 145 n. 15 Cassirer, Ernst 70 n. 80 Bhagavad Gita 222 Castaneda, Carlos 273 Bialik, H. N. 58, 91 caste 217 Bible 158, 162, 170, 174, 176, see also Castellio, Sebastian 145 n. 15 Hebrew Bible Cathars 272, 281 Bingham, J. 275 Catherine the Great 26, 34 Blavatsky, H. P. 93, 216–217, 223, 268 Catholicism x, 12, 189, 191–193, 215 n. 90 n. 52, 268, 293 Bloch, Ernst 55, 58–59, 76 Chaldean Oracles 217 n. 60 Bloom, Harold 282–283 Chaldeans 29 Bobrov, S. 31 channeling xviii, 239, 254 Bodenstein, Adam von 139–140, 142, charisma 295 144–146, 149 charlatanism 99 body 68, 261, 270 chemistry 171–174, see also alchemy Boehm, Gottfried 133 n. 68, 170 Chevreul, Michel Eugène 244, 249 Boehme, Jacob 36 China 205 Bologna 4 Christ ix, 39–41, 122 n. 43, 140, Bon, Gustave le 214 n. 46 142–143, 146–147, 150–152, 170, Bon l, Robert 13 n. 33, 15–16 255, 256 n. 19, 259, see also Jesus Bonald, Louis de 214 n. 46, 215 Christian August Crusius 189 Bonnet, Charles 165, 167 Christian Fürchtegott Gellert 186 Book of Nature 138–139, 143, Christian Hebraism 12 n. 28 147–148 Christian kabbalah xii Book of Roots 7 Christianity viii–xii, xvi, xviii–xx, Bopp, Franz 222 3–6, 13 n. 34, 14–16, 30 n. 16, 59, Borchardt, Rudolf 61 139–140, 144, 146, 148, 151, 153, Boulanger, Georges 216 164, 175, 177, 193, 216, 220, 241, boundaries xvii 253, 256–258, 267, 274, 276, boundary maintenance 293, 304 279–280, 283, 291 n. 3, 299, see also Bourdieu, Pierre 18 Byzantine Christianity, Catholicism, Bräunlein, Peter 123 n. 45, 133 n. 68 Church, Lutheranism, Protestantism, breathing 43 Russian Orthodox Church bricolage 205 Chrysostom, John 26 Buber, Martin 84, 88–91 church ix–x, xiii–xiv, 15, 19, 28, 139, 264 Buddhism 208, 258 church fathers 28, 34, 42 Bulatovich, Antonii 45 CIA 227 Bulgakov, Sergei 31, 36, 42, 46–49 Cicero 220 Bullinger, Heinrich 145 Ciliberto, Michele 7 Burckhardt, Jacob 5, 214 n. 46 Cioran, E. M. 214 n. 46 Burckhardt, Titus 201 n. 3 clairvoyance 231 Burmistrov, Konstantin xii class 67