By Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Hermes within the Academy commemorates the 10th anniversary of the guts for historical past of airtight Philosophy and comparable Currents (GHF) on the college of Amsterdam. the guts devotes itself to the examine of Western esotericism, inclusive of subject matters resembling airtight philosophy, Christian kabbalah and occultism.
This quantity indicates how, during the last ten years, the GHF has constructed into the top overseas heart for learn and instructing during this area.
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Eleven The Mysticism part additionally comprises many noteworthy manuscripts, a few of which even date from the medieval interval. the sort of (BPH 206) is Hier béghint een cleyn boeckijn van gheesteliken opclimmen: a center Dutch translation of an incredible paintings from the medieval religious stream referred to as sleek Devotion, De Spiritualibus Ascensionibus through Zerbolt van Zutphen. It was once most likely copied within the early fifteenth century and comprises marginal corrections and reviews. one other manuscript (BPH 208) of a similar paintings within the unique Latin, dates from the second one half the fifteenth century. additionally of curiosity is the early 16th-century florilegium from the Liber Specialis Gratiae, a compilation of mystical visions of the Cistercian nun Mechthild von Hackeborn (1241-1298), as recorded by means of her fellow sisters. The manuscript, additionally a center Dutch translation, is essentially written on paper, in a number of arms. The Lutheran spiritualist Jacob Boehme figures prominently within the Mysticism part. detailed goods within the Boehme assortment are, to begin with, the replica textual content of Mysterium Magnum containing wide directions for the compositor in addition to copious marginalia within the hand of Abraham Willemsz van Beyerland. moment and 3rd, this a part of the gathering encompasses a very infrequent first version of Boehme’s Weg zu Christo (1624), and an differently unknown anthology of Boeh me’s works referred to as Weg der Wiedergeburt (1728). eventually, the library owns 4 hitherto unknown 18th-century manuscripts of Boehme’s works. 12 hermes and his scholars in amsterdam Hermes academy_hanegraaff. indd 151 | 151 03-08-09 09:01 The Rosicrucians accumulating quarter additionally makes up a considerable a part of the library’s holdings. The BPH holds first variants of the Rosicrucian manifestos Fama Fraternitatis (1614), Confessio Fraternitatis (1615) and the alchemical allegory Chymische Hochzeit (1616) (the latter used to be written by way of Johann Valentin Andreae; the authorship of the opposite manifestos continues to be contested). There also are many responses to the manifestos, a part of the flood of courses evoked through the mythical Brotherhood. One instance is the exciting Frawen Zimmer der Schwesteren des Rosinfarben Creutzes (1620), allegedly composed in “Parthenopolis” (Gr: “the urban of the maiden/maidens”). The authors first tackle 5 significant difficulties they encountered within the unique manifestos. the ultimate factor offers with the next query: Warumb das diese Bruder nuhr allein Mans personen in jhren schriften gedencken / und keiner Weibs-bilder / als wan sie von den Weibs-bilderen nicht geboren waren / oder / aber das sie ... die Weiber fur keine Menschen achten / Sed malam herbam / und darumb dieser ihrer Weiheit nicht fahich zu sein vermeinen. thirteen No definitive resolution is obtainable. even though, the reader is notified “FraawenZimmer” or “Gynecäum” (a fellowship of ladies) in truth had existed for years. Its participants have been lengthy in ownership of “the comparable technological know-how, knowledge and paintings, or even a few secrets and techniques. ” the majority of the treatise issues the doctrines and pursuits of this Rosicrucian “Women’s hotel” – even if fictional – ruled via “Sophia Christina.