TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fleming,John V.
TI  - The dark side of the enlightenment: wizards, alchemists, and spiritual seekers in the Age of Reason 
SN  - 9780393079463 (hbk.) :
AV  - B802 .F55 2013
U1  - 130.94/09033 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Occultism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The light and the dark --; Valentine Greatrakes, the stroker --; The convulsionists --; The Rosy Cross --; The Freemasons --; Three occult arts --; Cagliostro ascending --; Cagliostro declining --
N2  - In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the darker pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His topics include the stubborn survival of the miraculous the Enlightenment roles of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry and the widespread pursuit of magic and alchemy
ER  -