Esoterism

The Infernal Method of Printing: Guild Initiations & The Faust Legend

Printing, the ‘Black Art’, and its initiatic rituals within the traditional guilds, possess an esoteric significance echoed in the Faust legend and in Blake’s mythology

From Homer to the Qur’an: Hermeneutical Strategies in the Hellenic and Islamic Traditions

The essay explores analogies between interpretation of the Homeric poems in the ancient Hellenic philosophical ‘paideia’ and that of the Qur’an in the Islamic tradition.