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The Hidden Mothers: Women's Essential Contributions to Modern Esotericism

Contents — 12 chapters
  1. Core claim
  2. Blavatsky as co-equal (La Iniciación, translated)
  3. Ida Hofmann as hidden matriarch
  4. Emma Costet identification
  5. Preface: What This Document Represents
  6. 5. Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881-1962)
  7. 6. Hilma af Klint (1862-1944)
  8. 8. Emma Costet de Mascheville (Lorelair, 1903-1981)
  9. PART II: ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT FIGURES
  10. B. Attribution to Anonymous "Tradition
  11. C. For Practitioners
  12. The Sacred Synthesis Book: Case Study in Unintentional Erasure

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The roots of this work — where its teaching comes from
Belle-Époque occult revival (Papus, L'Initiation, 1888)Fin-de-siècle French esotericism · late 19th c. CEparallel to · medium confidence
Jakob BoehmeChristian theosophy · 1575–1624 CEgrounded in · high confidence
“All whatsoever is spoken, written, or taught of God, without the knowledge of the signature is dumb and void of understanding.”
— The Signature of All Things, ch. 1, §1, trans. John Ellistone
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Jewish Kabbalah (Sefer Yetzirah, Zohar, Lurianic)Jewish esotericism · classical texts c. 12th–16th c. CEgrounded in · high confidence
“In thirty-two mysterious paths of wisdom Jah, the Lord of Hosts... engraved and created His world by three Sepharim: by Number, Writing, and Word.”
— Sepher Yezirah, Ch. I, §1, trans. Isidore Kalisch (1877)
Read in full — in the Lycaeum →Sepher Yezirah: A Book on Creation — trans. Isidor Kalisch (1877)cited from Sacred Texts
Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”
— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)
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