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Having been involved over the last eight years in editing the two-volume Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, recently published by Brill, it was impossible for me not to be confronted almost daily with basic questions of definition and demarcation. What is it that justifies gathering such an enormous amount of often spectacularly different currents and personalities, from late antiquity to the present, under one and the same terminological rubric? The question has occupied me ever since I first began to be interested in the field, but by the time I had to write the Introduction to the Brill Dictionary, I was surprised at how easy I found it to answer. Having briefly discussed the most important terms and categories that have traditionally been used by scholars to speak about the field, I concluded that…seemingly innocuous terminological conventions are often the reflection of hidden or implicit ideological agendas. Perhaps no other domain in the study of religion has suffered from such biases as seriously as the one to which this Dictionary is devoted, for it covers more or less all currents and phenomena that have, at one time or another, come to be perceived as problematic (misguided, heretical, irrational, dangerous, evil, or simply ridiculous) from the perspectives of established religion, philosophy, science, and academic research.This simple conclusion—reminiscent, in a way, of James Webb’s concept of “rejected knowledge” —provides the starting-point for the present article. In brief, I will argue that the field of study referred to as “Western esotericism” is the historical product of a polemical discourse, the dynamics of which can be traced all the way back to the beginnings of monotheism. Moreover, it is in the terms of this very same discourse that mainstream Western culture has been construing its own identity, up to the present day. This process of the construction of identity takes place by means of telling stories—to ourselves and to others—of who, what and how we want to be. The challenge of the modern study of Western esotericism to academic research ultimately consists in the fact that it questions and undermines those stories, and forces us to see who, what and how we really are. Instinctive resistance against the breaking down of certainties implicit in such (self )knowledge is at the very root of traditional academic resistance against the study of Western esotericism.Excerpted from Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, Volume 5, Issue 2.

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