Jan Olof Bengtsson

2012

A Brief History of Secret Knowledge Routledge, 2005 Amazon.co.uk Back cover: A controversial issue of public debate during the recent years, esotericism can be described as the search for an absolute but hidden knowledge that people claim to access through mystical vision, the mediation of higher beings, or personal experience. In Western cultural history these claims often led to conflicts with more established forms of scriptural religions and with reductionist interpretati