Octagon - The Quest for Wholeness.Vol.2

0. Introduction (H.T. Hakl): Octagon - The quest for wholeness mirrored in a library dedicated to religious studies, philosophy and esotericism in particular;1. Hans Thomas Hakl: There once was a young man who left home in order to buy lots of books, and even as an old man hadn't got any wiser and still diligently kept buying them ... The History of a Library and the Personal Reflections of a Collector;2. Wouter J. Hanegraaff: 'Ad loca secretiora': Rejected Knowledge and the Future of Libraries;3. Hereward Tilton: The Urim and Thummim and the Origins of the Gold- und Rosenkreuz;4. Peter J. Forshaw: Unexpected in the Octagon: Heinrich Khunrath's Presentation Copy;5. Henrik Bogdan: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the George E.H. Slater Collection;6. Joscelyn Godwin: A Walk through the Speculative Music Section;7. Christopher McIntosh: Searching for the Gods in the Octagon;8. Aaron Cheak: The Alchemy of Desire - The Metaphysics of Eros in Renè Schwaller de Lubicz (A Study of Adam l'homme rouge);9. Konstantin Burmistrov: Kabbalah in the Doctrine of the Order of the Asiatic Brethren;10. Roberto Fondi: The Holistic Factor in Biological Evolution;11. Riccardo Bernardini: The Historiography of Eranos: An Homage to Hans Thomas Hakl;12. Mac Linscott Ricketts: Glimpses into Eliade's Religious Beliefs as Seen in his Portugal Journal;13. Jeffrey Kripal: How I Came to the Study of Western Esotericism: And Why I Think It Is So Important;14. Andraz Marchetti: Dharma;15. Giuseppe Baroetto: The Illusion of Reincarnation;16. Arthur Versluis: Parahistory and Madame Blavatsky's Progeny;17. Alexander Bruce: Arcana Arcanorum: From the Rituals of Egyptian Freemasonry to the Kremmerzian Corpus;18. Alexandra Nagel: The Enigmatic Mentalist Wolf Messing;19. Gregory Shaw: Archetypal Psychology, Dreamwork, and Neoplatonism;20. Frank Julian Gelli: Julius Evola and I;21. Christian Giudice: 'For a Spiritual Understanding of Life' - Arturo Reghini'ís Theosophical Years (1898-1907);22. Todd

Hakl, Hans ThomasHans Thomas Hakl verbindet als Brückenbauer scheinbar Getrenntes und lotet Tiefen aus in Bereichen, für die die Wissenschaft noch nicht ausreichend Raum gefunden hat. Er verfügt über eine Breite an Kenntnissen in Bereichen wie Esoterik, Magie, Okkultismus, der Grenzwissenschaften im Allgemeinen und Geheimlehren im Besonderen, sowie über östliche Philosophie und über die notwendigen Sprachkenntnisse.