AncientEsotericism.com – Scholarship on Ancient Western Esotericism

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Experiment: I’m starting this WordPress page to look into this site. As feared, worst-case: 404, for the .org domain. Looks like they went with the .com domain instead: http://ancientesotericism.com –

Curious: even the .com website, in its About texts, says “.org”, but looks like they lost that domain.

The only thing I know about this website is that it’s mentioned in a 2015 newsletter of esotericism scholarship:
The Newsletter of
the European Society for
the Study of
Western Esotericism.

The site is about Western Esotericism as manifested in ancient Mediterranean religion.

Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity

http://ancientesotericism.org <– false; .com instead.

Dylan M. Burns —

“In 2014–15, Sarah Veale and I both focused our energy on continuing to develop and update the NSEA website, ancientesotericism.org. [sic; .com]

Traffic and subscriptions increased significantly in the past year.

The site has also begun to be used by members outside of the ESSWE and has garnered mention in the ancient religious blogosphere more widely.

It is succeeding in fulfilling its purpose as a bridge between scholars working in:

• Western Esotericism.
• Ancient Mediterranean religion.”

Website upper left About text:

“AncientEsotericism.org is the website for the Network for the Study of Esotericism in Antiquity (NSEA), a thematic group associated with the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).

Our website provides resources and information for students and specialists of ancient esoteric thought, history, and literature.”

About page:
https://ancientesotericism.com/about-2/

Ancient Esotericism.org is the website for the
Network for the Study of Ancient Esotericism (NSEA),
a thematic network associated with the
European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).
NSEA specializes in the study of
esoteric phenomena of the ancient period
and provides contact for
specialists of
ancient esoteric thought, history, and literature.

This website is intended as a resource for scholars and students.

While

the ancient sources (Gnostic, theurgic, Neoplatonic, Hermetic, etc.) of Western Esotericism

possess enormous importance for
the development of
esoteric currents from the fourteenth century onwards,
there remains only a minimum of interaction between the antiquity experts and their (proto)-modern colleagues.

The Network therefore is intended to:

• Introduce scholarship on ancient esotericism to students of Western Esotericism.
• Serve as a forum in which to exchange ideas, notes and references, etc. outside of other professional bodies which are not concerned with esotericism per se.
• Provide a junction of the many resources online that can serve as aids in the study of this fascinating and difficult material (dictionaries, textual corpora, blogs, etc.).