/lit/ - Literature

At what point does esoterism become academic expressionism and scholar aestheticism? The new batch of occult and Egypto-Neoplatonist literature is near impossible to penetrate, not because of any symbolic polysemy, but academic abstruseness.

Gregory Shaw even wrote his foreword to his book on Iamblichean theurgy that when he first finalized it he didn't even understand most of what he had written. Do any of these people even know what they're talking about anymore?

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Just look at some of these books: that Aaron Cheak collection is astonishingly expensive and the content is totally incomprehensible. Occultism has become nothing more than an academic circle of people who've mishmashed occult aesthetics, postmodernism and surrealism.

Expressionism for the academics, escapism for the consumers