From Imagination to Reality: An Introduction to Esotericism and the Occult—Wouter J Hanegraaff
we are bound to conclude that the study of Western esotericism and the occult has potentially explosive implications for our common ways of thinking. In the words of John Crowley, “there is more than one history of the world,” and a history that takes these points seriously will look very different from what we encounter in the standard textbooks.