Wouter J. Hanegraaff is Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam.

PREFACE, Part 1. History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents: Origins and Development, The Birth of a Chair, Ten Years of Studying and Teaching Western Esotericism, Part 2. Glimpses of Research, The Pagan Who Came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic Orientalism, Astrologia Hermetica: Astrology, Western Culture, and the Academy, The Modernity of Occultism: Reflections on Some Crucial Aspects, Mathematical Esotericism: Some Perspectives on Renaissance Arithmology, Danish Esotericism in the 20th Century: The Case of Martinus, Part 3. Studying Western Esotericism in Amsterdam, On First Looking into the Halls of Hermeticism, An Unlikely Love Affair: Plato, the Netherlands, and Life after Westotericism, Heterology in Amsterdam: The Academy Takes the Other Out to Dinner, The Copenhagen Connection, If You Seek, Part 4. Western Esotericism in International Perspective, From "the Hermetic Tradition" to "Western Esotericism", From Paris to Amsterdam and Beyond: Origins and Development of a Collaboration, Western Esotericism in the United Kingdom, From Talk about Esotericism to Esotericism Research: Remarks on the Prehistory and Development of a Research Group, Seven Epistemological Theses on Esotericism: Upon the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Amsterdam Chair, Hermes and his Students in Amsterdam, CONTRIBUTORS, REGISTER.