Universalia，捷克斯洛伐克赫尔墨斯学者协会

IF 0.3 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Aries-Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI:10.1163/15700593-02301004

P. Horák

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本文以捷克最成熟的神秘学团体“Universalia:捷克斯洛伐克赫尔墨斯主义者协会”为例，讨论了神秘学在中欧的接受情况。Universalia成立于20世纪20年代的捷克斯洛伐克共和国，1941年被纳粹政权解散，随后在20世纪90年代复兴，通过出版和演讲活动显著地塑造了捷克的神秘主义环境。本文主要关注法国神秘主义环境如何塑造捷克当地的神秘主义，探索Universalia领导层中的两个极端:普遍主义和民族主义。本文通过话语历史分析来追踪这些趋势，关注与神秘主义、普遍主义、捷克民族、斯拉夫民族和民族神话相关的话题，以及启蒙、社会腐败和神秘主义思想和实践的排他性的概念。它显示了话语策略强调普遍主义或民族主义，并描绘了1890年至1942年间普遍主义和捷克斯洛伐克神秘主义环境的平衡形象。

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Universalia, the Society of Czechoslovak Hermeticists

The article discusses the reception of occultism in Central Europe through a case study of the most sophisticated Czech occult society, Universalia: The Society of Czechoslovak Hermeticist. Established in the Czechoslovak Republic of the 1920s, dissolved by the Nazi regime in 1941, and subsequently revived in the 1990s, Universalia significantly shaped the Czech occult milieu through publishing and lecturing activities. The article focuses primarily on how the French occult milieu shaped local Czech occultism, exploring two extremes within Universalia’s leadership: universalism and nationalism. The article tracks these tendencies through discursive historical analysis, paying attention to the topoi related to occultism, universalism, the Czech nation, Slavic ethnicity, and national myths, along with notions of initiation, corruption of society, and the exclusivity of occult ideas and practices. It shows which discursive strategies underlined either universalism or nationalism and charts a balanced image of Universalia and the Czechoslovak occult milieu between 1890 and 1942.

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