Contents

pp vii-x

Foreword

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part One - Esotericism as a Form of Thought

pp 17-18

One - The Hermaphroditic Nature of the mi-fa Complex

pp 19-40

Two - Athanasius Kircher and the Nature of Ecstatic Listening

pp 41-63

Three - Claude Bragdon's Images of the Seven Degrees of the Scale

pp 64-77

Four - Music Analysis as Esoteric Activity

pp 78-98

Part Two - Esotericism as the Keeping and Revealing of Secrets

pp 99-100

Five - Concealment Revealed

pp 101-124

Six - Air and Eros

pp 125-146

Seven - “De septenario illo et sacro numero”

pp 147-165

Eight - The Hoard and the Grail

pp 166-176

Part Three - Esotericism as an Identity

pp 177-178

Nine - Tommaso Campanella, the Barberini Palace, and the Soul’s Perception of Music

pp 179-200

Ten - Sonic Symbolism

pp 201-209

Eleven - New American Eden

pp 210-233

Twelve - Theosophy and the Esoteric Roots of Sun Ra’s Afrofuturism

pp 234-252

Part Four - Esotericism as a Signifier

pp 253-254

Thirteen - “Im Himmel und auf Erden”

pp 255-275

Fourteen - (In)Audible Sound and Spiritualist Acoustemologies

pp 276-286

Fifteen - As Above, So Below

pp 287-310

Sixteen - The Osiris-Light in Nino Rota's Music

pp 311-322

Notes on Contributors

pp 323-328

Index

pp 329-334