What Is Western Esotericism?

The most important book for the history of esotericism is a book written by Jacob Booker, whom I think should be an household name. He's an Enlightenment thinker, which is also a Protestant, which is quite normal in this time. So he takes a lot of his ideas from the anti-apologetic thinkers, but he's writing about philosophy. Now he actually makes a distinction between the three strands. One is the religious truth, which way is the Bible? The Bible straight from cover to cover if you want to know the truth and God has given it to you in the Bible. And then there are two other strands, which are important for his book, for the book that he