Introduction

Professor Vouter J. Hanukraf of the Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam talks to Erl Fontanelle about Western Esotericism. "I was studying cultural history in the late 80s actually and I was interested in all kinds of stuff," he says. He explains how he came across thinkers like Marcellio Ficino, Paracelsus and Yakobuma who were important figures in vesicality but had never been talked about before.