The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

Volume 6 of the edition contains Pufendorf's groundbreaking treatise on the relationship of church and state in the original Latin version and in Christian Thomasius's German translation. A detailed introduction explains the historical background, origins, and the impact of the work. An index of names facilitates access to the text.

English summary: Robert Fludd's (1574-1637) Utriusque Cosmi Historia is a key work of mystical Naturphilosophie in the early modern era. It is an encyclopedia of all those theories excluded from the scientific canon due to their alleged superstition and irrationality. Fludd - medical scientist, astrologist, Kabbalist, mathematician and Naturphilosoph - develops a cosmology that depicts the influence of the stars on world events, as well as illustrating and describing in detail all the man-made arts and technologies during this period, which are explained in analogy with their celestial...