Rythms of Spiritual Enlightenments and Counter-Enlighternments in Western History:From Classic Greece to the Present

Classic Greece Alexandrian Synthesis Charlmagne High Middle Ages Renaissance EnlightenmentOrphism / Mysteries Neo-Platonism Ur-Grail Knights Templar Rosicrucians FreemasonryPythagoras / Plato Saccas / Plotinus Saint Bernard Ficino / Bacon Elias AshmoleOrpheus / Hermes Simon Magus Merlin Raymond Lully Chr. Rosenkreutz Comte de St. GermainAthens 400 B.C. Alexandria c. 300 A.D. Languedoc c. 1200 Florence c. 1500 American Revolution

CrotonaAthenian Academy

PhilosophyNumber Mysticism

GnosticismHeremeticism

KaballahNeoplatonism

Theurgy

Carolingian ReformsAstrologyCamelot

HermetismNeoplatonism

AlchemyCathars, Cathedrals

Grail RomancesTroubadours

Astrology, Asclepius

Alchemy, science,Platonic Academy,astrology, angelicmagic, C.Herm.,Kabbalah, Tarot

Invisible Collegephilosophy, science

Theosophy, occultismtrans-personal

psychology

Classic Greece Alexandrian Synthesis Charlmagne High Middle Ages Renaissance Enlightenment600 300 B.C. 100 400 A.D. 700 - 900 A.D. 1075 1314 1475 1618 1618 - 1914

6 5 4 3 2 1 BC 0 AD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Pre-Greek Roman Imperialism Dark Middle Ages Norsemen Inquisition Reformation Socialism44. B.C. 495 A.D. 495 - 775 1209 - 1475 1517 - 1773 1776 - 1989

Constantinian Christianity Inquisition Order of Jesuits IlluminatiCeasar Constantine the Great Domingo Ignatius Loyola Weishaupt

Augustine Innocent III Jean Bodin Comte, MarxRazing of Bibracte Alexandrian Library Fire Albigensean Cr. 30-year War Russian Rev.

Romans persecutingChristians persecuting

Gnostics, Fall of RomanRepublic, civil wars

Fall of Western Roman EmpireBarbaric invasionsVolkerwanderung

Viking raidsNorman conquests

Templar trialsbubonic plague100-year war

Religious wars,Jesuitism

Witch huntsdemonology

Marxismpositivismnihilism

anarchism