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Ronnie Pontiac | Remembering Manly P. Hall, American Metaphysical Religion, & The Pagan Pilgrim
The Platonist Newspaper and the Academic Revolution in Esotericism
Pontiac recounts discovering a bound volume of "The Platonist," a 19th-century newspaper from a "cowboy town" near St. Louis that featured translations of Neoplatonists and Eliphas Levi. This discovery led him to investigate how such esoteric material flourished in the American West. He notes a recent "academic revolution" where historians began treating esoteric archives with objective rigor rather than dismissal. This new research debunked long-held myths, such as the supposed friendship between Rosicrucians Robert Fludd and Michael Maier.