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Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
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  • Alicia Walker on Everyday Magical Culture in East Rome

    25.08.2026 | 37 min.
    In the previous episode we looked at learned, elaborate, elite magical practices and the books that enabled them in East Rome. In this episode we discuss the magical practices and objects with which normal, non-specialist Romans navigated their mediæval world. Alicia Walker is our guide in the territory where the esoteric becomes everyday.
  • Three Ancient Sages: On East Roman Magical Books

    13.05.2026 | 55 min.
    Looking through the lens provided by three central figures of the western esoteric tradition -- Hermes Trismegistus, Apollonios of Tyana, and King Solomon -- we discuss three important East Roman magical books whose influence echoes from the end of late antiquity until the present day.
  • Gerasimos Merianos on East Roman Alchemy in Late Antiquity and Beyond, Part II

    01.04.2026 | 38 min.
    We delve further into the laboratories, workshops, and even state coffers of East Rome with Gerasimos Merianos. East Roman alchemy becomes mathematised. The parameters of alchemical secrecy change. We encounter our first alchemical con-men. And Michæl Psellos showcases his ability to see which way the wind is blowing, this time in the realm of high-stakes alchemical politics.
  • Gerasimos Merianos on East Roman Alchemy in Late Antiquity and Beyond, Part I

    25.03.2026 | 45 min.
    In Part I of a two-parter we explore the contours of East Roman alchemy from the seventh century onward. Gerasimos Merianos is our guide to the many and varied authors writing in the alchemical genre aside from (but including) the great Stephanos. The roots of the western alchemical tradition lie in the east.
  • The Horoscope of Islām and The Alchemical Stone: Maria Papathanassiou on Stephanos of Alexandria, Part II

    04.03.2026 | 32 min.
    In Part II we explore two of Stephanos' works: the astrological piece entitled Apotelesmatikē pragmateia, with its katarchic ‘Horoscope of Islam’, and his influential, vexing, and beautiful alchemical work, On the Great and Holy Art of Gold-Making.
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