Location
Student Center
Document Type
Poster
Start Date
19-8-2025 2:30 PM
End Date
19-8-2025 3:30 PM
Description
Athanor is a research interface that turns Faivre’s six features into structured analysis cards, prompting explicit decisions for each category. Two tab groups organize the work: Currents (a prepopulated survey of major esoteric streams, with dated notes and sources) and Sources (primary or contemporary materials under review). The survey layer lowers entry costs and provides a consistent factual baseline for future comparative work. Shared glossary, biography, and bibliography banks—presented as sortable tables—reduce duplication and keep references transparent. As a demonstration, I apply Athanor to Dusty White’s The Easiest Way to Learn Astrology, Ever!, analyzing the text through the rubric’s four esoteric prerequisites: correspondences, living nature, imagination and mediations, and experience of transmutation. While no direct comparison is drawn to the surveyed currents in this study, the structure enables future researchers to situate such analyses within a larger, comparative map of historical and contemporary esoteric currents.
Included in
Athanor: Faivre-based Comparative Interface for Empirical Esoteric Study; Applied Analysis of Dusty White’s Astrology
Student Center
Athanor is a research interface that turns Faivre’s six features into structured analysis cards, prompting explicit decisions for each category. Two tab groups organize the work: Currents (a prepopulated survey of major esoteric streams, with dated notes and sources) and Sources (primary or contemporary materials under review). The survey layer lowers entry costs and provides a consistent factual baseline for future comparative work. Shared glossary, biography, and bibliography banks—presented as sortable tables—reduce duplication and keep references transparent. As a demonstration, I apply Athanor to Dusty White’s The Easiest Way to Learn Astrology, Ever!, analyzing the text through the rubric’s four esoteric prerequisites: correspondences, living nature, imagination and mediations, and experience of transmutation. While no direct comparison is drawn to the surveyed currents in this study, the structure enables future researchers to situate such analyses within a larger, comparative map of historical and contemporary esoteric currents.