study western esotericism advantage faivre 's system facilitates comparing varying esoteric traditions one another systematic fashion however many scholars criticised faivre 's theory pointing various weaknesses hanegraaff claimed faivre 's approach entailed reasoning prototype relied upon already best example western esotericism look like phenomena compared scholar esotericism kocku von stuckrad born noted faivre 's taxonomy based areas specialism renaissance hermeticism christian kabbalah protestant theosophy
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