Dipped into
WAGNERISM by Alex Ross again. I arrived at this promising sentence: "It was the age of
esotericism,
occultism,
Satanism,
Spiritism,
Theosophy,
Swedenborgism,
Mesmerism, Martinism, and
Kabbalism." It was at the beginning of a section! When a section starts like that, you just buckle up for
a roller coaster ride.