Ezoteryzm myśli i Myśli ezoteryczne Andrzeja Niemojewskiego

Abstract

Andrzej Niemojewski (1864–1921), the editor of „Myśli Niepodległa” [Independent Thought] from 1906, poet and writer, translator, and freemason in the years 1906–1914, also expressed his opinions on esotericism and the occult, as well as spiritualism and mediums, which were fashionable in the era. This theme recurred in his works over a dozen years. Fascinating are the writer’s statements on theosophy and the founder of anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), towards whom he took a critical stance. In addition, the article recalls and analyzes, in addition, a little-known literary text by Niemojewski, entitled Myśli ezoteryczne [Esoteric Thoughts] (1917), which is a testimony of its author’s approach to issues related to, among others, the secret sciences, containing literary and religious allusions (the Bible, Mickiewicz’s Dziady). In this work, we find traces of inspiration from the eleventh book of the Metamorphoses by Apuleius of Madaura. Esoteric thoughts also take up the theme of the writer’s mission; to some extent, they are autotelic.