Especially since the Renaissance, some in Western Christendom have suspected that the deeper dimension of their tradition has somehow been lost, and have therefore sought to discover, or create, an \'esoteric\' or \'initiatic\' Christianity.
Partly based on their scholarship, Gu non in 1925 published The Esoterism.
In the middle of the nineteenth century two scholars, Gabriele Rossetti and Eug ne Aroux, pointed to certain esoteric meanings in the work of Dante Alighieri, notably The Divine Comedy.
Especially since the Renaissance, some in Western Christendom have suspected that the deeper dimension of their tradition has somehow been lost, and have therefore sought to discover, or create, an \'esoteric\' or \'initiatic\' Christianity