ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book seeks to specify exactly what sub-types of perennism are hidden behind the meronymy of ‘New Age’. Adissidence and offshoot of the Theosophical Society spelled out a new eschatology: creative evolution. The book outlines splits in occultism in the 1940s. Presentist perennists focused their spirituality on the present in such a way that objective time was no longer relevant. The book analyses the importance of perennism in mainstream culture and its cultural logic of late capitalism. Although perennism is a hyper-consumerist spirituality, it was also found that some spiritual actors resist the full commodification of their spirituality through communicative action. Contrary to Aquarian perennism, it rejected the eschaton of the age of Aquarius and urged the re-enactment of pre-Christian values to return, at least locally, to a supposed pagan utopia.
