ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of Esoteric philosophy/religion in creating, disseminating and influencing models of subtle subjectivity becomes more prominent. Western Esoteric philosophy/spirituality is central to the Theosophical Society's discourse. The chapter commences with an examination of Bergson's concept of the elan vital and its prescribed creative agency in regard to considerations of the constituents of the 'between', and as an evocation and correlation of a proposed on to, ethical model of desire. It examines Bergson's concept of the elan vital, the understanding and use of desire and its interrelation with subtle subjectivity in the discourse of the modern Theosophical Society and the Hegelian rendering of desire. The concept of elan vital can be considered to embody scientific, philosophical and spiritual precedents and, as further noted by Grogin, a German Vitalist tradition is also identifiable in the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche.
