The article explores the entangled presence of esotericism and nostalgia in Timo Vaittinen’s Visions and Hexual Spellings. Visions is a series of risograph prints freely adapting the conventions of the visual culture of new spiritualities. Hexual Spellings in turn consists of a video and backstory about a company that produced made-to-order video spells in the 1980s. Both works are characterized by their visual ‘outdatedness’, situating their nostalgia in the very technique employed in creating the artworks. Esotericism and nostalgia both evince a backwards-looking orientation and a longing to reconstruct a lost past. At the same time, both also have a utopian, future-oriented dimension. Vaittinen’s works reveal that esotericism and nostalgia exist in complex interrelation with truth and imagination. The notion of ‘nature’ that is central to the imagery of new spiritualities takes on a nostalgic thrust when framed against the narrative of ‘return’ and the concept of narrative nostalgia borrowed from film studies.