Restoring paradise : Western esotericism, literature, art, and consciousness /
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| Author / Creator: | Versluis, Arthur, 1959- |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 174 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140229 |
Table of Contents:
- Restoring Paradise
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Initiatory Transmission and the Imagination
- WHAT IS ESOTERIC?
- INITIATORY TRANSMISSION AND WESTERN ESOTERICISM
- THE ESOTERIC IMAGINATION
- 1. Origins
- ALCHEMY OF THE WORD
- THE FIELD OF THE IMAGINATION
- THE RED THREAD OF GNOSIS
- CONCLUSIONS
- 2. Historical Currents
- DIVINE SERVICE: CHIVALRY AND THE TROUBADOURS
- BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS: JEWISH KABBALISM
- THE TRANSFIGURATION OF EARTH: ALCHEMICAL LITERATURE
- THE DIVINE SCIENCE: THEOSOPHIC, PANSOPHIC, ROSICRUCIAN, AND MASONIC LITERATURE.
- 3. Modern Implications
- PROSPERO'S WAND: MODERN ESOTERIC LITERATURE
- THE WESTERN ESOTERIC TRADITIONS AND CONSCIOUSNESS
- LITERATURE, ART, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
- Notes
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.