Restoring paradise : Western esotericism, literature, art, and consciousness

Restoring paradise : Western esotericism, literature, art, and consciousness / Arthur Versluis.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Versluis, Arthur, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004.
Series:SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.
Subjects:
Occultism > History.
Occultism in literature.
Occultism in art.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Dreams.
Occultism
Occultism in art
Occultism in literature
History
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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.

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