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

eBook, English, ©2004
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2004
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1 online resource (xi, 174 pages) : illustrations
9781423739531, 9780791461396, 9780791484852, 1423739531, 0791461394, 0791484858
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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
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English
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