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Wisdom's children : a Christian esoteric tradition / Arthur Versluis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Western esoteric traditionsPublication details: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 370 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585307636
  • 9780585307633
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wisdom's children.DDC classification:
  • 248.2/2 21
LOC classification:
  • BV5083 .V48 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
History -- Bohme -- Johann Georg Gichtel and his circle -- The visionary science of Dr. John Pordage -- Jane Leade, the Philadelphians, and the doctrine of universal restoration -- Dionysius Andreas Freher, Allen Leppington, and William Law -- Johannes Kelpius and Pennsylvania theosophy -- Christopher Walton and his theosophic college -- The cycle of foundational doctrines -- The divine nature -- The divine emanation of worlds -- The fall of lucifer, humanity, and nature -- Spiritual regeneration -- Angelology and paradise -- The art of the soul's transmutation -- The science of imagination -- The eye in the heart -- The physiology of the soul -- Turning wrath into love -- Penetrating the merely astral -- Contexts -- Theosophy and gnosticism -- Alchemy and theosophy -- Theosophy and chivalry -- Theosophy, herbal medicine, magic, and astrology -- Implications -- Theosophy and modern science -- Toward a new psychology -- Hierohistory and metahistory -- Revelation, authority, and the apostolic tradition.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366) and index.

History -- Bohme -- Johann Georg Gichtel and his circle -- The visionary science of Dr. John Pordage -- Jane Leade, the Philadelphians, and the doctrine of universal restoration -- Dionysius Andreas Freher, Allen Leppington, and William Law -- Johannes Kelpius and Pennsylvania theosophy -- Christopher Walton and his theosophic college -- The cycle of foundational doctrines -- The divine nature -- The divine emanation of worlds -- The fall of lucifer, humanity, and nature -- Spiritual regeneration -- Angelology and paradise -- The art of the soul's transmutation -- The science of imagination -- The eye in the heart -- The physiology of the soul -- Turning wrath into love -- Penetrating the merely astral -- Contexts -- Theosophy and gnosticism -- Alchemy and theosophy -- Theosophy and chivalry -- Theosophy, herbal medicine, magic, and astrology -- Implications -- Theosophy and modern science -- Toward a new psychology -- Hierohistory and metahistory -- Revelation, authority, and the apostolic tradition.

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