Wisdom's children : a Christian esoteric tradition /
Arthur Versluis.
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, �1999.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 370 pages) : illustrations.
- SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions .
- SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions. .
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.