Wisdom's Children: A Christian Esoteric TraditionState University of New York Press, 30 בספט׳ 1999 - 370 עמודים The first book in English to provide an in-depth introduction to the Christian theosophic tradition that began with Jacob Bo¬hme, Wisdom's Children brings us into a startling new world of experiential spirituality that is in fact the Christian equivalent of Sufism and Kabbalism. With biographic introductions to major theosophers and detailed discussions of theosophic authors such as John Pordage, Jane Leade, Dionysius Freher, and Johann Gichtel—as well as a survey of their major theosophic cosmological and metaphysical teachings—this book is an indispensable guide to the hidden history of Protestantism and its ramifications today. With chapters discussing theosophy in relation to Gnosticism, magic, astrology, alchemy, and other Western esoteric traditions, Wisdom's Children is situated solidly in its historical context using primary works from the tradition itself. The book also provides unexpected insights into how this modern gnostic tradition speaks to us today, and suggests how this tradition could spark a "new Renaissance" to link spirituality, the arts, and the sciences in a new and encompassing vision. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 58
עמוד xiii
... authors , the most important figure in Protestant history was most certainly not Calvin or Luther , but Jacob Böhme , whose influ- ence is found throughout the entire theosophic tradition . Böhme repre- sents not just a commentator on ...
... authors , the most important figure in Protestant history was most certainly not Calvin or Luther , but Jacob Böhme , whose influ- ence is found throughout the entire theosophic tradition . Böhme repre- sents not just a commentator on ...
עמוד 7
... Böhme's major works . Thus , 1624 was a most trying year for Böhme , who was compelled to leave Görlitz with his family in March . Although he was invited in May to the Court of Dresden , and hoped to find there a sympathetic audience ...
... Böhme's major works . Thus , 1624 was a most trying year for Böhme , who was compelled to leave Görlitz with his family in March . Although he was invited in May to the Court of Dresden , and hoped to find there a sympathetic audience ...
עמוד 8
... Böhme's works , but in fact his works are not so complicated as to be indecipherable , and many passages are quite straightforward . For instance , in Aurora Böhme writes of how nature signifies " how the holy being in the holy Trinity ...
... Böhme's works , but in fact his works are not so complicated as to be indecipherable , and many passages are quite straightforward . For instance , in Aurora Böhme writes of how nature signifies " how the holy being in the holy Trinity ...
עמוד 9
... Böhme's work is intended above all to point us toward our own spiritual rebirth , a process or series of births that continues beyond our present lifetime . Indeed , Böhme writes in Aurora , there are three births : there is " the ...
... Böhme's work is intended above all to point us toward our own spiritual rebirth , a process or series of births that continues beyond our present lifetime . Indeed , Böhme writes in Aurora , there are three births : there is " the ...
עמוד 10
... Böhme's prose is itself revealing . Böhme writes with great authority , yet insists that what he writes is not from the reasoning mind alone . Near the end of Aurora he asserts : This now is the very door of the hidden , secret mystery ...
... Böhme's prose is itself revealing . Böhme writes with great authority , yet insists that what he writes is not from the reasoning mind alone . Near the end of Aurora he asserts : This now is the very door of the hidden , secret mystery ...
תוכן
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Jane Leade the Philadelphians and the Doctrine | 57 |
Dionysius Andreas Freher Allen Leppington and William Law | 79 |
Johannes Kelpius and Pennsylvania Theosophy | 93 |
Christopher Walton and His Theosophic College | 113 |
PART | 127 |
The Divine Emanation of Worlds | 135 |
Spiritual Regeneration | 142 |
Theosophy and Gnosticism | 219 |
Alchemy and Theosophy | 235 |
Theosophy and Chivalry | 247 |
Theosophy Herbal Medicine Magic and Astrology | 259 |
Theosophy and Modern Science | 277 |
Toward a New Psychology | 283 |
Hierohistory and Metahistory | 293 |
Revelation Authority and the Apostolic Tradition | 309 |
The Science of Imagination | 157 |
The Eye in the Heart | 169 |
PLATES FOLLOW CHAPTER 14 PAGE | 176 |
Frontispiece from Böhme The Way to Christ from Theosophia | 176 |
The Physiology of the Soul | 177 |
Turning Wrath into Love | 197 |
Penetrating the Merely Astral | 207 |
CONCLUSION | 319 |
NOTES | 327 |
Angelology and Paradise | 339 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 353 |
INDEX | 367 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Wisdom's Children: A Christian Esoteric Tradition <span dir=ltr>Arthur Versluis</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 1999 |
Wisdom's Children: A Christian Esoteric Tradition <span dir=ltr>Arthur Versluis</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 1999 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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