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 83
עמוד xiii
... thing to offer a cold historical account of such authors as these , and quite another to actually look into their world through their letters and narrations . For what we will see - despite the inevitable rifts among some of them — is a ...
... thing to offer a cold historical account of such authors as these , and quite another to actually look into their world through their letters and narrations . For what we will see - despite the inevitable rifts among some of them — is a ...
עמוד 6
... Things , and the massive Mysterium Magnum , a commentary on Genesis , as well as numerous other works , some of which were only published by Werner Buddecke in the mid - twentieth century . This prodigious output of written works during ...
... Things , and the massive Mysterium Magnum , a commentary on Genesis , as well as numerous other works , some of which were only published by Werner Buddecke in the mid - twentieth century . This prodigious output of written works during ...
עמוד 8
... seven spirits of God , or the princes of the Angels , " while the Sun " is the king and the heart of all things of this world , and so rightly signifies the Son of God . " Here Böhme is developing a principle that in fact guides 8 HISTORY.
... seven spirits of God , or the princes of the Angels , " while the Sun " is the king and the heart of all things of this world , and so rightly signifies the Son of God . " Here Böhme is developing a principle that in fact guides 8 HISTORY.
עמוד 10
... things , " Böhme chides us . “ Heaven is in a holy man , " and hence everywhere that he stands , sits , or lies , there is heaven also . This insistence , that heaven and hell are present to us now if we can but see them , is a hallmark ...
... things , " Böhme chides us . “ Heaven is in a holy man , " and hence everywhere that he stands , sits , or lies , there is heaven also . This insistence , that heaven and hell are present to us now if we can but see them , is a hallmark ...
עמוד 11
... Things have been , now are , and how they shall be at the last . " Here once again we are entering into a work of enormous scope , but what was straightforwardly expressed in Aurora is here offered in a much more complicated explication ...
... Things have been , now are , and how they shall be at the last . " Here once again we are entering into a work of enormous scope , but what was straightforwardly expressed in Aurora is here offered in a much more complicated explication ...
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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