02929nam 2200637Ia 450 991080769130332120200520144314.00-7914-8485-81-4237-3953-1(CKB)1000000000458441(OCoLC)62757328(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594932(SSID)ssj0000236956(PQKBManifestationID)11176357(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236956(PQKBWorkID)10173496(PQKB)11511359(MiAaPQ)EBC3408586(OCoLC)62338574(MdBmJHUP)muse6167(Au-PeEL)EBL3408586(CaPaEBR)ebr10594932(DE-B1597)683876(DE-B1597)9780791484852(EXLCZ)99100000000045844120040301d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRestoring paradise Western esotericism, literature, art, and consciousness /Arthur Versluis1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20041 online resource (197 p.) SUNY series in Western esoteric traditionsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6139-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-174) and index.Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.Explores European and American esoteric traditions as reflected in literature and in art.OccultismHistoryOccultism in literatureOccultism in artOccultismHistory.Occultism in literature.Occultism in art.135Versluis Arthur1959-752484MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807691303321Restoring paradise4007713UNINA