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Author Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

Title Wisdom's children : a Christian esoteric tradition / Arthur Versluis
Published Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 370 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions
SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.
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
Analysis Esoteric Christianity Western esoteric Protestantism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mysticism.
Theosophy.
Occultism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Mysticism -- Europe -- History
Theosophy -- History
Hermetism.
Gnosticism -- Influence
Wisdom -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Mysticism
mysticism.
theosophy.
hermetism.
RELIGION -- Mysticism.
Wisdom -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Hermetism
Occultism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Mysticism
Theosophy
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99024164
ISBN 0585307636
9780585307633
1438422903
9781438422909