By Arthur Versluis
Magic and Mysticism: An advent to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise review, from antiquity to the current, of the entire significant Western non secular esoteric pursuits. issues lined contain alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and plenty of extra. Magic and Mysticism is perfect for college kids of Mysticism and New non secular activities, in addition to for basic readers of Metaphysics and Esoterica.
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34 See Robin Waterfield, Jacob Boehme: crucial Readings (Wellingborough: Aquarian, 1989). 35 From Versluis, Wisdom’s booklet. 36 Letter dated four Jan. 1795, in Theosophic Correspondence (Exeter, united kingdom: William Roberts, 1863), 153. 37 See Antoine Faivre, “Le Courant Théosophique (Fin XVI—XX Siècles): Essai de Périodisation” in Politica Hermetica 7 (1993): 6-41, esp. 38-39. 38 See Jacob Boehme ou l’obscure lumière de l. a. connaissance mystique (Paris: Vrin, 1979), esp. 135—54. See additionally Gerhard Wehr and Pierre Deghaye, Jacob Böhme (Paris: Albin Michel, 1977). 39 See J. D. Kornblatt and R. Gustafson, eds. , Russian spiritual concept (Madison: collage of Wisconsin Press, 1996), 27. forty the vast majority of Soloviev’s works were translated into English: see The Antichrist, W. Barnes and H. Hayes, trans. (Edinburgh: Floris, 1982), The concern of Western Philosophy, B. Jakim, trans. (Hudson: Lindisfarne, 1996), The which means of affection, J. Marshall, trans. (Stockbridge: Lindisfarne, 1985), Russia and the common Church, H. Rees. , trans. (London: Bles, 1948), The Justification of the great, N. Dud-dington, trans. (London: Constable, 1918), warfare, development, and the tip of background, A. Bakshy, trans. (Hudson: Lindisfarne, 1990). forty-one V. Soloviev and P. Zouboff, trs. , Lectures on Godmanhood (London: Dobson, 1948), 166. forty two V. Soloviev and P. Zouboff, trs. , Lectures on Godmanhood, Lecture Six. “Deification” is an Orthodox inspiration succinctly expressed within the announcing that God grew to become guy in order that guy may possibly develop into God. forty three Sergei Bulgakov, Sophia: The knowledge of God (Hudson: Lindisfarne, 1993), 21. forty four Charles C. Knapp, “Nicolas Berdyaev: Theologian of Prophetic Gnosticism” (Ph. D. diss. , Toronto, 1948), forty. forty five Knapp, “Nicolas Berdyaev,” forty. forty six Knapp, “Nicholas Berdyaev,” 7. forty seven in this subject, see Knapp, “Nicolas Berdyaev,” 275 ff. See Berdyaev’s creation to Jacob Boehme’s Six Theosophic issues (Ann Arbor: collage of Michigan Press, 1958). See additionally Nicholas Berdyaev, The future of guy (New York: Scribners, 1935), 25 ff. ; Freedom and the Spirit (New York: Scribners, 1935), 194 ff. forty eight Julius Sachse, The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Sachse, 1895, I. 80–81. forty nine See Johannes Kelpius, a quick, effortless, and entire approach to Prayer, Christopher Witt, trs. (Philadelphia: Christopher Sower, 1761), 1. 50 Sachse, III. 176 ff. , 238 ff. fifty one See Peter Erb, The Pietists (New York: Paulist Press, 1983); see additionally Peter Erb, Johann Conrad Beissel and the Ephrata group (Lewiston, long island: Edwin Mellen, 1985). fifty two Alcott, Table-talk (Philadelphia: Saifer, 1971, rpt. of 1877 edition), 132. fifty three See Versluis, The Esoteric Origins of the yankee Renaissance, see additionally Kirby Don Richards, a mode of Prayer: a magical Parnphlet from Colonial the United States (Philadelphia: Wordsmiths, 2006). fifty four See Robert Sardello, Love and the Soul (San Francisco: Harper, 1995), during which Sardello writes at size on Sophia; Robert Faas, The Divine Couple: Writings at the Christian Mysteries of Eros (St. Paul, MN: Grailstone, 2001), a set of works from the Sophianic culture.