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Restoring Paradise
Arthur Versluis
其他書名
Western Esotericism, Literature, Art, and Consciousness
出版State University of New York Press, 2012-02-01
主題Religion / Theosophy
ISBN07914848589780791484852
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ihz4nZHv_icC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Focusing on how spiritual initiation takes place in Western esoteric religious, literary, and artistic traditions from antiquity to the present, Restoring Paradise provides an introduction to Western esotericism, including early modern esoteric movements like alchemy, Christian theosophy, and Rosicrucianism. The author argues that European and American literature and art often entail a written transmission of spiritual knowledge in which writing itself works to transmute consciousness, to generate, provoke, or convey spiritual awakening. He focuses on several important figures whose work has not received the attention it deserves, including American writer and Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and British painter Cecil Collins, among others. While Arthur Versluis presents a new way of understanding Western esotericism in a contemporary light, above all he has crafted a book about knowing, and about how we come to know, and what "knowing" by way of literature and language actually means.