Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.