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Condition: Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ... Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

Pages: 462

Literary Movement: Enlightenment

Publication Date: 1994-10-28

ISBN: 9780791421529

Book Title: Theosophical Enlightenment

Item Length: 9in

Publisher: STATE University of New York Press

Publication Year: 1994

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 1in

Author: Joscelyn Godwin

Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion

Topic: Theosophy, General, Occultism

Item Width: 6in

Item Weight: 0 Oz

Number of Pages: 462 Pages

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This is an intellectual history of occult and esoteric currents in the English-speaking world from the early Romantic period to the early twentieth century. The Theosophical Society, founded in 1875 by Helena P. Blavatsky, holds a crucial position as the place where all these currents temporarily united, before again diverging. The book's ambiguous title points to the author's thesis that Theosophy owed as much to the skeptical Enlightenment of the eighteenth century as it did to the concept of spiritual enlightenment with which it is more readily associated. The author respects his sources sufficiently to allow that their world, so different from that of academic reductionism, has a right to be exhibited on its own terms. At the same time he does not conceal the fact that he considers many of them deluded and deluding. In the context of theosophical history, this book is neither on the side of the blind votaries of Madame Blavatsky, nor on that of her enemies. It may, therefore, be expected to mildly annoy both sides.

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STATE University of New York Press

ISBN-10

079142152x

ISBN-13

9780791421529

eBay Product ID (ePID)

4038813681

Product Key Features

Book Title

Theosophical Enlightenment

Author

Joscelyn Godwin

Format

Trade Paperback

Language

English

Topic

Theosophy, General, Occultism

Publication Year

1994

Genre

Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion

Number of Pages

462 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

9in

Item Height

1in

Item Width

6in

Item Weight

0 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number

Bp545.G63 1994

Reviews

"As in all his former books, Godwin's style is not only elegant but clear and understandable. It lends itself to a pleasant reading by any person who, though being a layman in the field, has a minimal breadth of culture." -- Antoine Faivre, Sorbonne "This is a wonderful work: witty, charming, erudite, profound. It demonstrates on the basis of extraordinary research and scholarship that the theosophical, spiritualist, and esoteric movements of the nineteenth century were significant in many ways we are only now in a position to realize." -- Christopher Bamford, Lindisfarne Press

Table of Content

List of Illustrations Preface 1. The Worship of the Generative Powers 2. The Cult of the Sun 3. The Blasphemers 4. The Shoemaker and the Squire 5. Magicians and Revolutionaries 6. Neophytes and Initiates 7. Artists and Astrologers 8. Animal Magnetism 9. Visions in the Crystal 10. Hydesville and After 11. From the Orphic Circle to the Golden Dawn 12. The Way to Christ 13. Rosicrucian Pretenders 14. Enter Madame Blavatsky 15. Wisdom from the East 16. The Hermetic Reaction 17. The Parting of East and West Appendix A Letter from Rammohun Roy to Robert Dale Owen Appendix B Letter from Hargrave Jennings to Bulwer-Lytton Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index

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94-001572

Dewey Decimal

299/.93/094109034

Series

Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions Ser.

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Illustrated

Yes

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