Can I read Restoring Paradise: Western Esotericism, Literature, Art, and Consciousness (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions) on EtoBox?

Restoring Paradise: Western Esotericism, Literature, Art, and Consciousness (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions) by Versluis, Arthur , 1959- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Restoring Paradise: Western Esotericism, Literature, Art, and Consciousness (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions) about?

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." ** Review "This is a courageous attempt to forge a connection between esoteric literature, as defined in relatively conventional academic terms, and modern literature and art--and thereby a connec

Who reads Restoring Paradise: Western Esotericism, Literature, Art, and Consciousness (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)?

Author

Versluis, Arthur , 1959-

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781423739531

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Religion, Poetry