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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter J. ForshawPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 38 Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9789004702066ISBN 10: 9004702067 Pages: 457 Publication Date: 26 September 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables Introductory Note 3 Khunrath the Theosopher – a Lover of Divine Wisdom 1 Pre-Modern Uses of the Term Theosophy 2 Characteristics of Early Modern Theosophy 3 Proto-Theosophers and Theophrastia Sancta 4 Valentin Weigel (1533–1588) 5 Johann Arndt (1555–1621) 6 Enthusiasm 7 The Anti-Trinitarians’ Contempt of Divine Tri-Unity 8 An Unorthodox Lutheran? 9 A Faithful Lover of Theosophy 10 Theodidaktos – Taught by God 11 Hermetic Philosophy and Pansophy 12 Khunrath’s Theosopher 13 Qualifications to be a Magus 14 Ora et Labora 15 Ora, Oratio, Oraculum 16 Exegesis: Interpreting the Three Books 17 Labora 18 The Triune Apocalyptic Key 19 I. The Book of God in the Ternary 20 Book of God, Book of Scripture 21 Deus Pater Archetypos – God, the Father, the Archetype 22 Filius Theanthropos – the Divinely-Human Son 23 Spiritus Polypoikilos – Multiform Spirit 24 II. Book of Nature, Book of Creation 25 Χαος – Chaos 26 אלהים רוח – Ruach Elohim – Spirit of the Lord 27 שמים – Schamaim – Heaven 28 Three Heavens 29 1) The Lower Sublunar Heaven 30 2) Rachia: the Firmament of Heaven 31 3) The Super-Supreme Empyrean 32 III. Book of Man, Book of Conscience 33 Ten Grades of Cognition 34 The Threefold Eye and Three Kinds of Vision 35 The Ladder of Conjunction and Union 36 Prologue: Seven Steps to the Sanctuary 37 1) Fides (Faith) 38 2) Meditatio (Meditation) 39 3) Cognitio (Knowledge) and 4) Amor (Love) 40 5) Spes (Hope) 41 6) Oratio (Prayer) 42 7) Conjunctio (Conjunction) 43 8) Frequentia (Concourse & Constant Practice) 44 Gerard Dorn’s Speculative or Meditative Philosophy 45 9) Familiaritas (Familiarity) 46 10) Similitudo (Likeness) 47 Deification 48 Conclusion 49 Ascent and Descent 4 Christian Cabala’s Wonder-Working Word 1 The Origins of Christian Cabala 2 Proto-Kabbalah of the Sepher Yetzirah 3 Bahir: Book of Illumination 4 The Works of Bereshit and Merkavah 5 Zohar: Book of Splendour 6 Ten Sephiroth on the Tree of Life 7 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Genesis of Christian Cabala 8 Exegetical Techniques in Jewish Kabbalah 9 Gematria 10 Notarikon/Notariakon 11 Temurah or Tsiruf 12 Exegetical Examples from Pico’s Conclusions and Heptaplus 13 Johann Reuchlin’s Neo-Pythagorean Cabala 14 On the Wonder-Working Word (1494) 15 On the Cabalistic Art (1517) 16 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy 17 John Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad 18 Sources for Khunrath’s Knowledge of Cabala 19 Other Potential Sources 20 Cabala in Khunrath’s Works 21 Aben – Stone 22 Sol/Shemesh 23 Urim and Thummim 24 Sigillum Dei: Khunrath’s Christian-Cabalist Seal of God 25 1. Circumference: Tetraktys and Decalogue 26 2. The Angelic Hierarchy 27 3. A Prayer for Christians and Jews 28 4. 22 Foundational Letters 29 5. Ensoph – The Infinite 30 6. Emet – Truth 31 7. Sephiroth: Emanations of the Divine 32 8. Shemoth: the Names of God 33 9. יהשוה YHSVH, Pentagrammaton, Verbum Mirificum 34 10. Christ θεανθρωπος 35 A Christian-Cabalist Adam Androgyne 36 Rejection of the Binary 37 Cabalistic Conclusions concerning Khunrath IndexReviewsAuthor InformationPeter J. Forshaw, Ph.D. (2004), London University, is Associate Professor in History of Western Esotericism at the University of Amsterdam. He was editor of the journal Aries (2010-2020), has edited essay collections and published articles and chapters on esotericism and occult philosophy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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