"This volume commemorates the four-hundredth anniversary of an intriguing anomaly of the early modern era: the appearance in manuscript in 1612 and the suppression in 1613 of an enduringly influential writing by the shoe-maker Jacob Boehme (ca. 1575-1624): Morgen Röte im auffgan…
Few religious currents have been as influential as the Theosophical. Yet few currents have been so under-researched, and the Brill Handbook of the Theosophical Current thus represents pioneering research. A first section surveys the main people and events involved in the Theosop…
In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channe…
The purpose of this book is to present to the student of theosophy a condensed synthesis of the information available concerning the astral body of man, together with a description and explanation of the astral world and it phenomena. Its study of the subtle body is based on the…