Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought
Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought

Author: Brian J. Gibbons

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-11-13

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521526487

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An evaluation of the intellectual legacy in England of the ideas of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624).

The Dream of an Absolute Language
The Dream of an Absolute Language

Author: Lynn Rosellen Wilkinson

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780791429259

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Traces the reception of Swedenborg's doctrine of "correspondences" in French literature and culture from the late 1700s to 1870.

Balzac and Music
Balzac and Music

Author: Jean-Pierre Barricelli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1317208579

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First published in 1990, this book was the first comprehensive study of Balzac’s relationship to music, blending past scholarship with new perspectives to formulate an inclusive account. It begins by examining the contacts and experiences that shaped the musical side of Balzac’s life. These left valuable and lasting impressions which often found their way into his writings, where he recorded a myriad of critical and musicological opinions — assessed primarily in relation to Gambara and Massimilla Doni. These discussions prepare the way for an analysis of Balzac two major musical persuasions: religious music and Beethoven. This book will be of interest to students of literature and music.

Introducing Swedenborg
Introducing Swedenborg

Author: GARY. LACHMAN

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780854482160

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Emanuel Swedenborg's system of correspondences is one of the most influential theories in the history of ideas. Instrumental in the rise of Romanticism, Symbolism and Modernism, and cited as key to the work of Goethe, R.W. Emerson, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire, Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, to name but a few, it offers to poets, artists, writers and composers a blueprint for navigating the gap between the material world and non-material values. In this brief introduction, Gary Lachman gives an accessible overview of the many fascinating ways in which Swedenborg's idea has impacted upon the past 250 years.

The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-25

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13:

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The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love is a book by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish theologist, scientist, thinker and mystic, here providing a thorough spiritual understanding of marriage love and sex. Excerpt: "Spiritual cold in marriages is a disunion of souls and a disjunction of minds, whence come indifference, discord, contempt, disdain, and aversion; from which, in several cases, at length comes separation as to bed, chamber, and house. That these effects take place with married partners, while their primitive love is on the decline, and becomes cold, is too well known to need any comment. The reason is, because conjugial cold above all others resides in human minds; for the essential conjugial principle is inscribed on the soul, to the end that a soul may be propagated from a soul, and the soul of the father into the offspring. Hence it is that this cold originates there, and successively goes downward into the principles thence derived, and infects them; and thus changes the joys and delights of the primitive love into what is sad and undelightful."