Stairway to heaven : Chinese alchemists, Jewish kabbalists, and the art of spiritual transformation
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TextNew York Continuum c2008Description: xv, 256p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780826428509
- BF1999 .L3395 2008
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Part 1 - Ancient modes of ascent. 1 Ascent myth and ritual in ancient Egypt. 2 Ascent myth and ritual in ancient Babylon. Part 2 - Merkavah mysticism and ascent. 3 The vision of Ezekiel. 4 Ezekiel and the apocalypse. 5 Ezekiel's vision as template for mystical ascent. Part 3 - Ascent in non-Abrahamic religions. 6 Ecstatic flight in shamanism. 7 Celestial ascent in Afro-Caribbean and African religion. 8 Celestial ascent in Asian ritual and alchemy. Part 4 - Ascent and the dipper in modern esotericism. 9 Origins of a Western tradition. 10 Christian Kabbalah and the esoteric orders. 11 Frankist influences on Western esotericism. 12 The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light
'This is a study of ascent literature, that corpus of texts and liturgies that propose to enable a human being to ascend from the earth to the heavens and to come before the Throne of God.'
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