Golden Thread The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions

Name: Golden Thread The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions
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ISBN: 9780835608602

ISBN-10: 0835608603

ISBN-13: 9780835608602

Edition: 2007

Authors: Joscelyn Godwin, Richard Smoley

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In this concise survey, Godwin identifies the great movers and shakers of the Western Mystery Tradition, providing a brief history and description of each. Moving chronologically from ancient Egypt to twentieth-century Europe, he covers Hermes, Zoroaster, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, the Gnostics, the alchemists and Rosicrucians, Freemasons, and the Theosophists, as well as others. Godwin views each of these traditions as stages of spiritual development, but because all stem from the perennial wisdom, the knowledge they offer can be just as relevant and transformative today as it was hundreds of years ago.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Preface



The Prisca Theologia



The hermetic tradition



The Orphic mysteries



Pythagoras and his school



Plato's cave



The power of the Egregore



The meddling god



The negative theology



Cathedrals of light



The arts of the imagination



The pagan renaissance



The philosopher's dilemma



Inner alchemy



The religion of art



Wise men from the east



The end of the thread?


Notes


Index