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Author:   Aren Roukema
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   24
Weight:   0.654kg
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9789004369030

ISBN 10:   9004369031
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   07 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Through the Portal  Williams and the Occult: Some Discursive Complications  Encountering the Occult in Williams’s Fiction: A Literary/Historical Method 1 Life and Times: Christian Occultism in Modern England  A Life in Myth  “But about This Reality of Yours …”  The “Dead Master”  Arthur Edward Waite  Occult Imagination and the Secret Tradition  Constructing a Cordon Sanitaire  Christian Occultism 2 The Fellowship of the Rosy Cross: A Modern Occult Experience  Masonic Rosicrucianism  The Paths of the Tree of Life  The F.R.C. and the Golden Dawn: The Adeptus Minor Rituals 3 Fiction and Experience  The Unbearable Lightness of Fiction  Fantastic Narratology: The Liminality of Esoteric Knowledge  The Novels—Intrusions of the Supernatural  The Gothic Occult  In the Network of Occult Fiction  The Novels of an Adeptus Exaltatus  “The End of Desire”—The Discovery of the Higher Self  Occult Fiction, Occult Life 4 Kabbalah: Charles Williams and the Middle Pillar  A.E. Waite and Modern Occult Kabbalah  Becoming Shekinah: Charles Williams and the Middle Pillar  The Greater Trumps  Kabbalistic Eros and Romantic Theology 5 The High-Priestess: Charles Williams and Modern Magic  Magic in the West  The “High-Priestess of Heaven”  Ritual Semiotics and the Magical Imagination 6 A Magical Life in Fiction  Active Imagination  Active Will  The Way of P’o-lu  Art Magic: Sex, Poetry, Consciousness  Reanimation: Enchantment and Empowerment  Interpretive Drift: The Development of a Modern Christian Magic 7 The Transmutation of Charles Williams: Spiritual and Literary Alchemy  From Metallurgy to Particle Physics: A Brief History of Alchemy  Influences: Lee, Waite, Atwood  Rosicrucian Alchemy  The Great Work in Fiction  A Literary Alchemist Epilogue: The Coagulation of Belief Bibliography Index

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Aren Roukema is a doctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London. He is Co-Editor of Correspondences and has published on esotericism and fiction in The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875–1947 (Routledge, 2018), Journal of Inklings Studies, and North Wind.

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