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II. Spirit vision and kindred paranormal abilities. II.1. Spirit vision. II.1.1. A bibliography on the spirit vision phenomenon as a whole.
II.1.3. Dante.
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II.1.4. Krüdener, B. Ju. II.1.5. Patanjali. II.1.6. Ramakrishna. II.1.7. Ramanuja. II.1.8. Swedenborg, E. <II.1.9. Solovyov, Vl. S.>. <II.1.10. Eckehart, Meister>. |
II.1.2. Böhme, Jacob (15751624) [407423]
(in Russian Á¸ìå, ßêîá; last name also spelled Boehme; nickname the Theosopher of Gorlitz), the German religious thinker, philosopher-mystic (theosophist), and maybe poet. He had a wisdom grounded in revelation and employing myths and symbols rather than concepts a wisdom much more contemplative than discursive.
B. was born in Silesia (eastern Germany). He grew up as a Lutheran, received only an elementary education but was an enthusiastic student of the Bible and the works of the alchemist Paracelsus. He tended cattle as a boy. Apprenticed to a cobbler in his youth, B. later opened his own shop in Görlitz, Saxony. Earning his living as a cobbler, he became deeply depressed at a world in which “the God-fearing fare no better than the Godless”and could find no consolation in his estimable knowledge of Scripture. Throughout his life B. claimed to be divinely inspired. From an early age he had mystical experiences: he saw visions culminating in a vision in 1600 that he received through observing the exquisite beauty of a beam of sunlight reflected in a pewter dish. B. believed this vision revealed to him the spiritual structure of the world, as well as the relationship between God and man, and good and evil. He compared this mystical breakthrough to a resurrection from the dead, and now felt a unity with nature that defined the work that eventually followed: “In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.” At the time B. chose not to speak of this experience openly, preferring instead to continue his work and raise a family. But after another vision in 1610, he began writing his first treatise, “Aurora, or the Morning Redness Arising” It was finished in 1612. B. recorded here his visions and expounded the attributes of God. The work was condemned as heretical by local ecclesiastical and civil authorities, and he was forced to flee to Dresden. There B. was cleared of charges of heresy and allowed to return to Görlitz. His best-known treatises include “Of the Three Principles of the Nature of God” (1619), “The Way to Christ” (1624), “The Signature of all Things”, and “Mysterium Magnum”.
407422. Russian sources.
423. <Böhme, J.> The Works of Jacob Behmen / Trans. J. Ellistone and J. Sparrow, 4 vol. 17th century; reprinted in the 20th century. # This translation is considered to have more grace and elegance than modern translations of some tracts by J.R. Earle and J.J. Stoudt.
423.2. Frensh M. Weishael in Person. Manuscript: CD-version. Riga, 2000.
423.5. Mayer, Paola. Reinventing the Sacred: The Romantic Myth of Jakob Bohme // The German Quarterly. Vol. 69. No. 3 (Summer, 1996). P. 247-259. # The Romantic reception of B. is grounded in a myth that members of the Jena circle wove around his person. This myth in turn depends on the appropriation and radical reshaping of a time-honored literary tradition: hagiography. The article argues that by following Franckenberg in presenting B. as a saintly figure, Tieck and Novalis enlisted him in their battle against the growing marginalization of the sacred. At the same time, by insisting that B. was a poet, they aimed to fuse the personae of poet and prophet, and so to sacralize Romantic literature, that is, to invest it with the dignities traditionally conferred on religion.
423.7. Stoudt, J.J. Jacob Boehme: His Life and Thought. 1968. # The most serviceable English biography utilizing modern materials.
II.1.3. Dante Àlighieri (Italy, 12651321) [424433]
(in Russian Äàíòå Àëèãüåðè), the greatest Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem “The Divine Comedy” (“La divina commedia”). By choosing to write his poem in Italian rather than in Latin, D. decisively influenced the course of literary development. Not only did he lend a voice to the emerging lay culture of his own country, but Italian became the literary language in western Europe for several centuries. In addition to poetry D. wrote important theoretical works ranging from discussions of rhetoric to moral philosophy and political thought. He was fully conversant with the classical tradition, drawing for his own purposes on such writers as Virgil and Cicero. But, most unusual for a layman, he also had an impressive command of the most recent scholastic philosophy and of theology. His learning and his personal involvement in the heated political controversies of his age led him to the composition of “De monarchia”, one of the major tracts of medieval political philosophy.
Beatrice (in Russian Áåàòðè÷å), the woman to whom the great Italian poet Dante dedicated most of his poetry and almost all of his life, from his first sight of her at the age of nine (“from that time forward, Love quite governed my soul”) through his glorification of her in “The Divine Comedy”, completed 40 years later, to his death in 1321. B. is usually identified as Beatrice Portinari, the daughter of a noble Florentine family, who married Simone de' Bardi and died at the age of 24 on June 8, 1290. Dante wrote a chronicle of his relationship with her in “The New Life” (c. 1293; “La vita nuova”), a prose work interlaced with lyrics. Dante tells of his meetings with her, praises her beauty and goodness, describes his own intense reactions to her kindness or lack of it, tells of events in both their lives, and explains the nature of his feelings for her. “The New Life” also tells of the day when Dante was informed of her death and contains several anguished poems written after that event. In the final chapter, Dante vows to write nothing further of B. until he writes “concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.” The promise is fulfilled in “The Divine Comedy” , which he composed many years later, expressing his exalted and spiritual love forB., who is his intercessor in the Inferno, his goal in traveling through Purgatory, and his guide through Paradise. At first sight of her, in Purgatory, he is as overwhelmed as he was at the age of nine, and he is dazzled by her presence throughout the journey, until she ascends again to her place in heaven. This expression of sublimated and spiritualized love ends with Dante's total absorption in the divine.
424432. Russian sources.
433. Dante. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri / Trans. by John D. Sinclair. 1958. # With superb small essays for each canto.
433a) Dante. The Divine Comedy / Trans. with a commentary by Charles S. Singleton. 19701975. # The most useful work in English, published in the Bollingen series. The commentary is excellent for English-speaking readers.
433.01. Dante's Treatise “De Vulgari Eloquentia,” / Trans. by A.G. Ferrers Howell. 1890.
433.02. Dante's Convivio / Trans. by William Walrond Jackson. 1909.
433.03. Dante. On World Government, or, De Monarchia / Trans. by Herbert W. Schneider; 2nd rev. ed. 1957.
433.04. Dante's Lyric Poetry / Ed. and trans. by K. Foster and P. Boyde. 1967.
433.05. Dante's Vita Nuova / Trans. by Mark Musa; New ed. 1973.
433.06. Dante. Literary Criticism of Dante Alighieri / Trans. and ed. by Robert S. Haller. 1973.
433.1. Catalogue of the Dante Collection / Cornell University Library; Comp. by Theodore Wesley Koch, 2 vol. 18981900.
433.12. Catalogue of the Dante Collection Additions 18981920 / Comp. by Mary Fowler. 1921.
433.13. Centenary Essays on Dante / Oxford Dante Society. 1965.
433.15. Dante: A Collection of Critical Essays / Ed. John Freccero. 1965.
433.17. Dante and Giovanni del Virgilio / Including a Critical Edition of the Text of Dante's “Eclogae Latinae” and of the Poetic Remains of Giovanni del Virgilio; Ed. by Philip H. Wicksteed and Edmund G. Gardner. 1902.
433.18. Dante Commentaries: Eight Studies of the Divine Comedy / Ed. David Nolan. 1977.
433.2. Dante Soundings: Eight Literary and Historical Essays. 1981.
433.22. Dante Studies. The Dante Society of America (founded 1881), annual. # Annual bibliographies of Dante studies published in the United States.
433.28. A Dante Symposium / Eds. William J. De Sua and Gino Rizzo. 1965.
433.13. The Mind of Dante / Ed. Uberto Limentani. 1965.
433.32. The World of Dante: Essays on Dante and His Times / Ed. Cecil Grayson. 1980.
433.34. Anderson, William. Dante the Maker. 1980. # A critical biographical study, with the emphasis on Dante's creative processes.
433.36. Barbi, Michele. Life of Dante. 1954, reprinted 1966. # Originally published in Italian, 1933.
433.38. Bergin, Thomas Goddard. Dante. 1965, reprinted 1976.
433.39. Bergin, Th. G. Perspectives on the Divine Comedy 1967.
433.4. Bergin, Th. G. A Diversity of Dante. 1969.
433.42. Boyde, Patrick. Dante's Style in His Lyric Poetry 1971. # A study on the canzoni.
433.43. Boyde, P. Dante, Philomythes and Philosopher: Man in the Cosmos. 1981. # An examination of Dante's intellectual concerns.
433.45. Brandeis, Irma. The Ladder of Vision: A Study of Dante's Comedy. 1960.
433.47. Brieger, Peter H.; Meiss, Millard; Singleton, Charles S. Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy, 2 vol. 1969.
433.5. Chydenius, Johan. The Typological Problem in Dante. 1958.
433.52. Curtius, Ernst Robert. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. 1953, reissued 1973. # Originally published in German, 1948.
433.54. Cosmo, Umberto. A Handbook to Dante Studies. 1947, reprinted 1978. # Excellent introductions to Dante. Originally published in Italian, 1947.
433.56. Croce, Benedetto. The Poetry of Dante. 1922, reissued 1971. # Originally published in Italian, 1920.
433.58. Davis, Charles T. Dante and the Idea of Rome. 1957. # A study on Dante's political thought.
433.59. Davis, Ch. T. Dante's Italy 1984. # A study on Dante's political thought.
433.6. D'entreves, Alessandro Passerin. Dante as a Political Thinker. 1952, reprinted 1965.
433.62. Dunbar, Helen F. Symbolism in Medieval Thought and Its Consummation in the Divine Comedy. 1929, reissued 1961.
433.64. Eliot, T.S. Dante. 1929; reprinted 1974.
433.66. Fergusson, Francis. Dante's Drama of the Mind. 1953, reissued 1981.
433.68. Gilson, Étienne. Dante the Philosopher. 1948, reissued 1963. # Originally published in French, 1939.
433.7. Holmes, George. Dante. 1980. # A brief study.
433.72. Lewis, Ewart K. Medieval Political Ideas, 2 vol. 1954, reprinted 1974. # A study on Dante's political thought.
433.74. Mazzeo, Joseph A. Structure and Thought in the Paradiso. 1958, reissued 1968.
433.75. Mazzeo, J.A. Medieval Cultural Tradition in Dante's Comedy. 1960, reprinted 1968.
433.77. Moore, Edward. Studies in Dante, 4 vol. 18961917, reprinted with new introductory matter ed. by Colin Hardie, 1969.
433.79. Musa, Mark. Advent at the Gates. 1974. # A study of seven cantos.
433.8. Reade, William H.V. The Moral System of Dante's Inferno. 1909, reprinted 1969. # A study on “The Divine Comedy”.
433.84. Singleton, Charles S. An Essay on the “Vita Nuova”. 1949, reprinted 1977.
433.85. Singleton, Ch. S. Dante Studies. Vol. 1. Commedia: Elements of Structure. 1954, reprinted 1977; Vol. 2. Journey to Beatrice. 1958.
433.87. Toynbee, Paget. Dante Studies. 1921.
433.88. Toynbee, P. A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante / New ed., rev. by Charles S. Singleton 1968. # An invaluable commentary.
433.9. Vallone, Aldo. Dante / 2nd ed. 1981.
433.93. Vossler, Karl. Medieval Culture: An Introduction to Dante and His Times, 2 vol. 1929, reissued 1970. # Originally published in German, 19071910.
433.96. Wilkins, Ernest Hatch; Bergin, Thomas Goddard. A Concordance to the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. 1965.
450. The Ramakrishna Movement. Calcutta: The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, 1993. 36 ð.
458. Ãóïòà, Ìàõåíäðàíàòõ (Gupta, Mahendranath; ïñåâäîíèì: Ì.), <ó÷åíèê Ðàìàêðèøíû>. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna / Originally recorded in Bengali, in 5 vol., by M., a disciple of Master; Complete translation, with an Introduction, by Svami Nikhilananda; With 26 authentic photographs associated with the life and background of the Master; Foreword by Aldous Huxley. 7th Printing. N. Y.: Ramakrishna-Vedanta Center, 1984. # Âñåãî 52 ãëàâû. Îñíîâíîé èñòî÷íèê çíàíèé î íàñòàâëåíèÿõ, îñòàâëåííûõ Ð.; èçáðàííûå áåñåäû Ð. ñî ñâîèìè ó÷åíèêàìè, ïîñëåäîâàòåëÿìè è ãîñòÿìè. Åãî ñàìîçàáâåííîå ïî÷èòàíèå Âåëèêîé Ìàòåðè; âçàèìîîòíîøåíèÿ ñ ñàìûìè ðàçíûìè ëþäüìè, ñ ïîñëåäîâàòåëÿìè è ó÷åíèêàìè (â ÷èñëî êîòîðûõ âõîäèë Âèâåêàíàíäà); ãëóáîêàÿ òðàêòîâêà ôèëîñ. ïîíÿòèé Âåäàíòû è îáðàçîâ èíäèéñêîãî ýïîñà, è, êîíå÷íî æå, åãî íåçàáûâàåìûå ïðèò÷è, âñå ýòî î÷åíü òî÷íî îòðàæåíî â àíãë. íàçâàíèè êíèãè, «Åâàíãåëèå îò Ðàìàêðèøíû», è ñòàâèò åå â ðÿä ñàìûõ çíà÷èòåëüíûõ äóõîâíûõ ïèñàíèé. Ïî îöåíêå æóðíàëàTime, ýòî «îäèí èç ñàìûõ íåîáû÷àéíûõ ìèðîâûõ äîêóìåíòîâ».
à) Òî æå. Madras: Mylapore, Sri Ramakrishna Math Press. Vol. I. 1988. 532 p.; Vol. II. 1989. Pp. 532-1063.
465. Muller, F. Max, prof. Ramakrishna: His life and sayings. Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1988 200 ð.
475497. Russian sources.
498. Swedenborg, E. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell. From Things Heard and Seen / Standard Edition; Translator J.C. Ager. N.Y: Swedenborg Foundation Inc., 1952; http://swedenborg.newearth.org/hh/ .
498.4. Swedenborg, E. The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook. West Chester, Pennsylvania: The Swedenborg Foundation, 1993; Online version: 1997, March 25. http://swedenborg.newearth.org/hcsg/ . # Teachings for the new spiritual era symbolized by the New Jerusalem.
498.7. Swedenborg, E. Letters and Memorials / Ed. and transl. A. Acton. 2 vol. 19481955.
499499.9. Russian sources.
500. Academy Collection of Swedenborg Documents (ACSD) // Swedenborg Library, Bryn Athyn College. http://www.newchurch.edu/college/facilities/library/greenbooks.html
501. Books by Emanuel Swedenborg. http://www.spiritwritings.com/booksSwedenborg.html # A Swedenborg catalog listing.
502. Emanuel Swedenborg. http://www.theology.ie/theologians/swedenbo.htm # A site with links to resources.
503. Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision / Editor R. Larsen. N.Y.: Swedenborg Foundation, 1988.
504. Heavenly Doctrines. http://www.heavenlydoctrines.org/ # Academy of the New Church. Full text of Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological works.
505. The Heavenly Doctrines. http://www.theheavenlydoctrines.org/ # A webpage dedicated to the exploration and study of the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, servant of God.
506. The New Church. http://www.newchurch.org/ # The New Church (Church of the New Jerusalem) is based on the Bible, and on the teachings of the 18th Century Scientist and Theologian, Emanuel Swedenborg.
507. The New Philosophy Magazine: Swedenborg Scientific Association. http://newphilosophyonline.org/
508. The Swedenborg Digital Library: Books about the Writings and Emanuel Swedenborg. http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/ # Home page of The Swedenborg Digital Libary, intended to disseminate the doctrinal concepts found in the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.
509. Swedenborg Foundation. http://www.swedenborg.com/ # Swedenborg Foundation, a nonprofit publisher, book seller, and educational organization publishes the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg, contemporary books and videos on spiritual growth, offers lectures and workshops, and maintains a library of Swedenborgian literature.
510. The Swedenborg Library, Bryn Athyn College. http://swedlibcatalog.newchurch.edu/ # Swedenborg Library Online Catalog. Includes the largest collection of Swedenborgiana in the world.
511. The Swedenborg Society (London). http://www.swedenborg.org.uk/ # Includes the society’s library catalog and publications catalog.
511.5. Swedenborgian House of Studies Library and Archives. http://www.shs.psr.edu/library.html
512551. Russian sources.
552. Anonymous. About Swedenborg // The Swedenborgian Church of North America. http://www.swedenborg.org/about_swedenborg.cfm
553. Anonymous. Emanuel von Swedenborg. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sweden.htm
554. Anonymous. Swedenborg, Emanuel // Columbia Encyclopedia / 6th edition. 2004. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s/swedenbo.asp
555. Blom-Dahl, Christen. The Third Source. Swedenborg: A Physical and Metaphysical Revelation. 2001. http://www.theisticscience.org/blomdahl/Sweden.htm
555.5. Dingwall, E.J. Very Peculiar People: Portrait Studies in the Queer, the Abnormal, and the Uncanny. 1962. P. 11-68.
556. Hallengren, Anders; Jonsson, Inge. Reflections of Swedenborgian Thought. . The Swedenborg Foundation. 1998. 249 p. (Swedenborg Studies. No. 7). # Book Subject: Swedenborg, Influence, New Jerusalem Church, Doctrines, Philosophy, Religion, Mysticism, History & Surveys 17th/18th Century.
556.5. Hyde, J. A Bibliography of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg. 1906.
557. James, Leon. Swedenborg Glossary of Theistic Science. http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy/instructor/gloss.html
557.5. Jonsson, Inge. Emanuel Swedenborg / Eng. trans. 1971.
558. Jonsson, I. Visionary Scientist: The Effects of Science and Philosophy on Swedenborg’s Cosmography. The Swedenborg Foundation. 1999. 249 p. (Swedenborg Studies. No. 8). # Distinguished Swedish scholar the author examines Swedenborg’s philosophy of nature, his cosmology, and physiological and psychological theories and shows how Swedenborg’s unique spiritual perspective was rooted in his early scientific endeavors and in agreement with contemporary science.
559. Keller, Helen A. Light in My Darkness. West Chester: Swedenborg Foundation, 1994; http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/LMD/lmdp.htm # “Light in My Darkness” is a revision of “My Religion”, a book originally published in 1927, when Keller was 47 years old. Many who have read the earlier edition have been powerfully touched by the beauty and power of her words. Yet extraordinary as “My Religion” was then and remains today, it lacks organization and structure. It is like a gathering of stars randomly scattered through a dark sky: here and there the reader may identify a constellation, but as Keller herself admitted, there is little order.
560. Larsen, Robin. An Image of God in a Mirror // Studia Swedenborgiana. 1985, January. Vol 5, No. 2. P. 5-27; republucation: Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision. N.Y.: Swedenborg Foundation, 1988. P. 374-381.
560.5. Sigstedt, Cyriel O. The Swedenborg Epic; The Life and Works of Emanuel Swedenborg. 1952, reprinted 1971.
561. Stefanidakis, Rev. Simeon. Forerunners to Modern Spiritualism: Emanuel Swedenborg // First Spiritual Temple: A Non-Denominational Christian Spiritualist Church. Founded in 1883. http://www.fst.org/spirit2.htm
562. Synnestvedt, Sig, ed. The Essential Swedenborg: Basic Religious Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Swedenborg Foundation. 1977.
563. Tafel, R.L. (ed.) Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg. 2 volumes, bound as three. Swedenborg Society, 18751877. # Most of the biographical sources were collected, translated, and annotated here.
564. Taylor, Eugene. A Psychology of Spiritual Healing. Chrysalis Books. 1997.
565. Thompson, Ian J. Swedenborg and Modern Science // Network Newsletter of “The Scientific and Medical Network.” 1988. N 36 P. 3-8; http://www.theisticscience.org/papers/smn3b.html # About the influence of S.’s teaching on modern scientific theories.
565.5. Toksvig, Signe. Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist and Mystic. 1948, reprinted 1972.
566. Trobridge G. Swedenborg: Life and Teaching. London, 1907; London, 1913; 1935. 196 p.; 4th ed. 1968; 14th ed. 1976.
567. Williams-Hogan, Jane K. Swedenborg: A Biography. // Swedenborg and His Influence / editor Erland J. Brock. Academy of the New Church. 1988. P. 3-27; http://www.glencairnmuseum.org/jkwh.html # Includes the biography, a chronology of Swedenborg’s life, a selected bibliography, and a list of general reference works.
568. Woofenden, William Ross. Swedenborg Explorer’s Guidebook: A Research Manual for Inquiring New Readers, Seekers of Spiritual Ideas, and Writers of Swedenborgian Treatises. Swedenborg Foundation. 2002.
II.1.4. Krüdener, Barbara Juliane (Êðèäåíåð, óðîæä. Ôèòòèíãîô; 17641824), áàðîíåññà
II.1.5. Patanjali (ïðåäïîëîæèòåëüíî â ïåðèîä 2 â. äî í.ý. 2 â. í.ý.)
II.1.6. Ramakrishna Ïàðàìàõàìñà, Áõàãàâàí Øðè (ìîíàøåñêîå èìÿ, íàñò. èìÿ Ãàäàäõàð ×àòòåðäæè; 1836-1886)
II.1.7. Ramanuja (XIXII ââ.; â íåêîò. èñòî÷íèêàõ 10501137)
II.1.8. Swedenborg, Emmanuel (Sweden, 16881772) [475568]
(in Russian Ñâåäåíáîðã, Ýììàíóýëü; original name until 1719 Emanuel Swedberg, or Svedberg). Swedish scientist, Christian mystic, philosopher, and theologian who wrote voluminously in interpreting the Scriptures as the immediate word of God. Soon after his death, devoted followers created Swedenborgian societies dedicated to the study of his thought. These societies formed the nucleus of the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church, also called the Swedenborgians.
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