Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-214) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: toward a criticism of contemplation -- 1 John Dee: Religious experience and the technology of idolatry -- 2 A Glass darkly: John Donne's negative approach to God -- 3 Love's Alchemist: Palingenesis and the unconscious Metalepsis of Sir Kenelm Digby -- 4 The Rosicrucian mysticism of Henry and Thomas Vaughan -- 5 The Pauline mission of Jane Lead -- Conclusion: The Real Dialectic.
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