The subtle body : a genealogy / Simon Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Simon Paul, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in Western esotericism ; 1.

Oxford studies in western esotericism ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astral body.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages many religions and intellectual movements have posed answers to this question. Many have gravitated to the notion of the subtle body, positing some kind of subtle entity that is neither soul nor body, but some mixture of the two. This book traces the history of this idea from the late Roman empire to the present day, touching on how philosophers, wizards, scholars, occultists, psychologists, and mystics have engaged with the idea over the past two thousand years. The book begins in the late Roman Empire, moving chronologically through the Renaissance, British project of colonial Indology, development of Theosophy and occultism in the 19th century through to the Euro-American counterculture of the 1960's and 70's"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Resurrecting an Old Idea

Morphologies of the Subtle Body

1. Vehicles of the Soul from Plato to Philoponus

Porphyry's Compounded Vehicle

The Divine Iamblichus

Platonism in Theory and Practice

Proclus: The Great Systematizer

Damascius: The Last Scholarch

John Philoponus and the Incredible Myth

2. The Body of Light in Renaissance England

Subtle Bodies, Descartes, and Hobbes

Ralph Cudworth's Vehicles of the Soul

Plastic Nature as Ontological Mediator

Henry More's Cosmology

The Philosophical Romance of Joseph Glanvill

Anne Conway's Spiritual Monism

Cambridge Kabbalah

Arguing with Machines

3. Oriental Origins

Chevalier de Ramsay

Henry Thomas Colebrooke

The Sheaths of Vedanta

Beyond Colebrooke

Miiller's Six Systems of Indian Philosophy

Kuden: Day of the Samurai

4. The Wisdom of the Mahatmas

Tibetological Foundations

Helena Blavatsky and the Tibetan Mahatmas

Subtie Embodiment in Isis Unveiled

Subtie Bodies in The Secret Doctrine

The Creolization of the Subtle Body

Tibet beyond Blavatsky

Kuden: The Secret Body of the Ninja

5. Theosophical Gnosis and Astral Hermeneutics

Blavatsky's Astral Bodies

Annie Besant's Esoteric Christianity

Leadbeater's Christian Gnosis

G. R. S. Mead, the Subtie Body, and the Esoteric Tradition

Gnostic Bodies Unleashed

6. Crowley, the Orient, and the Occult

From Theosophy to Crowley-Anity

The Magus and the Orient

Crowley's Ontology?

The Subtie Body in Practice

From Creole to Hybrid

Kuden: The Daoist Alchemical Body

7. The Alchemical Body of Carl Jung

From Mead to Jung

The Secret of the Golden Flower

Subtle Bodies: Top-Down or Ground-Up?

The Yogas of India and Tibet

Nietzsche, Snake, and Eagle

Subtie Body and Eschaton

Kuden: The Tibetan Vajra Body

8. From Eranos to Esalen

The Religion of No-Religion

Stanford Counterculture

Out of Esalen

Conclusion: What Is the Subtle Body?

Radical Somatic Mutability

Last Thoughts on the Subtle Body.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cox, Simon Paul. Subtle body

ISBN:

9780197581032

019758103X

OCLC:

1264735895

Publisher Number:

99989829064