Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology: Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture

by Malcolm Peet

Malcolm Peet's Medicine, Mysticism and Mythology: Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg and Nineteenth-Century Esoteric Culture explores the life and cultural milieu of the nineteenth-century Swedenborgian James John Garth Wilkinson (1812-99), whose largely forgotten influence touched a diverse range of intellectual fields and social reform movements. In the early chapters, Peet offers a brief biographical sketch of Wilkinson and a concise history of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854482059
• ISBN13: 9780854482054
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
• Length: 464 Pages