John & Samuel Pordage
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    John & Samuel Pordage

    John & Samuel Pordage(17th c.)

    English mystical-theosophical writers associated with Behmenist and visionary currents. Their works often use allegory and diagrammatic imagery to map spiritual worlds and divine processes. Important for the history of English theosophy and for the transmission of symbolic 'cosmologies' in print.

    Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Library) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)

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    Mundorum Explicatio

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    Mundorum explicatio wherein are couched the mysteries of the external, internal, and eternal worlds : shewing the true progress of a soul, from the court of Babylon to the city of Jerusalem, from the Adamical fallen state, to the regenerate and angelical : also, the explanation of an hieroglyphical figure : a sacred poem

    The Dial's edition: London, 1663

    An allegorical sacred poem that 'reads' an emblematic figure as a map of the external, internal, and eternal worlds, tracing the soul's passage from fallen state to regeneration in visionary-protestant mystical idiom. Listed in The Dial as S.Pordage, Mundorum Explicatio, London,1683.

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    Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Library) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)

    Theologia Mystica

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    Theologia mystica, or, The mystic divinitie of the aeternal invisibles, viz., the archetypous globe, or the original globe, or world of all globes, worlds, essences, centers, elements, principles and creations whatsoever

    The Dial's edition: London, 1683

    A visionary-theosophical cosmology of the 'eternal invisibles,' describing an archetypal/original world as the divine pattern behind all created worlds, principles, and forms. A Christian-platonizing map of reality meant to guide contemplative understanding of creation's hidden structure. Listed in The Dial as J.Pordage, Theologia Mystica, London,1683.

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    Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Library)