Restoring Paradise -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Initiatory Transmission and the Imagination -- WHAT IS ESOTERIC? -- INITIATORY TRANSMISSION AND WESTERN ESOTERICISM -- THE ESOTERIC IMAGINATION -- 1. Origins -- ALCHEMY OF THE WORD -- THE FIELD OF THE IMAGINATION -- THE RED THREAD OF GNOSIS -- CONCLUSIONS -- 2. Historical Currents -- DIVINE SERVICE: CHIVALRY AND THE TROUBADOURS -- BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS: JEWISH KABBALISM -- THE TRANSFIGURATION OF EARTH: ALCHEMICAL LITERATURE -- THE DIVINE SCIENCE: THEOSOPHIC, PANSOPHIC, ROSICRUCIAN, AND MASONIC LITERATURE -- 3. Modern Implications -- PROSPERO'S WAND: MODERN ESOTERIC LITERATURE -- THE WESTERN ESOTERIC TRADITIONS AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- LITERATURE, ART, AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.