Esotericism and Narrative

Intro
 ‎Contents
 ‎Acknowledgements
 ‎Abbreviations
 ‎Introduction. Through the Portal
 ‎Williams and the Occult: Some Discursive Complications
 ‎Encountering the Occult in Williams's Fiction: A Literary/Historical Method
 ‎Chapter 1. Life and Times: Christian Occultism in Modern England
 ‎A Life in Myth
 ‎"But about This Reality of Yours ..."
 ‎The "Dead Master"
 ‎Arthur Edward Waite
 ‎Occult Imagination and the Secret Tradition
 ‎Constructing a Cordon Sanitaire
 ‎Part I: Occultism vs. Mysticism
 ‎Part II: Occultism vs. Christianity
 ‎Christian Occultism ‎Chapter 2. The Fellowship of the Rosy Cross: A Modern Occult Experience‎Masonic Rosicrucianism
 ‎The Paths of the Tree of Life
 ‎The F.R.C. and the Golden Dawn: The Adeptus Minor Rituals
 ‎Chapter 3. Fiction and Experience
 ‎The Unbearable Lightness of Fiction
 ‎Fantastic Narratology: The Liminality of Esoteric Knowledge
 ‎The Novels --
Intrusions of the Supernatural
 ‎The Gothic Occult
 ‎In the Network of Occult Fiction
 ‎The Novels of an Adeptus Exaltatus
 ‎"The End of Desire" --
The Discovery of the Higher Self
 ‎Occult Fiction, Occult Life ‎Chapter 4. Kabbalah: Charles Williams and the Middle Pillar‎A.E. Waite and Modern Occult Kabbalah
 ‎Becoming Shekinah: Charles Williams and the Middle Pillar
 ‎The Greater Trumps
 ‎Kabbalistic Eros and Romantic Theology
 ‎Chapter 5. The High-Priestess: Charles Williams and Modern Magic
 ‎Magic in the West
 ‎The "High-Priestess of Heaven"
 ‎Ritual Semiotics and the Magical Imagination
 ‎Chapter 6. A Magical Life in Fiction
 ‎Active Imagination
 ‎Active Will
 ‎The Way of P'o-lu
 ‎Art Magic: Sex, Poetry, Consciousness
 ‎Reanimation: Enchantment and Empowerment ‎Interpretive Drift: The Development of a Modern Christian Magic‎Chapter 7. The Transmutation of Charles Williams: Spiritual and Literary Alchemy
 ‎From Metallurgy to Particle Physics: A Brief History of Alchemy
 ‎Influences: Lee, Waite, Atwood
 ‎Rosicrucian Alchemy
 ‎The Great Work in Fiction
 ‎A Literary Alchemist
 ‎Epilogue. The Coagulation of Belief
 ‎Bibliography
 ‎Index