The Physics of Transfigured Light by Marvell, Leon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Image Title Page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgments Table of Contents Foreword by Arthur Versluis, Ph.D. Preface to the New Edition Chapter 1: Ideal Objects and Their Forebears

IDEAL OBJECTS, OR HISTORY IN FOUR DIMENSIONS EXPANDING HISTORY: LE GOFF, BINARY OPPOSITIONS, AND THE PARADIGM SHIFT HERMETICISM AND THE POSTMODERN A POSTMODERN SCIENCE FIGURATION AND THE IMAGINARY G. W. LEIBNIZ, ROBERT FLUDD, AND THE METAPHYSICS OF LIGHT

ESOTERIC MACHINES RAREFACTION OF THE IMAGINARY THE SINGULARITY AND BIG NUMBERS VIRTUAL MIND THE INTELLIGENTIAL AND THE ACTUAL VORTICES OF THE HERMETIC IMAGINARY HOUR OF THE SWARM HERMETIC INFORMATICS CONCLUSION

Chapter 3: Body Doubles

VERTIGRAL ARCHITECTONICS: AN INTRODUCTION THE VERTIGRAL INDEX OF THE SUBTLE BODY ORIGINS OF THE PNEUMATIC ECONOMY THE SUBTLE BODY AS PSYCHONAUT A CHALLENGE TO CARTESIAN CORPOREALITY CORPOREALITY AND SEMIOSIS TANTRIC LUCIFORM CORPOREITY THE CELESTIAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CONCLUSION

Chapter 4: Metaphysical Geometry, Alien Attractors, and the Shape of the World Soul

THE PROGRESSIVIST ACCOUNT OF PHILOSOPHY THE ECLIPSE OF THE PHANTASMIC THE INFINITE CIRCLE HIERATIC SPACE THE SHAPE OF THE ANIMA MUNDI ARBOR VITAE THE SEVEN CATASTROPHES OF THE WORLD CONCLUSION

Chapter 5: The Gnostic Alchemy of Robert Fludd

PART 1: THE RADIATION ECONOMY IMAGINAL LOGIC OF AN IDEAL OBJECT: MATTER AND LIGHT THE PHILOSOPHICAL HYLE AND THE METAPHYSICS OF LIGHT RAYS AND LIGHTS: THE GNOSTIC ALCHEMY OF TRUTH’S GOLDEN HARROW ORIGINS OF FLUDD’S RADIATION ECONOMY HYPOSTASIS OF CHRIST BAPTISMAL IRRADIATION PART 2: NEO-MIKROKOSMOS RAYS AND VIBRATIONS CONCLUSION

Chapter 6: The Gnostic Leibniz, or What Is It Like to Be an Atom?

LEIBNIZ AND HIS TIMES LEIBNIZ AND ALCHEMY MONADS AND THE ALIEN LIGHT KABBALISTIC MONADS KABBALISTIC CANALIZATION PNEUMATIC FIELDS CONCLUSION

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