He was born in Munich, the third son of Franz Josef Baader, court physician to the Prince-elector of Bavaria. His brothers were both distinguished — the elder, Clemens, as an author; the second, Jose ...
He was born into a peasant family on 2 February 1758, at Altorf near Stuttgart. At the age of seventeen he claimed to have had a vision lasting for three hours. From that time on he attended Pietist m ...
He was born in the village of Grund (now part of Hilchenbach) in Westphalia. His father, Wilhelm Jung, schoolmaster and tailor, was the son of Eberhard Jung, charcoal burner, and his mother was Johann ...
Aufschlüsse über Magie. München , 1790.Aufschlüsse zur Magie aus geprüften Erfahrungen über verborgene philosophische Wissenschaften und verdeckte Geheimnisse der Natur. 4 vols., Munich. 1788-1 ...
He was born at Amboise, into a poor but noble family.As his father wished, he tried first law and then the army as a profession. While in the garrison at Bordeaux, he came under the influence of Marti ...
Swedenborg spoke of a "New Church" that would be founded on the theology in his works, but he himself never tried to establish an organization. In 1768, a heresy trial was initiated in Sweden against ...
Robert Hindmarsh (1759–1835) was an English printer and one of the original founders of Swedenborgianism.LifeHe was born at Alnwick, Northumberland, on 8 November 1759. His father, James Hindmarsh, w ...
Law was born at Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire in 1686. In 1705 he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge as a sizar; in 1711 he was elected fellow of his college and was ordained. He resided at Cambridg ...
Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649–1728) was a Christian mystic, most famous for his extensive commentaries on Jacob Boehme.Dionysius Andreas Freher was a mystical and alchemical writer who was born in G ...
Gottfried Arnold (5 September 1666, Annaberg, Erzgebirge – 30 May 1714, Perleberg) was a German Lutheran theologian and historian.BiographyArnold was born at Annaberg, in Saxony (Germany), where his ...
Oetinger was born at G?ppingen. He studied philosophy and Lutheran theology at Tübingen (1722-1728), and was impressed by the works of Jakob B?hme, and also devoted attention to Leibniz and Wolff. ...
Gichtel was born at Regensburg, where his father was a member of senate. Having acquired at school an acquaintance with Greek, Hebrew, Syriac and even Arabic, he proceeded to Strasbourg to study theol ...
Georg von Welling (1652–1727) was a Bavarian alchemical and theosophical writer, known for his 1719 work Opus mago-cabalisticum, published under the pseudonym Gregorius Anglus Sallwigt. By profession ...
The imaginal realm is known in Islamic philosophy as alam al-mithal, the imaginal world. According to Avicenna, the imagination mediated between, and thus unified, human reason and divine being. This ...
Born in Lille with a facial deformity, Antoinette belonged to a rich Catholic merchant family. She received an upbringing appropriate to her social position and gender. From an early age she was under ...
