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THE JEWISH ALCHEMISTS: A History and Source Book. (Used)
by Patai, Raphael.
Publisher:
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Book ID: 429, 429

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DescriptionPrinceton 1994, 617pp, 35 B&W plates and figures, notes, and index, fine copy. Reviewed at length in Ambix, also Gnosis, this is a major history, densely packed with the harvest of many years of research. Patai may be best known to many as the co-author with Robert Graves of the Hebrew Myths, but he is the author of many other highly important books. He is also that rare writer who can convey history and ideas with grace and ease and in depth. This is one of a handful of truly great books on alchemy published last century.
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Deconstructing Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician
Churton, Tobias
Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
In November 1949, architect Frank Lloyd Wright announced the death of "the greatest man in the world," yet few knew who he was talking about. Enigmatic, misunderstood, declared a charlatan, and recently dubbed "the Rasputin who inspired Mary Poppins," Gurdjieff's life has become a legend. But who really was George Ivanovich Gurdjieff?
Employing the latest research and discoveries, including previously unpublished reminiscences of the real man, Tobias Churton investigates the truth beneath th... More
Price: $29.95
Gnosis 19: The Trickster. A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions
Gnosis
Gnosis
"As long as we lie to ourselves, the Trickster will be with us.
He'll show up just when we least want him, to embarrass us on a
first date, to prove us fools in front of the learned company
we're trying to impress, to make us miss a power breakfast with
that all-important business contact."
- Richard Smoley, from the introduction
Contents -- Spring 1991
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Price: $9.00
The Complete Mystical Records of Dr. John Dee: Transcribed from the 16th-Century Manuscripts Documen
Klein, Kevin
Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
A lavishly packaged, two-volume box set containing the most faithful and accurate versions of John Dee's journals ever published. This is a must-have treasure for Dee aficionados and esoteric scholars who absolutely need the most meticulously detailed version of these highly influential works. A labor of love twenty years in the making, these volumes include transcripts of four manuscripts from the British Library and one from the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Two of these manuscripts have never b... More
Price: $225.00
Grimoire of the Baron Citadel: The Book of the Four Ways.
Hamilton-Giles, Peter
Three Hands Press
As the governor of the Dead and the burial ground, the Baron Samedi is one of the most distinctive and potent loa of Haitian Vodou. An imposing figure in black raiment, he is most often pictured as a corpse. His other magical domains, less discussed in esoteric literature, include disruption, obscenity and -- importantly for the practicing sorcerer -- not only the arts of Magic but the very fabric of which it is made.
Emergent from the spiritual crossroads of traditional Vodou and English w... More
Price: $27.50
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