This is the final book written by the seventeenth-century occultist and alchemist, Thomas Vaughan (1621 66). Originally published under Vaughan's penname, Eugenius Philalethes, in 1655, the work found a new audience in the Rosicrucian circles of the nineteenth century, when William Wynn Westcott, Supreme Magus of the Society, republished the volume in 1896 with a commentary by an associate, S. S. D. D. 'I have read many Alchemical Treatises', its annotator comments, 'but never one of less use to the practical Alchemist than this.' For its later readers, however, the value of the text lay in its insights into the history of hermetic thought rather than its alchemical advice. An important work of occultist philosophy in both its seventeenth- and nineteenth-century contexts, it purports to reveal nothing less than the origin of all life. The paragraph-by-paragraph commentary in turn demonstrates the history of its reception and interpretation.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1896 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1896 Edition.

The Magical Writings of Florence Farr. Introduction by Caroline Wise. Edited by Darcy Kuntz. Contains the following books: The Magic of a Symbol (This book contains Farr's ideas on symbolism, the Kabbalah, Egyptian magic, the Vedanta, Rosicrucians and Alchemy); The Magical Literati of Florence Farr (The Golden Dawn Papers; The Way of Wisdom (An Investigation Of The Meanings Of The Letters Of The Hebrew Alphabet Considered As A Remnant Of Chaldean Wisdom); and A Calendar of Philosophy. Also contains a Florence Farr Bibliography.

The study of Magic, which has now fallen into disrepute was, among the Egyptians, regarded with a veneration hardly accorded to the highest Philosophy in modern times. To the Ancient Egyptians the most eminent man was he who had by hard training gained supremacy over the Elements, from which his own body and the Manifested World were alike formed; one whose Will had risen Phoenix-like from the ashes of his desires; one whose Intuition, cleansed from the stains of material illusion, was a clear mirror in which he could perceive the Past, the Present and the Future." Contents: The Book of Songs Powerful Against the Inhabitants of the Waters; Legend of Ra and Isis; Gnostic Magic of Egypt; Extracts from the Gnostic Papyrus; The Book of the Grand Words of Each Mystery.

THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Egyptian Magic, by Florence Farr. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564593223.

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THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Egyptian Magic, by Florence Farr. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564593223.