Alchemy : the secret art
Klossowski de Rola, Stanislas2013
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This new and completely redesigned edition creates a colourful and vibrant guide to the secret art. Klossowski de Rola elucidates the mysterious language and polyvalent symbolism from a variety of perspectives practical, spiritual, elemental and historical and explains how the true alchemist differs from the modern chemist and the false practitioner. Gold is only a by-product and emblem of the Great Work of the alchemist. The latter part of the book comprises the full text of a seventeenth-century exposition upon an alchemists dream-poem, and five richly illustrated Themes sections, reproducing full sequences of alchemical thought, art and paraphernalia.
Main title:
Alchemy : the secret art / Stanislas Klossowski de Rola.
Author:
Klossowski de Rola, Stanislas, author
Edition:
[New edition].
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2013.
Collation:
128 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cm.
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Variant title:
Cover title: Arcane doctrine of alchemy
Notes:
Previous edition: 1973.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780500810552 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1207492