Hermetic Arcanum: Collectanea Hermetica Volume 1 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1926982002 ISBN 13: 9781926982007

Publisher: Golden Dawn Research Trust, 2011

Synopsis

Collectanea Hermetica Volume I: Hermetic Arcanum. This book was part of the curriculum studied by members of the original Order of the Golden Dawn. This essay presents the secret work of the Hermetic philosophy wherein the secrets of nature and art concerning the matter of the philosophers' stone and the manner of working are explained in an authentic and orderly manner. The volumes of Westcott's “Collectanea Hermetica” appeared over three years from 1893 to 1896 when the Golden Dawn was at its peak. In every volume the intellectual integrity of the authors is evident, as is an eagerness to bring academic respectability to subjects derided by their contemporaries. This edition was Edited Darcy Kuntz. General Preface by R.A. Gilbert; Preface to the Series by W. Wynn Westcott; Preface to the Hermetic Arcanum by Sapere Aude; Introduction by Robert Allen Bartlett; To the Students by Penes Nos Unda Tagi; The Hermetic Arcanum; Time of the Stone; Notes, Appendixes, Advertisements and Bibliography. Hardbound. 6x9. xxvi, 70 pp. This is the first corrected edition since Westcott’s edition which was originally published in 1893. This edition has been corrected against the original editions: Enchiridion Physicę Restitutę (1623); Enchiridion Physicę Restitutę (1642); Arcanum or the Grand Secret of Hermetic Philosophy. Third amended edition, (1650); Westcott's edition (1893). It also contains two advertisements from 1893 and a rare illustration of the interior of an Athanor reprinted from Theatrum Chemicum, (1659).

About this edition

• Publisher: Golden Dawn Research Trust
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1926982002
• ISBN 13: 9781926982007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: William Wynn Westcott