The Chaldean Oracles (Paperback)

George Robert Mead

ISBN 10: 1908388269 / ISBN 13: 9781908388261

Published by Aziloth Books, Rookhope, 2011

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Paperback. George Robert Stow Mead (1863-1933) is a key figure in the revival and interpretation of Gnosticism and indeed the entire western esoteric tradition. He joined the Theosophical Society after graduating from Cambridge in 1884, and five years later became the private secretary of the Society's founder, H. P. Blavatsky, editing most of her published works and her magazine 'Lucifer'. He also followed his own lines of research, resulting in books such as 'Plotinus', 'Pistis Sophia' and the present work, each of them scholarly, comprehensive in scope, and eminently readable. Mead shows 'The Chaldean Oracles' to be the remains of a mystery-poem forming part of the inner initiation of a School or Order, and with painstaking scholarship he interprets the fragments into a cohesive pattern. A key figure in the western esoteric revival, GRS Mead joined the Theosophical Society and thereafter followed many lines of original research. In this scholarly and eminently readable book, Mead reveals 'The Chaldean Oracles' as an initiatory mystery-poem of an ancient esoteric School, skilfully interpreting the fragments into a cohesive patter Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Chaldean Oracles (Paperback)
• Publisher: Aziloth Books, Rookhope
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908388269
• ISBN 13: 9781908388261
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

George Robert Stow Mead (1863-1933) is a key figure in the revival and interpretation of Gnosticism and indeed the entire western esoteric tradition. He joined the Theosophical Society after graduating from Cambridge in 1884, and five years later became the private secretary of the Society's founder, H. P. Blavatsky, editing most of her published works and her magazine 'Lucifer'. He also followed his own lines of research, resulting in books such as 'Plotinus', 'Pistis Sophia' and the present work, each of them scholarly, comprehensive in scope, and eminently readable. Mead shows 'The Chaldean Oracles' to be the remains of a mystery-poem forming part of the inner initiation of a School or Order, and with painstaking scholarship he interprets the fragments into a cohesive pattern.

About the Author

George Robert Stowe Mead (March 22, 1863 in Peckham, Surrey (Nuneaton, Warwickshire?) - September 28, 1933 in London)) was an English historian, writer, editor, translator, and an influential member of the Theosophical Society, as well as the founder of the Quest Society. His scholarly works dealt mainly with the Hermetic and Gnostic religions of Late Antiquity, and were exhaustive for the time period.