Shadows of Life and Thought: A Retrospective Review in the Form of Memoirs

288; 8pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and a gilt stamped design on the front cover. Frontispiece portrait of the author in 1936. Spine ends bumped. Spine ends and corners of covers a bit rubbed. Text block cracked a couple of times, however book still very sturdy. Top fore-edge corners of roughly a dozen pages folded over. In the dust jacket printed in black and red, with light soiling and rubbing, periodic closed and open tears to the edges, and toning to the rear panel. The deepest tear is closed, measuring 1 1/2" The memoir of the author, scholarly mystic, and poet who wrote authoritative works on the Legends and Symbolism of the Holy Grail, the Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, the Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus and the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, in addition to successive Studies in Christian Mysticism. From the dust jacket- "This long-awaited and important work is far more than an autobiography in the usual sense : behind the record of outer events stands a revelation of poetic and spiritual insight which may justly be claimed as exceptional. "Mr. Arthur Edward Waite is undoubtedly a leading authority on the Higher Mysticism and Sacramental Religion, and during his long and interesting career he has enjoyed an almost unique experience in these realms of thought and action." First edition (no additional printings listed).…