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WELCOME to the Internet’s finest resource for New Books on western esoteric traditions, and unorthodox currents in western thought and religion.
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Full Listings Section One : Mainly non-Christian Traditions
I Ancient Religion & the Mysteries I
I Neoplatonism & Ancient Philosophy I
I Judaism, Jewish Mysticism & Kabbalah I
I Magic, Witchcraft & Demonology I
I General Esotericism & Miscellaneous Works I

Full Listings Section Two : Mainly Christian & Christian-influenced Traditions
I Hermetica, Alchemy & Emblemata (includes Pagan Hermetic traditions) I
I Gnosticism & Early Christianity I
I Medieval & Renaissance Esoteric Traditions (includes Christian Kabbalah) I
I 18^th, 19^th & Early 20^th Century Esoteric Traditions I

A few preliminary notes:
At the moment, I’ve concentrated on more out-of-the-way titles. These listings will be added to considerably in the next few months : I calculate that what’s here now is still only about one-third of what’s available, in terms of top-quality works, so check back soon! If you want to add your own comments, suggestions, or reviews, then you’re very welcome to email me.
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A couple of other points : By all means go straight to your favourite areas, but remember to browse the rest of the catalogue, because books are only listed once, and there’s a lot of overlap between different areas! For instance, a theme like ‘sacred marriage’ occurs in ancient religion, gnosticism, kabbalah, Christian mysticism, alchemy… and so on.
By the way, the codes after the publication date refer to the publisher, e.g. [A1] They aren’t a quality listing. Some books are not available through our Booklinks, so for these, come to me directly
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Cobb, Noel (ed.)
SPHINX 3 - A JOURNAL FOR ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS
The London Convivium of Archetypal Studies, 1994, 307 pp, PB. New. Limited availability. This Journal, now sadly defunct, was produced as a high-quality paperback book, with most issues containing colour plates (issues 1 & 2 are O/P). A first-rank selection of Jungian contributors give excellent articles and often unique translations of the world’s mystical literature. CONTENTS: Robert Bly: Four Essays Touching American Poetry; Gaston Bachelard: The Phoenix - From Fragments of a Poetics of Fire: Noel Cobb: The Fires of Eros and the Alchemy of Seduction; Eva Loewe: Images of Impossible Love: The Brother-Sister Coniunctio, James Hillman: On Mythic Certitude; Henry Corbin: The Jasmine of the Fideli d’Amore; Alfred Ziegler: Tales of the Vienna Woods; Linda Proud: Selections from the Botticelli Trilogy. POETRY: Robert Bly, Jeremy Reed, Noel Cobb. New translations of Rumi by Coleman Barks. New translations of Rilke by Eva Loewe and Noel Cobb.
GBP 23.00

Cobb, Noel (ed.)
SPHINX 4 - A JOURNAL FOR ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS
The London Convivium of Archetypal Studies, 1994, 272 pp, PB. New. Limited availability. This Journal, now sadly defunct, was produced as a high-quality paperback book, with most issues containing colour plates (issues 1 & 2 are O/P). A first-rank selection of Jungian contributors give excellent articles and often unique translations of the world’s mystical literature. CONTENTS: James Hillman: The Practice of Beauty; Eva Loewe: The New Lacemaker; Noel Cobb: Roy Watkins: Alchymicus Typographicus; Ginette Paris: Everyday Epiphanies; Thomas Moore: Mythic Sensibility; Nor Hall: Behind the Scenes in Psychotherapy’s Theatre; Noel Cobb: Working with Gold - The Mozartian Jewels of Kevin Coates; Benevenuto Cellini: On Goldsmithing; A. Hilary Armstong: Death, Immortality, Resuscitation and Resurrection -A Hellenic Reflection; Federico Garcia Lorca: The Death of Charlie Chaplin’s Mother; Thomas Moore: Chapters from Philodendron: Russell Hoban: My Night with Leonie. POETRY: Robert Bly, Noel Cobb, Paul Eluard, Judy Gahagen, Kathleen Raine, Jeremy Reed, Jalal ’uddin Rumi, Tomas Tomaschek. ART: The sculpture of Kevin Coates
GBP 23.00

Cobb, Noel (ed.)
SPHINX 5 - A JOURNAL FOR ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS
The London Convivium of Archetypal Studies, 1994, 305 pp, PB. New. Limited availability. This Journal, now sadly defunct, was produced as a high-quality paperback book, with most issues containing colour plates (issues 1 & 2 are O/P). A first-rank selection of Jungian contributors give excellent articles and often unique translations of the world’s mystical literature. CONTENTS: Francesco Donfrancesco: From Interior Soul to Soul as World’s Interior - On the Art of Carlo Mattioli; Robert Bly: Three Meditations; A Hilary Armstrong: Psyche, Ourselves, the World-Soul and Gaia in Plotinus; Edward Casey: Anima Loci; Gary Snyder: Coming in to the watershed; Lyall Watson: Taking Things Seriously; Giorgio Concato: Weltinnenraum in Rilke and Cezanne, Peter Bishop: Dew and the Poetics of Refraction - John Constable and the Animation of the World; James Hillman: Concerning the Stone - Alchemical Images of the Goal; Bianca Garufi: Anima Mundi and Anima Mater - A Reply to James Hillman’s Views on the Narcissism of Psychology; David Tacey: Jung’s Ambivalence Toward the World Soul: Cathy Wheeler: The Lost Atlantis - Myths of Soul in the Modern World. POETRY: Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Noel Cobb, Allen Ginsberg, Thomas R. Smith, Gary Snyder plus translations of Neruda, de Nerval, Ponge, Rilke and Rumi. ART: Carlo Mattioli: Ten Paintings (colour), Cezanne; Constable.
GBP 23.00

Cobb, Noel (ed.)
SPHINX 6 - A JOURNAL FOR ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS
The London Convivium of Archetypal Studies, 1994, 292 pp, PB. New. Limited availability. This Journal, now sadly defunct, was produced as a high-quality paperback book, with most issues containing colour plates (issues 1 & 2 are O/P). A first-rank selection of Jungian contributors give excellent articles and often unique translations of the world’s mystical literature. CONTENTS: Carmello Mezzasalma: Marsilio Ficino’s De Amore - Love and Beauty as Care of the Soul; Christopher Bamford: The Dream of Gemistos Plethon; Noel Cobb: Anima Socialis - The Soul of the Conviviuim; Marsilio Ficino: The Star of the Magi (translation and commentary by Thomas Moore); Geoffrey Cornelius: Astrology’s Hidden Light - Reflections on Ficino’s De Sole Marsilio Ficino: The Book of the Sun (De Sole); Angela Voss: On the Knowldege of Divine Things - Ficino’s Concept of Notio; Eva Loewe (interview): The Melancholy Smile of Venus; Darby Costello; A Fincinian Solution to Love in the Nineties; Peter Bishop: Ficino’s Pedestrian Imagination: Walking through the World with Soul. POETRY: Rafael Alberti, Robert Bly, Noel Cobb, David Greenslade, Kathleen Raine, Jeremy Reed, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jalal ’ Uddin Rumi, Thomas R. Smith, William Stafford, Arseny Tarkovsky. ESSAYS ON POETRY: David Keefe: Hearing the Wilderness Listen - The Poetry of William Stafford; Kathleen Raine: Yeats’s Holy City of Byzantium.
GBP 23.00

Cobb, Noel (ed.)
SPHINX 7 - A JOURNAL FOR ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS
The London Convivium of Archetypal Studies, 1994, 320 pp, PB. New. Limited availability. This Journal, now sadly defunct, was produced as a high-quality paperback book, with most issues containing colour plates (issues 1 & 2 are O/P). A first-rank selection of Jungian contributors give excellent articles and often unique translations of the world’s mystical literature. . CONTENTS: Ginette Paris: Broken Promises - Psychotherapy at the End of the Twentieth Century; David Maclagan: Pschotherapy and the Government of the Imagination - An Imaginal Way Out; Noel Cobb: On Archetypal Psychology’s Missing Alchemical Marriage, Part One; Eva Loewe: The Heart of the Practice; Alan Bleakley: Psychotherapy Stinks! Or Hecate Rising; James Hillman; Pschoanalysis Without a Patient; Robert Bly: The Sibling Society’; Leon-Paul Fargue; Danse Mabraque; Paul La Cour: The Image; A. Hilary Armstrong: Plotinus on the Origin and Place of Beauty in Thought about the World; Robert Romanyshyn: Starry Nights, Sexual Love and the Rhythms of the Soul; Federico Fellini: Itineraries Bare of Sentiment; Francesco Donfrancesco: Mario Fallani or The Apparition of Things: POETRY: Robert Bly, Noel Cobb, David Greenslade, Jalal ’uddin Rumi, Thomas R. Smith, Arseny Tarkovsky, Tomas Tomaschek. ART: Mario Fallani: Eight Paintings (colour): Emma Ronay: Four Drawings (colour)
GBP 23.00

St. Victor, O.
The Masked Madonna: Studies in the Mystical Symbolism of the Secret Sovereign: The Queen of Heaven
New Book, almost out-of-print, only available from us (and from this online listing service). 116pp, PB. A study of little known mystical aspects of the Virgin Mary. Part one explores the Queen of Heaven as seen by Zoroaster, Mani, Jacob Boehme and C.G. Jung, as well as other perspectives. Part two considers orthodox traditions about the Virgin Mary, along with chapters on the Black Virgin, the mystical cult of St Anna, and the Secrets of the Grail.
GBP 15.00

St. Victor, O.
Epiphany: The New Age and its Mysteries From the Time of the Jordan Prophets
New Book, almost out-of-print, only available from us (or this online listing service). 223pp, PB. This book investigates the historical and mystical traditions surrounding John the Baptist. The author discerns the Baptist’s mysteries in Egyptian, Chaldean, Mandean, Essene, Gnostic and Hermetic doctrines. In the course of studying John’s legacy in Europe, connections are uncovered between his name, doctrines and tradition and the Templars, Freemasons and writers in the Hermetic tradition, along with other groups.
GBP 15.50

St. Victor, O.
Secret Christians: The Teachings of the Mystics.
New Book, almost out-of-print, only available from us (and from this online listing service). 137pp, PB. A series of essays on Christian mysticism. The book displays an acquaintance with a remarkably wide and varied group of western mystical writers. Themes explored include, amongst others: The Victorine Tradition, Western Holy Roman Empire and Low Countries’ Spirituality-From Marseilles to Mechelen; Divine Darkness and Glory, Dionysius the Areopagite and the Chaldean Oracles; ’The Spirit of Strasbourg’ Goethe, Frank and Others; On Heptarchy, The Seven Faults and Seven Faculties in Man.
GBP 15.00

Taylor, Thomas; Proclus Diadochus
Essays and Fragments of Proclus the Platonic Successor
The Prometheus Trust, 1999, Volume XVIII of The Thomas Taylor Series, xi + 273 pp, HB. New Book - hard to find, order from us. Contains : On Providence and Fate (De providentia et fato...); Ten Doubts...(De decem dubitationibus...); On the Subsistence of Evil (De malorum subsistentia). Plus Taylor’s collection of Proclus’ fragments; Marinus’ Life of Proclus; and seven of Taylor’s own Hymns. A nice collection: it is very useful to have all these Neoplatonic gems in one handy volume.
GBP 21.00

Taylor,Thomas (1758-1835), Porphyry of Tyre
Select Works of Porphyry
(1994)[A20] 248pp, HB . New book. (Now reprinted). This work consists of (1) Abstinence from Animal Food. Far more than a defense of vegetarianism, this work is a significant resource for Pagan religious symbolism. (2) Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures (i.e. the Sententiae) 44 aphoristic formulations, mostly based on Plotinus. (3) Concerning Homer’s Cave of the Nymphs is Porphyry’s fine allegorical essay upon the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey Book XIII. Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) the ’English Platonist,’ was the indefatigable translator of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists into English. His work remains of great value, not only for its marked influence on the Romantics and various mystical writers (e.g. Shelley, Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson), but also for Taylor’s profound empathy and understanding of the Pagan religious background of Neoplatonism. The fact that Taylor’s translations are, in many cases, still the only ones ensures the continuing relevance of his work.
GBP 23.00

Taylor,Thomas (1758-1835); Proclus, Diadochus
Proclus’ Theology of Plato
(1995)[A20] HB, 730pp New book. (Now Reprinted) This volume retains all of Taylor’s introduction, notes, and his reconstruction of the lost seventh book. This is the first full republication of his original two-volume work, published by Prometheus in one volume. Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) the ’English Platonist,’ was the indefatigable translator of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists into English. His work remains of great value, not only for its marked influence on the Romantics and various mystical writers (e.g. Shelley, Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson), but also for Taylor’s profound empathy and understanding of the Pagan religious background of Neoplatonism. The fact that Taylor’s translations are, in many cases, still the only ones ensures the continuing relevance of his work.
GBP 33.00

Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon Religions of Rome Volume 1 A History (1998 Now reprinted), Cambridge University Press, pp 478, 58 halftones, bibliography, Paperback,0-521-31682-0, (approx.) UK price GBP 17.95 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
This fine set of volumes are just what’s been needed for a long time. They should be on the shelves of anyone interested in the religious situation in the Roman empire, and the background against which both Judaism and Christianity defined themselves.
Edited from the PPN: This survey of more than 1000 years of religious life in Rome places religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the 8th century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans’ own theories of their religious system and its origins; the relationship of religion and the changing politics of Rome; the religious importance of the layout and monuments of the city itself; changing ideas of religious identity and community; and religious innovation and revolution.; The companion volume, Religions of Rome 2: A Sourcebook, sets out a wide range of documents which illustrate the religious life in the Roman world.
CONTENTS Early Rome; imperial triumph and religious change; religion in the late Republic; the place of religion — Rome in the early empire; the boundaries of Roman religion; the religions of imperial Rome; Roman religion and Roman empire; Roman religion and Christian emperors — 4th and 5th centuries."

Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon Religions of Rome Volume 2 A Sourcebook (1998 Now reprinted), Cambridge University Press, pp 426, Bibliographies, index, glossary, Paperback, 0-521-45646-0, (approx.) UK price GBP 15.95 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
Edited from the PPN: The second of the two volumes which make up Religions of Rome, this work presents a range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire painting, sculpture, coins and inscriptions, as well as literary texts in translation. It explores some of the major themes in Roman religion (such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination and prediction). Each document, with introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, is used as the starting point for further discussion. The book reveals the extraordinary diversity of Roman religion from the archaeological traces of its earliest phases, to the sophisticated theological debates of later Roman authors. The widening scope of religious choice in the Roman world is a major theme of the book; and here Judaism and Christianity are given full coverage.
CONTENTS: 1. Earliest Rome; 2. The deities of Rome; 3. The calendar; 4. Religious places; 5. Festivals and ceremonies; 6. Sacrifices; 7. Divination and diviners; 8. Priests and priestesses; 9. Individuals and gods: life and death; 10. Rome outside Rome; 11. Threats to the Roman order; 12. Religious groups; 13. Perspectives."

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Among collectors of hermetic & esoteric literature, the MAGNUM OPUS HERMETIC SOURCEWORKS series, and its sister, the HERMETIC STUDIES series, have been eagerly sought-out as the finest collections of ancient esoteric texts available. Many of these are now out-of-print, but Chthonios is proud to have been appointed the only bookseller for the remaining copies of the original editions of these titles. These are privately published, in Limited Editions of 300 numbered copies, or less (for the MOHS series). Each one is an individually handmade item, with a Morocco-style Hardback binding, and are eminently collectable items.

Boehme, Jacob (Behmen)
Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 9. The Key of Jacob Boehme
With an Introduction by Adam McLean.
Jacob Boehme, (or, as William Law preferred to call him, Jacob Behmen) ‘The Teutonic Philosopher’, wrote his Clavis or ‘Key’ as a condensed explanation of the principal points of his philosophy. Boehme, an unschooled shoemaker, experienced while young a profound vision of the spiritual world which left him all the rest of his life with a degree of spiritual perception which inspired his writings. In trying to find a language to communicate his spiritual perceptions he often turned to alchemical ideas and images. The main period of his writings, 1612-1624, coincided with the phase of Rosicrucian publications, and although no definite link can be made, Boehme worked within the spirit of this movement. His Clavis or ‘Key’ to his writings is taken from the ‘William Law’ edition, and includes D.A. Freher’s ‘An Illustration of the Deep Principles of Jacob Behmen’, containing 13 emblematic figures. These 13 engravings provide a symbolic picture of Boehme’s philosophical system of Creation, and the ‘Key’ as a whole reveals Boehme’s profound spiritual philosophy, including the Seven Properties and the Three Principles - Salt, Sulphur and Mercury.
Limited edition of 250 copies. 60 pages. 14 illustrations. A5 Hardbound.
GBP 36.00 ( Including worldwide air mail postage) GBP 33.00 (Including Europe or UK postage)

Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 11. A Commentary on the Mutus Liber.
By Adam McLean.
The fifteen plates of the Mutus Liber, the ‘Mute Book’, are well known, and this book without words is recognised as a classic of the 17th century alchemical tradition. Although it seems to pictorially outline in detail an alchemical process, its message is not immediately obvious and it really requires a commentary to make it intelligible to the present day reader. Adam McLean has here provided an extensive commentary on this series of engravings, revealing it as a synthesis of spiritual, soul and physical alchemy. Although, tantalisingly, the entire secret of the physical process is not fully revealed in these plates, enough information is given to piece together details of a modus operandi; indeed modern French alchemists like Canseliet and Barbault have found great inspiration and hints as to the physical work in the Mutus Liber. Although these illustrations have been printed many times before, they have not yet been issued in an edition with an extensive commentary, and therefore this present volume should help to meet a need for an explanation of some of the mysteries of the Mutus Liber.
Limited edition of 250 copies. 55 pages. 15 full-page illustrations. A5
Hardbound.
GBP 36.00 ( Including worldwide air mail postage) GBP 33.00 (Including Europe or UK postage)

Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 13. Robert Fludd - Origin and Structure of the Cosmos.
Text translated by Patricia Tahil. Introduction by Adam McLean.
This is the first ever translation into English of a substantial section of Robert Fludd’s classic work Utriusque cosmi historia. Patricia Tahil has here translated the whole of the first two Books of the work which deal with the origin and structure of the Macrocosm. Fludd shows himself attached to the classical Ptolemaic picture of an Earth-centred Cosmos and he sums up in this work the spiritual perspective of the ancient tradition (to which he was passionately dedicated) on, the Macrocosm. Thus in his first book he deals with the nature of the Primal Substance, the inner nature of the Original Darkness, the Ancient Chaos, and the Universal Essence from which the entire Creation was shaped. His second book deals in turn with the threefold structure of the Macrocosm - the Empyrean World, the World of the Ethers, and the Earthly World. This volume provides us with a clear picture of the Cosmos seen as a spiritual being as it was grasped in the Western tradition in the early 17th century, just a few decades before seeds of a purely materialistic mechanical view of the Cosmos were sown into Western consciousness, which in time would emerge as the scientific revolution in thought of the 18th and 19th centuries. A valuable sourcework on Rosicrucian Cosmic Science.
Limited edition of 250 copies. 89 pages. 25 illustrations. A5 Hardbound.
GBP 40.00 ( Including worldwide air mail postage) GBP 38.00 (Including Europe or UK postage)

Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 14. A Commentary on Goethe’s Fairy Tale.
Text translated by Donald Maclean. Commentary by Adam McLean.
Goethe’s Fairy Tale should be recognised as an important alchemical allegory. Although written in the closing decades of the 18th century, it has essential archetypal links with the classical alchemical allegories, such as the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz, which to some extent was used by Goethe as a model or at least a starting point for the construction of his Fairy Tale. It describes in universal terms the alchemical process of the conjunction of the opposites, the male and female facets of the Soul, and the Fairy Tale is charmingly written. For this edition, the Fairy Tale has been translated anew from the German by Donald Maclean. Previously only Thomas Carlyle’s rather old-fashioned 19th century version was available. To this has been added an extensive commentary by Adam McLean.
Limited edition of 250 copies. 60 pages. A5 Hardbound.
GBP 36.00 ( Including worldwide air mail postage) GBP 33.00 (Including Europe or UK postage)

Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 18. A Commentary on the Chemical Wedding.
Edited with an Introduction and commentary by Adam McLean.
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz is well known as the major piece of early Rosicrucian writing. It is in the form of an allegorical romance, with a well-paced plot that captures the interest of the reader, and through the medium of allegory, conveys the essential esoteric philosophy underlying Rosicrucianism. Although the text in a 17th century English translation has been available recently in various publications, it really needs a commentary to help unravel the elaborate threads of esoteric ideas that form its fabric. Adam McLean here attempts to provide such an extensive commentary, hoping to elucidate and throw some light upon the tranformative process outlined in this most important of Alchemical allegories.
Limited edition of 250 copies. 180 pages. 38 illustrations. A5 Hardbound.
GBP 36.00 ( Including worldwide air mail postage) GBP 33.00 (Including Europe or UK postage)

Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 19. The Alchemical Engravings of Mylius
Commentary by Adam McLean. Translated by Patricia Tahil
Johann Daniel Mylius was one of the most important philosophical or Rosicrucian alchemists of the early 17th century. His ‘Reformation of Philosophy’, published in 1622, included a famous series of 28 engravings which form a multi-faceted complex of symbolism. These emblems provide a sophisticated symbolic system that opens the soul to spiritual archetypes, and which can be explored on many different levels, being like the Tarot trumps system, archetypally pure and at the same time sufficiently rich symbolically, that its depths cannot be plumbed intellectually, nor its symbolic import easily exhausted. Patricia Tahil has translated the section of the text that describes the emblems and relates them to alchemical ideas. Adam McLean provides an extensive commentary, outlining the interrelationships of the symbols of the emblems and suggests ways in which we can work with them further in meditation.
Limited edition of 250 copies. 130 pages. 50 illustrations. A5 Hardbound.
GBP 40.00 ( Including worldwide air mail postage) GBP 38.00 (Including Europe or UK postage)

Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 23. The Kabbalistic Diagrams of Knorr von Rosenroth
Translated by Christopher Atton and Stephen Dziklewicz. Edited with an Introduction by Adam McLean
At the end of the first volume of the important 17th century Kabbalistic compendium, the Kabbalah Denudata of Knorr von Rosenroth, there is a section containing 16 kabbalistic diagrams together with a text in Latin explaining their symbolism. These diagrams and the text illustrate the key ideas of Lurianic kabbalah. This present book reproduces these diagrams and provides a translation of the text, putting into print for the first time a valuable and unique source for the kabbalistic ideas during the mid 17th century. The diagrams relate in form to hermetic-alchemical figures of the same period. It is from material such as this that the Kabbalistic tradition as pursued today in Western occultism has emerged, rather than directly from the Jewish tradition, so this volume gives us some valuable insights into the roots of Christian and western Kabbalah.
Limited edition of 250 signed and numbered copies. 124 pp. 19 illustrations.
GBP 40.00 (including air mail postage) GBP 38.00 (including surface mail Europe
or UK postage)

Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 24. On the Divine Numbers and Divine Harmony - Robert Fludd
Translated by Charles Rainsford. Edited with an Introduction by Adam McLean
This is a translation into English of the opening two books of the second volume of Robert Fludd’s Utriusque cosmi historia - ‘An account of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm’. In this vast tome, issued in five parts during the period 1617-1621, Fludd attempts an encyclopaedic outline and synthesis of the western esoteric ideas on the relationship between the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, the Cosmos and Man. This translation was made by General Rainsford (1728-1809), a distinguished soldier with a great interest in alchemy, Rosicrucianism and a noted historian of Freemasonry.
Limited edition of 300 signed and numbered copies. 113 pp. 10 illustrations.
GBP 36.00 ( Including worldwide air mail postage) GBP 33.00 (Including Europe or UK postage)

The Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks No. 26.
Translated by Mike Brenner, with an Introduction and Commentary by Adam McLean
The Hermaphroditische Sonn- und Monds-Kind was printed at Mainz in 1752. Although the text is relatively obscure and impenetrable, the power of the series of twelve engravings attracted people to this work, and the fascination of these images still remains with us today. The work was reprinted twenty seven years later in the well known German alchemical compendium Hermetisches A.B.C. The work is divided into twelve sections each headed by an emblematic figure. The text of these sections begins with an ‘explanation of the figure’, followed by a short verse, a ‘paragraph’ with its ‘explanation’, and lastly a ‘canon’ or short verse with its ‘explanation’. The main focus of this present book is to provide for the first time a translation of the text into English, and to suggest ways in which the symbolic sequence of this work can be explored. This series has often been reproduced in modern books on alchemy, though no one seems to have attempted to interpret the work. The engravings contain many familiar alchemical figures, the green lion, the raven or black crow, the white swan, the ouroboros, suns and moons in abundance, but it is not easy to tease out an interpretation or find a clear path through the symbols. In writing his commentary on the Hermaphrodite Child of the Sun and Moon, Adam McLean has adopted the approach he has taken in his other commentaries to works with emblematic sequences in the Magnum Opus editions - he exposes the structures underlying the symbolism in the emblem sequence rather than rigorously analysing the text. Mike Brenner has done us all a great service by undertaking this translation. Some of the language is rather challenging, and it is difficult to find the exact terms in modern English for some of the abstruse concepts in this eighteenth century alchemical work. This book also includes the original German text, so that people who know German can make their own alternative reading of passages.
Limited edition of 300 signed and numbered copies. 112 pages.
GBP 36.00 ( Including worldwide air mail postage) GBP 33.00 (Including Europe or UK postage)

Hermetic Studies No. 1. Doctor Heinrich Khunrath: A Study in Mystical Alchemy
By J.B. Craven.
J.B. Craven, Archdeacon of Orkney, is well known for his books on Robert Fludd and Michael Maier published during the early decades of this century. He also completed this present book (though it was never published) on the mystical alchemist Heinrich Khunrath (c.1560-1605), famous for his ‘Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom’. Although an obscure and retiring figure, Khunrath’s books were very influential upon the development of alchemical, hermetic and Rosicrucian ideas during the early 17th century. The elaborate and detailed illustrations in his ‘Amphitheatrum’ were especially important, and this book was very much sought after at that time. J.B. Craven draws together in this book all that he could discover about Khunrath. The first part of the book is an essay on Khunrath’s life and ideas, and the bulk of the book is Craven’s exploration of Khunrath’s writings. Craven especially focuses on the ‘Confessio’ and the ‘Amphitheatrum’, and he provides much commentary and summaries of the texts. Craven’s book provides one of the few sources available for information on the important figure of Khunrath.
141 pages. 14 illustrations. A5 hardback.
GBP 40.00 ( Including worldwide air mail postage) GBP 38.00 (Including Europe or UK postage)

Hermetic Studies No. 3. Alchemical Compendium I
By Mike Dickman
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Eriugena, John (Johannes) Scottus (ed. by Michael W. Herren)
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CONTENTS OF THE HERMETIC JOURNAL

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal : 1978
Transmutation and Resurrection - Gareth Knight / The Golden Chain of Homer / A Satanist’s Diary / Alexander Von Suchten: The Sweat on a Philosopher’s Brow - Michael Jones / Divinatory Geomancy: An Hermetic Art - Stephen Skinner / A Vision - Kelly and Dee / The Science of Ayurveda: A Hindu Alchemy - Sri Lokanath / The Glyphs of the Planets - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala Number 1 / The Secret Fire of the Alchemists - Kenneth Clark / Ourselves - Cottie Burland / Creative Symbolism - Patricia Villiers-Stuart / Interpreting a Magical Diagram - Adam McLean / Hermetic Meditation No. 2 / Paganism and the Hermetic Occult Tradition: Part One - M.A. Howard / The Seal of Aemeth and the Seal of God / Fire and Water - Richard Gardner / Alchemical Mandala No 2 / The Four Fire Festivals Part One: Samhuinn - Colin Murray / Alchemy in Scotland

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal :1979
The Feminine Partner in the Alchemical Dance - Magenta Wise / Paganism and the Hermetic Occult Tradition : Part Two - M. A. Howard / The Spiritual Implications of Nuclear Power - Adam McLean / Hermetic Meditation No 3 / Dr John Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad - Gareth Knight / The First Matter - Kenneth Clark / Alchemical Mandala No 3 / The Four Fire Festivals : Part Two : Brigantia - Colin Murray / The Zodiac and the Flashing Colours - Ithell Colquhoun / Colour and the Two Sigils- Ithell Colquhoun / A Rosicrucian Alchemical Mystery Centre in Scotland - Adam McLean / Hermetic Meditation No 4 / Number and Space - Patricia Villiers-Stuart / Alchemical Mandala No 4 / The Golden Chain of Homer : Part Four / The Fountain Allegory of Bernard of Treviso / Fulcanelli - Kenneth Rayner Johnson / The Rosicrucian Canons of Benedict Hilarion / The Four Fire Festivals : Part Three : Beltane / A Rosicrucian Manuscript of Michael Maier - Adam McLean / Hermetic Meditation No 5 / The Uroboros - Kenneth Clark / The Birds in Alchemy - Adam McLean / Gargoyle Evocation - Jon Symon / Alchemical Mandala No 5 / Some Light on Kundalini - Nancy Ogle / A Foundation - Richard Gardner / The Four Fire Festivals : Part Four : Lugnassad - Colin Murray / A Possible Origin for the Enochian Calls - Geoffrey James / Hermetic Meditation No 6 / Memoir of E.J.L. Garstin - Ithell Colquhoun / Notes on the Colouring of the Homer’s Golden Chain Diagram - Ithell Colquhoun / The Forty Worlds of the Holy Lamb - Michael Becket / Bacstrom’s Rosicrucian Society - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No 6 / Robert Fludd’s Spiritual Task - Adam McLean

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal :1980
Ceremonial Magick : Part One - Hans Nintzel / The Crowning of Nature - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No 7 / Hermetic Meditation No 7 / Towards Occult Christianity - Joe Kelley / Spiritual Contact with an Alchemical Master - Kenneth Rayner Johnson / Alchemy in the Open - Nancy Ogle / Robert Fludd’s Temple of Music - Translated by Todd Barton / Reviews and Book Notices / The Rosicrucian Emblems of Daniel Cramer - Adam McLean / The Virga Aurea - Adam McLean / Capillary Dynamolysis - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No 8 / The Dancing Maidens - Michael Jones / Palingenesis - Kenneth Rayner Johnson / An Experiment to Grow a Tree of Silver - Adam McLean / Hermetic Meditation No 8 / The Mirror of Wisdom - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No 9 / The Ethers and the Fundamental Forces of Physics - Adam McLean / The Monas Hieroglyphica - Peter Dawkins / The Alchemy of the Earth Forces - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No 10 / The Hermetic Garden of Daniel Stolcius - Adam McLean / The International Alchemical Symposium, 1980 - Nancy Ogle / Hermetic Meditation No 9 / The Metalline Vapour - Michael Watson / The Tarot, the Seasons and the Five Chinese Elements - Swami Prem Sudheer

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal :1981
The Astral Light, the Prime Material and the Universal Mercury - Michael Watson / Whither Magic? - Stephen Skinner / Some Hermetic Reflections on the "Earth Mysteries" - Swami Prem Sudheer / The Rosary of the Philosophers - Adam McLean / Constructing a Magical Mirror according to The Art Of Cyprian - Adam McLean / Squaring the Circle of 13 - Patricia Villiers-Stuart / Some Notes on the Work of Louis Kervran - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No. 11 / Hermetic Meditation No 10 / Alchemy and Qabalah - Hans Nintzel / Rasayana : The Natha School of Alchemy - Lokanatha / Jane Leade’s Revelation of Revelations - Adam McLean / A Kabbalistic-Alchemical Altarpiece - Adam McLean / Muller’s Process / Hermetic Meditation No 11 / Heinrich Khunrath - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No. 12 / An Interview with Arturo Schwarz / Splendor Solis - Adam McLean / The Confessio of Heinrich Khunrath / A Lullist Alchemical Illustration - Adam McLean / The Reversed Lord’s Prayer - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No 13 / Advances in Physical Alchemy - / Modern Taoist Transmutations - Mobius Rex / Archibald Cockren: Modern Alchemist - Patricia Tahil / Hermetic Meditation No. 12 / Meyrink’s Der Golem: A Study in Alchemical Transformation - D. M. Cooley / Alchemical Principles in Agriculture: An Outline - Adam McLean / Man and His Souls - Nicolas N. Tereshchenko / A Key to the Letters of the Q.B.L - Violet Smyth / The Aurora Consurgens - Simon Seligman / Jacob Boehme - Adam McLean / De Cabala Alchymica or The Alchemical Tree of Life - Rafal T. Prinke / Working with Practical Alchemy No. 1 / Alchemical Mandala No. 14

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal :1982
The Mutus Liber - Adam McLean / Spagyric Medicine Revived - Paul Baines / Michael Sendivogius - Adept or Imposter - Rafal T. Prinke / Planning the Apocalypse - Michael Jones / Alchemical Mandala No. 15 / Historical Note Concerning the Emerald Tablet / Working with Practical Alchemy No. 2 / Four Basic Patterns of Indian and Western Alchemical Thought - Arturo Schwarz / Johannes Trithemius - Adam McLean / Dr Rudd’s Treatise - Some New Insights Into the Enochian System / Rosicrucian Aphorisms and Process from a Manuscript of Sigismund Bacstrom / Working With Practical Alchemy No. 3 / Alchemical Mandala No. 16 / Light on the Castle Path - Deirdre Green / Dew and Dew Ponds - Paul Baines / The Mythology of the Qabalah - P. Harrill James / The Brave Old World of Alchemy - Patricia Tahil / Robert Fludd’s Great Treatise of Rosicrucian Science - Adam McLean / Working with Practical Alchemy No. 4 / Alchemical Mandala No. 17 / The Teaching of Gurdjieff - Nicolas N. Tereshchenko / Alchemical Mandala No. 18 / An Hermetic Interpretation of the Tarot - Adam McLean / The Alchemical Tarot - Rafal T. Prinke / The Myth of the Fall and Goethe’s Fairy Tale - Adam McLean / Working with Practical Alchemy No. 5

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal :1983
Was Jacob Boehme a Paracelsian? - Russell H. Hvolbek / Alchemical Mandala No 19 / The Naometria of Simon Studion - Adam McLean / Fundamental Physics: Recapitulation of the Archetypes of the Ancient Alchemists - Adam McLean / The Triple Goddess - Adam McLean / Working with Practical Alchemy No. 6 / Freher’s Mystical Emblems - Adam McLean / The Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Theory - Adam McLean / An Early Rosicrucian Text : Cabala: Mirror of Art and Nature - Translated by Gisela Kirberg / Alchemical Mandala No. 20 / The Cosmological Structure of the Zohar - Paul Krzok / Messenger of the Rosy Cross - Adam McLean / Working With Practical Alchemy No. 7 / The Retrieval of Alchemy - Elemire Zolla / The Balance of Gold and Silver - Michael Jones / An Hermetic Origin of the Tarot Cards? A Consideration of the Tarocchi of Mantegna - Adam McLean / The Second Little World - Andrew Mouldey / An Alchemical Gate in Rome - Adam McLean / The School of Gerona : Restoring an Ancient Kabbalistic Centre in Spain - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No. 21 / A Look at Alchemical Transmutation from the Viewpoint of Fundamental Physics - Adam McLean / A Look at The Bahir - Paul Krzok / The Inner Geometry of Alchemical Emblems - Adam McLean / Pathworking and Inner Journeys - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No. 22 / Passages to the Otherworld - Deirdre Green / Edward Kelley - Adam McLean / Otto, Eliade, Jung and the Sacrality of Matter - Andrew Mouldey

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal : 1984
1484-1984 500th Anniversary of the Building of the Vault of Christian Rosenkreutz - Adam McLean / The Magical "Art" - Robert Ellaby / Charity of Light: A Zoroastrian Re-Reading of the Grail Romances - Elemire Zolla / Alchemical Mandala No 23 / Quantum Consciousness - Adam McLean / Microcosmic Reflections - Andrew Mouldey / The Kundalini Enigma - Lokanath Maharaj / The Ripley Scroll - Adam McLean / The Phoenix and Cinderella - Wolfe van Brussell / An Esotericist Looks at Cosmology - Adam McLean / Meditation : Balancing our Inner World - Adam McLean / The Symbolism of the Rosicrucian Vault - Dr. Deirdre Green / Early Symbolism of the Rosy Cross : Searching for a Link with Tradition - Rafal T. Prinke / The Fourth Rosicrucian Manifesto ? The Mirror of Wisdom of Theophilus Schweighardt / Computers and Occultism - Lokanath Maharaj / Alchemical Mandala No. 24 / Obituary for Frater Albertus / Homo Quadratus - Andrew Mouldey / Hermetic Allegory No. 1 / The Search for a Sound Philosophical Basis for Esotericism - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No. 25 / The Alchemical Emblems of Mylius - Adam McLean / A Glimpse of a Western Lineage

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal :1985
A Door will Open for Europe - Marcel Messing / Alchemical Mandala Number 26 / Spiritual Cosmology in Modern Science - Adam McLean / Hermetic Allegory Number 2 / Obituary for Israel Regardie / Hermetic Art: Gnostic Alchemy of the Imagination - A.C. Evans / Meditation on the Name of God - Gavin S. Bennett / Through a Glass, Darkly - Pete Ludbey / The Wroclaw Codex of the Magical Calendar - Rafal T. Prinke / Emblematic Meditation - Adam McLean / A Context for Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens - Joscelyn Godwin / Number in the Philosophy of the Hermetic Magus John Dee 1527-1608 - Chris Pickering / The Magical Aphorisms of Eugenius - Thomas Vaughan / Alchemical Mandala Number 27 / The Kabbalistic Diagrams of Knorr von Rosenroth / The Lemegetton Revealed - Kevin Wilby / Hermetic Allegory Number 3 / Lampado Trado: From the Fama Fraternitatis to the Golden Dawn - Rafal T. Prinke / Enochian Chess: A Magickal Vehicle for the Twenty First Century - Steve Nichols / The Four Angelic Tablets - Christian Wilby / The Ritual of the Hieroglyphic Monad - Thomas R. Hall III / Common Ground - Rab Wilkie / The Dream of Poliphilus : A Source for the Allegory of the Chymical Wedding - Adam McLean

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal :1986
The Seven Palaces in Early Jewish Mysticism - Dr Deirdre Green / The Alchemical Vessel as Symbol of the Soul - Adam McLean / A Method of Photographing Etheric Energy Without the need of Special Operator Properties - Michael Watson / Alchemical Mandala Number 28 / Gnostic Magic and Jacob Boehme - Harald Sundt III / The Scryers of John Dee - Chris Pickering / The Equinoxes and Solstices : An Interpretation Part I : The Summer Solstice - Graham Knight / Etheric Emblems - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No. 29 / Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and the Agarthian Connection - Joscelyn Godwin / The Origins of the Western Tradition in the Ancient World - Stephen Ronan / The Conjurer John Dee : The Myth 1555-1608 - Chris Pickering / Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians - Ron Heisler / Alchemical Mandala Number 30 / The Practice of the Art of the Pyramid - Thomas R. Hall III / The Equinoxes and Solstices : An Interpretation Part 2: The Autumn Equinox - Graham Knight / A Comparison of the Prayer of the Apostle Paul with the Hymns of Corpus Hermeticum and some Greek Magical Papyri - David R. Fideler / Two Prayers for Alchemists - Karl von Eckarthausen / A Threefold Alchemical Journey through The Book of Lambspring - Adam McLean / A Note on the Paintings of N.K. Roerich - Elemire Zolla / A Kabbalistic Interpretation of Hebrew Memorial Inscription - G.S. Bennett / Alchemical Mandala No 31 / The Equinoxes and Solstices : An Interpretation Part 3: The Winter Solstice - Graham Knight

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal : 1987
The Key to Hermetic Philosophy - Joseph R. Ritman / Speculations on the Monad and its Mathematics - Chris Pickering / Introduction to the Hermetic Adepti - Ron Heisler / The Fountain of Philosophers - Mark Haeffner / Deeper Roots of the Golden Dawn - Rafal Prinke / The Little Key to the Gate of the Palace of Pentagrams - Harald Sundt / Fractal Universes, Recursion and our Inner World - Adam McLean / Notes on the "Twelve Keys" of Basil Valentine - Adam McLean / Alchemical Mandala No 32 / Yeats and the Unknown Superiors: Swedenborg, Falk and Cagloiostro - Marsha Keith Schuchard / The Name of God and the Covenant of Abraham - Gavin S. Bennett / Altar of the Theraphic Brotherhood Fraternitatis Crucis Roseæ / The Sevenfold Kabbalah - Paul Krzok / Hermetic Symbolism in a Masonic Engraving - Adam McLean / The Occult Centre in Cracovia - Rafal T. Prinke / Palaces, Mansions and Shells in a Kabbalistic Diagram of Rosenroth / The Statue and the Seed: The Mountains of the Moon - Graham Knight / The Mute Book of Angels - Kevin Wilby / Daath, Kether and the Event Horizon - Gavin S. Bennett

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal :1988
The Poetry of Alchemy - Mark Haeffner / Kabbalistic Cosmology and its Parallels in the ‘Big Bang’ of Modern Physics - Adam McLean / A Rosicrucian Emblem - Adam McLean / Shaping the Cubic Stone : Masonic Symbolism in Lambert de Lintot’s Engraving - R.A. Gilbert / Symbolism of the Black Hole Egg - George Burnett-Stuart / Report on the Alchemical Workshop - John Fitzpatrick / Lilith and the Primal Water - Graham Knight / The Alchemical Tarot Deck: Part One - Rafal T. Prinke / The 49 Powers in Kabbalah - Paul Krzok / The Alchemical Drama of Goethe’s Faust - Adam McLean / Gnostic Cosmogeny - Martin Levin / The Twelve Figures of Orthelius - Thomas Willard / Theodorus of Asine and the Kabbalah - Stephen Ronan / Al-Kemi : Hermetic, Occult, Political, and Private Aspects of R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. - A review of André Van den Broeck’s book by - Joscelyn Godwin / Reviews and Book Notices

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal : 1989
The Alchemical Salt - Charles Upton / The Four-fold Shin and the Gates of Creation - Graham Knight / The Sky-Father-God The Earth-Mother-Goddess and the Opening of the Mystic Gate - James Clark / Report on Gröningen Conference on Alchemy / Rosicrucianism: The First Blooming in Britain - Ron Heisler / Hermetic Heraldry - Rafal Prinke / The Consideratio Brevis of Philip à Gabella - Translated by Christopher Atton / An Allegorical Letter about an Alchemical Adept / The Number Philosophy of Philo of Alexandria - David Moir / Monas Hieroglyphica and the T’ai hsuan Ching: Extrapolation and Synthesis - Andrew Gaze / Michael Maier and England - Ron Heisler / A New Look at an Old Anachronism - Nicholas Tereshchenko / Kabbalistic and Pythagorean Theory - Robin Waterfield / Robert Fludd: A Picture in Need of Expansion - Ron Heisler / Transformations of the Alchemical King in the Allegories of Merlin and Duenech

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal : 1990
The Impact of Freemasonry on Elizabethan Literature - Ron Heisler / Michael Sendivogius and Christian Rosenkreutz - Rafal Prinke / Some Hidden Sources of the Florentine Renaissance - Graham Knight / A Short Confession of Henry Khunrath / The Everburning Lights ascribed to Trithemius / The Vision of Ben Adam / The Sevenfold Adam Kadmon and His Sephiroth - Paul Krzok / The Spine in Kabbalah - Paul Krzok / Philip Ziegler - The Rosicrucian "King of Jerusalem" - Ron Heisler / Towards Gnosis: Exegesis of Valle-Inclán’s La lampara Maravillosa. - Robert Lima / The Journey of Frederick Gall / General Rainsford : An Alchemical and Rosicrucian Enthusiast - Adam McLean / A Letter from a Hermetic Philosopher from Ms in British Library / Shakespeare and Rosicrucianism - Ron Heisler / Two Diagrams of D.A. Freher / Some Golden Moments - Nick Kollerstrom

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal : 1991
The Book of Lambsprinck: An Interpretation - Guido Martens / Solidified Mercury: An Outline - D. Lloyd Thomas / Hargrave Jennings - Joscelyn Godwin / The Blacke Toade - Rafal T. Prinke / A Conference betwixt Philochrysus and Philadelphus on the Philadelphian Gold / East of Eden: Biblical Knowing and the Inner Elixir within a Kabbalistic Speculum - Gavin S. Bennett / [Al]chemical Imagery in the Poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega - Daniel L. Heiple / Hieronymous Bosch, ‘Psychedelic’ Art, Alchemy, and Bon Religion - Ezio Albrile / A Source for Robert Fludd’s Sevenfold Rose / Alchemical Agriculture - A recipe for an alchemical fertilizer from an Eighteenth century manuscript / Seven Illustrations to the Works of Jacob Boehme Extracted from a Walton manuscript / The Glory of Light or a short treatise showing Urim and Thummim to be made by Art - Transcribed from Ms. Ashmole 1415

Contents of the complete run of the Hermetic Journal :1992
The Epistle of Dr. Hadrianus a Mynsicht: A Rosicrucian Alchemical Allegory - Alberto I. LaCava / John Dee and the Secret Societies - Ron Heisler / An Infallible Touchstone / Zosimos and the Inner Temple - Graham Knight / The Fountain of the Lovers of the Science / A Behemist Circle in Victorian England - Joscelyn Godwin / Michael Sendivogius and the Statuts des Philosophes Inconnus - Zbigniew Sydlo / Oath of an Adept / Foam of the Moon - Graham Knight / The Forgotten English Roots of Rosicrucianism - Ron Heisler / Michael Maier’s Intellectual cantilenae on the resurrection of the Phoenix - Mike Dickman / Wood and Metal - Kabbalistic Orientation and Elementary Alchemical Returning - Gavin Bennett / Glauber’s Dialogue on the Alchemical Process / Christopher Walton’s Theosophic Symbols - Adam McLean

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