The Chthonios New Books Catalogue
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Section Two : Christian & Christian-influenced Esotericism

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This Catalogue is divided into the following sections :

Latest Additions to the New Books Catalogue in all areas
New Titles & CD-ROMS

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
(this page)
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.
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Hermetica, Alchemy & Emblemata
This section selects the best of the scholarly editions and analysis of works in the Hermetic and Alchemical traditions.

Broddle, S. M. (ed.), Eirenaeus Philalethes Alchemical Works: Eirenaeus Philalethes Compiled Cinnabar, 1994, xxi + 570 pp, HB with DJ.
(Out of print -ask us to search, and see if we can find a Secondhand copy for you). The precise identity of the seventeenth century English alchemist Eirenaeus Philalethes has never been settled. However, he is certainly not to be confused with Eugenius Philalethes, i.e. Thomas Vaughan. Our Philalethes wrote in English and Latin, and his highly influential works — even Newton was indebted to him — were translated into Latin, English, German, French and Spanish. This volume is the first collection of all his writings in English (that is, all but two which remain in Latin). Students of alchemy will be particularly grateful to the editor for supplying a detailed index. All in all, this volume is a desideratum for any alchemical collection.

Constantine of Pisa. The Book of the Secrets of Alchemy. Introduction, critical edition, translation and commentary. by B. Obrist. (1990)[A1] 349pp, some figs., HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 92.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Probably compiled in 1257 this early work, which discusses Alchemy in connection with medicine and natural science, is crucial for the development of Latin alchemy. First English translation.

Copenhaver, B. (ed.) Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a new English Translation with Notes and an Introduction (1992)[A6] 380pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
At last! An English translation of the Hermetica which is based on a reliable text (Nock-Festugière) and takes into account modern research. Includes a very useful introduction and notes; however, this edition does not include the fragments from Stobaeus and other sources.

Cramer, Daniel The Rosicrucian Emblems of Daniel Cramer. ISBN 0-933999-87-9 Translated by F.Tait, with an introduction & commentary by Adam McLean. (1991)[D2] 84pp, hardback, Richly illustrated .
The Rosicrucian Emblems consists of 40 emblematic plates, each bearing a title, together with a verse from the Bible and two lines in Latin. The plates revolve around the symbolism of the heart, which undergoes a variety of processes and experiences through a cycle of 40 stages. Adam McLean, in his introduction and commentary, elucidates the history of the text and the nature of the symbolism, and argues that Cramer, a Protestant theologian, was trying to produce a series of spiritual exercises for a Protestant, esoteric Christianity. McLean outlines a way to work with the emblems and their symbolism and suggests that "a work as profound and as simple as this can never die, but must always be a source of inspiration." UK price GBP 24.95 (O/P, only available from us)

Dobbs, B.J.T. The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton’s Thought (1991)[A6] 371pp, HB (approx.) UK price GBP 39.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Further research on Newton’s alchemy which argues that alchemy was a crucial element in Newton’s science. Includes text and English translation of Newton’s Commentary on the Emerald Tablet.

Eamon, W. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. (1994)[A14] 479pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 17.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The story of these esoteric ‘how to’ books written by mediaeval alchemists, magicians, and artisans, and how they affected the rise of modern science.

Faivre, A. The Golden Fleece and Alchemy (1993)[D1] 160pp, HB (approx.) UK price GBP 44.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This book traces the Golden Fleece myth from late Paganism through Medieval and Renaissance Alchemical and Masonic interpretations. It follows the changing fashions in the history of initiation as well as in mythology. Faivre connects politics, chivalry, the age of exploration, Renaissance architecture and iconography, the hermeneutics of eighteenth century Germany and France, and modern practitioners of Alchemy.

Faivre, Antoine The Eternal Hermes: From Greek God to Alchemical Magus ISBN 0-933999-53-4 [D2] 275pp, HB, richly illustrated, OUT-OF-PRINT in HB, Last Few Copies. . Translated by Joscelyn Godwin.
Both author and translator are well-known as two of the foremost scholars of Esotericism. This is a tour de force survey, the most comprehensive ever made, of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus and the influence of Hermetic literature, with particular focus on its resonances in post-Renaissance Esotericism. The book includes 35 illustrations of Hermes Trismegistus from rare books and manuscripts. UK price GBP 35.00 (O/P, only available from us)

Fowden, G. The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind. (1993)[A14] 261pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 13.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
At last, a reprint of this very worthwhile work (1st ed. 1986) on Pagan religion &thought and the background of the Hermetica.

Fulcanelli, Translated by Donvez , Brigette and Perrin, Lionel The Dwellings of the Philosophers (Les Demeures Philosophales) 1999, PB, 550 pages , 39 illustrations.
UK price 28.95 GBP
Edited from the publisher’s publicity notes: "Les Demeures Philosophales is perhaps the most important alchemical work of the past two centuries. This first translation into English brings to us a wealth of alchemical philosophy that has hitherto been unavailable. Fulcanelli’s seminal masterpiece takes the attentive reader through the alchemical labyrinth, decoding the monuments and architectural decoration built by those who have actively engaged in the Great Work. Fulcanelli instructs us by showing that history must be interpreted by the monuments that have been left and not only by historians who construct a linear worldview exclusively through documents, which method gives us an often jaded and unrepresentative view of what transpired. Not only does Fulcanelli decode and interpret the various alchemical symbols of the houses of the alchemists and philosophers, he goes to great lengths to lay bare and explicate the alchemical worldview of past centuries. Through an examination of the ‘Language of the Birds’ and the score of applications of the Cabala (or Kabbalah), Fulcanelli presents us with the deep mysteries of the Great Work."

Godwin, J. (translation), Christian Rosenkreutz (Rosencrantz) The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. ISBN 0-933999-34-8 With an introduction & commentary by Adam McLean. (1991)[D2]. 175pp, hardback , OUT-OF-PRINT, See if we can find you a copy!
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, often looked upon as the ‘third Rosicrucian manifesto,’ has an entirely different tone to the other Rosicrucian documents. Unlike these Rosicrucian manifestos, which address the transformation of society, the Chemical Wedding is concerned with the inner transformation of the soul. It is a deeply meditative work, and one which invites the reader to step into its world of symbols and walk with Christian Rosenkreutz along his path of transformation. Despite its recognised importance as a key text of the western esotericism, this is the only modern English translation of The Chemical Wedding. Adam McLean’s commentary illuminates the transformative symbolism of this central Rosicrucian document UK price GBP 33.00

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Grese, W.C. Corpus Hermeticum XIII and early Christian literature. (1979)[A1] 243pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 67.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Detailed works dealing with the CH are few and far between. This is a most valuable volume which gives text, English translation. and a very thorough commentary on one of the most interesting tractates.

Hamilton-Jones, J.W. The Epistles of Ali Puli (1951) 159 pages, HB (Out of print -ask us to search, and see if we can find a Secondhand copy for you). Reprint of the now very rare Alchemical Epistles of the renowned but mysterious Ali Puli who flourished in the late 17th c. and was unusual in being of African or Asian extraction (he is described as ‘Moorish’ or ‘Asiatic’).

Horapollo of Nilous) The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo. (Boas, G. translation & intro.) (1994)[A14] 144pp, 10 illus. PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 11.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A reprint of Boas’ 1950 translation of the only ancient work (4th c. ad) on the symbolism of hieroglyphics. Very useful now that the Chthonios edition is o/p.

Horst, P.W. van der. Chaeremon, Egyptian Priest and Stoic Philosopher. The Fragments Collected and Translated with Explanatory Notes. Reprint with a Preface, Addenda & Corrigenda. (1987)[A1] 104pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The fragments of Chaeremon (1st c. ad) give us practically our only chance to view genuine and non-pseudepigraphic Egyptian lore of the period—and very interesting to compare with the Hermetica.

Iversen, E. The Myth of Egypt and its Hieroglyphs in European Tradition. (1994)[A14] 178pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 14.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A fascinating work which follows through the interpretation and misinterpretation of Egypt and its hieroglyphs in western tradition.

McLean, Adam A Commentary on the Mutus Liber. ISBN 0-933999-89-5 (1991)[D2] 82pp, hardback, Richly illustrated .
The 15 plates of the Mutus Liber-the ‘Mute Book’-are a classic in the 17th century alchemical tradition. Adam McLean’s extensive commentary on this series of engravings reveals the Mutus Liber as a synthesis of spiritual and physical alchemy. "A brilliant commentary on an alchemical classic... McLean gives formulas for both inner and laboratory work."-Gnosis Magazine.UK price GBP 24.95

McLean, Adam The Silent Language: the Symbols of Hermetic Philosophy ISBN 90-71608-05-0 (1994)[D3]. 92pp, Richly Illustrated with 58 plates. Large format 11 x 8 inches. pb . OUT-OF-PRINT, Last Few Copies.
This is the catalogue of an exhibition held in the summer of 1994, which was compiled from the rich resources of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. The exhibition demonstrates the underlying coherence in the language of symbols used in Hermetic philosophy, Mysticism, Alchemy and in the Rosicrucian movement. Fifty-eight printed books and manuscripts are described in the catalogue, which is illustrated with the symbols shown at the exhibition. The works chosen show the evolution of the Hermetic tradition between the 16th and 18th centuries and demonstrate the consistency of Hermetic symbolism in this period. The text by Adam McLean follows this theme in some detail, while the prefaces by J.R. Ritman and F.A. Janssen explore the philosophical and bibliographical background. This work is much more than just a catalogue, however: it has special significance as the first general survey of Hermetic symbolism during a crucial period of its development. UK price GBP 21.00 (O/P, only available from us)

Mead, G.R.S. Thrice Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis. [Being a translation of the Extant Sermons and Fragments of the Trismegistic Literature, with Prolegomena, Commentaries and Notes]. (1992)[A10] three volumes in one 864p PB (approx.) UK price GBP 36.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Originally published in 1906 and long o/p, this was the first complete English translation of the Hermetica. Although there has been much water under the bridge since Mead was conducting his research, his hermetic labours still have much to recommend them. The chief advantage of this over Copenhaver’s edition (apart from the inclusion of the fragments) is Mead’s unrivalled ability to enter the mystical thought-world of the Hermetica. Though of course, where scholarly considerations are paramount, Copenhaver’s edition will be the first port of call.

Needham, J. Science and Civilisation in China Vol.V: Chemistry and Chemical Technology.
Volume 5, Parts II-V of Joseph Needham’s justly acclaimed magnum opus on Chinese science and civilisation give a superbly thorough treatment of Chinese alchemy, which pays full attention to the religious and philosophical background. In fact, these 4 large volumes contain what is probably the most detailed investigation of any aspect of alchemy in English.
Needham, J. Part 2: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality (1974)[A6] 542pp, Illus. 14 tables. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 96.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This volume covers alchemical gold-making and gold-faking, as well as the substances used to promote immortality and their preparation, along with the philosophy behind them.

Needham, J. Part 3: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin (1976)[A6] 516pp, illus., 8 tables, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 95.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A very detailed survey of the origins and growth of alchemy in China.

Needham, J. Part 4: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus and Theory (1980)[A6] 804pp, 20 plates, 10 tables, 150 diagrams, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 120 (Reprint underway)
The first section examines the laboratory apparatus and equipment, the second explores the theoretical background of elixir alchemy, and the third is a comparison of Chinese and Greco-Roman alchemy.

Needham, J. Part 5: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Physiological Alchemy (1983)[A6] 608pp, 6 tables, 93 ills., HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 95.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
(Reprint underway)
A full treatment of internal meditative alchemy, which is compared with esoteric Western alchemy and Indian yoga. Also contains an interesting critique of the Jung/Wilhelm interpretation of the Secret of the Golden Flower.

Newman, W.R. The ‘Summa Perfectionis’ of Pseudo-Geber. A critical edition, translation and study. (1991)[A1] 790pp, ills. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 227.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
At a price to bring tears to your eyes, but this is the first authoritative English translation and full study of the ‘Bible of the medieval alchemists:’ the 13th c. work which was arguably the most influential and important medieval alchemical text.

Patai, R. The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book. (1994)[A14] 608pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 25.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This is the most significant Alchemical resource to have been published in recent years. Patai may be inclined to overemphasise the Jewish component in Alchemy, but his detailed survey and translation of scores of texts from a variety of ancient languages makes this an essential book.

Roberts, G. The Mirror of Alchemy — Alchemical Ideas and Images in Manuscripts and Books from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century The British Library, 1994, 128 pp, PB. Richly illustrated.
Probably the best single survey of western alchemy.(approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Szydlo, Z. Water Which Does Not Wet Hands: The Alchemy of Michael Sendivogius. ISBN 83-86062-45-2 (1994)[D5], 300pp, Illus. HB
This book, published by the Polish Academy of Sciences, is being exclusively distributed by Chthonios Books.
The author makes a major contribution to the work undertaken in recent years of rescuing the reputation of the much-maligned Polish Alchemist Michael Sendivogius (1566-1636). In particular, Szydlo clears up much of the confusion which has surrounded Sendivogius’ life and work. This study is particularly useful in containing an appendix with translations and summaries of Sendivogius’ main works, many of which have not been previously translated. The contributions of this major figure to Alchemy, Chemistry and the history of secret societies are here clearly illuminated. Central to the book is Sendivogius’ role in the discovery of oxygen: the ‘water which does not wet hands.’
Already by 1604, Sendivogius had identified a ‘hidden food of life’ present in air, and realised that this substance was at the very root of life on earth. Szydlo recounts the fascinating story of how Sendivogius’ insights into the nature and uses of oxygen seem to have enabled the Dutch inventor and alchemist, Cornelis Drebbel, to sail a twelve-man crew under the Thames for three hours in a wooden submarine, an outstanding feat which was witnessed by James I in 1621.
This is an essential volume for the history of Alchemy and Science, but its appeal is wider because of Sendivogius’ colourful life and accomplishments. It has already won acclaim, including a substantial review in the London Times. The author has a PhD from University College, London and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. UK price GBP 29.50

Trismosin, Salomon Splendor Solis. ISBN 0-933999-91-7 Translated by J.Godwin & with an introduction & commentary by Adam McLean. (1991)[D2] 126pp, hardback Richly illustrated.
Splendor Solis the ‘Splendour of the Sun’ is possibly the best known text of late 16th century alchemy, primarily due to the beauty of the often reproduced illustrations from the illuminated manuscript version in the British Library. In this new definitive edition of the work, Joscelyn Godwin has translated the text anew from the original German and has consulted five primary sources, thus doing justice at last to the work of Salomon Trismosin. Included in this edition are reproductions of the 22 engravings from the German edition of 1708, and an introduction and commentary by Adam McLean. UK price GBP 29.50

Waite, A. E. (ed.) The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged: Most Faithfully Instructing All Disciples of the Sopho-Spagyric Art How That Greatest and Truest Medicine of The Philosopher’s Stone May Be Found and Held (1994)[A10] 2 Vols. in 1. 690pp, 50 plates, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 37.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A reprint of Waite’s 1893 English edition of the most famous and fundamental of 17th c. Alchemical collections.

NOTE: Adam McLean, a colleague of mine, has some alchemical publications on his website which are only available through him (SR)

Gnosticism & Early Christianity
This section focuses particularly on the currents in early Christianity which came to be deemed heretical. But it also tackles the historical Jesus, and the various factors which determined what became ‘orthodox’ and what didn’t.

Bauer, Walter, Robert A. Kraft (Editor), Gerhard Krodel (Editor) Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity Paperback ISBN: 0962364274 Sigler Press (1996) (approx.) UK price GBP 23.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
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Baynes, C.A. A COPTIC GNOSTIC TREATISE 255 pages UK price GBP 42.00 (Final stock of 1 copy only)
Charlotte Baynes was a student of G.R.S.Mead’s. This work is a translation of an important Gnostic text, the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex (which is not part of the Nag Hammadi library). Students of Kabbalah will find the parallels between the Zohar’s and the Untitled Text’s anthropomorphic descriptions of deity of great interest, but perhaps the finest feature of the book is Baynes’ rich and illuminating commentary. The work is completed with an exhaustive subject index which runs to 28 pages. The Coptic text, which is now available elsewhere, is not included here.

di Beradino, A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of the Early Church. 2 Vols. (1992)[A18] 1200pp, colour & b/w illus. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 165.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
By far the most comprehensive and detailed work on early Christianity, this is a fundamental reference work. Richly illustrated and fully indexed.

Bohlig & Wise (edd) Nag Hammadi Codices III, 2 and IV, 2 The Gospel of the Egyptians (1975)[A1] 247pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 52.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This and the related items on this list, usually represent the most detailed studies available of the individual Nag Hammadi treatises. Each volume contains an up to date text and translation, and usually full introductions and notes, exploring each treatise in detail. Eventually this series will cover the entire Nag Hammadi corpus. Since few will be able to afford the whole series, in most cases it will be best to consult your copy of the Nag Hammadi Library and select those volumes containing the texts of most interest.

Bormann, Del Tredici, Standhartinger. (edd.). Religious Propaganda and Missionary Competition in the New Testament World. (1994)[A1] 352pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 120.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Distinguished scholars explore Pagan, Jewish and Christian sources in order to illuminate the confrontation of Jewish and Christian groups with their environment.

Broek & Vermaseren (edd.) Studies in Gnosticism and Hellenistic Religions presented to Gilles Quispel on the occasion of his 65th birthday. (1981)[A1] 637pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 135.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Brown, Peter Authority and the Sacred : Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World Paperback, 112 pages (1997) Cambridge Univ Pr ISBN: 0521595576 (approx.) UK price GBP 8.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Edited from the PPN: The Christianisation of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe, yet at the time it was a tentative and piecemeal process. Peter Brown’s fascinating study examines the factors which proved decisive and the compromises which made the emergence of the Christian ‘thought world’ possible: how the old gods of the Roman Empire could be reinterpreted as symbols to further the message of the Church. Peter Brown also shows how Christian holy men were less representative of a triumphant faith than negotiators of a working compromise between the new faith and traditional ways of dealing with the supernatural worlds.

Celsus (translation R.J. Hoffmann) On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians. (1987)[A9] 160pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 10.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Celsus (2nd c. ad) wrote the first preserved substantial critique of Christianity. The substance of his arguments were preserved by Origen in his refutation. The fragments of Celsus’ work are here collected with introduction, thus giving a valuable overview of the early Pagan critique of Christianity.

Cross, F.L. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2nd revised edition. (1974)[A8] 1,552pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 85.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A comprehensive and long-time standard reference work.

Crossan, J.D. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1992)[A3] 432pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 19.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An analysis of the historical Jesus. While everyone who writes on the historical Jesus seems to have a pronounced agenda, Crossan’s work is still useful, even to those who don’t share his. Crossan’s method is to "…evaluate all the events and sayings attributed to Jesus in the NT and extra-canonical writings, examining each source and text…"

Crouzel, H. Origen (1989)[A3] 278pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 16.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The first systematic exposition of Origen’s career, thought and achievement. Origen is in many ways the most attractive and philosophically profound of the more mainstream early Christian thinkers. He was the closest to the Pagan Neoplatonists, and favoured the freedom and creativity of allegorical interpretation.

Desjardins, M. Sin in Valentinianism (1990)[D4] 167pp, PB ISBN 1-55540-225-9. (approx.) UK price GBP 14.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Conventional surveys of Gnosticism pay little attention to Ethics, and often give the impression that the movement had little interest in morality. This volume analyses much material from Nag Hammadi and Patristic sources, and corrects this oversight.

Downing, F.G. Cynics and Christian Origins (1993)[A3] 352pp, HB (approx.) UK price GBP 24.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
"This study shows that the wealth of parallels between the Jesus tradition and popular Cynicism has been an important element in Christianity from the earliest days."

Emmel, S. (ed.) Nag Hammadi Codex III,5 The Dialogue of the Saviour.(1984)[A1] 141pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 48.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
Contains the Following: Introduction, The Manuscript, Text and English translation.

Evans & Chilton (edd.) Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research. (1994)[A1] 350pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 68.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Critical assessments of Life of Jesus research in the last generation, with a particular emphasis on recent work. A must for anyone seriously interested in the historical Jesus, although not all the contributors manage to step far outside their theological commitments.

Evans, C.A. Life of Jesus Research: An Annotated Bibliography. (1989)[A1] 221pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 70.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Evans, Webb & Wiebe, (edd.). Nag Hammadi Texts and the Bible: A Synopsis and Index. (1993)[A1] 573pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 133.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A marvellous research tool for anyone seriously engaged in Gnostic studies. Each of the Nag Hammadi texts are combed for biblical parallels, which are then quoted along with their biblical texts or references. Also useful for the up-to-date (to ’93) 42 page bibliography of Gnosticism.

Ferguson, Everett (Editor) Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Schism in Early Christianity Hardcover, 376pp. ISBN: 0815310641 Garland Publishing, (1993) (approx.) UK price GBP 78.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
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Good, D.J. Reconstructing the Tradition of Sophia in Gnostic Literature (1987)[D4] 118pp, PB ISBN 1-55540-059-0. (approx.) UK price GBP 22.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Explores the Gnostic image of Sophia (Wisdom) in relation to the wisdom traditions in Early Christianity. Good’s careful analysis contributes greatly to our understanding of this important female symbol.

Grant, Robert M. Gods and the One God Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1986, 211 pp, HB with DJ.
"How do early Christian beliefs about God appear when compared with the beliefs of others in the Roman empire? This is the task Professor Grant sets for himself in the new series designed to `take down the fences’ between the New Testament and world of ancient Rome... No other book provides such rich documentation of the similarities and differences between beliefs of the emerging Christian movement and the religious practices and views of the larger world at the time the New Testament was written". — Robert L. Wilken, Commonwealth Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Virginia. UK price GBP 12.00

Green, H.A. The Economic and Social Origins of Gnosticism (1985)[D4] ISBN 0-89130-843-1. 304pp PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 26.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An innovative work which acts as a counterweight to the stress put on the theological origins of the movement.

Jackson, H. The Lion Becomes Man: The Gnostic Leontomorphic Creator and the Platonic Tradition (1985)[D4] 233pp, HB ISBN 0-89130-872-5, (approx.) UK price GBP 27.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
PB ISBN 0-89130-873-3. (approx.) UK price GBP 18.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The lion-shaped and, in particular, the lion-headed deity is a familiar image in Gnosticism, Mithraism and the Magical Papyri. Taking as his starting point a ‘hard saying’ from the Gospel of Thomas, the author explores the rich symbolism of this image.

Klijn, A.F.J. Jewish-Christian Gospel Tradition (1992)[A1] 168pp, HB, (approx.) UK price GBP 49.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The first comprehensive presentation of the Jewish-Christian gospel fragments with full texts, English translation. and commentaries.

Klimkeit, H.G. Manichaean art and calligraphy. (1982)[A1] 62pp, 32 plates, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 48.00 Buy from us, or click through to our Booklinks for local prices & discounts.
Part of the acclaimed Iconography of Religions series which feature short introductions and a fine choice of plates. This vol. concerned with the most widespread of ancient Gnostic movements.

Layton, B. (ed.) The Rediscovery of Gnosticism: Vol. 2 Sethian Gnosticism (1981)[A1] 443pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 96.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Important articles on the Sethian stream of Gnosticism. Vol. 1, on Valentinian Gnosticism, is o/p.

Layton, B. The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions (1987)[A22] 561pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 19.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A most useful compendium of (mostly non-Nag Hammadi) Gnostic texts in translation. The introductions, notes and comprehensive indexes make this an essential reference volume.

Lieu, S.N.C. Manichaean Studies. Vol.1: Mesopotamia and the Roman Empire. (1993)[A1] 350pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 94.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Studies by the foremost scholar of Manicheanism, a Gnostic world religion which spread as far as China. These studies take in to account new Manichean texts discovered fairly recently.

MacMullen, Ramsay (Editor), Eugene N. Lane (Editor) Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E. : A Sourcebook Paperback, 296 pages (1992) Fortress Press ISBN: 0800626478 (approx.) UK price GBP 20.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
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Malherbe, Abraham J., Moral Exhortation A Greco-Roman Sourcebook Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1986, 178 pp, HB with DJ.
"What did the moral teachings of the early Christian writers have in common with the works of the pagan philosophers and orators of their time? Exploring this important area within New Testament studies, a leading authority brings together primary materials that have not been easily available before and provides clear, concise, and penetrating introductions that make them accessible to nonspecialists". UK price GBP 12.00

Merkur, D. Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions. (1993)[D1] 448pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 22.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Gnosis traces the use of powerful gnostic visionary techniques from Hellenistic Gnosticism and Jewish Merkavah mysticism, through Muhammad, the Ismaeilis, and theosophical Sufism to medieval Neoplatonism, and renaissance Alchemy.

Mills, M.E. Human Agents of Cosmic Power in Hellenistic Judaism and the Synoptic Tradition (1990)[A4] 184pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 29.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Parrott, D.M (ed.). Nag Hammadi Codices V, 2-5 & VI with Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, 1 & 4 (1979)[A1] 575pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 121.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Contains the following: The Apocalypse of Paul, The First Apocalypse of James, The Second Apocalypse of James, The Apocalypse of Adam. The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles, The Thunder: Perfect Mind, Authoritative Teaching, The Concept of Our Great Power, Plato, Republic 588b-589b, The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth, The Prayer of Thanksgiving, Scribal Note, Asclepius 21-29, The Gospel of Mary, The Act of Peter, Word Indexes, Coptic Words, Proper Nouns, References to Ancient Works and Authors.

Parrott, D.M. (ed.) Nag Hammadi Codices III, 3-4 and V, I with Papyrus Berolinensis 8502,3 and Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1081: Eugnostos and the Sophia of Jesus Christ (1991)[A1] 238pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 84.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Contains the following: Discovery, Publication History, Titles, The Relationship of the Tractates and its Significance, Dating, Original Language, Provenance, Writers and Audience, Sources of Eugnostos, Relationship of the Texts, The Codices, Physical State of the Tractates, Scribal Characteristics, Translationcriptions, Translationcription Policies.

Pearson, B.A. (ed.) Nag Hammadi Codices IX & X (1981)[A1] 427pp, HB. OUT-OF-PRINT (Ask us to search our trade network for you).
Contains the following: Introduction to Codex IX, N.H.C. IX I Melchizedek, N.H.C. IX 2 The Thought of Norea, N.H.C. IX 3 The Testimony of Truth, Codex IX Fragments, Introduction to Codex X, N.H.C. X I Marsanes, Codex X Fragments.

Pritz, R.A. Nazarene Jewish Christianity from the End of the New Testament Period until its Disappearance in the Fourth Century (1988)[A1] 153pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 30.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Robinson, J.M. (ed.) The Nag Hammadi Library in English. 4th. rev. ed. (1996)[A1] 562pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 38.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The authoritative & revised edition of all the Gnostic texts from Nag Hammadi.

Rokeah, D. Jews, Pagans and Christians in Conflict (1982)[A1] 232pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 65.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Provides a good overview of the Pagan/Christian polemic and the arguments used, and particularly interesting as being written from a Jewish, rather than Christian, viewpoint.

Rudolph, K. Gnosis (1977)[A3] 412pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 19.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A full-scale study based on the documents of the Coptic Gnostic library found at Nag Hammadi providing a comprehensive survey of the nature, the teachings, the history and the influence of this religion. This is, I feel, probably the best general survey of Gnosticism.

Rudolph, K. Mandaeism. (1978)[A1] 39pp, 8 figs., 48 plates, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 30.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Part of the acclaimed Iconography of Religions series which feature short introductions and a fine choice of plates. By the greatest living authority on this still-extant(?) Gnostic religion.

Schmidt, C. (ed.) Pistis Sophia (1978)[A1] 826pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 160.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
With translation and notes by V. MacDermot. The only recent translation, with many valuable cross-refs. to the Nag Hammadi texts.

Schneemelcher, W. (ed.) New Testament Apocrypha. Vol.1. Gospels and Related Writings. (1992)[A18] 568pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 47.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A new, and the best, edition of the standard scholarly and comprehensive English translation of the NT Apocrypha. These texts are, of course, invaluable for anyone interested in the ‘unofficial’ materials rejected by the controlling elements of the early Church. Each text has an introduction and a very useful bibliography.

Schneemelcher, W. (ed.) New Testament Apocrypha. Vol.2. Writings Relating to the Apostles, Apocalypses and Related Subjects. (1992)[A18] 779pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 47.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Seeley, D. The Noble Death: Graeco-Roman Martyrology and Paul’s Concept of Salvation (1990)[A4] 170pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 29.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.

Segal, A.F. Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism (1977)[A1] 339pp, HB. OUT-OF-PRINT (Ask us to search our Trade Network for you).
Throws important new light on heretical developments in Judaism and their relations with Christianity and Gnosticism.

St. Victor, O. Epiphany: The New Age and its Mysteries From the Time of the Jordan Prophets 223pp, PB. UK price GBP 15.50 (Only available from us) ISBN 0-7223-2494-4.
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. Not available from ....., order from us!

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St. Victor, O. Secret Christians: The Teachings of the Mystics 137pp, PB. (Only available from us) UK price GBP 11.50 ISBN 0-7223-2113-9.
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.

St. Victor, O. The Masked Madonna: Studies in the Mystical Symbolism of the Secret Sovereign: The Queen of Heaven 116pp, PB. (Only available from us) UK price GBP 11.50 , ISBN 0-7223-2203-8.
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.

Stamburgh, John E., and Balch, David L. The New Testament in Its Social Environment Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1986, 194 pp + xvi plates. HB with DJ.
Edited from the PPN : Summarising the results of a growing body of significant modern scholarship, this book is concerned with social realities of the early Christian communities. It places the New Testament, the people who wrote it, and the people who appear in it within the world of the first century. Further, it discusses the political, religious, economic, and social features of Palestine and of the cities of the Roman empire. The authors are a classicist and a New Testament specialist. Their book is rooted in the New Testament, but the New Testament as viewed form within the broad context of the Greco-Roman civilisation in which the early Christians lived. This civilisation, with its patterns of thought and social organisation, influenced both how Christians looked at the surrounding world and how the world looked at Christians. UK price GBP 10.00

Stroker, W. Extra-Canonical Sayings of Jesus Scholars Press 1989 PB, 350pp, Out-of-Print (ask us to search our Trade Network for you)
A volume of compelling interest which contains the most comprehensive collection of extra-canonical sayings of Jesus ever published. These are presented in the original languages together with an English translation, and along with appropriate parallel materials, and indexes. A desideratum for anyone exploring the historical Jesus and alternative christologies.

Stroumsa, G.A.G. Another Seed: Studies in Gnostic Mythology (1984)[A1] 195pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 42.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
An illuminating investigation into various Gnostic themes which includes the origins of evil, the Archons as seducers, the Gnostic race, and Gnostic elements in Hermetic traditions.

Van Fleteren, F., et al. (edd.) Augustine: Mystic and Mystagogue. (1994)[A19] 659pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 66.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This is a comprehensive examination of Augustine’s mysticism, mystical experiences and his vast influence on Christian mysticism.

Williams, J.A. Biblical Interpretation in the Gnostic Gospel of Truth from Nag Hammadi. (1988)[D4] 220pp, PB ISBN 0-89130-877-6 (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The Gospel of Truth is a 2nd c. work in which the author, who may have been the great Gnostic teacher Valentinus, interpreted passages that would later be incorporated into the New Testament. Here we have a detailed analysis which examine the gospel’s sources, theology and method of interpretation.

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Medieval & Renaissance Esoteric Traditions
The Renaissance ushered in a great renewal and ferment in European philosophy. This was due largely to the rediscovery of Greek and Greco-Roman philosophy, especially that of Plato, the Neoplatonists and the Hermetica. Another major influence was Jewish Kabbalah, whose Christian followers saw as an esoteric Judaism which validated Christianity. The result was an esoteric Christianity, which its supporters believed to be pre-figured in the writings of an illustrious group of ancient sages, such as Hermes Trismegistus, Plato, Orpheus & Zoroaster. The philosophy of that time, as formulated by luminaries such as Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Agrippa and Bruno, has been the most major factor in later western esotericism.

Abu Ma’sar), Burnett, Yamamoto, Yano. (edd. & translation) The Abbreviation of the Introduction to Astrology: Together with the Medieval Latin Translation of Adelard of Bath.. (1994)[A1] 180pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 61.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Abu Ma’sar (787-886 : known in the west as Albumasar) was the best known mediaeval astrologer of both the Islamic and Christian worlds. His masterwork was his Great Introduction of which he himself made an abbreviation. This volume contains English translations and the original Arabic and Latin texts. Essential for mediaeval Astrology.

Adams & Harper (edd) The Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe: Tradition and Variety (1992)[A1] 298pp, 88 ill. HB (approx.) UK price GBP 88.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A cross section of the contributions delivered at the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 1990, which show the range and depth of current research.

Bacon, Roger (Maloney, T.S. ed., translation, intro. & notes.) Compendium of the Study of Theology. (1977)[A1] 209pp, PB (approx.) UK price GBP 42.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The only English translation, I think, of this important work by the ‘Doctor mirabilis.’

Beitchman, Philip ALCHEMY OF THE WORD: Cabala of the Renaissance 288 pages April 1998, paperback ISBN 0-7914-3738-8 (approx.) UK price GBP 18.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Alchemy of the Word is a study of the literary, philosophical, and cultural ramifications of Cabala during the Renaissance. Important intellectual figures from 1490 to 1690 are considered, including Agrippa, Dee, Spenser, Shakespeare, Browne, and Milton; Cabala’s more recent impact is also discussed. Cabala, a hermeneutic style of Biblical commentary of Jewish origin, is based on the notion that, along with an inscribed Decalogue, Moses received a secret, oral supplement that provides a symbolic, allegorical, and moral qualification of the literal law of religion.
Building on the work of Gershom Scholem, Joseph Blau, Harold Bloom, Francois Secret, Michel de Certeau, and Arthur Waite, Beitchman takes a fresh look at the "mystical" text through the lens of postmodernist theory. In a model developed from Deleuze-Guattari’s "nomadology" to explore issues related to the Zohar, he shows that Cabala was a deconstruction of Renaissance authority. Like deconstruction, Cabala presents familiar material from novel and sometimes provocative perspectives. It allows space for modifiability, tolerance and humanity, by widening the margins between the letter of the law and the demands of an existence whose rules were so rapidly changing.
An exercise in the literary analysis of "sacred texts" and an examination of the mystical element in literary works, Alchemy of the Word is also an experiment in new historicism. It shows how the reincarnation theories of F. M. Van Helmont, which impacted heavily on the seventeenth century English cabalistic circle of Henry More and Ann Conway, demonstrate at once the originality and boldness of Cabala, but also its desperation, constituting a theoretical parallel to the continental "acting out" of the Sabbatian heresy. Because of the debacle of the Sabbatian apostasy (conversion to Islam), Cabala subsequently declined in importance as a religious devotion, becoming either a matter of cults and heterodoxies or being sublimated into literary theory and practice.
"This is a work revealing great erudition, and takes us into many hidden byways. It is, as the author suggests, a ’rhizome’ of a book. Full of unexpected connections and information, Alchemy of the Word is a solid contribution to the still all-too-neglected field." — - Arthur Versluis, Michigan State University

Brann, Noel L. TRITHEMIUS AND MAGICAL THEOLOGY: A Chapter in the Controversy over Occult Studies in Early Modern Europe 352 pages SUNY 1998, paperback ISBN 0-7914-3962-3 (approx.) UK price GBP 21.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Through an examination of Benedictine abbot Trithemius (1462-1516), this book explores the intersection of the early modern debate over occult studies with a number of contemporaneous developments: late medieval mysticism, the revival of ancient letters, the Catholic and Protestant reform movements, the witch hunts, and the scientific revolution.
"Noel Brann has chosen a controversial and little understood historical figure as the focus of this book. Although Trithemius has been treated before in biographical studies, this is the first exhaustive treatment of Trithemius’s magical theology, the most elusive and most provocative aspect of his contributions. Brann’s presentation is cautious, original, and persuasive. He strikes out into areas that have not been treated before. Brann is able to interpret Trithemius by revealing the background of his views, by reconstructing their contexts, and by tracing their impact." — - Frank Baron, University of Kansas
A Benedictine living to the threshold of the Reformation period, Trithemius excelled for most of his career in the fields of monastic reform, mystical theology, and Christian Humanism, and then, suddenly, announced himself to the world as an advocate of magic.
In many ways paralleling the life of his more famous contemporary Faustus, Trithemius, in contrast, left to posterity a body of theoretical work in support of his magical operations. Formulated to justify his own speciality, cryptography, Trimethius’s occult theory goes beyond establishing the compatibility of magic with orthodox Christian doctrine. Its basic thrust, on the model of mystical theology, is to present magic as an appropriate vehicle to convey the soul from the finite to the infinite.

Copenhaver, Brian P. Renaissance philosophy (1992), Oxford Paperbacks, pp 464, Line drawings, bibliography, Paperback,0-19-289184-7, (approx.) UK price GBP 10.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Edited from the PPN :The Renaissance has long been recognised as a brilliant moment in the development of Western civilisation. However, little attention has been devoted to the distinct contributions of philosophy to Renaissance culture. This volume introduces the reader to the philosophy written, read, taught, and debated during the period traditionally credited with the ‘revival of learning’. Beginning with original sources still largely inaccessible to most readers, and drawing on a wide range of secondary studies, the authors examine the relation of Renaissance philosophy to humanism and the universities, the impact of rediscovered ancient sources, the recovery of Plato and the Neoplatonists, and the evolving ascendancy of Aristotle. Renaissance Philosophy also explores the original contributions of major figures including Bruni, Valla, Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Pomponazzi, Machiavelli, More, Vitoria, Montaigne, Bruno, and Campanella. In this work the rich insights and inheritance of Renaissance philosophy are made available to the student and the general reader. Renaissance Philosophy not only demonstrates the uses of ancient and medieval philosophy by Renaissance thinkers, but also throws light on the early origins of modern philosophy.

Copenhaver, Brian P. Symphorien Champier and the reception of the occultist tradition in renaissance France (1978), De Gruyter Walter, pp 368, with illustrations, Hardback,90-279-7647-3 (approx.) UK price GBP 85.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Symphorien Champier was a French Hermeticist writing in the 16^th century, sorry, I have no further info. about this book.

Dee, John; Fenton, Edward (ed.) The Diaries of John Dee ISBN 095322130X (1998) 382 pp, Illustrations, HB
Even those who already have James Halliwell’s and Casaubon’s editions of Dee’s diaries will find much here of interest. Some of the angelic material has been edited, as no single volume could contain all Dee’s diary writing : but this well-edited volume, which also translates the Greek and Latin entries, makes a pretty good stab at comprehensiveness. (SR)
Edited from the PPN :John Dee was not just an alchemist and astronomer, mystic and mathematician, adviser to Francis Drake and court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I: he also kept the first great diary in the English language.
Now for the first time his private journals and spirit diaries are brought together in an accurate and readable version, compiled from the original manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. They reveal the soaring ambition of one who aspired to walk with God, and the extraordinary consequences of his quest for the key to all knowledge. The diaries span the last thirty years of Dee’s life, including the famous (or infamous) wife-swapping episode with his mysterious assistant Edward Kelly.
There are treasure maps and secret codes, as well as insights into Dee’s career at the courts of Elizabeth I and the Emperor Rudolph II in Prague. This new edition--the most accurate and complete ever published--also comes with an introduction, biographical guide, gazetteer and full index. UK price GBP 23.99

Dronke, P. Fabula: explorations into the uses of myth in medieval Platonism. (1974)[A1] 208pp, HB (approx.) UK price GBP 50.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A lovely investigation into the use of ancient Pagan motifs like the Cosmic Egg in medieval Latin authors.

Elders, W. Symbolic Scores: Studies in the Music of the Renaissance. (1994)[A1] 296pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 93.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A pathbreaking study of Renaissance use of symbolism in music which discusses more than 150 compositions.

Hamilton, A. Heresy and Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain: The Alumbrados. (1992)[A18] 256pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 34.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The only full length study of this little-investigated mystical group, the Alumbrados (Illuminated or Enlightened ones) — hence the famous title Illuminati —who were a potent influence on later esoteric groups. Using records from the Inquisition, Hamilton sheds light on the movement, and the Inquisition’s motives in persecuting them.

Hankins, J. Plato in the Italian Renaissance. Reprint (with corrections and addenda) of the 1990 ed. (1994)[A1] HB. 881pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 153.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The prizewinning and acclaimed study of the Renaissance interpretation of Plato.

Lambert, M. Medieval Heresy. (1992 — Reprinting)[A16] 500pp, 10 halftones, 11 maps. PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 19.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
In this its 2nd edition, now established as the standard work on the subject.

Laycock, DC The Complete Enochian Dictionary (1994)[A10] 272pp PB (approx.) UK price GBP 15.99 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The only comprehensive and scholarly Enochian dictionary. Enochian, which developed out of John Dee and Edward Kelly’s ‘Spirit Actions,’ is the most interesting of magical languages.

Reid, J.D. The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300s-1900s. 2 Vols. (1993)[A9] 1,334pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 150. Awesome in scope and the fruit of 40 years research. Covers painting, sculpture, music, opera, drama and literature. Contains a wealth of information about the myths, works of art and their creators. Full indexes and bibliographies.

Rorem, Paul; Lamoreaux, John C. John of Scythopolis and the Dionysian corpus, Annotating the Areopagite,(1998), Clarendon Press, pp 304, Bibliography, Hardback,0-19-826970-6, (approx.) UK price GBP 45.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
John, the 6th-century orthodox bishop of Scythopolis in Palestine, was the first of many authors to comment upon the highly influential pseudo-Dionysian writings (such as The Mystical Theology). Here translated and interpreted, John’s Prologue and Scholia (marginalia) have only recently been separable from later comments. They present his complex theological and philosophical observations on the Dionysian texts.; The book begins with the general outlines of the appearance and reception of the Dionysian corpus in the 6th century, followed by an overview of the career and works of John of Scythopolis. Written around AD 540, John’s own comments in the Prologue provide the outline for introducing the concerns dominating his Scholia: CONTENTS : biblical, classical and patristic sources; liturgical terminology and context; orthodox and heretical doctrines of the Trinity, Christology, creation and eschatology; Dionysian authenticity; Neoplatonism and John’s unacknowledged quotations from Plotinus.
Most of the Scholia and all of the Prologue are translated and annotated in order to present the first of many layers of Dionysian interpretation."

Tomlinson, G. Music in Renaissance Magic. (1993)[A7] 288pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The potent resonances of magic, music and the harmony of the spheres in the thought of Ficino and his followers.

Weeks, A. Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the 17th Century Philosopher & Mystic 316pp PB (approx.) UK price GBP 21.50 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
ISBN 0-7914-0597-4. An important new work which describes the life and thought of one of the most potent and influential, but least understood, of European mystics.

Weeks, A. German Mysticism From Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Literary and Intellectual History. (1993)[D1] PB. ISBN 0-7914-1420-5 (approx.) UK price GBP 18.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This book provides the reader with an introduction to the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Nicholas of Cusa, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Angelus Silesius, Novalis and includes the more recent thinkers, such as Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein, who were influenced by the tradition. "(It) offers a fine overview of the emergence and development of a German mystical tradition. Weeks introduces the major figures and characterises the nature of their religious experience. His work provides an insight into specific doctrines and modes of thought while at the same time offering a framework into which the specifics may be put together in order to form a coherent whole."—Debra L. Stoudt, University of Toledo

Weeks, Andrew PARACELSUS: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation 288 pages SUNY 1996, paperback ISBN 0-7914-3148-7 (approx.) UK price GBP 18.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
"This book treats as a unity the two sides of Paracelsus’s thought--its speculative and theological aspects and its medical and scientific side, generally dealt with as separate and unrelated-- and thus provides a convincing interpretation of his concerns that is plausibly developmental and fully historical. Thus, Paracelsus is made to cast further light on his times, and the time s are made to illuminate him. This is an extremely solid and well-written work based on fully adequate scholarship and an impressively broad--and deep--understanding of the period." — - William J. Bouwsma, University of California, Berkeley
Paracelsus is regarded as one of the great medical innovators of all time, as a prototype of Goethe’s Faust and as a founder of German Renaissance nature philosophy. Recently, his role in the popular "radical Reformation " that coincided with but went beyond Luther’s church reform has been recognized as well. A legendary wanderer and rebel, he is an author of undisputed importance, but also one clouded by puzzling ambiguities.
Based on a close examination and revised dating of Paracelsus’s writings, this book rejects certain myths concerning the author’ s scientific orientation and experience of nature. The genesis of his thought is traced to his responses to sectarian conflicts of the early Reformation. One can characterize Paracelsus’s project as that of a radical theorist w ho transgressed the boundaries of disciplines and seized upon the irreducible particularities of his phenomena--the transmuted disease or the unrecognized female pathology--to challenge the established order and ideology.

Westra, H. (ed.) From Athens to Chartres. Neoplatonism and Medieval thought. (1992)[A1] 556pp, 18 ills. HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 158.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Extensive survey of Pagan Neoplatonism and its adaptation by medieval Latin writers.

Wilson, N. From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance (1992)[A5] 200pp, HB. (approx.) UK price GBP 45.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A complete account of the historic rediscovery of Greek philosophy, language and literature in the Renaissance. It answers such questions as to why enthusiastic Florentines would crowd to a lecture on Plotinus, but underestimate the importance of Plato himself.

Zaleski, C. Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experiences in Medieval and Modern Times. (1987)[A9] 284pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 9.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network..
Extremely wide-ranging and valuable study which should be on the shelf of anyone interested in the subject from any angle. However, it is not quite as objective as the rave reviews might have us believe.

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Armstrong, A., & Gilbert, R. A., Golden Dawn — The Proceedings of the Golden Dawn Conference London 1997 Bristol, Privately Printed , 1998, x + 256 pp, Quality sewn PB. Limited edition of 150 copies only. (NOTE: This title is a limited edition publication. It was Privately Printed, has no ISBN, and is only available through us.)
Contents: The Order of Dionysis & Paul — Its place in the Western Hermetic Tradition — Allan Armstrong; The Trials & Tribulations of a Lady Initiate — Geraldine Beskin; Recreating the Golden Dawn Tarot — Tabatha Cicero; Israel Regardie — As I Knew Him — Chic Cicero; Trail of the Chameleon — The Genesis of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn — R. A. Gilbert; The Lost Stepchild — Tale of the Societas Rosicruciana in America — R. A. Gilbert; F. F. Schnitiger — Magus of the North — Anthony Markey; An Exploration of the Pillars — John Paternoster; The Hierarchy of Souls — The Nature of Inner Plane Contacts — John Paternoster; The Siege Perilous — The Dangers of Ceremonial Magic — Andrew Stephenson; The English Rosicrucian Impulse — The Role of the SRIA in the Western Hermetic Tradition — Trevor Stewart. UK price GBP 35.00 (Only available from us)

Deveney, John Patrick PASCHAL BEVERLY RANDOLPH: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician, 607 pages SUNY 1996, paperback 0-7914-3120-7, (approx.) UK price GBP 28.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
" This is a superb piece of work. It is the only book that I know of about Randolph, who is generally considered a notable curiosity of nineteenth-century esotericism, but whom the author establishes as an absolutely central and pivotal historical character. This historiography is masterful--meticulously detailed and coherently presented. This is an important book, filling a gap that wasn’t previously known to have been so substantial. It’ s well written, a tour de force at amassing the data. It is a must read." — - Dan Merkur, author of Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions
This is the fascinating story of Paschal Beverly Randolph, an African American who carved his own eccentric path in the mid-nineteenth century from the slums of New York’ s Five Points to the courts of Europe, where he performed as a spiritualist trance medium. Although self-educated, he became one of the first Black American novelists and took a leading part in raising Black soldiers for the Union army and in educating Freedmen in Louisiana during the Civil War. His enduring claim to fame, however, is the crucial role he played in the transformation of spiritualism, a medium’ s passive reception of messages from the spirits of the dead, into occultism, the active search for personal spiritual realisation and inner vision.
From his experiences in his solitary travels in England, France, Egypt and the Turkish Empire in the 1850s and 1860s, he brought back to America a system of occult beliefs and practices (the magic mirror , hashish use and sexual magic) that worked a revolution. The systems of magic he taught left their traces on many subsequent occultists, including Madame Blavatsky and her Theosophical Society, and are still practised today by several occult organisations in Europe and American that carry on his work. This is the first scholarly work on Randolph and includes the full text of his two most important manuscript works on sexual magic.
"It is fascinating, because the subject’s life was filled with dramatic adventure and hardship, and touched upon so many issues of the day. Deveney’ s work is important in itself as a ground-breaking study of an intriguing character. I can think of no figure in nineteenth-century Western esotericism who has been more unjustly ignor ed than Randolph. Deveney rescues him from obscurity in this biography, which will be regarded as authoritative for many years to come." — - K. Paul Johnson.

Faivre, A. Access to Western Esotericism. (1995)[D1] 352pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-2178-3. (approx.) UK price GBP 23.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
This work was the first systematic treatment of the history of Esotericism to appear in English. Faivre traces Western Esotericism from its beginnings in the ancient world, and gives an overview of such currents as Kabbalah, Theosophy, Alchemy, Rosicrucianism, and Hermeticism.
Edited from the PPN : "Common characteristics of these currents is the notion of universal interdependency and the experience of spiritual transformation. The author attempts a rigorous methodology; provides clarifying definitions of such key terms as ‘gnosis,’ ‘theosophy,’ ‘occultism,’ and ‘Hermeticism,’ and offers an analysis of contemporary Esotericism based on three distinct viewpoints. The second half of the book presents a series of studies on several important figures, works, and movements in Western Esotericism—studies devoted to some of the most characteristic and illuminating aspects that this form of thought has taken, such as Theosophical speculations on androgyny, Rosicrucian literature, and Masonic symbolism. The book is completed by a rich and selective Bibliography conceived both as a means of orientation and a tool for research."

Faivre, A. & Needleman, J. (edd) Modern Esoteric Spirituality. (1989)[A22] 448pp PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 36.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
A much-needed overview volume under the guidance of expert hands. Coverage includes Alchemy, Renaissance Kabbalah, Paracelsus, Rosicrucianism, Boehme, Freemasonry, Steiner, Theosophy, Guénon, Gurdjieff, Jung, etc.

Godwin, J. The Theosophical Enlightenment. (1994)[D1] 480pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-2152-X. UK price GBP 18.00
Here is a much needed intellectual history of occult and esoteric currents in the English-speaking world from the early Romantic period to the early 20th c.
Edited from the PPN : "The Theosophical Society, founded in 1875 by Helena P. Blavatsky, holds a crucial position as the place where all these currents temporarily united, before again diverging. The book’s ambiguous title points to Godwin’s thesis that Theosophy owed as much to the sceptical Enlightenment of the 18th c. as it did to the concept of spiritual enlightenment with which it is more readily associated. In the context of Theosophical history, this book is neither on the side of the blind votaries of Madam Blavatsky, nor on that of her enemies. It may, therefore, be expected to mildly annoy both sides."

Harrison, S. Cults: The Battle for God. (London 1990) 214pp, HB.
An intelligent and objective survey of the main ‘Cults’ and their critics. SPECIAL OFFER (was GBP 15.95) now UK price GBP 10.95

Jacob, M.C. Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in 18th Century Europe. (1992)[A9] 336pp, PB. (approx.) UK price GBP 16.95 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
First comprehensive history of Enlightenment Freemasonry from its roots in 17th c. England to the French Revolution.

Johnson, K.P. The Masters Revealed: Madam Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge. (1994)[D1] 320pp, PB. ISBN 0-7914-2064-7. (approx.) UK price GBP 15.75 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
Edited from the PPN : "The author has transferred the discussion of Blavatsky’s sources from the realm of the mythical to the historical. He has given us a well-researched series of biographies of people from whom Blavatsky learned, and illuminated the nature of her relationship with each of them. His work brings reasoned conclusions into an area characterised by vituperative and polarised scholarship. He sets his limits well. He has not overstretched his mark nor made excessive claims for his conclusions." "Readers will be fascinated, as I was, to see basic profiles of historical personalities behind Morya and Koot Hoomi, as well as to gain some understanding of the way Blavatsky wove together many strains of esoteric teaching."—Hal W. French, University of South Carolina

Johnson, K. Paul Initiates Of The Theosophical Masters 255 pages SUNY 1995
pb ISBN 0-7914-2556-8. (approx.) UK price GBP 15.75 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The author examines the careers of the most distinguished disciples of the Theosophical Masters. He begins by examining the concept of initiation promoted by the Theosophical movement’s founders. Each section investigates a separate category of initiates, focusing consecutively on Hindus, Muslims, Bahais, Buddhists, and the Western female occultists.
More than just a study of Theosophy, this book explores many related developments in political and religious history. Among the figures it illumines in new ways are Anagarika Dharmapala, Alexandra David-Neel, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, and Isabelle Eberhardt. Its approach brings needed objectivity and balance to a topic too long mythologized by cultists and ignored by scholars.
"This is a valuable exploration of the spiritual impact of Theosophy on individual seekers and activists. The author largely avoids the well-trodden areas such as the Irish literary renaissance, and the early Krishnamurti saga, to follow new trajectories, such as the detailed Gurdjieff-Blavatsky comparison." — - Leslie Price

Maclean, D. (translation) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. ISBN 0-933999-18-6. With a Commentary by Adam McLean (1993)[D2] 90pp, hardback . OUT-OF-PRINT, Last Few Copies.
Goethe’s dream-like and enchanting fairly tale of The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily is an allegory of transformation based on the symbolism of Alchemy. While it has fascinated readers for nearly two centuries, few possessed the background knowledge to decode the alchemical symbolism which forms the core of the story. This volume contains a translation by Donald Maclean and an extensive commentary by Adam McLean which, while preserving the work’s sense of mystery, shows how Goethe’s fairy tale is also a profound Hermetic allegory. UK price GBP 29.50 (O/P, only available through us)

McIntosh, C. The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment. (1992)[A1] 228pp HB (approx.) UK price GBP 69.00 Probably Out-of-Print. Please email us if you can’t find a copy, and I’ll do a search on our extensive Trade Network.
The first in depth study of the German Rosicrucian revival.

Townley, K. The Cube of Space — Container of Creation (1993), xv + 271 pp, PB.
This volume explores the dynamics of the ‘Cube of Space’, a pre-sefirotic emanation diagram found in the Sefer Yesirah (aka Sepher Yetsirah, Yetzirah), the most important text of early Jewish mysticism. It is not a scholarly-historical study, but one which takes its inspiration from the Golden Dawn and extends the work of Paul Foster Case. US and Canadian orders will be drop-shipped from the US, inclusive of shipping, at $26.00 (USA), or $28.00 (Canada). UK price GBP 19.95

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