Item #59210 Mosaical Philosophy. Grounded upon the Essential Truth or Eternal Sapience; ( Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series no. 2 ). Translated and, Adam McLean.
Mosaical Philosophy. Grounded upon the Essential Truth or Eternal Sapience; ( Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series no. 2 )

Mosaical Philosophy. Grounded upon the Essential Truth or Eternal Sapience; ( Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series no. 2 )

Edinburgh, Scotland: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 126pp. Hand bound in brown faux leather, gilt titling to spine, b&w illustrations. Edition limited to 250 copies. Signed by Adam McLean. Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series No. 2. Robert Fludd (1574 - 1637), was a prominent English physician, a Rosicrucian with an interest in astrology, natural magic and mysticism, he was greatly influenced by the teachings of Paracelsus. In his book, "Mosaicall Philosophy," Fludd combined core Platonist thought with a fusion of alchemy and Kabbalah, and the work is now considered to be one of the first landmark early works on what is sometimes termed "the Hermetic Kabbalah." In "The Mosaical Philosophy" McLean has reproduced Books I and II of the second section of Fludd's work, and added his own Introduction and Notes on the plates. The first (and possibly only) issue of this, the second book in the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks series. The paper on which it is printed is a buff colour, but this copy has a fairly hight number in the sequence of limitation and thus it would be one of the recently bound. Binding is a brown with the title lettered down the spine reading "The Mosaical Philosophy - Cabala" (however much of the gilt is rubbed off and thus it is only partially legible). Boards lightly rubbed, a little glue offset to endpapers (as common), title on spine only partially legible (again as common with this volume). Still overall a tight VG+ copy. Item #59210

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