Item #61731 A System of Caucasian Yoga. Count Stefan Colonna WALEWSKI.

A System of Caucasian Yoga.

Indian Hills, CO: Falcon's Wing Press, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 128 pp. Red cloth spine with parchment papered boards. Printed on special parchment-style paper with over 150 illustrations by the Author. Presents the facsimile of a manuscript attributed to Stefan Colonna Walewski (1897 - 1955) a Polish-born diplomat who for a number of years ran a shop selling mystic and occult curios and antiquities in New York City and was renowned for his huge occult library. The manuscript is said to reveal the teachings Walewski received from two initiates of a secret society he met in the 1920s in the Caucasus mountains. These teachings outline a "Master System" of yoga, breath control etc. - said to have been that of Gurdjieff's teachers - through which the practitioner can attain mastery of body and thought and communion with broader creative powers. A lovely copy. Spine ends and corners lightly bruised, otherwise a solid and unmarked VG+ copy in VG+ example of the scarce dust jacket. (Dust jacket a little rubbed and with a couple of tiny chips, but still much better condition than usually encountered). Item #61731

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