Item #63082 Hermetic Philosophy, including Lessons, General Discourses, and Explications of "Fragments" from the Schools of Egypt, Chaldea, Greece, Italy, Scandinavia, etc. designed for Students of the Hermetic, Pythagorean, and Platonic Sciences, and Western Occultism. Volume I. Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, Acolyte of the "H B. of L", "Styx" of the "H B. of L"
Hermetic Philosophy, including Lessons, General Discourses, and Explications of "Fragments" from the Schools of Egypt, Chaldea, Greece, Italy, Scandinavia, etc. designed for Students of the Hermetic, Pythagorean, and Platonic Sciences, and Western Occultism. Volume I.

Hermetic Philosophy, including Lessons, General Discourses, and Explications of "Fragments" from the Schools of Egypt, Chaldea, Greece, Italy, Scandinavia, etc. designed for Students of the Hermetic, Pythagorean, and Platonic Sciences, and Western Occultism. Volume I.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 184pp. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and upper board, gilt device to upper board. The first of three volumes, it comprises a lengthy Preface, and then two parts: the first a "lesson" entitled "The Things that Are" and the second an extract from the works of Plotinus: "The Nature of the Good and the One." This volume is completely anonymous, although contemporary advertisements reveal it to have been written by "Styx" of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. The catalogue of the Harry Houdini library identifies the author as one Jonathan S. McDonald but we do not know on what basis. Very light bruising to spine ends and corners, page edges darkened and lightly foxed, pages toned, light erasure at head of title-page, small chip to rear pastedown. Still a tight, bright and unmarked VG+ copy. Very scarce. Item #63082

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