A System of Caucasian Yoga.
Indian Hills, CO: Falcon's Wing Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 128pp. 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 solid, clean copy with just a bit of light shelfwear, light bumps to upper corner and light bruising & chafing to spine ends, pages toned (as always). Overall a tight & unmarked VG+ copy (no dust jacket). Item #68804
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