Item #70326 Science and the Infinite, or Through a window in the Blank Wall. Sydney T. KLEIN, Aleister Crowley: related works.
Science and the Infinite, or Through a window in the Blank Wall.
Science and the Infinite, or Through a window in the Blank Wall.

Science and the Infinite, or Through a window in the Blank Wall.

London: William Rider & Son, 1929. Fourth Revised Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 158pp. Original green cloth with spine and front board. B/w frontis. Aleister Crowley included "Science and the Infinite" in the Curriculum of his A.'. A.'., in Section I of the "General Reading" list: "Books for Serious Study": where he described it as "One of the best essays written in recent years." In a review in "The English Review" Crowley wrote further: "This book is of an importance which I think it would be hard to overrate. The two main religious tendencies of to-day are towards Science and Mysticism. Mr. Klein writes the two. ... Mr. Klein undermines our naive belief in Time and Space, and shows that to perfect knowledge there is only Here and Now. The Universe is a single instantaneous phenomenon. This conclusion is identical with that reached by the Mystic in the first of the really high trances, and with the doctrine taught in the more advanced schools of Shavism. We cannot too highly praise the manner whereby the ordinary educated mind is led to a perception of the Truth through simple and incontrovertible intellectual methods." Klein was also a close friend of Charles Stansfeld Jones who dedicated his "The Anatomy of the Body of God" to him. Boards a little bruised at edges and corners, slightly darkened square to spine, endpapers toned, a few pages dog-eared and a little dusty. Still a VG or better copy in a Good example of the scarce dust jacket (the panels of the jacket are rubbed and darkened, and it has had a neat postage-stamp size square clipped from the lower spine where the original price would have been, and a number of chips around the edges. Now protected by removable mylar cover). Item #70326

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