The Temples of Karnak.
Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1999. Later Printing. Hardcover. Massive Thick quarto (vi) + 728. Blue cloth spines lettered in gilt, glossy papered boards with gilt titles on front boards. Bibliography & index. B/w plates & illustrations. Slipcase. From the publisher: "This book is a magnificent excursion led by the revolutionary Egyptologist R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, to the monuments, ruins, statues, bas-reliefs and hieroglyphs of Karnak. Six hundred photographs including more than 450 full-page plates, by award-winning photographers Georges and Valentine de Mire, ...... Because of recent vandalism many of the artifacts are no longer intact, and it is no longer possible to see many of the details captured in these images. This promenade through the temples of Karnak reveals the remains of a world devoted to an unimpeachable faith in the afterlife, a faith whose conviction seems to have exalted its builders and artists, as was the case for several brief centuries with those who constructed the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. One did not work at fashioning these stones, nor were these works sculpted under someone's strict authority; here it was necessary to act out of the heart. Every gesture in the depictions, every arrangement in the buildings, is a hieroglyph from the symbolic language of the sages who spoke to spirit and consciousness." René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz (1887 – 1961), [ René Adolphe Schwaller ] was a French occultist, student of sacred geometry and Egyptologist known for his twelve year study of the art and architecture of the Temples of Luxor and Karnak. A bright, tight, near Fine copy in near-Fine dust jackets and like pictorial card-board slipcase. A huge heavy volume. Sorry, no overseas shipping due to the great weight of the book, shipping within US to be charged at cost. Item #70400
ISBN: 0892817127
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