Weiser Antiquarian Books Catalog Fourteen:

Books on the Kabbalah,

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Weiser Antiquarian Books is pleased to announce the issue of our Catalog Fourteen. Although we have entitled it 'Books on the Kabbalah', it could more accurately be called 'Books on the Kabbalah in the Western Hermetic and Philosophical Traditions,' as that is its primary focus.

The first section of the catalog, on Rare Books, contains a number of works that stand out as landmarks in the history of the engagement of Western Hermeticism with Kabbalistic thought. The most famous, and earliest of these works, is the First English language edition of, Mosaicall Philosophy (1659) by the English physician, Rosicrucian and mystic Robert Fludd (1574 - 1637). Another significant early work is the Collection Of Several Philosophical Writings (1712-1713) of Dr. Henry More, which includes his Conjectura Cabbalistica, and Defence of the Threefold Cabbala. More, who is most widely remembered as one of the Cambridge Platonists, was greatly influenced by his friend Francis Mercurius van Helmont, who with Knorr von Rosenroth, compiled the famous Kabbala Denudata. A copy of the First Edition of the English language translation of the Kabbala Denudata, published by S. L. MacGregror Mather's under the title The Kabbalah Unveiled, (1887) is also available. Mathers was of course one of the originators of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which was founded not long after his publication of The Kabbalah Unveiled, and the work became a textbook for the study of the Kabbalah which was used not only by his brethren in the Golden Dawn, but by generations of occultists thereafter.

Isaac Myer's weighty work Qabbalah, The Philosophical Writings ..(etc).. which was published just a year after Mathers The Kabbalah Unveiled, is another serious study, and one that was highly regarded by the likes of Mme. Blavatsky. Unfortunately for Myer a certain confusion about the sequence and roles of the Sephiroth (p 258 - 263) has tended to overshadow the importance of the rest of the work. There were two printings of the First Edition of Myer's Qabbalah, - one on large paper, and one on standard size paper - both in limited number. A copy of each is included in this catalog. Less problematic, and arguably even more influential, are the first editions of three books by Arthur Edward Waite, which conclude our rare books listings: The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah, (1902), The Secret Doctrine in Israel, (1913), and The Holy Kabbalah, (1929) which was effectively a revised consolidation of the two earlier books.

The second section of the catalog comprises a collection of different editions of Aleister Crowley's famous Kabbalistic study, Seven Seven Seven. Notable amongst these is a nice copy of the First Edition of the book, complete with the often-lacking errata page with the Tree of Life design on the verso. These are followed by a selection of limited editions of the three major works on the Kabbalah by Frater Achad: Charles Stansfeld Jones (1886-1950), the man whom Aleister Crowley accepted - at least temporarily - as his 'magical son.' Achad published his controversial reassignment of the attributions of the paths linking the sephiroth in an appendix to his book Q.B.L., or The Bride's Reception (1922), and later expanded upon them in The Egyptian Revival (1923). His third major Kabbalistic study: The Anatomy of the Body of God, (1925) focused particularly on the relationship between the Tarot and the Tree of Life. Signed First Editions of all three works are offered, as well as two limited edition reprints.

The final section of the catalog lists over seventy New, Used and Out-of-Print works on the history and practice of the Kabbalah, including books by Frater Albertus, Franz Bardon, John Bonner, W. E. Butler, Fabre D'Olivet, Perle Epstein, Dion Fortune, David Godwin, William G. Gray, Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi, Aryeh Kaplan, Gareth Knight, Eliphas Levi, S. L. MacGregor Mathers, Israel Regardie, Gershom G. Scholem, Stephen Skinner, William Stirling, A. E. Waite, and many others.

Our next catalog, Number 15, will be on Alchemy & the Hermetic Arts. It should be out late in March, 2007. Future catalogs will of course include more of our specialist lists on Aleister Crowley, with others planned on Witchcraft, Mythology, Theosophy, Magic, Grimoires, and other of our specialties.

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