Christian Mysticism

  • Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium by Bissera V. Pentchenva

    Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium by Bissera V. Pentchenva, published in 2006. Illustrated. Sections Include: Origins of the Civic Cult, The Avar Siege: Memory and Change, In the Context of War, The Hodegetria Icon and Its Tuesday Procession, The Blachernai Responds: The Icon of the Unusual Miracle, Synthesis: Imperial Memorial Rites at the Pantokrator, etc. etc. Hardcover with jacket, near fine.

  • The Occult Causes of Disease: Being a Compendium of the Teachings Laid Down in His “Volumen Paramirum” by Bombastus Von Hohenheim, Better Known as Paracelsus by E. Wolfram

    The Occult Causes of Disease: Being a Compendium of the Teachings Laid Down in His “Volumen Paramirum” by Bombastus Von Hohenheim, Better Known as Paracelsus by E. Wolfram and translated into English by Agnes Blake. Undated circa 1930. Sections Include: Ens Astrale, Ens Veneni, Ens Naturale, Ens Spirituale, Ens Deale, etc. etc. Hardcover with gilt lettering, light shelfwear to corners and ends. Previous owners name inside cover.

  • Science, Meaning, & Evolution: The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme, by Basarab Nicolescu

    Science, Meaning, & Evolution: The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme, by Basarab Nicolescu, published in 1991. Sections Include: Structure and Self-Organization in the Bohemian Universe, Must a Cosmology of Self-Creation Necessarily Be Tragic?, The Imaginal as the Source of Reality, Jacob Boehme and the Evolution of Man, Complexity and Levels of Reality, etc. etc. Hardcover with original jacket with only the very lightest shelfwear.

  • Your Great Awakening by S.S. Shapira

    Your Great Awakening by S.S. Shapira, published in 1941. Inscribed by the author to actress Marion Davies wife of William Randolph Hurst. Sections Include: Who Was Jesus? What is Christianity? Mysteries, Pagan Risen Saviors, Life Expereinces, Religion of Humanity, What of Judaism, Islamism, Buddhism, Confucionism, etc. Flashlights, Etc. etc. Hardcover with orignal jacket. Authors picture pasted to title page. Shelfwear and light chipping to jacket which is in a protective mylar.

  • The Unknown Sanctuary A Pilgrimage from Rome to Israel by Aime Palliere

    The Unknown Sanctuary A Pilgrimage from Rome to Israel by Aime Palliere, published in 1929. The author was a pupil of Rabbi Elie Benamozegh and a Noahide practitioner. Sections Include: Gustav Dore’s Bible, Brother Alix, Neila, The Abbes Lemann, The Tefillin, The Call of Salvation, The Word of the Gospel, A La Grade Chartreuse, Christ Without a Church, The Dominican Family, The Jewish Family, Elijah Benamozegh, The Catholicism of Israel, Jews and Christians, Meeting with the Master, The Christian Crisis, Pere Hyacinthe, The Modernists, October 1908, Israel and Humanity, Etc. etc. Hardcover with light shelfwear. Inscribed by author under the frontis illustration.

  • The Indian and Christian Miracles of Walking on the Water by William N. Brown

    The Indian and Christian Miracles of Walking on the Water by William N. Brown, published in 1928. Sections Include: Walking on the Water in Indian Literature, Psychic Powers of Levitation, The Story of Yasa and Its Mutations, Walking on the Water in Non Christian Literature of Western Asia and Europe, The Indian Source of the Christian Legends, Walking on Water in the Christian Gospels, etc. etc. Hardcover with light shelfwear.

  • Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martydom by William Boulting

    Giordano Bruno: His Life, Thought, and Martydom by William Boulting, published in 1914. Hardcover with gilt lettering and light shelfwear to cornrs and ends.

  • Guillaume Postel Prophet of the Restitution of All Things His Life and Thought by Marion L. Kuntz

    Guillaume Postel Prophet of the Restitution of All Things His Life and Thought by Marion L. Kuntz, published in 1981. Hardcover with original jacket with only the very lightest shelfwear. ​Guillaume Postel (25 March 1510 – 6 September 1581) was a French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist, diplomat, professor, and religious universalist.

  • Selected Works of Ramon Llull (1232-1316) edited and translated by Anthony Bonner

    Selected Works of Ramon Llull (1232-1316) edited and translated by Anthony Bonner, published in 1985. Sections Include: The Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men, Ars Demonstrativa, Ars Brevis, Felix or the Book of Wonders, Principles of Medicine, Flowers of Love and Flowers of Intelligence, etc. etc. Hardcover, both volumes are in exceptional condition and have only the very lightest if any shelfwear.

  • Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church According to Roman Etiquette by John Abel Nainfa

    Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church According to Roman Etiquette by John Abel Nainfa, published in 1926. Sections Include: Materials, Colors, Cassock or Soutane, Simar, Roman Collar, Cincture, Cloak, Rochet, Mozzetta, Mantelletta, Cappa Magna, Hats, Biretta, Calotte or Skull-Cap, Stockings, Shoes, Gloves, Some Other Articles Pertaining to the Prelatial Dignity, Pectoral Cross, Ring, etc. etc. Hardcover with light shelfwear.

  • The Gist of Swedenborg

    The Gist of Swedenborg Compiled by Julian Smyth. A fascinating outline of the occult mystical teachings of the scientist Swedenborg, a mystic who visited both heaven and hell and had visions of angels and demons. Bound hardback with light shelfwear only.

  • The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature to Which are Added Two Brief Dissertations

    The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature to Which are Added Two Brief Dissertations I. Of Personal Identity II. Of the Nature of Virtue by Joseph Butler, published in 1825. A beautiful work, bound hardcover in quarter calf and marbled paper covered boards with fine gold tooling on covers and spine. Shelfwear to corners and ends and a Swedenborgian order library stamp on spine and title page. Bookplate on marbled paper endsheets shows that this once belonged in the private library of author and Swedenborg scholar John Whitehead.

  • The Unknown Philosopher The Life of Louis Claude de St. Martin and the Substance of His Transcendental Doctrine

    The Unknown Philosopher The Life of Louis Claude de St. Martin and the Substance of His Transcendental Doctrine by Arthur Edward Waite, published in 1970. Sections Include: The Life of Saint Martin, The Occult World, Sources of Martinistic Doctrine, The Nature and State of Man, Good and Evil, etc. etc. Hardcover with original jacket with light shelfwear to jacket.

  • The Light of Egypt or The Science of the Soul and the Stars In Two Volumes

    An unusual work issued by one of the founder of an occult secret society known as the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor.

    The Light of Egypt: The Science of the Stars and Soul by T. Burgoyne, published in 1969. This is a two volume set covering the magical teachings of a secret society that practiced occultism that was ancient Egypt hermetic based. Really great illustrated diagrams including one depicting the elemental entities. Bound hardback with decorative embossing. Light shelfwear to corners and ends.

  • Dionysius the Areopagite on the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology

    Dionysius The Areopagite on the Divine Names and The Mystical Theology by C.E. Rolt, published in 1957. Sections Include: The Nature of the Godhead in Itself, It’s Relation to Creation, The Problem of Evil, Dionysius and Modern Philosophy, etc. Hardcover with original jacket. Light spotting to jacket, else good.