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Newsletter No. 15 of alchemy and hermetic books
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ALCHEMY AND HERMETIC MAILING LIST
NEWSLETTER No 15 - Febuary 1998
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In 1994 Kevin Townley of Cinnabar Press issued a marvellous edition of
the works of Eirenaeus Philalethes, the mysterious alchemical adept of the
seventeenth century.
Alchemical Works: Eirenaeus Philalethes Compiled - Edited by S. Merrow Broddle,
is an exact transcription of all the known writings of Philalethes in English, and it includes:
The Marrow of Alchemy - Ripley Revived - A Breviary of alchemy -
An Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of the King - Three tracts on the Great
Medicine of Philosophers - and other shorter pieces.
Over 500 pages of Philalethes' text, a preface and short introduction, a bibliography
and an extensive index, make this a most useful source work.
Only a few copies remain of this beautifully printed and bound edition and the publishers
are allowing me to sell it a reduced bargain price.
570 pages. Hardback.
£24.00 (including post to addresses in USA)
£28.00 (including postage to all other addresses outside USA)
This book can now be purchased using your credit card from the
alchemy web bookshop
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/alchemy/philalethes.html
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At the moment I regret I do not have any copies of the Bird of
Paradise CD-Rom available for sale. It proved to be quite popular
and I have sold out the intial stock. I hope to have new supplies
in a few weeks time.
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My friend and colleague Steve Ronan of Chthonios Books, a well known
and respected bookdealer in new and secondhand esoteric books, has
now set up web site at
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/chthonios/index.htm
Chthonios Books focuses on areas like Ancient Philosophy, Neoplatonism,
Ancient Religion and Paganism, Theurgy, Early Christianity (especially
heresy and unorthodoxy), Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Hermetica, Alchemy,
Magic, Mediaeval & Renaissance Esotericism, Esoteric Traditions, etc.
Chthonios now has a website devoted to the same areas. The Chthonios
site is not just a commercial venture, but will provide resources such
as translations of inaccessible ancient esoteric writings, and a
glossary of scholarly esoteric terms.
Besides Secondhand and Sale catalogues, Chthonios produces a New
Books catalogue which features hundreds of the best titles in the scholarly
esoteric field.
With my best wishes,
Adam McLean