- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099255030
- ISBN-13: 978-0099255031
- Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 11.8 x 5.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 501,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The truth about the small group of magi who believe they have been reincarnated at key moments to conspire to change the course of events, guiding mankind towards higher levels of consciousness. Reveals the conspiracy by Leonardo, Newton, Goethe and other members of the initiate tradition to influence the course of history by magic.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think that this is probably one of the most important books on hermetic thought every to be published. David Ovason presents what is essentially the autobiography of Mark Hedsel an initiate of the "path of the fool" and describes the trials and ecstaties of a walker on the path of the mysteries. The book covers lots of detail on hermetic lore in Europe, esoteric symbolism and alchemy. I cannot recomend this book strongly enough
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The essence of this book can be taken from a quote from the introduction (p. 57): " originally the Christian church was privy to the secrets of human evolution, and guardian of this knowledge transmitted from the ancient mystery wisdom of Egypt ad Greece....it would be unrealistic to imagine that the church politic has been a trusted or efficient guardian of this ancient esoteric wisdom...[they have] forgotten that there is, inbuilt into certain souls, a wish to speed up their personal Spiritual development, in a direction which is no longer served by the church."
This is then a autobiography of a man's journey along a path which ends with him becoming a teacher. By reading this text we almost initiate ourselves into this esoteric world of which he writes.
This is then a autobiography of a man's journey along a path which ends with him becoming a teacher. By reading this text we almost initiate ourselves into this esoteric world of which he writes.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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The title refers to one of the "grades" of "pupils" or "seekers" after The Light in the Western Tradition of occultism. The book is a chronicle of learning or striving after learning or, perhaps better put, Enlightenment (cf. such as the works of Rudolf Steiner). Yet this particular seeker's path was not a smooth ascent to some Nirvana-- far from it.
The only annoying thing about this book is that the author never says "I" but always "he" or "the entity" or some such, which may be an attempt to suppress egoism but just makes the work a trifle hard to follow at times. A book for all serious libraries of the metaphysical.
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