Title: Alchemy and the Alchemists
Author: Ethan Allen Hitchcock (introductory preface by Manly P. Hall)
Edition: Limited edition
Format: Hardcover (publisher’s cloth)
Publisher: Philosophical Research Society (Los Angeles)
ISBN: 0893144002
Language: English
Pages: 304 pages
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1976
Genre: Alchemy, Hermetic Philosophy, Esoterica
Condition: Good
Description:
Alchemy and the Alchemists brings back Ethan Allen Hitchcock’s 19th-century study of Hermetic philosophy, with an introductory preface by Manly P. Hall. Hitchcock was an American general and scholar who built a large library on the subject. He argues that the alchemists’ language of metals and transmutation was an allegory for moral and spiritual regeneration rather than a recipe for making gold. This 1976 Philosophical Research Society edition is a limited printing of 304 pages, bound in publisher’s cloth with gilt titling. It is a classic of the “spiritual alchemy” interpretation, and it appeals to readers of Hermetic, Rosicrucian and esoteric literature.
Title: Alchemy and the Alchemists
Author: Ethan Allen Hitchcock (introductory preface by Manly P. Hall)
Edition: Limited edition
Format: Hardcover (publisher’s cloth)
Publisher: Philosophical Research Society (Los Angeles)
ISBN: 0893144002
Language: English
Pages: 304 pages
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1976
Genre: Alchemy, Hermetic Philosophy, Esoterica
Condition: Good
Description:
Alchemy and the Alchemists brings back Ethan Allen Hitchcock’s 19th-century study of Hermetic philosophy, with an introductory preface by Manly P. Hall. Hitchcock was an American general and scholar who built a large library on the subject. He argues that the alchemists’ language of metals and transmutation was an allegory for moral and spiritual regeneration rather than a recipe for making gold. This 1976 Philosophical Research Society edition is a limited printing of 304 pages, bound in publisher’s cloth with gilt titling. It is a classic of the “spiritual alchemy” interpretation, and it appeals to readers of Hermetic, Rosicrucian and esoteric literature.
