![]() ![]() Obviously an economy of his favourite subject : a glyph Temperament naturally poetic and predisposed to metricalĮxpression. Philosophers, and Cume with a specially strong appeal to a Metaphysical teaching of great moment, disclosed to himĪ singularly rich field of evidence illustrating and corrobor-Īting the more directly didactic pronouncements of the Students of the classics as enshrining esoteric religion and The last mentioned, though little recognised by ordinary The myths and mythological poetry of Greece and Rome. Mediaeval and subsequent Alchemical Philosophers, and Investigated in the literature in which it has found itsĬhief expression, the writings of the Platonists, the This, the subject of the Mysteries of antiquity asĪlso, if it may so be conceded for the moment, ofĬhristianity in its original and essential purpose as distinctįrom modern popular notions of its implications, he Latently present in man, and the science of the rectifi-Ĭation of man from the imperfect state in which he nowįinds himself to perfection and integrity in the spiritual Nature of the human soul, the spiritual potentialities Religion, theosophy and philosophy, - namely the ultimate The current popular religious notions of every age, of all Subject - the theme and root-reason, albeit obscured by His studies were concentrated upon a single Many of them old, rare and foreign editions, collected inĭays when such books were more easily procurable than ![]() Library of classical, philosophical and metaphysical works, * From a private note-book of the authoress of this volume. She was a daughter, born in 1817, of Thomas South, ofīury House, Gosport, Hampshire, a gentleman of leisureĪnd certain means, a scholar and somewhat of a recluse,Īnd the possessor of an exceptionally fine specialised It was the work of aĬomparatively young woman named Mary Anne South, Originally published anonymously in 1850 by the London The Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery was History, the reasons for its suppression and its reappear-Īnce, and lastly of the subject of which it treats. Something should be said of its authorship and previous Of those whom it will now reach, it is desirable that In the interests of the book itself, and for the information Of suppression it now becomes generally accessible. Its re-issue and the fact that after nearly seventy years Whilst many others who are already aware of the book'sĮxistence and the general tenor of its theme will welcome Subject-matter will be new there will be not a few who willĪccord it at least an interested and respectful notice, Is believed that among those to whom the book and its Wise to philosophy, divinity or science will give it the Whether even now men devoted professionally or other. Minority, but one treating of a subject hitherto excludedįrom consideration by exponents of conventional learning. That will presently appear, to all but the meagrest This is the re-issue of a book with a strange history aīook moreover not only entirely unknown, for reasons \V ATKINS, 21 Cecil Court, W.C.Īlchemy is philosophy it is the philosophy, the seeking out of The With Photogravure Portrait of the Authoress. Full text of " A suggestive inquiry into the Hermetic mystery : with a dissertation on the more celebrated of the alchemical philosophers being an attempt towards the recovery of the ancient experiement of nature"Ībove Celebrated of tbe Hlcbemical philosophers ![]()
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