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Signed limited edition of 11 copies (Monstra) in hand-mottled kid skin, blind-stamped with homuncular signs. 288 pages. Illustrated and with references. This is number 12 rare (Out of Series) copy. Book is in new unread condition.
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OCCLITH Labyrinthus Archidoxæ
Florilegium of the arcane sciences in seven volumes, numbered 0–6.
Being Vol. 1: CODEX HOMUNCULI
Ancient Magical, alchemical and hermetic texts on the creation, uses, attributes and implications of artificial human beings, & related Matters.
And if thou wilt see and behold this Workman, even by mortal things that are upon Earth, and in the deep, consider, O Son, how Man is made and framed in the Womb; and examine diligently the skill, and cunning of the Workman, and learn who it was that wrought and fashioned the beautiful and Divine shape of Man…
—Divine Pymander
Table of Contents:Prolegomena
New English Translations Theophrastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus):
– i Liber de Homunculis
– ii Liber de Imaginibus
– iii Liber de Natis Animalibus ex Sodomia
– iv Ex Libro de Imaginatione Gerhard Dorn:
– v Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi: Homunculus Alonso Tostado:
– vi Librum Paradoxarum: Paradoxon Primum pseudo-Plato:
– vii Liber Vaccæ Heinrich Khunrath:
– viii The Hermaphrodite Jābir ibn Hayyān:
– ix takwn (Kitāb al-tajmīʿ) Muhammad ibn Umail:
– x Kitāb H.all ar-Rumūz Zhang Boduan, Wu Shouyang:
– xi The Embryo of Sainthood
Florilegium of the arcane sciences in seven volumes, numbered 0–6.
Being Vol. 1: CODEX HOMUNCULI
Ancient Magical, alchemical and hermetic texts on the creation, uses, attributes and implications of artificial human beings, & related Matters.
And if thou wilt see and behold this Workman, even by mortal things that are upon Earth, and in the deep, consider, O Son, how Man is made and framed in the Womb; and examine diligently the skill, and cunning of the Workman, and learn who it was that wrought and fashioned the beautiful and Divine shape of Man…
—Divine Pymander
Table of Contents:Prolegomena
New English Translations Theophrastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus):
– i Liber de Homunculis
– ii Liber de Imaginibus
– iii Liber de Natis Animalibus ex Sodomia
– iv Ex Libro de Imaginatione Gerhard Dorn:
– v Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi: Homunculus Alonso Tostado:
– vi Librum Paradoxarum: Paradoxon Primum pseudo-Plato:
– vii Liber Vaccæ Heinrich Khunrath:
– viii The Hermaphrodite Jābir ibn Hayyān:
– ix takwn (Kitāb al-tajmīʿ) Muhammad ibn Umail:
– x Kitāb H.all ar-Rumūz Zhang Boduan, Wu Shouyang:
– xi The Embryo of Sainthood
Early Modern English Translations
Paracelsus:
– 1 Of the Generations of Naturall Things
Oswald Croll:
– 2 Præfatio Admonitoria, chs. ii, iii
Michael Sendivogius:
– 3 A New Light of Alchymie
Jakob Böhme:
– 4 The Shaping of the Magical Child
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus:
– 5 The Divine Pymander·Asclepius
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim:
– 6 de Occulta Philosophia Libri iii
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