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The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
Presents a portrait of the freemason leader, noting his influence on eighteenth-century artists and royality, and citing his alleged theft of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklace and his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy.
Iamblichus De Anima: Text, Translation, and Commentary
"Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its…
Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life
The Pythagorean Life is the most extensive surviving source on Pythagoreanism, and has wider interest as an account of the religious aspirations of late antiquity. -- Amazon.com.
The Dalai Lama's Secret Temple: Tantric Wall Paintings from Tibet
"At the heart of this book are 150 color photographs of the Lukhang temple and its murals, taken in the most challenging conditions by photographer Thomas Laird. Ian Baker's text, which places these remarkable works within their historical, cultural…
Greek Architecture and its Sculpture
"Drawing on the Greek and Lycian architecture and sculpture in the British Museum - a collection second to none in quality, quantity, and geographical and chronological range - this lavishly illustrated volume tells a remarkable story reaching from…
Muslim Neoplatonists: An Introduction to the Thought of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ)
The tenth or eleventh century group of the Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al Safa) are as well known in the Arab world as Darwin, Marx and Freud in the west. Designed as an introduction to their ideas, this book concentrates on the Brethren's writings,…