A reading of alchemical images as psychology: the furnace, the marriage of sun and moon, the death and washing of the king. Silberer was one of the early Vienna circle around Freud, and this book was among Jung's sources; Freud's coldness towards him is part of an unhappy story that ended badly. This edition adds 60 plates of painting, among them works by Odilon Redon, Franciabigio and Moroni, plus three illustrations restored and coloured, in Smith Ely Jelliffe's translation.

"Prominent among the stones of a fireplace in my country den, one large rounded giant stands out. It was bourne by the glacial streams from a more northern resting place and is marked by a fossil of a mollusk that inhabited northern seas many million years ago. Yet in spite of the eons of time that have passed it can be compared with specimens of mollusks that live to-day. Down through the countless centuries the living stream has carved its structural habitations in much the same form. Th...

Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts is a learned psychoanalytic inquiry into esoteric images, especially alchemical, Rosicrucian, Masonic, and mystical motifs, read as symbolic expressions of inner psychic transformation. Silberer combines close textual interpretation with comparative mythology and early depth psychology, moving between allegory, dream analysis, and spiritual hermeneutics. Its style is dense, analytic, and speculative, situated at the intersection of fin-de-siè...

Herbert Silberer's *Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts* is a pioneering study of the psychological meanings concealed within alchemical texts, initiatory rites, mystical narratives, and occult imagery. Rather than treating these materials merely as historical curiosities or literal accounts of supernatural practice, Silberer reads them as symbolic dramas of psychic transformation, relating their motifs to dreams, moral struggle, spiritual aspiration, and the integration of the...

In "Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts," Herbert Silberer offers a profound exploration of the esoteric symbols and metaphors found within alchemical texts and occult practices. Through a meticulous analysis intertwining psychology and mysticism, Silberer unveils the intricate connections between the spiritual transformation represented in alchemical traditions and the deeper layers of human consciousness. His literary style is rich and nuanced, blending rigorous scholarship w...

Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts offers a psychoanalytic, philologically alert reading of alchemical, Rosicrucian, and occult texts, with The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz as centerpiece. Silberer correlates dream-work processes—condensation, displacement, dramatization—with esoteric allegory and distinguishes material, functional, and anagogic meanings. In lucid, case-informed prose, he reframes alchemy as inner transformation rather than laboratory craft and an...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.

The Kybalion is a 1908 document summarizing the teachings of Hermeticism, also known as the Seven Principles of Hermeticism. Its authorship is attributed to an anonymous group of people calling themselves The Three Initiates, although the bases of hermeticism are attributed to a mystical alchemist and deity of some occult lodges called Hermes Trismegisto, whose existence is estimated in Egypt before the time of the Pharaohs and According to legend, he was Abraham's guide. The origin of thi...

The ultimate source text of Enochian Magic never before available in book form• Contains the actual and complete Tables of Enoch given to Dr. John Dee by the Angels• Explains the difference between Dee’s Tables of Enoch and the apocryphal Book of Enoch• Includes directions for powerful magic rituals and meditations using these tables• Presents a reconstruction of the possible 49th missing Table of EnochOriginally considered a vital part of inspiratio...

One of the most famous – yet least understood – manifestations of Thelemic thought has been the works of Kenneth Grant, the British occultist and one-time intimate of Aleister Crowley, who discovered a hidden world within the primary source materials of Crowley’s Aeon of Horus. Using complementary texts from such disparate authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Jack Parsons, Austin Osman Spare, and Charles Stansfeld Jones (“Frater Achad”), Grant formulated a system of magic that expanded upon that del...

KNOWEST thou that old queen of the world who is on the march always and wearies never? Every uncurbed passion, every selfish pleasure, every licentious energy of humanity, and all its tyrannous weakness, go before the sordid mistress of our tearful valley, and, scythe in hand, these indefatigable labourers reap their eternal harvest. That queen is old as time, but her skeleton is concealed in the wreckage of women's beauty, which she abstracts from their youth and love. Her skull is adorne...

It is not with ordinary sentiments that we address our students of the Yogi class of 1904. We see, as they may not know, that for many of them this series of lectures will be like a seed planted in fertile soil, which in due time will sprout shoots that will gradually make their way into the sunlight of consciousness, where they will produce leaves, flowers and fruit. Many of the fragments of truth that will be presented to you will not be recognized by you at this time, but in the years t...