Alchemy
: the secret art
Klossowski de Rola, Stanislas
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128p.; illus.
'Much more than the art of turning base metals into gold, alchemy is a system of cosmic symbolism which can best be understood as a means of achieving one-ness with the universe....'
Introduction. The great work. True and false alchemy. Innerstanding. The four and the three. Present and future. An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's vision. The plates. Documentary illustrations and commentaries
Alchemy - Texts: Ripley, Sir George: The Vision, The : 'Written by Aerenaeus Philalethes...(1677). Symbolism of Numbers : See 'The four and the three,' p17-20.
c1973 by Thames and Hudson Ltd., London.
Alchemy in art
Alchemy
Ripley, Sir George
Symbolism
Numbers, Symbolism of
(Art and cosmos)
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