Esoterism and Symbol

by R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz

Book Overview

This is an initiation into the tone, structure, and mentality of Egyptian knowledge, the basis of all Western theology and science. It is a redefinition of those concepts which are basic to the pharaonic transmission--the glory of ancient Egypt. The author explores the "process of becoming" as related to consciousness and revealed in nature; the kinship between man and the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms; the stages of awareness leading to "Cosmic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892810149
• ISBN13: 9780892810147
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Inner Traditions International
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

THIS IS THE BEST SLIM VOLUME...

...of Schwaller de Lubicz with which to begin an approach to this unique, major thinker. Though I purchased his recently-issued $200 (list) massive 2-vol. tome THE TEMPLE OF MAN, and regret it not for a second, its sheer bulk is daunting to those of us unblessed with nice work-desks, or not as at home with geometric formulations as with the written word (there's plenty of both within)... But a valuable taste of this author's style and essential philosophic thrust is contained in E & S, which reads more poetically and resonantly than the slim volumes SYMBOL & THE SYMBOLIC and THE TEMPLE IN MAN by the same author. To clarify, the best pocket-size, affordable volumes to begin with by this author are this one and NATURE WORD; I also strongly recommend the larger volumes SACRED SCIENCE & THE EGYPTIAN MIRACLE...and the book AL-KEMI by Vandenbroeck, which is about de Lubicz... From one who's approaching 50 years of living and slightly fewer of reading, whose tastes run the gamut of great east-west spiritual/literary/esoteric/initiatic traditions, I confess no author seems more brilliant, original, multi-disciplined, and worth-the-effort-to-comprehend, than R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz...