The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism: Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies

by Patrick Lepetit

A profound understanding of the surrealists' connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works - Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost "psychic" and magical powers - Provides many examples of esoteric influence in surrealism, such as how Picasso's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620551756
• ISBN13: 9781620551752
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Inner Traditions International
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"