The Golden Fleece and Alchemy

by Antoine Faivre

Book Overview

Antoine Faivre is Directeur d'Etudes a l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Section des Sciences Religieuse), Sorbonne, Paris.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791414108
• ISBN13: 9780791414101
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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The Golden Fleece and Alchemy

This book traces the Golden Fleece myth from late paganism through medieval and Renaissance alchemical and masonic interpretations. It follows the changing fashions in the history of initiation as well as in the mythology. Faivre connects politics, chivalry, the age of exploration, Renaissance architecture and iconography, the hermeneutics of eighteenth century Germany and France, and modern practitioners of alchemy. This book will be welcomed by modern practitioners of alchemy as well as scholars of esotericism.