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Jason Aronson Publishing, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good++ in a Very Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Unmarked boards with "straight" edge-corners; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are bright and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); Purple dust jacket with drawing illustration, and title in white lettering; 2000, Jason Aronson Publishing; 198 pages; "Kabbalah and Alchemy: An Essay on Common Archetypes," by Arturo Schwarz.
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Kabbalah and Alchemy: An Essay on Common Archetypes Hardcover - 2000
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- Title Kabbalah and Alchemy: An Essay on Common Archetypes
- Author Arturo Schwarz
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 198
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jason Aronson, Northvale, New Jersey
- Date November 28, 2000
- ISBN 9780765761583 / 0765761580
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.13 x 5.73 x 1.07 in (23.19 x 14.55 x 2.72 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00038968
- Dewey Decimal Code 296.16
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This remarkable and groundbreaking study explores the author's view that there is a close correspondence between the basic tenets of alchemy and those of Jewish esoteric tradition, generally known as Kabbalah.
The author, Arturo Schwarz, points out that both alchemy and Kabbalah are frequently distorted in popular as well as scholarly literature. The real concern of alchemy is not to transmute lead into gold, but rather, through the investigation of the self, to evolve from the state of ignorance (symbolized by lead) to that of awareness (symbolized by gold). As Schwarz points out, "this drive toward self-awareness is also basic in the teachings of the major kabbalists."
Schwarz goes on to explain that in both systems… Read More
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