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Kabbalah and Alchemy: An Essay on Common Archetypes
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Kabbalah and Alchemy: An Essay on Common Archetypes Hardcover - 2000

by Arturo Schwarz


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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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Arturo Schwarz is an art historian, an essayist, and a poet who has studied Kabbalah and alchemy in depth since 1945. He has lectured at leading universities in Italy and across the globe, as well as in art academies and museums, and has curated major art exhibitions and organized anthological and retrospective exhibitions. Mr. Schwarz has published over thirty books, in addition to twenty-eight collections of poems, standard monographs on Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Mordechai Ardon, and essays on Dadaism, Surrealism, Kabbalah, tantrism, alchemy, and prehistoric and tribal art.
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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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