The Kabbalah Unveiled — S. L. MacGregor Mathers (from Knorr von Rosenroth's Latin) (1887)

“To the rapidly-extending catalogue of remarkable books published by Mrr George Redway, of London, an important addition has been made by the issue of a digest of the writings of Eliphas Levi. Many people, we daresay, will consider the volume to be ‘ full of nonsense,’ but it is really a very curious and

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improving work, going over a vast space of ground, and presenting a great deal of matter that is worth thinking over. The author has earned a title to be heard. As a contribution to what is called * occult science ’ the present book will, of course, find a welcome from many readers, among those especially whose passion it is to grope for the unseen, and to these the varied contents will give delight. The matter contained in Mr. Waite’s volume is wonderfully varied, and much of it worth reading even by those who do not believe in magic of any kind, black or white.”— Glasgow Herald.

THE HISTORY OF THE FORTY VEZIRS; or, The

Story of the Forty Morns and Eves. Written in Turkish by
Sheykh-Zada, and now done into English by E. J. W. Gibb,
M.R.A.S. About 500 pages, crown 8vo, cloth, ioj. 6d.

*' In my opinion the version is definite and final. The style is light and pleasant ■with the absolutely necessary flavour of quaintness ; and the notes, though short and few, are sufficient and satisfactory. Mr. Gibb does not write only ad clerum ; and. thus he has been obliged to ‘ leave in the obscurity of an Eastern language ’ three whole tales (pp. 353, 366, and 399) ; No. 2 being exceedingly witty and fescennine. He has the good sense, when he supplants a broad joke by a banal English phrase, to subjoin in a note the original Turkish (pp. 109, 140, 199, 215, and 382). Yet some of the novelle are highly spiced enough : see the amorous princess in the Eleventh Wazir’s story (pp. 381-3) ; and the truly Turkish and unspeakable version of modest. Aesop’s ' Countryman and his Son.’ Of the less Milesian I would especially commend the story of the Venus-star and the magical angels, Harut and Marut (p. 167) ~ the explanation of the proverb ‘ Take counsel of the cap that is on thy head ’ (p. 362), and the Thirty-seventh Wazir’s tale, showing why * men have beaten their wives since the days of Saint Adam’ (p. 349). — Sir Richard F. Burton , in “ The Academy."

GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY ; or, The Science of Representation. Being the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts, explained by Louisa S. Cook. In post 8vo, with numerous plates, coloured and plain, cloth, Js. 6 d.

“ His attempt (B. W. Betts’) seems to have taken a similar direction to that of George Boole in logic, with the difference that, whereas Boole’s expression of the Laws of Thought is algebraic, Betts expresses mind-growth geometrically ; that is to say, his growth- formulae are expressed in numerical series, of which each can be pictured to the eye in a corresponding curve. When the series are thus representede they are found to resemble the forms of leaves and flowers." — Extract from “ Symbolic Methods of Study," by Mary Boole ,

PHALLICISM : Its Connexion with the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics, and its Foundation in Buddhism. By Hargrave Jennings, Author of “ The Rosicrucians.” Demy 8vo, cloth, 42 jv

“ This book is written ad clerum, and appeals to the scholar only, and not to the multitude. It is a masterly and exhaustive account of that worship of the creative

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powers of nature which, under various names, has prevailed among all the nations of antiquity and of mediaeval times, alike in Egypt and India, in Italy and Gaul, among the Israelites of old and among the primitive inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland .... a most valuable auxiliary to all who care to pursue such a subject of inquiry, a subject for which Mr. Jennings is the better fitted on account of his long and intimate acquaintance with the Rosicrucians, their tenets, and their practices.”— Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer.

INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MDME. BLAVATSKY.