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Opus Mago-cabbalisticum Et Theosophicum: In Which The Origin, Nature, Characteristics, And Use Of Salt , Sulfur and Mercury are Described in Three Parts Together with much Wonderful Mathematical
|  | Author: Georg Von Welling
Creators: Joseph G. McVeigh, Lon Milo DuQuette
Publisher: Weiser Books
List Price: $80.00
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 694198
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 7.3 x 2.2
ISBN: 1578633273
Dewey Decimal Number: 540.112
EAN: 9781578633272
ASIN: 1578633273
Publication Date: January 1, 2006
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Product Description
After nearly 300 years, one of the most important alchemical and magical texts of all time has finally been translated into English! "For the modern student of the Western Mystery Traditions, it is impossible to over-estimate the importance of von Welling's work. Its influence can be traced through the doctrines and teachings of a host of European esoteric institutions - even those that helped give birth to the Golden Down and the Modern Occult Revival." - Lon Milo DuQuette In Goethe's immortal play, Faust, the brooding hero reflects upon the vainness of earthly knowledge and education. He opens a book of magic and is transfixed by an illustration of the magical universe. He resolves there and then to become a magician. The book that fired Goethe's imagination for that dramatic scene was a real book - the book of forbidden knowledge that evoked every mystical cliché - Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum. After nearly 300 years, one of the most important alchemical and magical texts of all time has finally been translated into English!"For the modern student of the Western Mystery Traditions, it is impossible to overestimate the importance of von Welling's work. Its influence can be traced through the doctrines and teachings of a host of European esoteric institutions--even those that helped give birth to the Golden Dawn and the Modern Occult Revival."--Lon Milo DuQuette In Goethe's immortal play, Faust, the brooding hero reflects upon the vainness of earthly knowledge and education. He opens a book of magic and is transfixed by an illustration of the magical universe. He resolves there and then to become a magician. The book that fired Goethe's imagination for that dramatic scene was a real book--the book of forbidden knowledge that evoked every mystical cliché--Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum. This first ever English edition of Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum will appeal to anyone interested in the history or practical aspects of alchemy, astrology, magick, Rosicrucianism, esoteric Freemasonry, and the Golden Dawn. A perfect addition to any library of classic esoteric literature, this edition reproduces famous illustrations.
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 Opus Mago-cabbalisticum November 3, 2009
W. Crawford (Indpls.IN. USA)
I have only given the book a brief review as yet.This
is not a book to be enjoyed by occult dabblers. Manly
P. Hall says this is a work containing genuine
rosicrucian and alchemical diagrams and information.
I am inclined to agree.I have already found much of value. One must be rather well aquainted with
advanced esoteric symbolism and alchemy to use this book. This is a priceless work for the advanced
occultist and alchemical philosopher.
in L.V.X. wbc
 Opus Mago August 28, 2009
Richard Walker (GA,usa)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this book.Opus Mago or better known as the great work of the alchemists.I have just started reading it and already am falling in love with it.I will not go into detail on its secrets but it does conceal them very well.Only one with a true heart
and bond with the spirit we all forget exists but its by this spirit it opens the core of this book to the alchemist.This book by far is the best I have ever encountered on the philosophy of alchemy describing salt,Sulfur,Mercury in Alchemic terms
in which only the true alchemist will be able to grab a hold of.Like some symbols of alchemy they only open to those worthy of such secrets because the person seeking after such things would do well with such secrets as these in the wrong hands can do much damage.Von Welling hides his symbolism very well,to the uninitiated this book to them would bore you and all you would get are some religious ramblings but within these ramblings lies something worth while and something words can explain but I do not as I keep this secret within.I do not practice cabbalizm but I do know its foundation some built on false ethics while others are true.This book is an excellent translation good job by Joseph Mcveigh.I would suggest this book to any real practicing alchemist,this is a must for the library.
Welling's Swelling Meisterwerk August 20, 2009
Paul Cowlan (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is not a book to be taken up lightly. Like the ouroborus it seems to go round and round in circles with the discursive persistence of Finnegan's Wake, but without its effervescent sparkle. Aurora Consurgens is an easy read by comparison. It is a rambling, wooly, infuriating book which, if it really was as influential as the cover note claims, would suggest that the eighteenth century reader was capable of tolerating a remarkably high density of hot air. I don't say the man wasn't knowledgeable, but I do say he could have halved his text and sacrificed nothing. His personal, testy egotism is entertaining, but the unrelenting theological rant, allegorical or not, is tedious in the extreme. Certainly the work is informative, but isolating the nuggets of pure gold requires the determination of someone searching for marbles in a wilderness of bubble-wrap. And yet ...... and yet......
As I slammed it shut, with a feeling of huge relief at having stayed with it to the last page, I couldn't help noticing that my bookmark was crammed, on both sides, with page references; and, when the dust had cleared, a very real sense of gain and positive expansion remained. Continuing to work on a booklet exploring the nature of the Alchemical Mercurius I found myself quoting Herr Welling again and again, until I was forced to impose a limit. His endless reiterations do an excellent job of dinning his themes into the reader's head, and the overall result is considerably more coherant than the initial encounter seems to promise.
The translation, as far as I can judge, is excellent. That is it is seamless and unobtrusive. The feeling is that you are very close to the original in both vocabulary and mood. The diagrams are vaguely annotated and often, for this reader at least, maddeningly, or even willfully, obscure, but this is exactly as they would have been when it was first published. Welling's quirky, abrasive character is both a weakness and a strength, but it is very much his book, and there is nothing to be done but to take him as he is, froth, bluster and all.
In short, it's worth the effort. You need to be dogged and receptive, to button your collar against the blasts, and to put your head down into the verbiage; but if you cheerfully persist you will, after a while, begin to hear the language of the birds.
Good transaction July 25, 2008
Alessandro Benati (Bologna, Italy, Europe)
0 out of 14 found this review helpful
The book is arrived about five days the expected arrival day, it's in perfect conditions, good packaging.
It was a very good transaction!
Superb March 24, 2007
Dalk (IW, CA.)
10 out of 31 found this review helpful
If you're thinking of buying this you should know something about yourself or are willing to learn something about yourself. Inner exploration though frightening, is absolutely neccissary for ourselves to evolve. There really isnt anything more to know. This isnt a book to just purchase and sit on the shelf, there must be a reason for having an interest in the subject matter, then if you know what Im speaking of this is essential material.
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