The Study of Kabalah : WW Westcott c 1950 [ Golden Dawn ]
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Scarce Illustrated Kabalah Guide by Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Co-founder William Wynn Westcott
Westcott, William Wynn. An Introduction to the Study of the Kabalah with Eight Diagrams. Allied Publications. New York. c 1950
Scarce early US reprint of an illustrated guide to kabalah by magician, theosophist, freemason, and Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn cofounder William Wynn Westcott first published in 1910.
A primer on the lore, practice, and cosmology of kabbalistic mysticism, the text includes eight diagrams including the tree of life, its paths, and its relations to the human body, and is based upon “lectures to a Society of Hermetic Students in 1888,” likely the Golden Dawn itself founded the same year.
Westcott was also the translator of the important kabalah text, Sepher Yetzirah: Book of Formation and Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom, first published in a limited edition of 100 in 1887.
6 copies listed in OCLC as of December 2024.
72pp. Ruddy cloth boards with gilt lettering front and spine. Crease to front board cloth. Wear to edges. Sunning to spine. Pages toned but clean. Lacks dustjacket. Very good.
If you liked this book, you may also enjoy this first American edition of The Secret Tradition of Alchemy by fellow Golden Dawn member Arthur Edward Waite. You might also enjoy this copy of the first edition of Spiritual Science by Sir W.E. Cooper published by the Yogi Publication Society.
