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Stanislas Klossowski de Rola

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Description:This new and completely redesigned edition creates a colourful and vibrant guide to the secret art. Klossowski de Rola elucidates the mysterious language and polyvalent symbolism from a variety of perspectives practical, spiritual, elemental and historical and explains how the true alchemist differs from the modern chemist and the false practitioner. Gold is only a by-product and emblem of the Great Work of the alchemist. The latter part of the book comprises the full text of a seventeenth-century exposition upon an alchemists dream-poem, and five richly illustrated Themes sections, reproducing full sequences of alchemical thought, art and paraphernalia.Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, son of the artist Balthus and a lifelong student of alchemy, is also the author of The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Alchemy (Art and Imagination). To get started finding Alchemy (Art and Imagination), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This new and completely redesigned edition creates a colourful and vibrant guide to the secret art. Klossowski de Rola elucidates the mysterious language and polyvalent symbolism from a variety of perspectives practical, spiritual, elemental and historical and explains how the true alchemist differs from the modern chemist and the false practitioner. Gold is only a by-product and emblem of the Great Work of the alchemist. The latter part of the book comprises the full text of a seventeenth-century exposition upon an alchemists dream-poem, and five richly illustrated Themes sections, reproducing full sequences of alchemical thought, art and paraphernalia.Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, son of the artist Balthus and a lifelong student of alchemy, is also the author of The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Alchemy (Art and Imagination). To get started finding Alchemy (Art and Imagination), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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