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In 1691, the Scottish minister Robert Kirk penned The Secret Commonwealth, the foundational source text on the lore of fairies. However, this seminal work remained unpublished for 120 years until Sir Walter Scott released an incomplete version, which shaped most subsequent editions. Over time, various publications have either presented the text in modernised form, presented it only in its archaic form, or retained only portions of the original language offering abridged versions that obscure Kirk’s full intent.
In To Glimpse a Hollow Hill, Yates presents, for the first time, the complete and unabridged text of The Secret Commonwealth in both its original form and a fully modernised version. This edition offers unparalleled insights and accessibility into Kirk’s work, alongside a comprehensive history of the manuscript’s transmission through time. Yates provides a faithful rendering of Kirk’s words, correcting errors that have persisted for over two centuries, and includes extensive analysis and commentary. This definitive volume also illuminates previously misrepresented aspects of the Seers’ magical practices and the true nature of the various Sith, restoring Kirk’s vision in its entirety.
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Before Aleister Crowley, before Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, before the Golden Dawn, before Papus, Éliphas Lévi, and Etteilla, the first author to describe an occult version of the Tarot was Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, comte de Mellet, writing in Antoine Court de Gébelin’s, 1781, eighth volume of his monumental encyclopedia, Monde primitif.
The comte de Mellet associated the Tarot’s trumps with the Classical Ages of Man: the Age of Gold, the Age of Silver, and the Age of Iron. He correlated the Trumps with the letters in the Hebrew alphabet, he described the minor suits in detail, and he provided the earliest discussion of a divination technique for the Tarot.