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Al-Kemi: Hermetic, Occult, Political and Private Aspects of R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz by André VandenBroeck

by: Watkins Books




Published by Inner Traditions / Lindisfarne Press, USA, 1987
Hardbound, 287 pages

Condition: Hardbound in white cloth with gilt lettered spine. Clean, unmarked text pages, firm binding mild dust soiling to edges, slight slant to binding - in all a good + copy. Dust jacket with creasing to front flap and along upper and lower extremities, else good too.

 

Al-Kemi recounts the story of the eighteen months that André VandenBroeck spent in daily contact with the remarkable French philosopher, hermeticist, and Egyptologist, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887-1961). It provides a passionately felt, personal, and dramatic introduction to the startling world of this contemporary alchemist. Structured like a mystery and distilled in the crucible of memory for fifteen years, Al-Kemi provides a passionately felt, personal, and dramatic introduction to the startling world of this twentieth-century alchemist.