{"product_id":"the-sacrificial-universe-by-david-chaim-smith","title":"The Sacrificial Universe by David Chaim Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntiquarian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardback edition. Published by Fulgur in 2012, limited to 800 copies only. Long out of print. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e35 monotone plates, including six folding. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e28 vignettes in text.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: As new \/ Fine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Chaim Smith has been known to students of kabbalah for more than a decade, but a recent return to art as a vocational practice has brought his work to a wider audience. His first book with us,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sacrificial Universe\u003c\/em\u003e, draws upon his experience to present us with a devotional approach to ecstatic visionary mysticism. Ranging from intellectual treatises on sacred geometry, biomorphism and the symbol of the serpent in kabbalistic theory and practise, to a poetic twilight language of ecstatic devotion,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sacrificial Universe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis unlike any other book we have offered to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced as a lavish small folio with generous margins and a classic typographic style,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sacrificial Universe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epresents David’s key artworks of the last four years as full-page images, with the triptychs and quadriptych offered as folding plates. The complex and evocative iconographic symbolism is also explored through commentaries. And yet\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sacrificial Universe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis more than a homage to those seventeenth century books of hermetic mysticism. Structured according to the classic kabbalistic text Sefer Yetzirah,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sacrificial Univers\u003c\/em\u003ee may be approached on three levels (world, year, and soul) to offer the reader a view of gnostic surrender within a vision of the self-consuming nature of phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Watkins Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58579978781046,"sku":null,"price":295.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/0635\/6656\/files\/IMG_6384.jpg?v=1788193050","url":"https:\/\/shop.watkinsbooks.com\/products\/the-sacrificial-universe-by-david-chaim-smith","provider":"Watkins Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}