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Title:Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum Vol 1A : Book of the Explantion of the Symbols Kitab Hall ar-Rumuz by Muhammad ibn Umail -- Psychological Commentary by Marie-Louise von Franz
Author:Theodor Abt (ed)
ISBN:3952260835 : 9783952260838
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:241
Weight: .598 Kg.
Published:Daimon Verlag (Living Human Heritage Publications) - January 2007
List Price: 16.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought: PSYCHOLOGY


This is the last manuscript of Dr Marie-Louise von Franz, dictated during the final years of her life. If not only contains a brilliant historical survey of alchemy since Egyptian times, but above all, a profound comment on a newly translated Arabic alchemical text from the 10th Century which is a 'Summa' of her entire life's experience and work.

The Religious Eros in the Arab Culture; The Loss of the Dimension of Divine Matter; The Transition of Alchemy into the Western World; The Modern View of Eros; The Life and Work of Muhammad ibn Umail; General Reflections; Commentary on the Hall ar-Rumuz; Ending of Manuscript G; Apparatus.