Alexandria 2: The Journal of Western Cosmological Traditions (Vol 2) [Paperback]

David Fideler (Editor)

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Publication Date: March 1994 | Series: Alexandria

In the ancient world Alexandria was the place where many philosophical and spiritual traditions met and combined into powerful new syntheses. Today is a forum for the leading writers and scholars of the Western esoteric traditions. This second volume of the Alexandria Journal is a stunning 400-page collection of the best and the brightest writings on the scene today. Here are mysteries sacred secret and mythic for anyone with an interest in the Western esoteric tradition.

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• Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: Phanes Pr (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933999976
• ISBN-13: 978-0933999978
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Essential contributions to the study of Western Esotericism. Issue #2 covers:
Introduction: Cosmopolis, or the New Alexandria -- David Fideler
The Museum at Alexandria -- Edward Parsons
A Note on the Muses -- Adam McLean
Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The Revival of the First Universal Library. A Report from UNESCO
Alexandria: Past, Present, and Future -- Eric Mueller
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician, Astronomer, and Philosopher -- Nancy Nietupski
The Life of Hypatia from The Suda -- Jeremiah Reedy (translator)
The Life of Hypatia -- Socrates Scholasticus
The Life of Hypatia -- John, Bishop of Nikiu
Psychedelic Effects and the Eleusinian Mysteries -- Shawn Eyer
The Science and Art of Animating Statues -- David Fideler
The Alchemical Harp of Mechtild of Hackeborn -- Therese Schroeder-Sheker
The Fish Bride -- Jane Thigpen
An Introduction to the Monochord -- Siemen Terpstra
A Note on Ptolemy's Polychord and the Contemporary Relevance of Harmonic Science -- David Fideler
Mysticism and Spiritual Harmonics in Eighteenth-Century England -- Arthur Versluis
Mentalism and the Cosmological Fallacy -- Joscelyn Godwin
Printing, Memory, and the Loss of the Celestial -- Arthur Versluis
Gerhard Dorn's Monarchy of the Ternary in Union Versus the Monomachia of the Dyad in Confusion -- Daniel Willens (translator)
Imago Magia, Virgin Mother of Eternity: Imagination and Phantasy in the Philosophy of Jacob Boehme -- Hugh Urban
The Castle of Heroes: W. B. Yeats' Celtic Mystical Order -- Peter Cawley
The Availability of the One: An Interpretive Essay -- Michael Hornum
The Magic of Romance: The Cultivation of Eros from Sappho to the Troubadours -- Christopher Bamford
Seating Arrangements in Plato's Symposium -- Robin Waterfield
All Religions are One -- William Blake
The Dolphin in Greek Legend and Myth -- Melitta Rabinovitch
Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks -- Christine Rhone
The Cosmological Rorschach -- David Fideler
Psalm -- Carolyn North
Orphic Hymn to Artemis -- Shawn Eyer (translator)
Reports from Hyperborea -- John Henry
Book Reviews
Books in Brief -- David Fideler
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