Post by synchronicity on Sept 22, 2008 20:31:57 GMT 10
Mary Anne Atwood/South-Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy
Born in England, 1817. By marriage, became Mrs. Mary Anne Atwood. Author of A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery, 1850. This is the book that enlightened Israel Regardie, once he had decided to plough through its opacities until by dint of sheer concentration he should finally fathom the secret of alchemy. No doubt, however, it was Regardie’s simultaneous study of Jung’s Commentary on the Golden Flower, that provided the key. Mrs. Atwood and her father were dedicated scholars of the occult who got cold feet once A Suggestive Inquiry was published and they tried to prevent its distribution. They felt that its secrets must not be made public. digitalseance.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/mary-anne-atwoodsouth-hermetic-philosophy-and-alchemy/
Born in England, 1817. By marriage, became Mrs. Mary Anne Atwood. Author of A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery, 1850. This is the book that enlightened Israel Regardie, once he had decided to plough through its opacities until by dint of sheer concentration he should finally fathom the secret of alchemy. No doubt, however, it was Regardie’s simultaneous study of Jung’s Commentary on the Golden Flower, that provided the key. Mrs. Atwood and her father were dedicated scholars of the occult who got cold feet once A Suggestive Inquiry was published and they tried to prevent its distribution. They felt that its secrets must not be made public. digitalseance.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/mary-anne-atwoodsouth-hermetic-philosophy-and-alchemy/
I am thrilled to bits as I have just received my printed copy of Mary Anne Atwood's A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery, the 1918 edition, which comes with a 64-page introduction by Walter Leslie Wilsmhurst (who was obviously in awe of her).
Wilsmhurst makes several references to this book in his own book entitled Masonic Initiation, where he uses every opportunity to recommend it. So it is obviously a milestone.
You can get a free copy of the book from the Hermetic Library here: www.hermetics.org/doc/Mary_Anne_Atwood_-_Hermetic_Philosophy_and_Alchemy.doc but as it's a big tome (approx. 700 pp.) I wanted a printed copy and Wilsmhurst's introduction was also a decisive factor in my choice: tinyurl.com/3o6277
Questions:
Has anybody here read this book? If so, did you gain any special insights from it?
And, on a lighter note, did you manage to read all of it? ;D