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Pearlsong
Av Adam Bremer–mccollum, Charles M. Stang m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
393 kr
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The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent by his parents on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl from the clutches of a giant serpent. Along the way, the prince falls asleep and forgets his identity and mission. A letter from his parents awakens him, gives …
On Theology and Theurgy
Häftad, 2026
221 kr
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Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234–305) was not only the biographer of his teacher Plotinus, and the editor of his Enneads, but an important Platonist philosopher in his own right. On Theology and Theurgy presents two of Porphyry’s texts, preserved in fragments, in which he tries to bring philosophy to bear …
Letter to Melania
Av Evagrius of Pontus, Adam Bremer-McCollum m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
221 kr
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In a text known as the Letter to Melania, or the Great Letter, Christian monastic philosopher Evagrius of Pontus (345–399) delivers a moving meditation on the power of language (spoken and written), the composition of humanity in light of the three persons of God, and the final restoration or …
Cannabis in Arabic Verse and Prose
Häftad, 2027
202 kr
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From the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, a number of historians, jurists, poets, and others writing in Arabic turned their attention to a newly arrived plant, Cannabis indica, noting its psychoactive powers and how it first spread among Sufis. They discuss cannabis’s origins, who uses it and …
Balinus
The Secret of Creation and the Art of Nature
Häftad, 2027
777 kr
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The Sirr al-khalīqa wa-ṣanʿat al-ṭabīʿa (The Secret of Creation and the Art of Nature) is an Arabic compendium of alchemy and natural philosophy. Although the work was likely composed by a heterodox Muslim author in the ninth century CE, it presents itself as a repository of ancient Hermetic wisdom …
