Tartaros Special Ed #22/25 J August Alm Signed THP/Xoanon Orphic Underworld RARE

Tartaros Special Edition #22/25 J August Alm Signed Orphic & Pythagorean Underworld Three Hands Press/Xoanon Rare! Special Edition - Bound in Full Antique Grey Goatskin, Limited to 25 Copies, Signed. On The Orphic and Pythagorean underworld. Special Edition - Full Antique Grey Goatskin, limited to 25 hand-numbered, signed copies, this being #22. This is a copy of the very rare Special Edition of.

By Johan August Alm, published by Three Hands Press. Bound in full antique grey goatskin, with a pentagram device blocked on the front cover, this edition was limited to 25 numbered and signed copies, with this copy being #22. It is a very significant study of the Orphic and Pythagorean underworld, and also examines the Pythagorean pentagram. The magical doctrines of the ancient Orphics and Pythagoreans are poorly understood by modern scholars, in part because they were secretive in their own time.

Well-known for speaking in riddles and complex ciphers, its adepts were bound by strict taboo and silence, the breaking of which was punishable by death. The enigma of the cults teachings was further shrouded by centuries of suppression, and, in some cases, appropriation or misrepresentation, by the growing forces of Christianity. What remains today are the fragments of its lost books, together with the words of those who, for good or ill, wrote about them. In an original interpretation and synthesis apt for todays student of ancient mysticism and the occult, August Alm advances a new conception of these ancient mystery-cults and their sublime doctrines of Chaos, Darkness and Light.

A foundational part of these ancient Greek mystery-cults was the concept of Tartaros. As the abyss of primeval darkness and chaos, Tartaros was, in its most ancient conception, the birthplace of the human soul and the cosmos itself. This vast and incomprehensible dominion held at its center a great fire, an.

About which the universe was arranged. In later eras, it passed into myth as a vast and voidful underworld; a place of binding for condemned souls and the enemies of gods, sealed fast with barriers of bronze and iron. Christians later appropriated it as a partition of their own concept of eternal punishment, a division of hell which constrained no less than the fallen angels. An equally enigmatic Pythagorean cipher is the symbol of the Pentagram, or five-fold star, whose form has been revered in western magic for some three millennia, but whose origins and original attributes are shrouded in mystery. Its attribution to the four elements, joined together with.

Was popularized in the middle ages and is its best-known meaning in modern occult sciences. However, its earlier Pythagorean usage was related to health and well-being, and almost certainly adumbrated another retinue of arcana, one which was ancient even at the time of Pythagoras. Exhuming the scattered fragments of these two elder doctrines of Tartaros and the Pentagram, Alm examines their reverberation as occult and occluded-- concepts through centuries of philosophical thought, in a line connecting the shadowy teachings of such dark traditions as the Orphics and the Pythagoreans, later penetrating the adyta of Neoplatonism. Arguing for a new undertanding of the Pentagram, he connects its fivefold mystery to the great powers of Tartaros, and also to such terrifying gods such as Hecate, Nyx, Erebos, Typhon, Cerberus, and the Erinyes. This strand of mystery touches upon such related concepts as the high theogony implicit within the Platonic Solids, the shadowy influence of the Cult of the Idaean Dactyls on Pythagoreanism, the Light which is rooted in Darkness, and the magical pathology of the Unrooted Tree.

The book is 264 pages, with eight illustrations, including original artwork by James Dunk and Timo Ketola. Check out my other items. Be sure to add me to your favourites list. As I will be listing many other Rare & hard-to-find books, artworks and many other items of interest. The item "Tartaros Special Ed #22/25 J August Alm Signed THP/Xoanon Orphic Underworld RARE" is in sale since Monday, September 21, 2015.

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Binding: Leather
Subject: Religion & Spirituality
Topic: Occult
Special Attributes: Special Edition in full Antique Grey Goatskin,
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Year Printed: 2013
Printing Year: 2013
Original/Facsimile: Original
Publisher: Three Hands Press
Language: English
Author: J August Alm
Region: North America
Illustrator: James Dunk and Timo Ketola