Without question, this is the who’s who of late classical pagan occultism, from Porphyry to Proclus to Hermes Tremegistus to Psellus’ famed volume on the nature of demons all in the illustrious translation of Marsilio Ficino. This is a rare opportunity to own the first edition of one of the most foundational textbooks of Renaissance Occultism. Iamblichus De Mysteriis, along with a host of other hermetic / occult texts of late antiquity including the Asclepius of Hermes Trismegistus, Porphyry’s De Antro Nympharum, and Proclus’s commentaries on the Timaeus and Chaldean Oracles. Together, these works constitute the essential canon of late antique theurgy and metaphysical speculation, the intellectual backbone of what would later be called the prisca theologia, or “ancient theology.” Ficino’s Latin renderings brought these once-obscure Greek and Coptic texts into the heart of the Renaissance, where they inspired figures from Pico della Mirandola to Giordano Bruno and beyond. This volume embodies the Renaissance conviction that divine wisdom could be recovered through the careful study of the ancients, and that philosophy, religion, and magic were but differing rays of the same celestial light. A cornerstone of humanist and esoteric thought in its earliest and purest form.
'On the mysteries of the Aegyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians' by Iamblichus (250-325 CE) (Iamblichus de mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Chaldærum. Assyriorum);
'Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades – on the soul and daimones' by Proclus (412-84 CE) (Proclus in alcibiadem de anima atque dæmone);
'On sacrifice and magic' by the same author (Proclus de sacrificio et magia);
'On deities and daimons' by Porphyry (c 234-c. 304 CE) (Porphyrius de diuinis atque dæmonibus);
'On daimons' by Michael Psellus (1018-78 CE) (Psellus de dæmonibus);
'Corpus Hermeticum, Asclepius' by Hermes Trismegistus (early c's CE) (Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander. Eiusdem Asclepius)
One of the most important collections of ancient pagan wisdom in a volume in speculation condition.
Iamblichus, etc., De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Lugduni (Lyon), Joan Tornaesium (Jean de Tournes). With slipcase. 20th century leather, gilt title on spine. Octavo/duodecimo, 543 pages.fall Image of Iamblichus at end. Initial and final blanks refreshed. A rare work in a very fine binding.
Without question, this is the who’s who of late classical pagan occultism, from Porphyry to Proclus to Hermes Tremegistus to Psellus’ famed volume on the nature of demons all in the illustrious translation of Marsilio Ficino. This is a rare opportunity to own the first edition of one of the most foundational textbooks of Renaissance Occultism. Iamblichus De Mysteriis, along with a host of other hermetic / occult texts of late antiquity including the Asclepius of Hermes Trismegistus, Porphyry’s De Antro Nympharum, and Proclus’s commentaries on the Timaeus and Chaldean Oracles. Together, these works constitute the essential canon of late antique theurgy and metaphysical speculation, the intellectual backbone of what would later be called the prisca theologia, or “ancient theology.” Ficino’s Latin renderings brought these once-obscure Greek and Coptic texts into the heart of the Renaissance, where they inspired figures from Pico della Mirandola to Giordano Bruno and beyond. This volume embodies the Renaissance conviction that divine wisdom could be recovered through the careful study of the ancients, and that philosophy, religion, and magic were but differing rays of the same celestial light. A cornerstone of humanist and esoteric thought in its earliest and purest form.
'On the mysteries of the Aegyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians' by Iamblichus (250-325 CE) (Iamblichus de mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Chaldærum. Assyriorum);
'Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades – on the soul and daimones' by Proclus (412-84 CE) (Proclus in alcibiadem de anima atque dæmone);
'On sacrifice and magic' by the same author (Proclus de sacrificio et magia);
'On deities and daimons' by Porphyry (c 234-c. 304 CE) (Porphyrius de diuinis atque dæmonibus);
'On daimons' by Michael Psellus (1018-78 CE) (Psellus de dæmonibus);
'Corpus Hermeticum, Asclepius' by Hermes Trismegistus (early c's CE) (Mercurii Trismegisti Pimander. Eiusdem Asclepius)
One of the most important collections of ancient pagan wisdom in a volume in speculation condition.
Iamblichus, etc., De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum. Lugduni (Lyon), Joan Tornaesium (Jean de Tournes). With slipcase. 20th century leather, gilt title on spine. Octavo/duodecimo, 543 pages.fall Image of Iamblichus at end. Initial and final blanks refreshed. A rare work in a very fine binding.
