Euphrates: Or, the Waters of the East

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Euphrates: Or, the Waters of the East
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas Vaughan
Edited by Florence Farr
General editor W. Wynn Westcott
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenrePhilosophy
Occult studies
ISBN/Barcode 9781108044226
ClassificationsDewey:939.43
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 14 June 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This is the final book written by the seventeenth-century occultist and alchemist, Thomas Vaughan (1621-66). Originally published under Vaughan's penname, Eugenius Philalethes, in 1655, the work found a new audience in the Rosicrucian circles of the nineteenth century, when William Wynn Westcott, Supreme Magus of the Society, republished the volume in 1896 with a commentary by an associate, S. S. D. D. 'I have read many Alchemical Treatises', its annotator comments, 'but never one of less use to the practical Alchemist than this.' For its later readers, however, the value of the text lay in its insights into the history of hermetic thought rather than its alchemical advice. An important work of occultist philosophy in both its seventeenth- and nineteenth-century contexts, it purports to reveal nothing less than the origin of all life. The paragraph-by-paragraph commentary in turn demonstrates the history of its reception and interpretation.