THE KABBALAH UNVEILED, CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING BOOKS OF THE ZOHAR: 1. THE BOOK OF CONCEALED MYSTERY, 2. THE GREATER HOLY ASSEMBLY, 3. THE LESSER HOLY ASSEMBLY
Book Details + Condition: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. (London, UK). Fifth Impression, 1938. (Please see our other listing for the 1887 first edition.) 360 pages. Original dark blue cloth with gilt title etc. on spine. Includes b&w, charts and 3 folding plates. The first esoteric work to be published by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854-1918), one of the most famous magicians of the time, and one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn was a ceremonial magical order devoted to the study of theurgy, the occult, and spiritual development. By the mid-1890s it was well-established with members across the country including many of the literary and revolutionary set including as W.B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Maud Gonne, Edith Nesbit, Florence Farr, and, before he established his own sect, Aleister Crowley. "The Kabbalah Unveiled" is a translation of the "Kabbala Denudata" of Knorr von Rosenroth (1677), which contained translations into Latin of parts of the Zohar and other Kabbalistic texts. Mathers' Introduction is still held by many to be one of the best and most important written on the subject.
Firm binding; light wear to boards (with remnants of old stain to front - hard to see in certain light); chafed spine ends; rear edge has a small nick present; inked name and extensive notes in pencil to front free endpaper; foxing to first and last few pages, with the occasional marking inside; interior pages are otherwise clean and free of markings. All books are shipped in boxes, and carefully packed.
