1913 - QUESTS OLD AND NEW by GEORGE R.S. MEAD, 1st - SPIRIT MYSTICISM PSYCHIC
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QUESTS OLD AND NEW — By George R.S. Mead — 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1913 — Theosophy, Metaphysical, Occult
Publisher: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd, London (1913)
In well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for light shelfwear. The pages are crisp and clean save for ex libris bookplate on the first blank page, and minor spots of very light foxing on the second. Slight lean. Original green cloth, 338 pages, gilt title, etc. to spine and black title to front cover. George Robert Stowe [G.R.S.] Mead (1863 - 1933) was an English historian and writer who was a
member of the Theosophical Society, as well as the founder of the Quest
Society. In this volume Mead collects essays "illustrative of the quest of
reality, the search for truth, or the restless striving of the human soul for
the satisfaction of its needs, spiritual or philosophical, mystical or
psychical. Most were previously published in the Quest Magazine, which he
edited. Contents include: The Way of the Spirit in Ancient China; The Doctrine of the
True Man in Ancient Chinese Mystical Philosophy; Spiritual Reality in
Progressive Buddhism; The Ideal Life in Progressive Buddhism; Some Features of
Buddhist Psychology; The Doctrine of Reincarnation Ethically Considered; Some
Mystical Experiments on the Frontiers of Early Christendom; The Meaning of
Gnosis in the Higher Forms of Hellenistic Religion; 'The Book of the Hidden
Mysteries' by Hierotheos; The Rising Psychic Tide; Vaihinger's Philosophy of
the 'As If'; Bergson's Intuitionism; Eucken's Activism.