SOME MYSTICAL ADVENTURES
Book Details + Condition: John M. Watkins (London). First Edition, 1910. Increasingly scarce. Hardcover with green publisher's cloth boards; gilt titling to front and spine. 303 pages. George Robert Stowe (G.R.S.) Mead (1863-1933) was a noted British historian and scholar of Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Christianity, and a member of the Theosophical Society, as well as the founder of the Quest Society. He is best known for "Thrice Greatest Hermes", his landmark translation and collection of Trismegistic Literature. This is the first edition of his collection of essays comprising:
- As Above, So Below
- Heresy
- The Elasticity of a Permanent Body
- The Immensities
- Heirs of Ages
- The Master
- Initiation
- A Measure of What Love Means to Me
- Adumbrations
- The Heroic Life
- On the Track of Spirituality
- Guesses at What to Expect
- On the Art of Symbolism
- The Self-Taught
- On the Way of the Path
- Mystic Reality
- The Deathless Race
- Mystic Cosmogony
- Some Elementary Speculations
- On the Nature of the Quest
A scarce first edition with firm binding; minor shelf wear to boards; chafed spine ends; foxing to text block (which does not bleed to interior pages); bookplate to inside front board; toning to endpapers; interior is clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
