Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight as I write this, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Let's start things out with a quote again: 

 

"Discipline has long been interpreted as self-control, or as some would say, "the overcoming of the lower nature.' The difficultiy is that such words as 'conquest' and 'overcoming' suggest an entirely inconsistent aggressiveness of technique.  The true metaphysician is not a wearied man wrestling with his lower nature; rather he is poised and relaxed, achieving through realization instead of conflict.  Avoid the process of suffering your way into a spiritual state." 

 

That's from Manly P. Hall's Self-Unfoldment by Disciplines of Realization, arguably Hall's best book and one of the classics of the Golden Age of American occultism. (The image to the left, on the other hand, is one of Augustus Knapp's splendid illustrations for Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages.)     

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Comments

[ecosophia]

Can someone please get Lewy back into print? That's a hugely important book and it's all but unavailable at this point.

[robertmathiesen]

It is indeed!

Apparently Brepols holds the copyright now, and every so often Michael Tardieu puts out a new edition with updates at the end of his long (and growing) cumulative appendix of updates to the work. However, Brepols seems to print only a small number of copies of each new edition, and it soon becomes unavailable. An hour ago, the French variant of Amazon listed a single copy of the 2011 edition for somewhat more than 100 euros; but I just checked again now, and it's was within the last hour. (Note: the English/American variant of Amazon does not list all that many books published in Europe; always check all the European variants of Amazon if one wants to buy such a book.)

[robertmathiesen]

Edit: "and it was sold within the last hour."