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Recounts the story of the eighteen months that André VandenBroeck spent with French philosopher, hermeticist and Egyptologist, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz.
Description
Al-Kemi recounts the story of the eighteen months that André VandenBroeck spent in daily contact with the remarkable French philosopher, hermeticist, and Egyptologist, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887–1961). It provides a passionately felt, personal, and dramatic introduction to the startling world of this contemporary alchemist.
Structured like a mystery and distilled in the crucible of memory for fifteen years, Al-Kemi provides a passionately felt, personal, and dramatic introduction to the startling world of this twentieth-century alchemist.
Reviews
'This passionate and brilliant book shows de Lubicz to be a source of revolutionary insight.... VandenBroeck deals forthrightly and bravely... with the modern mixture of esotericism and politics -- a "dangerously explosive" combination.'
-- Saul Bellow, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Humboldt's Gift
'Al-Kemi has reminded me of the beauty inherent in the relationship among systems.'
-- Ram Das, author of Be Here Now
'VandenBroeck is a superb writer, with a novelist’s sense of drama and a scholar’s sense of responsibility. Schwaller de Lubicz is not likely to be as well served for a long time.'
-- Joscelyn Godwin, Professor of Music at Colgate University and the author of The Mystery of the Seven Vowels: In Theory and Practice and Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde
Author
André VandenBroeck is also the author of Philosophical Geometry and Breaking Through: A Narrative of the Great Work. He has translated and edited several works by R.A.Schwaller De Lubicz.
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Unfortunately this book is now out of print.
