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Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine in Wraps. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Original Wraps. "A collection of fascinating and evocative images of mysterious figures, ritual sacrifices, and "terrible ceremonies" populate this rich and engaging text, which, with the vividness of its visions, still captivates centuries later. Written in the early fifth century, Visions and Awakenings collects four short alchemical treatises, the most famous of which, On Virtue , describes with dreamlike imagery the various stages of an initiation rite that leads to the realization of the Golden Man, or cosmic or unitary consciousness, in the manner of the Greek Wisdom of Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Heraclitus, as well as that of Eastern wisdom and, more generally, of every path of wisdom."--Publisher. From the collection of Brian Cotnoir, alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work, The Emerald Tablet, a series of Alchemical 'Zines, Alchemical Meditations, Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy. Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form - alchemical results or talismans. Near fine, light toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Small 8vo. 210pp. Illus. (b/w). Color printed wrappers. Former owner library stamp. Text in Italian and Greek.