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Back in print (1) Theon of Smyrna - Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato and (2) Chaldean Book of Genesis, George ...
06/27/2025

Back in print (1) Theon of Smyrna - Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato and (2) Chaldean Book of Genesis, George Smith, Assyriologist. Both smyth sewn hardcovers. Not POD publications. Nice. Published in Mecosta and Printed in Michigan.
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and
https://www.wizardsbookshelf.com/chaldean.html
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Wizards Bookshelf https://www.wizardsbookshelf.com/ by way of a Square shopping cart alongside a great many other hermetic / theosophical references. You will find as well links to ABE books, eBay and Amazon for the same titles in one fashion or another. And of course in Mecosta, Michigan at Mecosta Book Gallery (open weekends) http://www.mecostabooks.com .

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05/15/2024

Ex 1943 . In the presence of a Reality

May 8th was White Lotus Day, which is celebrated annually by Theosophists in commemoration of the death of H. P. Blavatsky; and this anniversary, the 52nd, was thought a suitable occasion for an address in the Temple at Headquarters by the only surviving member of the Theosophical Society (Covina) w...

New Reprint in time of today's Summer Solstice. ......................................Smyth Sewn, Hardcover, THE SOURCE ...
06/21/2023

New Reprint in time of today's Summer Solstice. ......................................Smyth Sewn, Hardcover, THE SOURCE OF MEASURES, J Ralston Skinner, multiple indexes including the Drais Hebrew & Numerical indexes, NOT a POD edition. $29.00. Now back in print and available at Wizards Bookshelf, wizardsbookshelf.com with link to Square Store - more pics and info here https://www.wizardsbookshelf.com/sourceofmeasures.html - Also available on Amazon, Biblio and Ebay - ISBN 9780913510476. Reprint of 1894 edition with 1886 Supplement. 2023 reprint of the 1982 Wizards printing, 496 pages plus fold out. Masonic, esoteric, theosophical, Egyptian, Hebrew, Biblical, Old and New Testament, Kabbala. Blavatsky Secret Doctrine Reference. From the title page - Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery in The Source of Measures / “originating the British inch and the ancient cubit, by which was built the Great Pyramid of Egypt and the Temple of Solomon; and through the possession and use of which, man, assuming to realize the creative law of the Deity, set it forth in a Mystery, among the Hebrews called Kabbala.”................ SOM was first published in 1875, with a supplement published in 1876 under separate cover. This volume offered here is a reprint of the 1894 Edition which includes the supplement. In addition, there is a bibliography and an index added, and also, as this is a reprint of the 1982 Wizards Bookshelf edition (not the 1972 Wizards Edition), it also includes the new Hebrew and numerical indexes / indices - prepared by John H. Drais as well as a bibliography of Skinner’s known works both published and unpublished. …….. History Note: - the entire edition of the original 1894 printing was destroyed by fire at the publishing company, a few copies having been sent out to presubscribed customers. ………For more information on Skinner see theosophy.wiki/en/James_Ralston_Skinner

Perihelion of the Sun 11:17 am in Mecosta on the 4thHappy New Year!“it is January the 4th which ought to be selected by ...
01/01/2023

Perihelion of the Sun 11:17 am in Mecosta on the 4th

Happy New Year!

“it is January the 4th which ought to be selected by the Theosophists—the Esotericists especially—as their New
Year. January is under the sign of Capricornus, the
mysterious Makara of the Hindu mystics—the “Kumaras,” it being stated, having incarnated in mankind under the 10th sign of the Zodiac. For ages the 4th of January has been sacred to Mercury-Budha, or Thoth-Hermes. Thus everything combines to make of
it a festival to be held by those who study ancient Wisdom” HPB Vol 12 Collected Writings

Further AS INFO... Wizards Bookshelf is still geared up for mail order - but The Real Time Bookshop ( Mecosta Book Gallery ) is on a 2023 Winter Sabbatical to reopen in the Spring - or before) even though we are indeed around - working, repairing. shoving snow and ice.

01/04/2022

January 4th - the Esoteric New Year . Ex FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY - CHAPTER 18. Print copies of the book available ex TUP , Wizards , Mecosta Book Gallery, Amazon and also in e-edition online at no cost via TUP at the link following the text below.

"H. P. Blavatsky also says in her article that the celebration of the new year by esotericists should be in connection with the Budha-wisdom, a word coming from the same root from which Buddha, the Lord Gautama's title, was taken, the root meaning "to awaken." Now, again, what is Budha, from the same root? Budha is the Sanskrit name for the planet Mercury, which the Greeks called Hermes, and the Latins Mercurius, and which we, adopting the Latin name, call Mercury. Hermes has always been the particular overseer of mystics in many, perhaps all, nations. In ancient Greece, he was given the titles of psychagog and psychopomp, meaning "conductor of souls" to the nether world, likewise the Mysteries. No matter what form the interpretation of the ancient wisdom may have taken in ancient times, one invariably finds the planet Hermes, or Mercury, associated closely with the teachings of the Mysteries dealing with the afterworld. In India, Hermes was named Budha, as just said; and he was called the son of Soma, or the Moon.

For instance, in Homer's Odyssey, you read how Hermes led the souls of the dead suitors, "gibbering like bats," to the "meads of asphodel" (book 24). This allusion to the work of Hermes the psychopomp, the "helper," is a "mystery" which was taken directly from the Eleusinian Mysteries or, perhaps, from still earlier Mysteries."

https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/fund/fund-1.htm

First Edition copyright ©1932; Second Revised Edition copyright ©1979 by Theosophical University Press (print version also available). Electronic version ISBN 1-55700-048-4. All rights reserved. This edition may be downloaded for off-line viewing without charge. No part of this publication may be ...

Second & Revised Edition 2021. Print Version ex Theosophical University Press https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ts/ma...
02/15/2021

Second & Revised Edition 2021. Print Version ex Theosophical University Press https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/ts/mahatlet.htm OR Wizards Bookshelf https://www.wizardsbookshelf.com/ NOTE: PDF available alsohttps://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/MahatmaLetters-eBook.pdf AND HTML https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/mahatma/ml-hp.htm No other book is quite like this private collection of letters. Preserved in the British Library, they were written between 1880 and 1890 to Alfred Percy Sinnett, editor of a leading Anglo-Indian newspaper, The Pioneer, and to his friend, Allan Octavian Hume, a founder of the Indian National Congress. Their correspondents were two Mahatmas whom H. P. Blavatsky had acknowledged as her teachers and the inspirers of her Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine.

First published in 1923, this important volume is filled with sublime philosophical and ethical instruction, revealing not only far-reaching concepts of religious and scientific thought (since proven in large degree prophetic), but also practicality, warmth of heart, patience, and ripeness of humor. These letters, moreover, yield a clearer understanding of H. P. Blavatsky, and of the Mahatmas' aim in fostering a better understanding of our kinship with all peoples.

This Second & Revised Edition follows A. Trevor Barker’s 1926 Second Edition published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, and includes his Prefaces, Introduction, and Mars-Mercury essay in Appendix 1. It has been reset in larger type and retains the edition’s pagination and division of the Letters into sections. The Letter numbers have been set in arabic numerals and added to the running heads for convenient reference. Text of the Letters has been chec ked against photographs of the originals (see Barker’s two Prefaces for his editorial objectives); transcription errors as well as changes which depart from the originals beyond normal copy-editing have been corrected. Uncertain readings have been left as Barker transcribed them. Editorial notes and corrections by TUP are enclosed in braces, i.e. “curly” brackets ( { } ), and pertain mostly to dates and names for purposes of identification. Foreign terms and phrases are given as they appear in the Letters.

A second Appendix has been added to this edition. Appendix 2 includes two Mahatma Letters not included by Barker, and five other items as follows:

1. First Letter of K.H. to A. O. Hume
2. View of the Chohan on the T.S.
3. Cosmological Notes (originally reproduced in Appendix II of The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett)
4. A. O. Hume’s Reply to K.H.’s First Letter (full text of Letter 99)
5. The Writing of The Mahatma Letters by A. Trevor Barker
6. Foreign Words and Phrases
7. Chronolgical Order

"The term 'Universal Brotherhood' is no idle phrase. Humanity in the mass has a paramount claim upon us. . . . If it be a dream, it is at least a noble one for mankind: and it is the aspiration of the true adept." -- p. 17

Originally published in 1884 and 1885 as a pair - these sewn hardcovers are priced as a pair via Ebay, including to UK (...
12/31/2020

Originally published in 1884 and 1885 as a pair - these sewn hardcovers are priced as a pair via Ebay, including to UK (where they were originally printed) and other destinations (flat Rate Envelope Priority International Mail) packed together to save on post (Also available postpaid to addresses in the USA via media mail at the Wizards Bookshelf Web Page wizardsbookshelf.com).
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