The third classic interpreted by this author is. the Coclum. Terrae, The Its record docs not justify an_assumption that It was merely {0 comous Magician's Heavenly Chaos. of the Welshmun, Thomas Vaughan, brother Mage ya military dictatorship. com- yy" poet Vaughan, Yloreovers the policy-snaking power Published in 1650, this alchemical Was-not by any "means a prerogative treatise is highly philosophical, of Chiang Kal shek:...- the lenders \uninged by physical and metallur~ Hovernment "structure, so, "that the Kical connotations. ended te. work within' tue nasty amd Br From Prom Coclum political arganivation" while "not vot Terrae Mr. Regardie shows how the port rear simp accurately [alchemists sought to render the Of power. Jinward spirit. independent in con-Enough has been said to indicate sciousness of the physical frame. In that this study of China's government has not only a scholarly but a lively quality that makes it deserve: recommendation, The book is one of a series published under' the title MeGraw-Hill Studies in Political Science, of which Fritz Morstein Marx's' "Government. In the Third Reich," published in 1937, and Hi. Arthur Steiner's "Goverament Fascist Italy." published in 1938, are China Reviews '$1 Per Annum $10. way the spirit by Its own innate me power is able {o control the Irhysieal frame. The author advances the idea that the building up of the concept of the Philosopher's Stone consciously reorganizing the material of Life in such a way that the spirit is shown forth supreme.
"The Philosopher's Stone" isa book which make an appeal to the small group interested in hermetic philosophy. One may well question Whether the spiritual emphasis given by Mr. Regardie Is dominant alchemy. or whether in its wider and truer. significance alchemy stands for the chemistry of the middle axes.
"There is a hopeful ending for the reader who has found some dificult following the argument throughout the book: frontispiece to. this_ months "Chinese Recorder" ig igeresting Ueeause it represents "No Now the Inn and the Boy Jesus Teach ing Ante Temple from the bre oto chinese artist: Eat Hue Non trid Lao Chren™two graceful hile Dats "The work of these two artists He" disused "In an article "by Miss .all adept and saints of all time aljcady exist deep within us, then Fellection upon thole lives and their Words "we" make manifest" What Ritherta "had "been, concealed. "We tevoise them from within. snd become Eontequently that' which" we have. evoked. "The transmisation tr effected fevali to. "The Philosophers Stone of. divine understanding "and Knowledge "will then have" been
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