Angel of the West Window
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Angel of the West Window
19.99 €
Verificetur in aeternis (certified by eternity - Latin.) - should have been stamped on the cover of Gustav Meirink's latest novel, for "The Angel of the Western Window" is undoubtedly the best of what has ever been written about alchemy - "not that purely practical alchemy, which is concerned only with the transformation of base metals into gold, but that hidden art of kings, which transmutes man himself, his dark, corruptible nature, into an eternal, light-bearing, never losing consciousness of his self being. The main compositional line of his work Meyrinck chooses the hermetic odyssey of John Dee, one of the most impressive examples of the "universal mind" of the Renaissance: a mathematician, three centuries before Lobachevsky, who spoke of the fourth dimension, an outstanding linguist, cosmographer, alchemist and court astrologer of Elizabeth I. No, the Austrian writer did not intend to "make the world happy with another historical novel", he simply decided to write a "double novel": "grafting" John Dee onto his distant descendant, or, if you will, "grafting" the sixteenth century onto the twentieth century.... Meyrinck, for whom esoteric knowledge has always served as a source of inspiration, so skillfully balanced in a complex polyphonic structure of the text of such seemingly distant traditions as Hermeticism and Tantra, Kabbalah and Celtic cults, that it did not break the harmony of literary composition, - on the contrary, made "The Angel of the Western Window" the most perfect work of the writer.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Grimoire Collection