Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #287243 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-21
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 206 pages

Synopsis
This volume represents a discussion of spiritual attainment as leaden dull nature returned to its glorious state - spiritual alchemy. Included within are debates centring on such issues as trust, confidence, hope, and detachement.

Customer Reviews

Decipherment of symbolic keys to unlock the Heart's door.
An uncovering of the misunderstood and mispracticed art/science of Alchemy and a journey back to its origins and original intentions. Use it to understand yourself and to discover what symbols are and why they are. Be warned, this book is not a "taster" of the subject. It thrusts the reader into the fullness of meaning, barely giving you a chance to catch your breath. Be confounded, be inspired. Above all, be agitated into taking the next logical step.......

Excellent - Alchemy without the Drivel
This book is excellent. I have named it alchemy without the drivel, because that is what it is - factual, balanced and to the point. Burckhardt was a scholar of the old school and therefore never strays into hyperbole nor ridicule.

Alchemy is an art of self-transformation; he avoids the extremes of the material science world view in which they are mere "puffers", fools seeking riches; and the Jungian one that they are projecting psychological archetypes of change and individuation. Burckhardt accepts that alchemy was a spiritual tradition, but one for very few indeed. There is not something quite right about this path, but it is nevertheless a path to truth for those that for some reason or other can not follow one of the general traditions given by Providence to human beings.