Science of Being by Fersen, Eugene - 1923

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Temple Of Kriya Yoga, 1970. First Edition. Autographed! Signed and inscribed by (Swami) S. Kriyananda to Marian with Shanti, Prema and yogasikhi (?) April 22 1979 on free end page. Hardcover, Very Good/In Decorative Boards (No Dust Jacket as Issued). Mild Wear to book. Book pages clean. Orange markings (highlighter) in the first 9 pages of book. Binding is tight. Covers bright and clean. Previous owner's name on front paste down. Page edges starting to tan. Dark Blue Cloth covers with White text on spine and cover, also a white design with Aum on front cover. OVERSIZE! Extra Postage cost may be required! this is certain for international and Priority mail orders! . Autographed! Signed and inscribed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible; Very Good/Decorative Boards. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris: Passard, 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. London label of W. Foulsham & Co. pasted over imprint. [Part 2 of 5). contemporary pebbled cloth. [2] 312 p.p. Illustrated with astrological tables, in-text images and decorative tail pieces. Sporadic foxing, some faded pencil checkmarks to margins. Light rubbing to boards, edges. Some fraying at spine tail. Else near fine and scarce copy, published 2 years following the death of famous French fortune teller, Marie Anne Adelaide Le Normand. Only one copy of Part 2 listed in Worldcat at the Wellcome Library. Discusses the planets, 12 houses of the Zodiac, as well as kabbalistic numbers.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - The Sun Behind the Sun Behind the Sun; a Darshan Diary - India, Rajneesh Foundation, 1980 - 1st Edition - Hardcover with dust jacket - 615pp - 22x15 cmCondition Very Good: Dust jacket some minor damage at corners and edges, pages a bit yellowed. Otherwise almost as new, no names or writing, tight, probably unread. Only 5000 printed for this first edition.If you have any questions or want to see more pictures, feel free to ask.Your book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking number, signed & insured.

Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary vellum. Printed by Jean Antoine Huguetan, Lyons 1638. (Colophon at end dated 1627; printing privilege dated 1626.) Second Edition of this comprehensive treatise on geomancy.Illustrated with numerous diagrams, schematic woodcuts and tables in text, as well as 10 plates, 1 of which is an engraved single-page plate, while the other 9 are fold-out woodcut diagrams or letterpress tables, some bound to face each other; plus large engraved printer's device with an armillary sphere on title-page; a few decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.The Opus Geomantiae Completum "is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar, medieval Latins like… Read More

NY: Pageant Press, Inc., 1959. Second Edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Pageant Press, Inc., 1959. Thick 8vo., ix+799pp., illustrated with drawings, tables, fold-out plate. Black cloth with gilt titles. Minor rub points to the tips, few small spots on edge of page block, otherwise near fine, clean, crisp, tight, unmarked in very good dust jacket with some chips and longish tears along the folds. From the Preface: "CAN "THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE" BE SOLVED? SINCE THE DAWN OF recorded history men have tried, but "the riddle" still remains. They failed, and all because they lacked the one essential--the key to Causation. This is the master key that unlocks all mysteries, but that key was lost in the spiritual night of the past 6,000 years. In that mythopoeic age that preceded this, men knew vastly more about Causation and Creation than he does today, but knowing also that an age of darkness was coming upon the world, the wise Initiates hid… Read More

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Temple Of Kriya Yoga, 1970. First Edition. Autographed! Signed and inscribed by (Swami) S. Kriyananda to Marian with Shanti, Prema and yogasikhi (?) April 22 1979 on free end page. Hardcover, Very Good/In Decorative Boards (No Dust Jacket as Issued). Mild Wear to book. Book pages clean. Orange markings (highlighter) in the first 9 pages of book. Binding is tight. Covers bright and clean. Previous owner's name on front paste down. Page edges starting to tan. Dark Blue Cloth covers with White text on spine and cover, also a white design with Aum on front cover. OVERSIZE! Extra Postage cost may be required! this is certain for international and Priority mail orders! . Autographed! Signed and inscribed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible; Very Good/Decorative Boards. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris: Passard, 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. London label of W. Foulsham & Co. pasted over imprint. [Part 2 of 5). contemporary pebbled cloth. [2] 312 p.p. Illustrated with astrological tables, in-text images and decorative tail pieces. Sporadic foxing, some faded pencil checkmarks to margins. Light rubbing to boards, edges. Some fraying at spine tail. Else near fine and scarce copy, published 2 years following the death of famous French fortune teller, Marie Anne Adelaide Le Normand. Only one copy of Part 2 listed in Worldcat at the Wellcome Library. Discusses the planets, 12 houses of the Zodiac, as well as kabbalistic numbers.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - The Sun Behind the Sun Behind the Sun; a Darshan Diary - India, Rajneesh Foundation, 1980 - 1st Edition - Hardcover with dust jacket - 615pp - 22x15 cmCondition Very Good: Dust jacket some minor damage at corners and edges, pages a bit yellowed. Otherwise almost as new, no names or writing, tight, probably unread. Only 5000 printed for this first edition.If you have any questions or want to see more pictures, feel free to ask.Your book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking number, signed & insured.

Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary vellum. Printed by Jean Antoine Huguetan, Lyons 1638. (Colophon at end dated 1627; printing privilege dated 1626.) Second Edition of this comprehensive treatise on geomancy.Illustrated with numerous diagrams, schematic woodcuts and tables in text, as well as 10 plates, 1 of which is an engraved single-page plate, while the other 9 are fold-out woodcut diagrams or letterpress tables, some bound to face each other; plus large engraved printer's device with an armillary sphere on title-page; a few decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.The Opus Geomantiae Completum "is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar, medieval Latins like… Read More

NY: Pageant Press, Inc., 1959. Second Edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Pageant Press, Inc., 1959. Thick 8vo., ix+799pp., illustrated with drawings, tables, fold-out plate. Black cloth with gilt titles. Minor rub points to the tips, few small spots on edge of page block, otherwise near fine, clean, crisp, tight, unmarked in very good dust jacket with some chips and longish tears along the folds. From the Preface: "CAN "THE RIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSE" BE SOLVED? SINCE THE DAWN OF recorded history men have tried, but "the riddle" still remains. They failed, and all because they lacked the one essential--the key to Causation. This is the master key that unlocks all mysteries, but that key was lost in the spiritual night of the past 6,000 years. In that mythopoeic age that preceded this, men knew vastly more about Causation and Creation than he does today, but knowing also that an age of darkness was coming upon the world, the wise Initiates hid… Read More