VII SERMONES AD MORTUOS The Seven Sermons to the Dead Written by Basilides in Alexandria, the City Where the East Toucheth the West.

Edinburgh, Scotland: Privately Printed, 1925. First English edition. Wraps as issued. Acceptable. Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1925. Wraps as issued 15.5 x 24 cm, 28 pp. In red and black with borders and flourishes. This copy with spine taped with black linen tape. 1.5 " at front edge shadowed with tape remnant, reinforced on rear of wrap. Light soil to wraps. Text is good. First English edition, translated by H. G. Baynes. "The English edition, in a translation by Dr. H. G. Baynes, was privately printed in 1925 by arrangement with John M. Watkins. Only a very few copies were issued and those were for Dr. Jung's own use." Very faint name written in small sepia ink on inside of front wrap. "The Seven Sermons to the Dead," Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, might best be described as the "summary revelation of the Red Book." It is the only portion of the imaginative material contained in the Red Book manuscripts that C.G. Jung shared more or less publicly during his lifetime. With this central work of Jung's now in hand, we discover that the Seven Sermons to the Dead actually compose the closing pages of the Red Book draft manuscripts; the version transcribed for the Red Book varies only slightly from the text published in 1916, however the Red Book includes after each of the sermons an additional amplifying homily by Philemon (Jung's spirit guide). In the original journal account of the revelation (Black Book 6) Jung himself is the voice speaking the Seven Sermons to the Dead. In the version transcribed into the Red Book manuscript, Jung gives Philemon as the voice speaking the Sermons. Interestingly, a few pages later, on the last page of the Red Book manuscript, Philemon is identified with the historical Gnostic prophet Simon Magus. When Jung subsequently transcribed the Sermons for printing as an independent text, the Sermons were attributed pseudepigraphically to yet another historical second century Gnostic teacher, Basilides of Alexandria. Thus Jung, Philemon, Simon Magus, and Basilides are all finally conflated together in the voice of the Gnostic prophet who speaks the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos. ARCHAEUS PROJECT COPY