From the editor: In Goethe's lifetime, he was regarded as the most knowledgeable man in the world with expertise in history, literature, botany, astrology, biology, alchemy, and cosmology. The secret weapon in Goethe's intellectual arsenal was this book, Opus Mago-cabbalisticum Et Theosophicum, never before translated into English from the original German. In the immortal play Faust, the pensive protagonist broods upon the "vainness" of earthly knowledge before opening a book of magick and resolving to become a magician. The very book that moved the real-life Goethe and the fictional Faust was Opus, with its revelatory secrets of alchemy, astrology, and the history of magick as well as those of Rosicrucianism, esoteric Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and the Golden Dawn.

"For the modern student of the Western Mystery Traditions, it is impossible to overestimate the importance of this work. Its influence can be traced through the doctrines and teachings of a host of European esoteric institutions - even those that helped give birth to the Golden Dawn and the Modern Occult Revival." -Lon Milo DuQuette

"I couldn't put it down. This is sort of the theological basis on which The Da Vinci Code and books like it are based. This book says things are hidden and meant to be found." -Joseph McVeigh, translator

Pages: 576, Hardcover, B&W Illustrations throughout
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