Book Description
Mandalas have been recognized as important tools in Eastern spiritual traditions for focusing meditation. Though various Western traditions possess such mandalas for contemplation, they have not often been recognized as such, except by those deeply schooled in Western esotericism. Adam McLean remedies this by presenting and analyzing in great depth, over forty beautiful engravings, reproduced as full-page illustrations, from alchemical, kabbalistic, magical, Rosicrucian, and Hermetic sources.
This second edition of the first book exclusively dedicated to the mandala tradition in the West is an extremely valuable sourcework for its illustrations and commentaries. Not only is it a comprehensive guide to reading the cosmological and spiritual symbolism of alchemical engravings, it also outlines three ways for working with these mandalas as spiritual exercises.
About the author
Adam McLean is one of the few internationally recognized experts on alchemical symbolism. He has published over forty books on alchemy and related matters, was editor of the Hermetic Journal between 1978 and 1992, and is currently editor of the Alchemy Virtual Library on the World Wide Web.
