Considered radical at the time, Breton's ideas today seem almost prescient, yet breathtaking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit. Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using the huge Perce Rock - its impermanence, its slow-motion crumbling, its singular beauty - as his central metaphor, Breton considers issues of love, loss, aggression, war, pacifism and feminism.

Considered radical at the time, today Breton's ideas seem almost prescient, yet breathtaking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit. Andre Breton wrote "Arcanum 17" during a trip to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the Allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using the huge Perce Rock-its impermanence, its slow-motion crumbling, its singular beauty-as his central metaphor, Breton considers issues of love and loss, aggression and war, pacifism, feminism and the occult, in a book that is part prose and part poetry, part reality and part dream." Translator Zack Rogow won the PEN-Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize for his co-translation of Breton's "Earthlight,"

André Breton wrote Arcanum 17 during a trip to the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec in the months after D-Day in 1944, when the Allied troops were liberating Occupied Europe. Using the huge Percé Rock-its impermanence, its slow-motion crumbling, its singular beauty-as his central metaphor, Breton considers love and loss, aggression and war, pacifism, feminism and the occult, in a book that is part prose and part poetry, part reality and part dream. In the 17th card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck, a naked woman beneath a sky of stars pours water from two urns into water and onto land. This card represents hope, renewal and resurrection-the themes that permeate Arcanum 17. Considered radical at the time, Breton's ideas today seem almost prescient, yet still breathtaking in their passionate underlying belief in the indestructibility of life and the freedom of the human spirit. Translator Zack Rogow shared the 1993 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for Earthlight by André Breton. His translation of George Sand's Horace won the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Association Award. He currently coordinates the Lunch Poems Reading Series at the University of California at Berkeley and teaches at the California College of the Arts.

A Concise book on Kabalah and Tarot by Samael Aun Weor first published in 1969. In its paragraphs are the whole path very well written but very concrete and very raw. There is more than enough information in order to clarify the priorities to which this study applies (illustrated with the 22 "official" Tarot Trumps of the Gnostic Movement drawn by Iglasias Janeiro). Also includes a sizable editor's Appendix with the following texts: -Sepher Yetzirah -The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine -Viridarium Chymicum -Tarot Prediction. Libro conciso y auténtico sobre Kábala y Tarot por Samael Aun Weor primero publicado en 1969. En sus párrafos está todo el camino no precisamente muy bien escrito pero sí muy concreto y muy crudo. Más que suficiente para aclararle las prioridades al que vale para esto (está ilustrado con los 22 arcanos del Tarot "oficial" del Movimiento Gnóstico dibujado por Iglesias Janeiro). Reproducción del segunda edición de 1977.

1951 a study in sacred numbers & symbols. a detailed study of the Tarot. Contents: Acknowledgment; Introduction; Arcanum 0-22 - illustrated & explained; Conclusion; Appendix a - What is Man; Appendix B - Bible Numbers; Appendix C - The Two Numbe.

Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century. Consisting of a wide range of dedicated case studies from the 1920s to the 1970s, this book highlights the international dimensions of the Surrealist Movement, and the radical chains of thought that linked its followers across the globe: from France to Romania, and from Canada to the former Czechoslovakia. From very early on, the surrealists approached magic as a means of bypassing, discrediting, and combatting rationalism, capitalism, and other institutionalized systems and values that they saw to be constraining influences upon modern life. Surrealist Sorcery maps out how this interest in magic developed into a major area of surrealist research that led not only to theoretical but also practical explorations of the subject. Taking an international perspective, Atkin surveys this important quality of the movement and how it's remained an important element in the surrealist project and its ongoing legacy.