Los Angeles, CA: Philosophical Research Society, Inc., 1971. Second Edition. Hardcover. Folio. 114pp (ii). Original maroon pictorial boards, with titling to spine and upper board. Colour, b&w and duo tone illustrations; fold-out. The second edition of this book which was first published in a limited edition of 1000 copies in 1938. It comprises a series of short essays on Rosicrucian texts by Hall, along with a along with a facsimile text and translation of the eighteenth century German «D.O.M.A. manuscript» entitled «Codex Rosae Crucis.» Hall observed that the work combined all the Rosicrucian interests of «Alchemy, hermetic philosophy, mystic Christianity, cabalism and ceremonial magic, ontology and cosmogony, Pythagorean and Platonic numerology, Gnostic Christianity, classical pagan mythology, medicine and pharmacology, and comparative religion,» suggesting that the mysterious acronym D.O.M.A. might stand for «Deo Optimo Maximo Altissimo.» A few tiny scrapes to covers, otherwise a bright, tight, near-Fine. No dust jacket issued. Item #58981
ISBN: 0893144045

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