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[STIRLING, William] The Canon. An Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala as the Rule of All the Arts (1999)
[STIRLING, William] The Canon. An Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala as the Rule of All the Arts (1999)
Introduction by R.A. Gilbert; Foreword by John Michell; Preface by R.B. Cunningham Graham
York Beach: Samuel Weiser, 1999. First Edition Thus. Hardcover in dust jacket. Octavo. Limited to 950 numbered copies, this copy being No. 628. xxiv + 424pp. Black cloth with gold device to front. A few b&w illustrations. A fine copy in like dust jacket.
A masterful study of ancient wisdom and mythology. It was first published in 1897. Its central proposition is that sacred art, architecture, and literature are based upon a canonical law passed down though the ages.THE CANON is the undisputed king of all books devoted to the Greek Qabala. Canonic law is based on the objective fact that events and physical changes which are perpetual are never the less completely governed by intrinsic proportions, periodicities and measures. Such secrets [of the ancient priests], previously an anathema to modernists, have become the subject of genuine regard due to such people as Schwaller de Lubicz, Lama Govinda, Henri Corbin, Bligh Bond, Arthur Avalon.