Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology.

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  [Occult] Blavatsky, H.P. Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology. New York: J.W. Bouton, 1886. Fifth thousand. 2 volume set. Original dark blue cloth with rules and decorations stamped in black, spines titled and pictorially stamped in gilt, floral endpapers. Portrait frontispiece of the author with tissue guard in vol. 1, folding diagram in vol. II. Large thick 8vos. xlvi, 628 pp.; (vi) iv, 692 pp. + xxii pp. publisher?s catalogue bound at rear. Extremities gently rubbed with light dust soiling, previous ownership stamps to title page and first leaves of contents near upper margin, occasional pencil marginalia; pencil annotations to endpapers; sound copies. An extremely rare early printing of Blavatsky?s first major work. ?Isis Unveiled? became one the foundational texts of Theosophy and was influential in Western magical traditions. Aleister Crowley even recognized her as a Sister or Master of the Temple in his system of spiritual grades.
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