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Title: Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts

Author: Herbert Silberer

Release Date: January 9, 2009 [Ebook #27755]

Language: English

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Hidden Symbolism of

ALCHEMY and the OCCULT ARTS

(Formerly titled: _Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism_)

by Dr. Herbert Silberer

Translated by Smith Ely Jelliffe, M.D., Ph.D.

Dover Publications, Inc.

New York

1971

CONTENTS

Translator's Preface
Part I. The Parable.
Section I. The Parable.
Section II. Dream And Myth Interpretation.
Part II. Analytic Part.
Section I. Psychoanalytic Interpretation Of The Parable.
Section II. Alchemy.
Section III. The Hermetic Art.
Section IV. Rosicrucianism And Freemasonry.
Section V. The Problem Of Multiple Interpretation.
Part III. Synthetic Part.
Section I. Introversion And Regeneration.
A. Introversion And Intro-Determination.
B. Effects Of Introversion.
C. Regeneration.
Section II. The Goal Of The Work.
Section III. The Royal Art.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Footnotes

This Dover edition, first published in 1971, is an unabridged and
unaltered republication of the work originally published by Moffat, Yard
and Company, New York, in 1917 under the title _Problems of Mysticism and
its Symbolism_.

_International Standard Book Number: 0-486-20972-5_
_Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 74-176356_

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

Prominent among the stones of a fireplace in my country den, one large
rounded giant stands out. It was bourne by the glacial streams from a more
northern resting place and is marked by a fossil of a mollusk that
inhabited northern seas many million years ago. Yet in spite of the eons
of time that have passed it can