Author: Welling, Georg von.
Title: OPUS MAGO-CABBALISTICUM ET THEOSOPHICUM.
Description: York Beach: WeiserBooks, 2006. First Edition. A FINE HARDCOVER COPY with lustrated panels. Translated by Joseph McVeigh. Edited by Lon Milo DuQuette. Georg von Welling was born in Bavaria, in 1655. He worked as the director of the Baden Office of Building and Mines until 1723, and died in 1725 in Frankfurt. Von Welling was primarily known for this work. In Goethe's play, Faust reflects on the vainness of earthly knowledge and education. He opens a book of magic, and is transfixed by an illustration of the magical universe. He resolves there and then to become a magician. The book that fired Goethe's imagination was the Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum. 551 pages. Quarto.

Keywords: esoteric symbolism Kabbalah mysticism Boehme alchemy