Adam McLean

The fifteen plates of the Mutus Liber, "the Mute Book", are well known, and this book without words is recognized as a classic of the seventeenth-century alchemical tradition. Although the engravings seem to outline an alchemical process in detail, their message is not immediately obvious, and it really requires a commentary to make it intelligible to the present-day reader. Adam...

Mandalas have long been recognised as important tools in Eastern spiritual traditions for focusing meditation. Though various Western traditions possess such contemplative tools, they have not often been recognised as such, except by those deeply schooled in Western esotericism. Adam McLean remedies this situation by presenting, and analysing in great depth, over forty beautiful engravings, reproduced as full-page illustrations, from...