Esoterism and Symbol

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Summary: THIS IS THE BEST SLIM VOLUME...
Review: ...of Schwaller de Lubicz with which to begin an approach to this unique, major thinker. Though I purchased his recently-issued $200 (list) massive 2-vol. tome THE TEMPLE OF MAN, and regret it not for a second, its sheer bulk is daunting to those of us unblessed with nice work-desks, or not as at home with geometric formulations as with the written word (there's plenty of both within)... But a valuable taste of this author's style and essential philosophic thrust is contained in E & S, which reads more poetically and resonantly than the slim volumes SYMBOL & THE SYMBOLIC and THE TEMPLE IN MAN by the same author. To clarify, the best pocket-size, affordable volumes to begin with by this author are this one and NATURE WORD; I also strongly recommend the larger volumes SACRED SCIENCE & THE EGYPTIAN MIRACLE...and the book AL-KEMI by Vandenbroeck, which is about de Lubicz... From one who's approaching 50 years of living and slightly fewer of reading, whose tastes run the gamut of great east-west spiritual/literary/esoteric/initiatic traditions, I confess no author seems more brilliant, original, multi-disciplined, and worth-the-effort-to-comprehend, than R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz...