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Patrick Lepetit
Books by Patrick Lepetit
Surrealism and Operative Alchemy
The Secret Language at the Origins of the Surrealist Movement
• Draws on rare primary documents to reveal the connections between surrealism, 20th century alchemy, and 19th century occultism
• Explores Éliphas Lévi, Jewish and Christian Kabbalah, and Hermeticism to show how surrealist symbology contained an initiatory dimension or “secret teaching”
• Explores Éliphas Lévi, Jewish and Christian Kabbalah, and Hermeticism to show how surrealist symbology contained an initiatory dimension or “secret teaching”
The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism
Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies
Foreword by Bernard Roger
A profound understanding of the surrealists’ connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works
• Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to ...
• Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to ...