books by Patrick Harpur

books by Patrick Harpur

books:

Patrick Harpur

The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination

Patrick Harpur

Blue Angel Gallery, 2007

"Thus We Are Initiated By What We Cannot Control"
Patrick Harpur's The Philosopher's Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination (2002) is further hard evidence that Harpur is a bright, complex thinker with a genius for digesting and assimilating complex threads of Western history, philosophy, religion, and science, as ...

The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Human Imagination

Patrick Harpur

Penguin Books Ltd, 2002

A Hermetic Labyrinth Leading to the Otherworld
This book is a continuation of the ideas explored in the author's previous masterpiece, _Daemonic Reality_. It examines the "Otherworld", the Anima Mundi, or soul of the world. This is the larger Reality that was accepted by all traditional cultures, but which is now ...

Mercurius: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth

Patrick Harpur

Blue Angel Gallery, 2007

Sublime reading.
Alchemy is a very difficult subject to weave into a novel while maintaining the page turning suspense that keeps a reader rivoted to the book. Harpur has managed to do just this - he has created a novel and an historical treatise - added a wealth of alchemical ...

Mercurius
Patrick Harpur

HarperCollins Publishers, 1991

Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld

Patrick Harpur

Pine Winds Press, 2003

The World Soul Gains a Modern Voice
This is a book that urgently needed to be written, an intelligent and genuinely thoughtful examination of anomalous phenomena like "UFO" and "fairy" sightings. I've spent time in rural India where these types of experiences are still amazingly common. In India the ...