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Summary: Very interesting book
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone interested in alchemy and self development. It would fall under the category of "occult pot boiler" but is nevertheless very interesting and informative. I also checked out the publishers' website, which featured an interview with the author, who apparently dictated the book as the bombs were falling on Budapest during World War II. Impressive.
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Summary: Transmutate
Review: If you are looking for good perspective on the incarnation of your soul this book is a definate must have. It is written in a story format that is easy to process and visualize. The author does excellent work providing the basic structure of initiation without being too specific or dogmatic. I gave "The Red Lion" 5 stars because it balances perfectly, on the fine line between an illustration and an introduction.
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Summary: Transmutate
Review: If you are looking for good perspective on the incarnation of your soul this book is a definate must have. It is written in a story format that is easy to process and visualize. The author does excellent work providing the basic structure of initiation without being too specific or dogmatic. I gave "The Red Lion" 5 stars because it balances perfectly, on the fine line between an illustration and an introduction.
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Summary: The Red Lemon
Review: Many people that I know have heartily recommended this novel. Honestly, I don't understand why they embraced it so lovingly. I found this book to be condescending and maleficent. It refers to real alchemists in name only, projecting an aura on them that sometimes borders on the ridiculous, as in the caliper of man that Becher was, or the origins of the Comte de St. Germaine. It thoroughly misinforms as well; the homonculus is not a extradimensional entity bent on the overthrow of God, for example. To find out what the homonculus really is, study Paracelsus. To learn more about Hermetic thought, read Dom Pernety, Flamel or Basil Valentine. It is also a violent and depressing book, and I don't really enjoy violence or depression, two emotions that I had in spades after finishing the book.
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Summary: The Lion Roars
Review: The Red Lion is one of those rare books that comes along once or twice in a generation. Written under the stress of constant terror and death, as Budapest was under siege during the final days of World War Two, the author brings to her readers a message of hope that surpasses the many New Age slogans about 'love and light' that are passed off as truth or 'occult novels' that are either psuedo-pornographic or just plain dull. If you are interested in reading about the nature of human evolution, the Western occult traditions, and the role of personal relationships across lifetimes, and how it all will come to make sense in the end, then The Red Lion is for you. The Red Lion is more than just an accurate book about alchemy and tantric mysticism, it is a book about life.
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Summary: The best book on the alchemy of spritual transformation.
Review: The Red Lion puts together, in a narrative form, the secrets of alchemy and its effects on the on the consciousness of those striving to discover the ways of transforming lead into gold. For any true alchemists this is merely a metaphor for the tranformation of body into sprirt. The story of this book traces the experience of one seeker, as he awakens through the pre-mature ingesting of the philosopher's stone in a mad quest for immortality. In this case, the adept had not been spirtitual qualified to undergo such transformation and is consequently thrown up against his own demons. The awakening that occurs, for the main character as well as the reader, is due to the confrontation of the darkness and bringing of light to the deepest part of being. Maria Szepis had written a superb tail about this act of confrontation and draws on much Hermetic research to bring out the theosophical truth in discovering the God of our being.
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Summary: Excellent first-person description of reincarnation & karm
Review: This book very vividly gives a description of the consequences of the choices we make, and the laws of spiritual development, of karma and rebirth. It teaches many valuable lessons about life and spirituality. Another highly recommended book in this genre is "Brother of the Third Degree", which is an incredibly captivating story!
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Summary: Great Classic
Review: This is a book that I read once in about every five years.
There is so much to learn from this book! I hope you will read it and learn a lot from it too!
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Summary: Major Rosicrucian Work
Review: Though this work is a novel, no-one should be deceived into thinking that this is anything less than a major alchemical work. A whole range of philosophical and esoteric issues are discussed. This reviewer could only absorb the book in small doses; there was so much to mull over. It's amazing it took over 50 years for this book to be translated into English. The writer does exhibit a Rosicrucian slant at places. For example, reference to the "Chemical Wedding". The emphasis on the Comte de St. Germaine. At other places Szepes refers to Eastern practices, e.g. the Tibetan practice of bringing to life an inanimate statue which subsequently has to be demolished. Thus the polarity between pyschological projection and 'external' reality is re-established, which tends to become blurred when one sets out on the esoteric path and realizes that there is no distinction between psychological and physical reality. The notion of the homunculus is discussed at length. The Emerald Tablet is given in both Latin and English. The list could go on. A spell-binding book that this reviewer found edifying.
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Summary: Fascinating Alchemical Novel
Review: When I got this book and I began reading it - I couldn't put it down. The book is a fictional alchemical novel and covers the span of four lifetimes of an individual from the point he became curious about the alchemy and the mess he made out of his zeal for the possession of the philosopher's stone before he was mentally, emotionally and spiritually ready to have it, through karmic retributions (consequences) of his errors and the side-effects of going through few lifetimes fully remembering his past deeds and mis-deeds - and all the way to his ultimate spiritual attainment - the rightful possession of the philosopher's stone, all the lessons learned and inner refinements accomplished.
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