Cabala - Mirror of Art and Nature - Stephan Michelspacher

Cabala: Mirror of Art and Nature by Stephan Michelspacher, Translated by Leigh T. I. Penman / Sewn hard-cover in letterpress dust jacket, 160 pages, 7 x 10 inches, published by Ouroboros Press / a small amount of wear to the book though new and unread *** Tri-lingual Edition / Illustrated with Engravings and Ornaments / Historical Introduction CABALA: SPIEGEL DER KUNST VND NATUR was first published precisely four hundred years ago in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg, located in the Holy Roman Empire. The first edition was printed by Johann Schultes Sr., and published by the enigmatic Tyrolean, Stephan Michelspacher. CABALA remains one of the most fascinating, beautiful and problematic alchemical texts of the early seventeenth century. Its short text, partly in verse-form, describes three steel mirrors forged by the heat of the sun and revealed by the grace of God, which are at least partly metaphorical. When combined together, these mirrors – which reflect the Paracelsian triumvirate