The Tarot: A Contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism
Sadhu, Mouni. Wilshire Book Company, 1972. Softbound. Born in Poland in 1897 as Mieczyslaw Demetriusz Sudowski, Sadhu adopted his pen name ('silent monk' in Sanskrit) after encountering the lectures of esotericist G. O. Mebes, obtained 'from a Russian refugee who . . . [had fled] his country which had just fallen into Communist hands.' His interest in theosophy grew thereafter, and he would soon correspond with movement leaders Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, and draw in his writings from texts as varied as Thomas à Kempis's devotional The Imitation of Christ and Adi Shankara's Vedantic classic, the Vivekacūḍāmaṇi.
The title page has a 1-by.5-inch section excised at the fore-edge head, where there was likely once a former owner name. Interior is else clean and unmarked. Spine is tight and square, but has some cosmetic creasing. Some edge-wear, bumped corners, and moderate to heavy rubbing to the covers. 494 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
