"Ibn Gebirol was a Spanish Jew, mistaken by most writers in the subsequent centuries for an Arabian philosopher. Regarded as an Aristotelian, many of his works were condemned by the University of Paris, and his name remains to this day but very little known outside the circle of learned Kabalists. Mr. Myer has undertaken to vindicate this mediaeval scholar, poet, and mystic, and has fully succeeded in doing so. Identifying the lore given out by this forgotten sage with the universal 'Wisdom Religion, ' our author thus points out that the mystical theosophy and the disciplina arcana of the...
"Ibn Gebirol was a Spanish Jew, mistaken by most writers in the subsequent centuries for an Arabian philosopher. Regarded as an Aristotelian, many of ...
The following work is taken in part, from an address delivered by me before, The American Numismatic and Archeological Society, at its Hall in the City of New York, on March 30th, 1893. Since that time I have been led into a train of thought, having as its basis a more philosophical treatment of the meaning of the scarab as a symbol, in the religious metaphysic conception of it by the Ancient Egyptians, and have added much new matter.
The following work is taken in part, from an address delivered by me before, The American Numismatic and Archeological Society, at its Hall in the Cit...
