Hymns and Initiations: Trans. of Orphic Hymns & a Treatise on Orphic Mysteries

Hymns and Initiations\n\n340pp ISBN 978-1898910-046      \n\nReprints\n the 1824 second edition of Taylor's Mystical Hymns of Orpheus, of 87 \nhymns together with a dissertation on the life and theology of Orpheus, \nand extensive additional notes replete with the translators insights \ninto the Orders of The Gods. The essay which accompanied the 1787 first \nedition, and which is substantially different from that of the 2nd \nedition, is added here. Also included: Six hymns of Proclus; Boethius' \n`Hymn to Jove'; Emperor Julian's `To the Mother of The Gods'; Eighteen \nhymns by Thomas Taylor; and a simplified initial guide to the Greek \nTheogony by the editors. \n\nThis is our second edition of this work (published in 2003), which \nnow includes a set of seven hymns by Thomas Taylor previously only \npublished in a 1930\u2019s magazine.\nBeautifully\n published in hardback, sewn pages, purple buckram and gold blocking to \nspine - a wonderful book at a rema.