Description
• Reveals how Prague’s streets, monuments, and Royal Route encode centuries of alchemical symbolism and Hermetic wisdom in stone
• Explores the city’s extraordinary cast of visionaries, from Emperor Rudolf II and Rabbi Judah Loew to Gustav Meyrink and Franz Bardon
• Traces the survival and revival of Czech Hermeticism through Nazi persecution and communist suppression into a vibrant contemporary renaissance
Few cities carry the weight of esoteric history the way Prague does. Its spired skyline, labyrinthine alleys, and layered monuments have drawn alchemists, Kabbalists, Rosicrucians, and Hermetic philosophers for centuries—not by accident, but by design. Prague sits at a threshold, a liminal crossing point between East and West, between the material and the mystical. Its very name, Praha, derives from the Czech word for “threshold,” and that quality of liminality permeates every cobblestone.
At the center of this book stands Mercury, or Hermes, god of wisdom, alchemy, and boundary-crossing, identified as Prague’s genius loci or tutelary spirit. Christopher McIntosh traces Mercury’s presence throughout the city’s architecture and cultural consciousness. He reveals how this mercurial energy has animated Prague’s spiritual life from its founding myth of the seeress Libuše through the Renaissance court of Rudolf II, whose patronage drew John Dee, Edward Kelley, Tycho Brahe, and Johannes Kepler to the city’s alchemical laboratories and Hermetic spirit. The author decodes the Royal Route as a symbolic initiatory path and illuminates the sacred geometry encoded in Prague’s urban layout.
Moving through the centuries, McIntosh documents Rosicrucian and Masonic currents, Prague’s fin-de-siècle occult revival, and how the city’s Hermetic communities survived brutal suppression to re-emerge after the Velvet Revolution in vibrant new forms.
Product Details
Series: Occult Prague: From the Court Alchemists and the Golem to the Velvet Revolution
Writer: McIntosh, Christopher
Release Date: 2027-06-29
FOC Date: 2027-05-25
Page Count: 208
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SKU: 9798888503607
Barcode: 9798888503607
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