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Copyright © 1974, 2022 by The estate of Frater Albertus

Foreword copyright © 1974, 2022 by Israel Regardie
Foreword copyright © 2022 by Robert Allen Bartlett

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may quote brief passages. First published in 1960 by the Paracelsus Research Society. Revised and
expanded edition first published in 1974 by Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, ISBN: 978-0-87728-655-8. This
Weiser Classics edition includes a new foreword.

ISBN: 978-1-57863-765-2
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Cover image adapted from Mutus Liber, plate 6, by Isaac Baulot [Genevae? s.n. ?, 1702]
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