Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism

Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism by Dr. Herbert Silberer was first published in 1914, and republished later under the title Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts. The author was a psychoanalyst who was one of Sigmund Freud's trusted fellow psychoanalysts - a circle that also included Carl Jung, among others. This book was Silberer's magnum opus, and it starts with an allegorical text known as the Parabola Allegory. This allegory, which is a Rosicrucian text from the sevente...