There is no discipline more austere than that imposed by the worship of Eros, for it involves not only the ordeal of pain, but the more perilous ordeal of pleasure. -from "Androgyne" One of the most extraordinary figures of the popular intellectualism of the early 20th century, Claude Bragdon was an architect and designer who turned his mathematically fueled artistic bent toward the metaphysical... and anticipated the new quantum physics with a philosophy of existence that bridged the rational and the transcendent. This ...
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There is no discipline more austere than that imposed by the worship of Eros, for it involves not only the ordeal of pain, but the more perilous ordeal of pleasure. -from "Androgyne" One of the most extraordinary figures of the popular intellectualism of the early 20th century, Claude Bragdon was an architect and designer who turned his mathematically fueled artistic bent toward the metaphysical... and anticipated the new quantum physics with a philosophy of existence that bridged the rational and the transcendent. This poetic consideration of human love in light of modern scientific wisdom was first published in 1930 but feels fresh and relevant today. Bragdon's discussions of romantic love, life-affirming sex, and the duality of marriage is extraordinarily insightful, and may make you look at yourself and your own relationships in a whole new way. Other works by Bragdon available from Cosimo Classics: Yoga for You, Four-Dimensional Vistas, Projective Ornament, The Beautiful Necessity, Architecture and Democracy, Episodes from An Unwritten History, and A Primer of Higher Space (The Fourth Dimension). American architect, stage designer, and writer CLAUDE FAYETTE BRAGDON (1866-1946) helped found the Rochester Architectural Club, in the city where he made his greatest mark as a building designer with structures including Rochester Central Station, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the First Universalist Church; he also designed Peterborough Bridge in Ontario. In later life, Bragdon worked on Broadway as scenic designer for 1930s productions of Cyrano de Bergerac and Hamlet, among others.
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Add this copy of The Eternal Poles to cart. $100.00, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1931 by Rider & Co.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Rider & Company, London, UK., 1931. Xv, 104 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Offsetting and light soil present to the FFEP. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP and to the half-title page (Richard Metzger). Crease present to the first page of chapter III. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Claude Bragdon was an architect and designer who dabbled in theosophy and the occult and wrote about it all with an infectious spirit and passion. In numerous essays and books, Bragdon advocated a theosophical approach to building design, urging an "organic" Gothic style which he believed consistent with "natural order"-over the "arranged" Beaux-Arts architecture of the classical revival. Bragdon wrote a number of books on spiritual topics, including Eastern religions and reincarnation, including this one." This is a book about Love in all its forms and phases--initial, daemonic, celestial, personal, sexual--by one who has successfully demonstrated his right to discuss these profound and perilous themes in "Old Lamps for New" and "The New Image." Contents: Introduction: the tangled skein of destiny--The personality and the life-force; The inner identity of all religious teaching--Love the activity of the life-force; The misunderstanding and perversion of love--The story of creation as told in the Upanishads; Initial and demonic love; Celestial love--Androgyne; The love of the sexes; Sexual love--The many marriages; Beauty--"I am that"--Polarity; Dwellers of the threshold--The world-spectacle; Time-bending and space-binding--The worship of Moloch; Mind idolatry; Sex idolatry--The miraculous power of love--"Give all to love." E-111; 8.2 X 5.1 X 0.8 inches; 104 pages.
Add this copy of The Eternal Poles to cart. $150.00, like new condition, Sold by Appledore Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waccabuc, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1931 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Collectible; Fine in Very Good jacket. WARMLY (AND ARTFULLY) INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1931 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, VG+ dustjacket, with mild darkening along the spine and light wear at its ends. Octavo, 104 pgs. Signed by Author.
