The Way of Wisdom: An Investigation of the Meanings of the Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet Considered As a Remnant of the Chaldean Wisdom

by Florence Farr

One of the many works which Farr, a prominent member of the Golden Dawn, wrote to expound the ideas of the Order.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1969

About the author

Florence Beatrice Emery, published under her birth name Florence Farr, was a West End leading actress, composer, director, women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, and leader of the occult order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. under the motto V.H. Soror Sapientia Sapienti Dono Data.

She was a friend and collaborator of Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats, playwright Oscar Wilde, artists Aubrey Beardsley and Pamela Colman Smith, Masonic scholar Arthur Edward Waite, theatrical producer Annie Horniman, and many other literati of London's fin de siècle era, and even by their standards she was "the bohemian's bohemian."