The Magic of a Symbol

by Florence Farr, Darcy Kuntz (Editor)

Preface by Darcy Kntz. This book contains Florence Farr's ideas on symbolism, the Kabbalah, Egyptian magic, the Vedanta, Rosicrucians and Alchemy. Golden Dawn series number six.

43 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997

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."