Item #15046 Three Sevens: A Story of Ancient Initiation. Founders of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis The Phelons, Luxor and Elphantae.

Three Sevens: A Story of Ancient Initiation

Quaakertown, Pa: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1938. 1st Edition. 8vo. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #15046

A lovely edition dedicated to the practices as professed by the Phelons.

The Phelons were occultists who followed the Spiritualist William Pike Phelon (1834-1904), Founder of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, the beliefs of which were described in Phelon's obituary:

"Dr. Phelon was well known in San Francisco and throughout the country as the head of a peculiar order known as the "Hermetic Brotherhood of Atlantis, Luxor and Elephanta." This society was established by Dr. Phelon in Chicago in the early seventies and has for its prime object the upbuilding of character. It was founded on the belief that the wisdom of the sages of the "lost continent of Atlantis" was held by a body of men known as the "Ancient Atlantian Brotherhood," and this society of Dr. Phelon's was supposed by its adherents to be the true successor of the prehistoric organization."

Gold cloth. Square tight binding. Gilt seal to front and gilt titling to spine. Clean interior, save for a previous owner signature and bookplate to the front pastedown. Mild edge wear to binding with a short closed tear to the cloth at heel of spine.

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