A Search in Secret Egypt – Paul Brunton (1958)

S$85.00

A Search in Secret Egypt – Paul Brunton (1958)

S$85.00

Title: A Search in Secret Egypt

Author: Paul Brunton

Publisher: Rider & Company, 1958. 16th impression.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good. Large water stain to cover, very slight foxing, and top right corner of ffep sliced away. Otherwise very good, with black-and-white photographic plates. 287pp., app 9″ by 6″.

A crazy travel tale of a spiritual seeker on a quest to find magic and enlightenment in Egypt. His journey brings him to a freakish overnight stay in the Pyramids, where he encounters spirits good and evil, and a contemplation of the Sphinx and other ancient mysteries. In Egypt he also meets magicians who can summon and control jinn, a snake charmer who makes him temporarily impervious to venom, Sufis who want nothing to do with all that, and an ageless man who alludes to being immortal.