Author: MacDermot, Violet.
Title: THE CULT OF THE SEER IN THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST: A Contribution to the Current Research on Hallucinations Drawn from Coptic and other Texts. Together with: SUPPLEMENT. Two volumes.
Description: London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1971. First Edition. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH SET in dust jackets. A history of hallucination, oracles, religious experiences, and mystic visions pertaining to the religions and mysteries of the ancient Middle East, and especially focused on the rites and rituals. Text: [xii], 829 pages, indexed. Supplement: [xiii], 233 pages. Royal octavo.

Keywords: Egypt ancient Mysteries NeoPlatonism Plotinus ancient religion