A must have for anyone who is fascinated by Robert Cochrane and the Clan of Tubal Cain. There is much to learn from this complex writings , His devotion to the Old Ways is felt when you read his letters. Some of the letters give inside information about the way the Clan of Tubal Cain worked . A great job done on this by Evan John Jones and Michael Howard. FFFF

A must have for anyone who is fascinated by Robert Cochrane and the Clan of Tubal Cain. There is much to learn from his complex writings , His devotion to the Old Ways is felt when you read his letters. Some of the letters give inside information about the way the Clan worked that has not been made public before. There more new information about the letter "s and The Clan of Tubal Cain. The only thing missing are the drawings and symbol's.
A great job done on this by Evan John Jones and Michael Howard, FFFF .

Evans's book on Rudolf II and his court revived interest in the period. Evans shows how Rudolf assembled a court of humanist artists, poets, scientists and alchemists interested in using the correspondences between the microcosm (the human being) and the macrocosm (the universe) to bring about a new age of peace. For Evans, this moment of Mannerist culture was the end of the Renaissance; it represents the dream of a generation dissatisfied with the religious strife of the Reformation, and hoping that a mixture of what we would call science and mysticism could provide a new culture based on hierarchical spiritual education. Instead of a new age, it saw its hopes dashed by increasing religious intolerance and the devastation of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). Evans shows how Rudolf's court became a European center of learning; he attempts to illuminate the taciturn emperor's views on politics, religion, art, culture, science and magic by discussing the ideas of his associates. The books is extremely well written and includes an amazing amount of bibliographical information; it may prove a bit daunting for some readers, as some quotations from German, Italian, and Latin are not translated. There is a 1997 reprint with a short essay surveying more recent work in the field by Thames and Hudson