Thierens, A. E., Ph.D. ‘Elements of Esoteric Astrology – Being a philosophical deduction of astrological principles and a sequence to Natural Philosophy, issued by the same publishers – With Numerous Line Drawings in Text and Coloured Frontispiece’ Rider & Co., Paternoster House, E.C., London, 1931[1].
Original cloth (faded at spine; moderate wear to extremities of spine hinges and outer corners of boards; mottling of cloth to inner margin of rear board, not affecting internal pages) with gilt title-label to spine (relatively faded). [1 leaf] + [coloured frontis.] + [2] + [pp. 5-11] + [p. 13] + [p. 15-282] + [6 pages of tables]
[1] The first English edition, revised from the original Dutch edition of 1911, which was notable for being the approximately joint-second of four known books to have predicted not only the discovery of Pluto but also its name, following that of Fomalhaut (1897), contemporaneous with that of Isabelle Pagan (1911), and before that of Sepharial (“The Science of Foreknowledge”, 1918)
About this Book Scan
Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing of the 1931 first English-language edition.
Adolph Ernestus Thierens (1875-1941) was a leading Dutch esoteric astrologer in the early 20th century. He enjoyed much respect from British theosophical astrologers such as Alan Leo’s circle. His 1911 book on esoteric astrology, first published thus only in Dutch, was later translated into English and published thus, as Elements of Esoteric Astrology, in 1931.
Thierens also took a deep interest in the history of astrology, and had an essay on astrology in ancient Mesopotamian culture published by the world-renowned Dutch academic publishing house E. J. Brill of Leiden in 1935.