Somebody finally took it upon herself (Laura Gaie) to translate some of the works of the emminent Swiss author Oswald Wirth (1860-1943).
Wirth was an esotericist and Freemason. He wrote some often referred books, but his books written in French, remained untranslated for some reason. In 1910 Le Symbolisme hermétique dans ses rapports avec l’alchimie et la franc-maçonnerie was published and 115 years later also people who are not too good with French can read the text.
The translation is 160 pages. Quite a large part are not really texts of Wirth though. There are lengthy texts from the archives of Baron de Tschoudy (Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi (1734-1784) and the Kindle version of Gaie’s book does not make clear if Wirth only wrote short introductions to the text of that he also wrote elucidations within them. The texts are interesting in themselves though, as they represent an early ‘Egyptian’ type of Freemasonry.
Anyway, Wirth’s texts about Alchemy and related subjects are interesting and quite clear. Different subjects are deals with only here and there referring to Freemasonry and then towards the end we get the (Alchemical) Masonic texts of De Tschoudy.
An interesting and long overdue translation.
1910/2025 V Bros. Publishing, isbn 2487364440
