The Cloud upon the Sanctuary - Softcover

This book is an occult classic, written by Karl von Eckartshausen was a German Catholic mystic, author, and philosopher. This book was compiled from the periodical "The Unknown World". The magazine was devoted to the Occult Sciences, Magic, Mystical Philosophy, Alchemy, Hermetic Archeology, and the Hidden Problems of Science Literature, Speculation and History. Edited by Arthur Edward Waite. This was the first appearance of Mme. de Steiger's translation, beginning in January of 1895 and completed in June. In 1896 it was published as a small book with a Preface by J. W. Brodie-Innes. A second book, with an Introduction by Waite, was published in 1903.

Born in Haimhausen, Bavaria, Eckartshausen studied philosophy and Bavarian civil law in Munich and Ingolstadt. He was the author of The Cloud upon the Sanctuary (de:Die Wolke über dem Heiligtum), a work of Christian mysticism which was later taken up by occultists. The book was given a high status in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, particularly by Arthur Edward Waite. It is known to have attracted Aleister Crowley to the Order. He joined the masonic order of the Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt, but withdrew his membership soon after discovering that this order only recognized enlightenment through human reason. He died in Munich at the age of 50.