Destroyed Works by Philip Lamantia-cover by Bruce Conner

Human skeleton superimposed on the Great Temple at Luxor(see The Temple of Man by Rene Schwaller de Lubicz).


INTERVIEW WITH THE LATE PHILIP LAMANTIA:

"It all centers on the idea and the reality of “the sacred.” Surrealism begins with the sacred. And for me “the sacred” begins/began with my early reading of books like The Temple of Man. This book goes way beyond the simple histories of ancient Egyptian culture and includes some of the most profound alchemical texts written in modern times. Later, I spent a year studying in Spain with a teacher who taught me Pythagorean geometry during the years when I had stopped writing, essentially, in order to study this school of the sacred art of mathematics—which was at that time still passed on from teacher to student by initiation only." .....read the rest here:http://www.milkmag.org/LAMANTIA.html