Quintessence of Secret Mercury: Practices, Prayers and Parables
By David Chaim Smith

The fifth book in the Lightning Flash of Alef series, is an image-saturated expression of mystical surrender into the expanse of the infinite. The work contains a selection of highly unusual contemplative practices and prayers, a cycle of sixteen kabbalistic drawings called Tikkun of the Circle, and a rare visionary text (bearing the title of the book) based on alchemical transmutation completed over the course of ten years.

• Clothbound hardcover book

• Smyth sewn

• Blocked in silver metallic

• French fold dust jacket

• 8 in. x 10 in. 

• Custom endpapers

• 104 pages 

• 38 full-page images

• 4 vignettes

• 1 folding plate poster