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Copyright © 2007 by Joscelyn Godwin

First Quest Edition 2007

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Cover image: Philosopher with Flask, illustration from the First

Treatise of Splendor Solis. © British Library Board. All rights reserved. Harley .3489 f4.

Cover design, book design, and typesetting by Dan Doolin

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Godwin, Joscelyn.

The golden thread: the ageless wisdom of the Western mystery
traditions / Joscelyn Godwin; foreword by Richard Smoley.

p.  cm.

ISBN 978-0-8356-0860-2

1. Mysteries, Religious. I. Title.

BL610.G625 2007

135—dc22

2007008418

ISBN for electronic edition, e-pub format: 978-0-8356-2138-0

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