![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's in the hole, it's in the littlun." In Mercurius Or, the Marriage of Heaven & Earth ( 1990) a country clergyman and a young woman thirty years later, both involved in alchemy and a search for the Philosopher's Stone (see Transmutation), find their quests interacting in a longed-for conjoining or chymical wedding (see John Dee Johann Valentin Andreae Frances A Yates) unfolded under the auspices of Mercurius, or Hermes. The Rapture ( 1986) narrows the focus to the fiery spiritual evolution of a troubled child into an adult capable of experiencing and transmitting a Transcendence so extreme it may be deemed supernatural, and which – in language possibly derived from Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker ( 1980) – is early described as a Singularity boiling "in the blackness. (1950- ) UK author in whose first novel, The Serpent's Circle ( 1985 vt Serpent's Circle 1985), a secret monastic order called The Little Brothers of the Apostles unleashes its old Religion against the Roman Catholic Church the Little Brothers, a cohort of Secret Masters, do not themselves reappear in Harpur's work, though a sense of arcane empowerment irradiates his presentation of various forms of alchemy. ![]()
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