R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
Adam the Red Man, the most controversial work by renowned hermeticist and Egyptologist R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, was first published in 1926. The book was intended mainly for his closest disciples, and de Lubicz later withdrew it from sale entirely, but we believe that today there are more people willing to understand its message. The work itself condenses part of the initiatory teaching de Lubicz shared with his disciples on the subject of mystical love and eroticism. Its purpose was not to achieve magical powers through sexuality, but to attain that spiritual love in which the fusion of two soul mates who came into existence from the same source of heavenly life, namely the “heavenly marriage of the Lamb,” is realized. As the author explains: “Man and woman, at the origin, are a single androgynous being. Their separation occurs with mental awakening, a consequence of the position of the ego or self in relation to the elements of nature.”