This is one of a series of lavishly illustrated, large-format paperback books that explore a truly astonishing range of interests, philosophies, religions, and cultures -- from alchemy to angels, Buddhism to Hinduism, myth to magic. A primordial element of religious tradition, all over the world, the dance was a vital part of Early Christian worship, and survives in the whirling, orbiting movements of the Dervishes of Turkey. This book evokes one of mankind's oldest and profoundest to act out the movements of the powers that he senses within himself and the within the world.