Declined Request The Academy of the Sword, by John Michael Greer and Gerard Thibault d'Anvers

[Philomagus]

"The most detailed and comprehensive treatise on swordsmanship ever written, Gerard Thibault's Academy of the Sword offers an extraordinary glimpse into a forgotten landscape of ideas, in which Pythagorean sacred geometry illuminated the lethal realities of rapier combat to create one of the Western world's only thoroughly documented esoteric martial arts. Translated by the widely respected occultist and scholar John Michael Greer, this stunningly illustrated and precisely detailed manual of Renaissance swordsmanship is a triumphant document of Renaissance culture-as well as a practical manual of a martial art that can still be studied and practiced today".

 

[HoldAll]

Not an occult book, it's a fencing manual. Pythagoras and geometry may feature somewhere but you'd have to look for it. If you really want the book, there are several copies available from annas-archive.

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So I downloaded it, and the only parts remotely related to the occult are several pages of the first chapter (which you can also read in the amazon preview) and that assessment is generous - it's about the geometry of the body, Pythagoras is mentioned but that's about it, the rest is about swordplay. No idea why John Michael Greer translated it, maybe fencing is his hobby. Like I said, you can download it from annas-archive.org (enter "The Academy of the Sword greer" or you'll get the 17th century original) and see for yourself.