Publications

Forthcoming

Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde.
Revised and expanded edition. Rubedo Press, 2022.

In Print

‘Zeitfreiheit: Zum Achrononsprinzip’
Achronon, Edition 1, Herbst 2021.

‘Back to Reality: Saturn through the Mirror of Being’.
Well Being, September 2021.

‘Huginus à Barma and the Reign of Saturn’.
In The Reign of Saturn Transformed into an Age of Gold. Translated by Michael A. Putman, edited and annotated by Aaron Cheak and Mirco A. Mannucci. Auckland: Rubedo Press, 2021. (Extract online).

’Preface’ = ‘From the Founding Fathers to Fulcanelli: Revelations from a French-American Alchemical Manuscript’. In La Clef du Cabinet Hermétique/ The Key to the Hermetic Sanctum. Edited and translated by Christer Böke, John Koopmans, and Juan Duc Perez. Auckland: Rubedo Press, 2020.

‘An Introduction to Schwaller de Lubicz’.
In the companion book to Tarot Égyptien (= Le Jeu de Tarot Égyptien), by René Schwaller de Lubicz. Edited by Giordano Berti, Rinascimento Italian Style Art, 2019.

The Basilian Aphorisms: Or the Hermetic Canons of the Spirit, Soul, and Body of the Major and Minor World. Edited, translated, and annotated by Mirco A. Mannucci & Aaron Cheak.
Auckland: Rubedo Press, 2018.

‘Thigh of Iron, Thigh of Gold: On Alchemy, Astrology, and Animated Statues’.
In The Celestial Art: Essays on Astrological Magic, edited by Austin Coppock and Daniel A. Schulke. Three Hands Press, 2018.

‘A Coming Forth by Day’.
In The B ∀ T. Vol. 1. Lithos Enkephalos : The Stone of the Head, edited by David Sater and Terence S. Arjoon. New York, Polycephalos Press, 2018.

Hermetic Recreations: Including the Scholium.
Translated and annotated by Christer Böke, John Koopmans, Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, and Aaron Cheak. Auckland: Rubedo Press, 2018.

The Leaf of Immortality.
Limited edition of 108 signed copies, Auckland: Rubedo Press, 2017.

‘The Juncture of Transcendence and Concretion: Symbolique in René Schwaller de Lubicz’.
In Lux in Tenebris: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism, 296–333, edited by Peter J. Forshaw. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

‘The Alchemy of Desire: The Metaphysics of Eros in René Schwaller de Lubicz (A Study of Adam l’homme rouge)’. 
In Octagon II: The Quest for Wholeness, Mirrored in a Library Dedicated to Religious Studies, Philosophy and Esotericism in Particular, edited by H. Thomas Hakl. Gaggenau: Scientia Nova, 2016.

‘Curiouser and Mercuriouser: Ruminations on a Hermetic Retrograde’.
The Astrological Journal, May–June, 2016.
Pillars, Vol. 2, Issue 3: A Wayfarer’s Hearth. Anathema Publishing, 2021.
[Read online]

‘The War Between Symbolists and Egyptologists: René Schwaller de Lubicz in Egypt: 1936-1951’.
The Heretic, Issue 6, 2015. 

Diaphany: A Journal and Nocturne, volume 1.
Edited by Aaron Cheak and Sabrina Dalla Valle. Auckland: Rubedo Press, 2015.

‘Rendering Darkness and Light Present: Jean Gebser and the Principle of Diaphany’.
Diaphany: A Journal and Nocturne, volume 1. Auckland: Rubedo Press, 2015.

‘The Call of Fire: The Hermetic Quest of Rene Schwaller de Lubicz; A Bio-Bibliographic Study’.
Clavis: Journal of Occult Arts, Letters, and Experience, Volume 3, December, 2014.

‘The Gnosis of  Dr Aaron Cheak’.
In The Quest for Gnosis: Spirituality without Dogma, by Gabriel D. Roberts, 2014.

Alchemical Traditions: From Antiquity to the Avant-Garde. 
Edited by Aaron Cheak. Numen Books, 2013; 684 pp; 40 illustrations.

‘Introduction to Part One: Circumambulating the Alchemical Mysterium’
Chapter 1. ‘The Perfect Black: Egypt and Alchemy’
Chapter 4. ‘Taking from Water to Fill in Fire: The History and Dynamics of Daoist Alchemy’
‘Introduction to Part Two: On the Origins and Nature of European Alchemy’
Chapter 7. ‘The Alchemical Khiasmos: Counter-Stretched Harmony and Divine Self-Perception’ (co-authored with Sabrina Dalla Valle)
Chapter 13. ‘Agent of All Mutations: Metallurgical, Biological and Spiritual Evolution in the Alchemy of René Schwaller de Lubicz’
—Full Table of Contents.

‘Waters Animating and Annihilating: Apotheosis by Drowning in the Greek Magical Papyri’
In Occult Traditions, edited by D. Z. Lycourinos. Numen Books, 2012.

‘Magic Through the Linguistic Lenses of Indo-European Mag[h], Greek Magos, Sanskrit Maya, and Pharaonic Egyptian Heka’.
Journal for the Academic Study of Magic 2, 2004. 

‘Hindu Übermenschen:  Cosmology and Ideology of Tantric Self-Deification’
Khthonios: A Journal for the Study of Religion, 1, 2003.

Theses

Light Broken Through the Prism of Life: René Schwaller de Lubicz and the Hermetic Problem of Salt
PhD Dissertation: University of Queensland, 2011. 

The Magus and the Mirror: An Intellectual History of the Magical Imagination
Honours Thesis: University of Queensland, 2004.