Gnosis Magazine Spring/summer 1986; Vol. 1, No. 2 de Kinney, Jay (editor) - 1986

San Francisco, CA: Lumen Foundation. Very Good. 1986. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Magazine. B&W and Color Illustrations; This magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The magazine and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. There is some light rubbing to the spine joints and edges of the magazine covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The contents include: Magic: What is it? By Jay Kinney, The Gnosis Interview: Diane di Prima by Jay Kinney & Hal Hughes, Magic & Religion: Hidden Partners? By Arthur Versluis, Scribe: An Informal History of Letter Forms by Justin Green, and more. "Gnosis was published by the Lumen Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization incorporated in California by Jay Kinney and Dixie Tracy-Kinney to produce educational material, including a print magazine, on the Western esoteric tradition. Initial fund-raising resulted in a 5,000-copy print run of the first issue. The first issues were produced on a volunteer basis from a home office, but within three years the Lumen Foundation and Gnosis established permanent headquarters near Mission Dolores in San Francisco. In 1986, the writer Richard Smoley began contributing to the magazine and went on to become its managing editor (briefly) and then, beginning in 1990, its editor for eight years. " (from Wikipedia) .