The Philosophy of Magic
Author: Arthur Versluis
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1988-11
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780140190489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur Versluis
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1988-11
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780140190489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Francis F R C Barrett
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781014396853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Donald Tyson
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0738718769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, by Henry Cornelius Agrippa and unnamed others, is considered one of the cornerstones of Western magic, and the grimoires it contains are among the most important that exist in the Western tradition. For more than three hundred years, this mysterious tome has been regarded as difficult or even impossible to understand--until now. Occult scholar Donald Tyson presents a fully annotated, corrected, and modernized edition of Stephen Skinner's 1978 facsimile edition of the original work, which was six tracts published as one volume in 1655. For the first time, these classic works of Western magic have been rendered fully accessible to the novice practitioner, as well as occult scholars and skilled magicians. Tyson presents clear instruction and practical insight on a variety of magic techniques, providing contemporary magicians with a working grimoire of the arcane. Astrology History Geomancy Ceremonial Magic The Nature of Spirits, Angels, and Demons Geomantic Astronomy Necromancy Invocation and Evocation of Spirits
Author: Nate Staniforth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1632864266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An extraordinary memoir about finding wonder in everyday life, from magician Nate Staniforth. Nate Staniforth has spent most of his life and all of his professional career trying to understand wonder--what it is, where to find it, and how to share it with others. He became a magician because he learned at a young age that magic tricks don't have to be frivolous. Magic doesn't have to be about sequins and smoke machines--rather, it can create a moment of genuine astonishment. But after years on the road as a professional magician, crisscrossing the country and performing four or five nights a week, every week, Nate was disillusioned, burned out, and ready to quit. Instead, he went to India in search of magic. Here Is Real Magic follows Nate Staniforth's evolution from an obsessed young magician to a broken wanderer and back again. It tells the story of his rediscovery of astonishment--and the importance of wonder in everyday life--during his trip to the slums of India, where he infiltrated a three-thousand-year-old clan of street magicians. Here Is Real Magic is a call to all of us--to welcome awe back into our lives, to marvel in the everyday, and to seek magic all around us.
Author: Melita Denning
Publisher: Booksales
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive work on Western mystic traditions which traces the origins and re-interprets Occultism for modern day readers.
Author: Howard K. Wettstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0195160525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 'The Magic Prism', Howard Wettstein argues that Wittgenstein a figure with whom the critics of Frege and Russell are typically unsympathetic, laid the foundation for much of what is revolutionary in recent developments in the movement of philosophy of language.
Author: Seth Lobis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0300210418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and building to a new reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost, author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred to magical affinities in the universe, sympathy was increasingly understood to be a force of connection between people. By examining sympathy in literary and philosophical writing of the period, Lobis illuminates an extraordinary shift in human understanding.
Author: Gabriela Dragnea Horvath
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1134767714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history. In an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, it investigates the structural commonalities of theatre and magic as contiguous to the foundational concepts of perennial philosophy, and explores the idea that the Italian thinkers informed not only natural philosophy and experimentation in England, but also Shakespeare's theatre. The first full length project to consider Shakespeare and John Dee in juxtaposition, this study brings textual and contextual evidence that Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor in The Tempest, is a plausible theatrical representation of John Dee. At the same time, it places John Dee in the tradition of the philosophia perennis-accounting for what appears to the modern scholar the conflicting nature of his faith and his scientific mind, his powerful fantasy and his need for order and rigor-and clarifies Edward Kelly's role and creative participation in the scrying sessions, regarding him as co-author of the dramatic episodes reported in Dee's spiritual diaries. Finally, it connects the Enochian/Angelic language to the myth of the Adamic language at the core of Italian philosophy and brings evidence that the Enochian is an artificial language originated by applying creatively the analytical instruments of text hermeneutics used in the Cabala.