The Place of Magic in the Intellectual History of Europe (Volume 62)
by Professor Lynn Thorndike
Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Variorum Collected Studies)
by Stephen Clucas
This collection of Stephen Clucas's articles addresses the complex interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. The essays on the Elizabethan mathematician and magus John Dee show that the angelic conversations of John Dee owed a significant debt to medieval magical traditions and how Dee's attempts to communicate with spirits were used to serve specific religious agendas in the mid-seventeenth century. The essays devoted to Giordano B...
What if you could carry a prayer or spell with you all the time? With a specially crafted gris-gris bag at hand, you hold the power to attract love, protection, good fortune, and anything you wish. "Magic's in the Bag" is the only book that teaches you everything you need to know about creating and using gris-gris bags in the context of a cross-cultural history of their use, that spans from early Native American and African spiritual practices to modern voodoo in New Orleans. Alphabetical lists...
Parere Sopra La Cagione Della Morte Della Signora Contessa Cornelia Zangari Ne' Bandi Cesenate Esposto in Una Lettera Al Signor Co
by Giuseppe Bianchini
Learn how to wake up the part of your life powers that will help you live a happier, healthier, more balanced life. We all have the ability to have a measure of control over our physical and mental well being through attitude and concentration. This book will show you how to improve your state of mind and thus your entire life.
This volume claims to offer the real secret of a happy and fulfilled life. Containing a simple truth, simply explained through moving tales, the book cuts across religions and has a powerful and inspirational message - for the whole of humanity. It is a saying that Berg's teacher, the late Rav Ashlag, learned from a mysterious stranger who became his own teacher, years ago in Jerusalem: "The only way to achieve true joy and fulfilment is by becoming a being of sharing". Our destiny is to experie...
What is chaos magic? Jaq D Hawkins was the first chaos magician to write of the history and elements of chaos magic for a widespread audience. Now, in this new volume, that history is expanded and the concepts, specialist terms and culture associated with chaos magic are clarified for a new generation of magic users. Basic concepts and methods, associations with Discordianism and the teachings of magicians of the past, advice on how to survive the natural chaos that plagues those who choose th...
Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic, Vol. 1
by Henry Cornelius Agrippa