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Genre/Form: | History History (form) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lévi, Éliphas, 1810-1875. History of magic. London, W. Rider & Son, 1913 (OCoLC)659368103 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Éliphas Lévi; Arthur Edward Waite; Mahmoud Saba |
OCLC Number: | 4751402 |
Notes: | "Opus hierarchicum et catholicum (Definition of the Great Work according to Heinrich Khunrath)." |
Description: | xxxvi, 535, [1] pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Book I: The Derivations of Magic. Fabulous sources -- Magic of the Magi -- Magic in India -- Hermetic magic -- Magic in Greece -- Mathematical magic of Pythagoras -- The holy Kabalah. Book II: Formation and Development of Dogmas. Primitive symbolism of history -- Mysticism -- Initiations and ordeals -- The magic of public worship -- Mysteries of virginity -- Superstitions -- Magical monuments. Book III: Divine Synthesis and Realisation of Magia by the Christian Revelation. Christ accused of magic by the Jews -- The witness of magic to Christianity -- The devil -- The last pagans -- Legends -- Some Kabalistic paintings and sacred emblems -- Philosophers of the Alexandrian school. Book IV: Magic and Civilisation. Magic among barbarians -- Influence of women -- The Salic laws against sorcerers -- Legends of the reign of Charlemagne -- Magicians -- Some famous prosecutions -- Superstitions relating to the devil. Book V: The Adepts and the Priesthood. Priests and popes accused of magic -- The appearance of the Bohemian nomads -- Legend and history of Raymund Lully -- On certain alchemists -- Some famous sorcerers and magicians -- Some magical prosecutions -- The magical origin of freemasonry. Book VI: Magic and the Revolution. Remarkable authors of the eighteenth century -- Traumatic personalities of the eighteenth century -- Prophecies of Cazotte -- The French Revolution -- Phenomena of mediomania -- The German Illuminati -- Empire and resoration. Book VII: Magic in the Nineteenth Century. Magnetic mystics and materialists -- Hallucinations -- Mesmerists and somnambulists -- The Fantastic side of magical literature -- Some private recollections of the writer -- The occult sciences. |
Other Titles: | Histoire de la magie. |
Responsibility: | by Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant) ... Translated with a preface and notes by Arthur Edward Waite. |
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