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The Picture Museum of Sorcery, Magic and Alchemy
Author | : Emile Grillot Degivry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494105303 |
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Magic and Alchemy
Author | : Robert Michael Place |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Alchemy |
ISBN | : 0791093905 |
The word 'magic' evokes many ideas, from a stage magician performing illusions to the pyrotechnics of witches and wizards depicted in movies and on television. This book covers the history, practices, and philosophies of magic and alchemy in Western history. It also looks at the tools used by magicians and alchemists.
Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy
Author | : Grillot de Givry |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1971-01-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780486224930 |
Prints, drawings, documents, and text illuminate the development of the occult sciences to the nineteenth century
Dictionary of Angels
Author | : Gustav Davidson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1994-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 002907052X |
In the midst of the remarkable revival of interest and belief in angels comes this handsomely illustrated reference work--the fruit of 16 years of research in Talmudic, gnostic, cabalistic, apocalyptic, patristic, and legendary texts. "A wacky and wonderful compendium of angelic lore".--Time. Illustrations.
Current Catalog
Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1076 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : |
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
The Gnostic Faustus
Author | : Ramona Fradon |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007-11-12 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1594777276 |
The Faust legend seen as a transmission of core Gnostic teachings disguised as a morality tale • Shows the 16th-century Faust text to be a coded, composite Gnostic creation myth • Identifies the many Hermetic, alchemical, and Tantric symbols found in Faust that signify worship of the divine feminine through sacramental sexual practices • Reveals a mystical process of spiritual salvation, as distilled from esoteric traditions In The Gnostic Faustus, Ramona Fradon shows the legend of Doctor Faustus to be a composite Gnostic creation myth that reveals the process of spiritual salvation. Nearly every element of the original 16th-century text is a metaphor containing profound spiritual messages based on passages of Coptic and Syrian Gnostic manuscripts, including the Pistis Sophia and The Hymn of the Pearl. Fradon identifies many Hermetic, alchemical, and Tantric symbols in the Faust Book that accompany the story of Sophia, the goddess of wisdom, whose troubled journey to salvation is a model for human spiritual development. Extensive line-by-line text comparisons with these Gnostic manuscripts show that Faustus’s corruption by the Devil and his despair parallel Sophia’s transgression and fall, and that his tragic death is a simple reversal of her joyful rebirth, so written in order to make an otherwise heretical story palatable to Church authorities at that time. Fradon demonstrates that the Faust legend is a vehicle for transmitting antiquity’s secret wisdom. It provides an account of spiritual initiation whose goal is ecstatic revelation and union with the divine. The elements of alchemy, sacramental sex, and worship of the divine feminine that are encoded in the Faust Book reveal the same hidden goddess-worshipping tradition whose practices are hinted at by the writings of Renaissance magi such as Cornelius Agrippa and Giordano Bruno.
The Esoteric Tarot
Author | : Ronald Decker |
Publisher | : Quest Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0835609081 |
That the Tarot originated in ancient Egypt as a divinatory tool is a romantic misconception. Ron Decker’s meticulous scholarship will surprise practitioners and academics alike, revealing the Tarot’s true evolution and meanings as its inventor(s) understood it. The Tarot consists of the Minor Arcana, four suits of cards similar to our modern deck, and the Major Arcana, twenty-two allegorical or “trump” cards. Decker says the four-suit deck was invented in Asia Minor before AD 1000; Italian courtiers added the trumps in the 1400s. But Tarot was first used as a game. Tarot divination was only created in the 1700s by a Parisian fortuneteller who based the trump images on Hermeticism, which merges Greco-Egyptian alchemy, astrology, numerology, magic, and mysticism. Today, the suit-cards are often traced to the ancient Jewish Cabala. But, says Decker, they, too, acquired their meanings only in the 1700s, and he cites a lost numerical system based on Cabala at that time. Decker’s interpretation integrates three whole systems-astrological, arithmological, mystagogical (concerning initiation rites into the Mysteries). His depth of knowledge makes the book a must-have for serious students of Tarot and esotericism.