Magic: its history and principal rites
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TextNew York, NY Dutton 1961Edition: [1st American ed.]Description: 319p.; ill.; appendices; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- BF1589 .B653 1961
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Pub in French as La magie: ses grands rites, son histoire, c1958 by Nouvelles Editions Debresse.. Transl. by G. Almayrac.
1 Sympathetic magic. 2 The magic of incantation. 3 Talismanic magic. 4 The devil. 5 The grand master of the assassins. 6 The alchemists. 7 Famous sorcery trials. 8 The eighteenth century: rationalism and charlatanism; secret societies and miracles. 9 Modern occultists. 10 The spirit and setting of magic. Appendix 1 - The problem of evil in Babylonian myths. Appendix 2 - Modern interpretations of the mystique of numbers
'...The interpretations given of magical texts do not support any occult or theosophical doctrine such as are sometimes to be found in works on magic....[It]presents simply a page in the history of comparative religions. Magical rites are here described as scenes in a drama of many vicissitudes, and they are described in the setting in which they arose. Furthermore, the author has endeavoured to deduce from these rites certain of their fundamental laws and to reveal their successive aspects in various countries and throughout the centuries....' --Foreword
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