The History of Magic and the OccultCovers astrology, divination, witchcraft, the Tarot, the Cabala, alchemy, and vampires, from ancient Mesopotamia to eighteenth-century Europe. |
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... Ages 130 MAGICAL MISCELLANY IN PRE - ARABIC TIMES 131 THE ARABS 134 MAGICIANS OF THE MIDDLE AGES 140 ALBERTUS MAGNUS 145 ROGER BACON The Devil 150 THE PRINCIPLE OF EVIL 156 INFERNAL HELPERS 159 UNHOLY IMAGES Witchcraft 164 POSSESSIONS ...
... Ages 130 MAGICAL MISCELLANY IN PRE - ARABIC TIMES 131 THE ARABS 134 MAGICIANS OF THE MIDDLE AGES 140 ALBERTUS MAGNUS 145 ROGER BACON The Devil 150 THE PRINCIPLE OF EVIL 156 INFERNAL HELPERS 159 UNHOLY IMAGES Witchcraft 164 POSSESSIONS ...
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... Ages . Towards the end of the twelfth century , the dualistic creed of the Albigenses spread in France like wildfire . Though suppressed in a pitiless crusade , it lived on surreptitious- ly . Today the people in Carcassonne and Albi ...
... Ages . Towards the end of the twelfth century , the dualistic creed of the Albigenses spread in France like wildfire . Though suppressed in a pitiless crusade , it lived on surreptitious- ly . Today the people in Carcassonne and Albi ...
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Kurt Seligmann. THE MIDDLE AGES Magical Miscellany in Pre - Arabic Times Leaving the art of Hermes and its remarkable adepts , we shall return to the early Middle Ages . For about seven hundred years , magic seems to have been repressed ...
Kurt Seligmann. THE MIDDLE AGES Magical Miscellany in Pre - Arabic Times Leaving the art of Hermes and its remarkable adepts , we shall return to the early Middle Ages . For about seven hundred years , magic seems to have been repressed ...
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 7 |
FOREWORD | xvii |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | xxi |
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