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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Page 49
... Greek philosophers were after all only children of their time , and like lesser men subject to the beliefs and prejudices of their fathers . Dreams , Ghosts and Heroes In the Greek mind , side by side with the Apollonian dwelt the ...
... Greek philosophers were after all only children of their time , and like lesser men subject to the beliefs and prejudices of their fathers . Dreams , Ghosts and Heroes In the Greek mind , side by side with the Apollonian dwelt the ...
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... Greek thought . Originally , the Greeks may well have thought otherwise about astrology , for the course of the stars suggested rather the math- ematical precision and relentlessness of fate . Although astrology was no creation of the ...
... Greek thought . Originally , the Greeks may well have thought otherwise about astrology , for the course of the stars suggested rather the math- ematical precision and relentlessness of fate . Although astrology was no creation of the ...
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... Greek god but a divinity of the Greek colonists in Egypt . These Greco- Egyptians admired the ancient religious doctrines of the Nile land , which did not appear to have changed since the remote times of the pharaohs , but which in ...
... Greek god but a divinity of the Greek colonists in Egypt . These Greco- Egyptians admired the ancient religious doctrines of the Nile land , which did not appear to have changed since the remote times of the pharaohs , but which in ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 7 |
FOREWORD | xvii |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | xxi |
Copyright | |
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