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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... experiments . Such things , he continues , can also be worked differently , without the help of a favourable ... Experimental Science , he says about scientific inventions that the Church should consider their employment against ...
... experiments . Such things , he continues , can also be worked differently , without the help of a favourable ... Experimental Science , he says about scientific inventions that the Church should consider their employment against ...
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... experiments , it was nevertheless known that he and Kelly had , before their departure from England , evoked the ... experiment began , and with his left hand he traces a cross upon the stone . The instructions in the black book end like ...
... experiments , it was nevertheless known that he and Kelly had , before their departure from England , evoked the ... experiment began , and with his left hand he traces a cross upon the stone . The instructions in the black book end like ...
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... experiments , however , were of a scientific nature . To the camera obscura he added the lens , for which reason he ... experiment- ation . Upon one point , however , the two physicians disagree completely , namely on the influence of ...
... experiments , however , were of a scientific nature . To the camera obscura he added the lens , for which reason he ... experiment- ation . Upon one point , however , the two physicians disagree completely , namely on the influence of ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 7 |
FOREWORD | xvii |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | xxi |
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