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 xxvii
... numbers are to be found in the skies , numbers which seem to confirm the basic idea of astrology . They appear to assist each other and lend themselves to many speculations . Thus the number seven occurs in the main stars of the Great ...
... numbers are to be found in the skies , numbers which seem to confirm the basic idea of astrology . They appear to assist each other and lend themselves to many speculations . Thus the number seven occurs in the main stars of the Great ...
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... numbers in their magic circles , as numbers were also , according to Pythagoras , older than bodies and hence more pow- erful . The world is formed according to a mathematical scheme , and is harmonized according to proportion . Beauty ...
... numbers in their magic circles , as numbers were also , according to Pythagoras , older than bodies and hence more pow- erful . The world is formed according to a mathematical scheme , and is harmonized according to proportion . Beauty ...
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... numbers of each sex . Plutarch , as we have noted , has a different interpretation for the numbers three , four and five , and we may suppose that more than once in the course of time the meaning of numbers has changed . The ...
... numbers of each sex . Plutarch , as we have noted , has a different interpretation for the numbers three , four and five , and we may suppose that more than once in the course of time the meaning of numbers has changed . The ...
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 7 |
FOREWORD | xvii |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | xxi |
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