The History of Magic and the OccultA profusely illustrated survey of the magical and occult ideas and operations in the civilized Western world. Includes astrology, divination, physiognomy, fortune cards, the Sphinx, the philosophers' stone, witchcraft and black magic, the Cabala, the Tarot, transmutations, alchemy, omens, oracles and vampires. Highlights the secret teachings of philosophers and many ohter prophetic mystics. |
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... Alchemical allegory : The killing of the dragon After Abraham Lambsprinck , Musaeum Hermeticum , Frankfurt , 1749 24. Alchemical allegory of putrefaction Basile Valentine , Azoth , Paris , 1659 25. Ex libris of E. A. Hitchcock ( From ...
... Alchemical allegory : The killing of the dragon After Abraham Lambsprinck , Musaeum Hermeticum , Frankfurt , 1749 24. Alchemical allegory of putrefaction Basile Valentine , Azoth , Paris , 1659 25. Ex libris of E. A. Hitchcock ( From ...
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... alchemical efforts were transmitted through several generations . When the alchemists ' treatises are more explicit than usual , they justifiably arouse suspicion . In Cremer's Testament , a short treatise of the fourteenth century , a ...
... alchemical efforts were transmitted through several generations . When the alchemists ' treatises are more explicit than usual , they justifiably arouse suspicion . In Cremer's Testament , a short treatise of the fourteenth century , a ...
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... alchemical emblem which is fluidly and fastidiously drawn . Mercury's winged sandals remind us that the monster symbolizes the corresponding metal . Additional tails and signs attempt to create a new alchemical synthesis . The tails are ...
... alchemical emblem which is fluidly and fastidiously drawn . Mercury's winged sandals remind us that the monster symbolizes the corresponding metal . Additional tails and signs attempt to create a new alchemical synthesis . The tails are ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 9 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 15 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTE | 15 |
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