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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought

Nicolas Flamel - Traite d'alchimie intitule Le Sommaire Philosophique - Nicola Flamel: sa vie, ses fondations, ses oeuvres... Nicolas Flamel - Traite d'alchimie intitule Le Sommaire Philosophique - Nicola Flamel: sa vie, ses fondations, ses oeuvres - Le Livre des Figures Hieroglyphes - Le Desir Desire - Le Livre de Nicolas Flamel - Nouvelle traduction revue et corrigee (French, Paperback, Eco ed.)
Albert Poisson; Translated by Adriano Lucca, Mallory Varrault
R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Chain of Things - Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Hardcover):... The Chain of Things - Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Hardcover)
Eric Downing
R3,668 Discovery Miles 36 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers. He explores how writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Walter Benjamin drew on the ancient practice of divination, connecting the Greek idea of sympathetic magic to the German aesthetic concept of the attunement of mood and atmosphere. Downing deftly traces the genealogical connection between reading and art in classical antiquity, nineteenth-century realism, and modernism, attending to the ways in which the modern re-enchantment of the world-both in nature and human society-consciously engaged ancient practices that aimed at preternatural prediction. Of particular significance to the argument presented in The Chain of Things is how the future figured into the reading of texts during this period, a time when the future as a narrative determinant or article of historical faith was losing its force. Elaborating a new theory of magic as a critical tool, Downing secures crucial links between the governing notions of time, world, the "real," and art.

Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England - A History of Sorcery and Treason (Hardcover): Francis Young Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England - A History of Sorcery and Treason (Hardcover)
Francis Young
R4,543 Discovery Miles 45 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.

Rewriting Magic - An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk (Paperback): Claire Fanger Rewriting Magic - An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk (Paperback)
Claire Fanger
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While John's book largely comprises an extended set of prayers for gaining knowledge, The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching is unusual among prayer books of its time because it includes a visionary autobiography with intimate information about the book's inspiration and composition. Through the window of this record, we witness how John reconstructs and reconsecrates a condemned liturgy for knowledge acquisition: the ars notoria of Solomon. John's work was the subject of intense criticism and public scandal, and his book was burned as heretical in 1323. The trauma of these experiences left its imprint on the book, but in unexpected and sometimes baffling ways. Fanger decodes this imprint even as she relays the narrative of how she learned to understand it. In engaging prose, she explores the twin processes of knowledge acquisition in John's visionary autobiography and her own work of discovery as she reconstructed the background to his extraordinary book. Fanger's approach to her subject exemplifies innovative historical inquiry, research, and methodology. Part theology, part historical anthropology, part biblio-memoir, Rewriting Magic relates a story that will have deep implications for the study of medieval life, monasticism, prayer, magic, and religion.

Alchemical Belief - Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England (Paperback): Bruce Janacek Alchemical Belief - Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England (Paperback)
Bruce Janacek
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious upheavals of the first half of the seventeenth century, arguing that the interest of these elite figures in alchemy was part of an understanding that supported their national--and in some cases royalist--loyalty and theological orthodoxy. Janacek investigates how and why individuals who supported or were actually placed at the traditional center of power in England's church and state believed in the relevance of alchemy at a time when their society, their government, their careers, and, in some cases, their very lives were at stake.

The Transformations of Magic - Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance (Paperback): Frank Klaassen The Transformations of Magic - Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance (Paperback)
Frank Klaassen
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition--and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic--than previous scholars have thought them to be.

Les Douze Clefs de Philosophie de Frere Basile Valentin, Traictant de Medecine Metalique (Ed.1624) (French, Paperback, 1624... Les Douze Clefs de Philosophie de Frere Basile Valentin, Traictant de Medecine Metalique (Ed.1624) (French, Paperback, 1624 ed.)
Basile Valentin
R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Comment on Devient Alchimiste: Traite d'Hermetisme Et d'Art Spagyrique(ed.1897) (French, Paperback, 1897 ed.):... Comment on Devient Alchimiste: Traite d'Hermetisme Et d'Art Spagyrique(ed.1897) (French, Paperback, 1897 ed.)
Francois Jollivet-Castelot
R874 Discovery Miles 8 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La Magie Devoilee, Ou Principes de Science Occulte (Ed.1852) (French, Paperback): Jean Dupotet De Sennevoy La Magie Devoilee, Ou Principes de Science Occulte (Ed.1852) (French, Paperback)
Jean Dupotet De Sennevoy
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Le Dragon Rouge, Ou l'Art de Conjurer Les Esprits, Demontre (Ed.1898) (French, Paperback, 1898 ed.): T. De Robville Le Dragon Rouge, Ou l'Art de Conjurer Les Esprits, Demontre (Ed.1898) (French, Paperback, 1898 ed.)
T. De Robville
R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Craft of the Untamed (Paperback): Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold Craft of the Untamed (Paperback)
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
R604 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Histoire de la Magie, Du Monde Surnaturel Et de la Fatalite A Travers Les Temps (Ed.1870) (French, Paperback, 1870 ed.): P.... Histoire de la Magie, Du Monde Surnaturel Et de la Fatalite A Travers Les Temps (Ed.1870) (French, Paperback, 1870 ed.)
P. Christian
R1,172 Discovery Miles 11 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Les Douze Clefs de Philosophie de Frere Basile Valentin, (Ed.1659-1660) (French, Paperback, 1659-1660 ed.): Basile Valentin Les Douze Clefs de Philosophie de Frere Basile Valentin, (Ed.1659-1660) (French, Paperback, 1659-1660 ed.)
Basile Valentin
R873 Discovery Miles 8 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Secrets Merveilleux de la Magie Naturelle Et Cabalistique Du Petit Albert: Tire de l'Ouvrage - : Alberti Parvi Lucii... Secrets Merveilleux de la Magie Naturelle Et Cabalistique Du Petit Albert: Tire de l'Ouvrage - : Alberti Parvi Lucii Libellus de Mirabilibus Naturae Arcanis Et Ecrivains Philosophes (N Ed) (French, Paperback)
Albert Le Grand
R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hermes Devoile Dedie A La Posterite (French, Paperback): Cyliani Hermes Devoile Dedie A La Posterite (French, Paperback)
Cyliani
R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L'Or Et La Transmutation Des Metaux (Ed.1889) (French, Paperback, 1889 ed.): Cyprien-Theodore Tiffereau L'Or Et La Transmutation Des Metaux (Ed.1889) (French, Paperback, 1889 ed.)
Cyprien-Theodore Tiffereau
R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mojo Workin' - The Old African American Hoodoo System (Hardcover, New): Katrina Hazzard-Donald Mojo Workin' - The Old African American Hoodoo System (Hardcover, New)
Katrina Hazzard-Donald
R2,424 Discovery Miles 24 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The spread came about through the mechanism of the "African Religion Complex," eight distinct cultural characteristics familiar to all the African ethnic groups in the United States. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Hazzard-Donald examines Hoodoo material culture, particularly the ""High John the Conquer"" root, which practitioners employ for a variety of spiritual uses. She also examines other facets of Hoodoo, including rituals of divination such as the ""walking boy"" and the ""Ring Shout,"" a sacred dance of Hoodoo tradition that bears its corollaries today in the American Baptist churches. Throughout, Hazzard-Donald distinguishes between ""Old tradition Black Belt Hoodoo"" and commercially marketed forms that have been controlled, modified, and often fabricated by outsiders; this study focuses on the hidden system operating almost exclusively among African Americans in the Black spiritual underground.

La Conservation de l'Homme Puisee Dans La Science Hermetique, (Ed.1847) (French, Paperback, 1847 ed.): J De Saint-Germain La Conservation de l'Homme Puisee Dans La Science Hermetique, (Ed.1847) (French, Paperback, 1847 ed.)
J De Saint-Germain
R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La Decadence Esthetique. Le Salon de Josephin Peladan (Ed.1888-1891) (French, Paperback, 1888-1891 ed.): Josephin Peladan La Decadence Esthetique. Le Salon de Josephin Peladan (Ed.1888-1891) (French, Paperback, 1888-1891 ed.)
Josephin Peladan
R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time - John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover): Leah DeVun Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time - John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Leah DeVun
R3,180 Discovery Miles 31 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Franciscan friar John of Rupescissa sent a dramatic warning to his followers: the last days were coming; the apocalypse was near. Deemed insane by the Christian church, Rupescissa had spent more than a decade confined to prisons--in one case wrapped in chains and locked under a staircase--yet ill treatment could not silence the friar's apocalyptic message.

Religious figures who preached the end times were hardly rare in the late Middle Ages, but Rupescissa's teachings were unique. He claimed that knowledge of the natural world, and alchemy in particular, could act as a defense against the plagues and wars of the last days. His melding of apocalyptic prophecy and quasi-scientific inquiry gave rise to a new genre of alchemical writing and a novel cosmology of heaven and earth. Most important, the friar's research represented a remarkable convergence between science and religion.

In order to understand scientific knowledge today, Leah DeVun asks that we revisit Rupescissa's life and the critical events of his age--the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, the Avignon Papacy--through his eyes. Rupescissa treated alchemy as medicine (his work was the conceptual forerunner of pharmacology) and represented the emerging technologies and views that sought to combat famine, plague, religious persecution, and war. The advances he pioneered, along with the exciting strides made by his contemporaries, shed critical light on later developments in medicine, pharmacology, and chemistry.

Now That's What I Call Chaos Magick (Paperback): Greg Humphries, Julian Vayne Now That's What I Call Chaos Magick (Paperback)
Greg Humphries, Julian Vayne; Foreword by Dave Lee
R559 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book gives the beginner and experienced practitioner alike a modern, 21st century view into the powerful and often misunderstood magical current called 'Chaos Magick'. Written in a clear and easily accessible style it examines the theory behind many techniques used in magical, artistic, religious and scientific systems of thought; then links and applies them towards desired goals. Separated into two volumes the book can be used by the reader as a workbook with rituals, techniques and exercises to be followed, as a window into contemporary magical thought at the turn of the century or simply as a rollercoaster of a good read! However you choose to use it, this book will leave you feeling positive, inspired and ready to apply any of the methods presented to your own life.

Magic in the Ancient World (Paperback): Fritz Graf Magic in the Ancient World (Paperback)
Fritz Graf; Translated by Franklin Philip
R1,175 Discovery Miles 11 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains as well as spiritual satisfaction. In this fascinating survey of magical beliefs and practices from the sixth century B.C.E. through late antiquity, Fritz Graf sheds new light on ancient religion. Evidence of widespread belief in the efficacy of magic is pervasive: the contemporaries of Plato and Aristotle placed voodoo dolls on graves in order to harm business rivals or attract lovers. The Twelve Tables of Roman Law forbids the magical transference of crops from one field to another. Graves, wells, and springs throughout the Mediterranean have yielded vast numbers of Greek and Latin curse tablets. And ancient literature abounds with scenes of magic, from necromancy to love spells. Graf explores the important types of magic in Greco-Roman antiquity, describing rites and explaining the theory behind them. And he characterizes the ancient magician: his training and initiation, social status, and presumed connections with the divine world. With trenchant analysis of underlying conceptions and vivid account of illustrative cases, Graf gives a full picture of the practice of magic and its implications. He concludes with an evaluation of the relation of magic to religion. Magic in the Ancient World offers an unusual look at ancient Greek and Roman thought and a new understanding of popular recourse to the supernatural.

Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age - The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare (Paperback, New... Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age - The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare (Paperback, New Ed)
John S. Mebane
R662 R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Save R45 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. The three greatest playwrights of the period devoted major plays (The Tempest, Doctor Faustus, The Alchemist) to magic, Francis Bacon often referred to it, and it was ever-present in the visual arts. In "Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age" John S. Mebane reevaluates the significance of occult philosophy in Renaissance thought and literature, constructing the most detailed historical context for his subject yet attempted.

The Occult Underground (Paperback, New edition): James Webb The Occult Underground (Paperback, New edition)
James Webb
R1,105 R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Save R166 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Just when it seemed that Science and Reason had scored their greatest triumphs, the mid-nineteenth century witnessed an astonishing rebirth of occultism and anit-rationalism: the beginnings of the movement we now call New Age. A secret tradition of knowledge rejected by the Christian or Scientific establishments suddenly became emboldened to seek publicity and converts. James Webb's painstaking research carry him into the undergrowth inhabited by such illuminated personages as Madame Blavatsky, the Reverend Leadbeater, the Bortherhood of Luxor, Annie Besant, Krishnamurti, Swami Vivekananda, Spiritualists, Rosicrucians, Vegetarians, Mithraic cults, and all manner of occult propagandists. "fascinating detail . . . particularly good in tracing the obscure and subterranean spiritual affiliations through which these pilgrims of eternity were bound together . . . as relevant to our own time as it is to the nineteenth century." --Goronwy Rees, ENCOUNTER

History of Magic and Experimental Science - The First Thirteen Centuries, Volume 1 (Hardcover): Lynn Thorndike History of Magic and Experimental Science - The First Thirteen Centuries, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Lynn Thorndike
R3,035 Discovery Miles 30 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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