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Demoniality
(Hardcover)
Ludovico Maria Sinistrari, Montague Summers
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Shhhhhhh ...Can you hear the ancient dryad wisdom of trees? Do you
know how to calm the spirits of storm and wave? Can you see
theelusive and intelligent souls of trees, stones, rivers and
clouds subtly infusing the world with magic, wonder and meaning? Do
you want to know more?In this beautiful book, illustrated
throughout by faery artist Dan Goodfellow, Celtic shaman Danu
Forest reveals how to communicate with wild nature spirits for
mutual benefit, working with air, fire and water, to grow in
harmony with nature in all its splendour. WOODEN BOOKS are small
but packed with information. "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES.
"Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET.
"Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW
SCIENTIST. "Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. Small books, big ideas.
Comparing amulets over time and space, this volume focuses on the
function of written words on these fascinating artefacts. Ranging
from Roman Egypt to the Middle Ages and the Modern period, this
book provides an overview on these artefacts in the Mediterranean
world and beyond, including Europe, Iran, and Turkey. A deep
analysis of the textuality of amulets provides comparative
information on themes and structures of the religious traditions
examined. A strong emphasis is placed on the material features of
the amulets and their connections to ritual purposes. The textual
content, as well as other characteristics, is examined
systematically, in order to establish patterns of influence and
diffusion. The question of production, which includes the
relationships that linked professional magicians, artists and
craftsmen to their clientele, is also discussed, as well as the
sacred and cultural economies involved.
Stephen Skinner has been interested in magic for as long as he can
remember. He wrote, with Francis King, the classic "Techniques of
High Magic" in 1976. He followed that with "Oracle of Geomancy and
Terrestrial Astrology" which has become the standard work on
Western divinatory geomancy. Books on Nostradamus and Millennium
Prophecies followed in highly illustrated editions. Stephen is also
the author of eight books on feng shui, including the first one
written in English in the 20th century. In the 1970s he was
responsible for stimulating interest in John Dee and Enochian magic
by publishing the first reprint of Casaubon's "True and Faithful
Relation of What Passed for Many Yeers between Dr John Dee and some
Spirits", and Dr Donald Laycock's key reference book on the angelic
language "The Complete Enochian Dictionary". With David Rankine, he
discovered what happened to Dee's most important manuscript, his
personal book of angelic invocations which he kept in Latin, and
how it was preserved and developed in the 17th century into a full
working Enochian system. Only ten percent of this material reached
the unpublished archives of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,
and even this was then suppressed by the chiefs of the Order, so it
did not appear in Israel Regardie's monumental work on the Order
rituals and documents. They have also traced the routes down which
were passed the classic techniques of invocation and evocation from
late mediaeval grimoires, through Dee's magic, via Ashmole, and the
aristocratic angel magicians of the 17th century, and Frederick
Hockley to the senior magicians of the Golden Dawn.
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