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Published just a year before his seminal Le Sommeil et les R ves
(1861), this book by French scholar L. -F. -Alfred Maury (1817
1892) examines the complex history of occult philosophy. A
librarian by profession, Maury was widely published in geography,
archaeology, medicine, law, psychology and bibliography as well as
history, and was a well-known figure in Parisian intellectual
circles. In this 1860 publication Maury considers the relationship
between science and magic, purporting to demonstrate how people
have been 'elevated' from the darkness of supernatural belief into
the light of modern science. The book is divided into two parts.
The first examines the traditions of magic and astrology in the
ancient civilisations of Persia, Greece, Babylon, Rome, and the
Orient, and the influence of Christianity on magic. The latter half
includes an investigation of possible explanations, considering
magic in relation to drugs, dreams, hallucinations, somnambulism,
and the imagination.
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