The History of Magic, Volume 1The term 'magic' is very widely defined in this monumental study (it included the visions of Joan of Arc, for example) but the result is a fascinating compendium of abiding interest to followers of the unusual and bizarre. |
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... according to its historical origin and anthropolo- gical causes , and with regard to time and place ; whereas up to this time it has been represented very imperfectly , and in fragments , and without regard to any scientific explana ...
... according to its historical origin and anthropolo- gical causes , and with regard to time and place ; whereas up to this time it has been represented very imperfectly , and in fragments , and without regard to any scientific explana ...
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... according to its doctrine , and the elaborations of its history represent it again according to its confessional and spiritual point of view Thus Gorres seeks to cover mysticism with a glittering poetical web- " Mysticism is , according ...
... according to its doctrine , and the elaborations of its history represent it again according to its confessional and spiritual point of view Thus Gorres seeks to cover mysticism with a glittering poetical web- " Mysticism is , according ...
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... According to him , the germ of the New Platonic theory , of the Cabbalah , of Theosophy and Magic , even down to the time of Mesmer and his adherents , may be discovered in it . According to Eberhart , a fiction is a myth , " which is ...
... According to him , the germ of the New Platonic theory , of the Cabbalah , of Theosophy and Magic , even down to the time of Mesmer and his adherents , may be discovered in it . According to Eberhart , a fiction is a myth , " which is ...
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... According to Tiedemann ( Disputatio de quæstione , quæ fuerit artium magicarum origo , Marb . 1787 , p . 7 ) , " The powers of magic are expressly these : -to cure sickness with very little medicine , or without any ; to know future and ...
... According to Tiedemann ( Disputatio de quæstione , quæ fuerit artium magicarum origo , Marb . 1787 , p . 7 ) , " The powers of magic are expressly these : -to cure sickness with very little medicine , or without any ; to know future and ...
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... according to his greater or less capacity and the divine intentions , receive impressions and revelations , and at the same time , according to the strength of these circumstances , be filled with a higher spiritual energy . " For it is ...
... according to his greater or less capacity and the divine intentions , receive impressions and revelations , and at the same time , according to the strength of these circumstances , be filled with a higher spiritual energy . " For it is ...
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