From Egypt to the occult revival
Five thousand years of magical practice: Egyptian heka, Greek curse tablets and theurgy, medieval grimoires, Renaissance magi, the witch trials, the Enlightenment's secret societies and the modern revival.
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Heka, Isis, execration pots and the Babylonian "Burning" rites.
Defixiones, Hecate, magical papyri, the Neoplatonists and a Roman magic trial.
Natural and demonic magic, the Arabic inheritance, and the clerical grimoire.
Ficino, Pico, Reuchlin, Trithemius, Bruno and Dee — magic as the height of learning.
What really happened in Europe and America between 1450 and 1750 — and what it means.
How the eighteenth century turned magic into a question of nature, reason and brotherhood — and gave rise to the occult societies.
Lévi, Spiritualism, Theosophy, the Golden Dawn, Crowley, Wicca and chaos magic.
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