Magic, alchemy and hermetic thought Books
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH An N Ancient Greek Treatise on Magic Squares
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£86.00
Books on Demand Magische Erlebnisse: gesammelt von Gundi Gaschler
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£18.90
Taschen GmbH Alchimie & Mystique
£18.00
Editorial Oceano de Mexico Encuentro: Chamanismo Aplicado a la Vida
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£16.10
Scientific Publishers Journals Dept Dictionary of Indian Alchemy and Poly-herbal
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£10.49
Obelisco Entrada Abierta Al Palacio Cerrado del Rey La
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£20.36
Urano Magia Lunar
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£13.31
Almuzara Rosacruces. Historia Y Personajes
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£18.95
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Feliz por arte de magia: Rituales naturales y
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£13.18
Edaf Antillas Ayudate Con La Magia Blanca de Esperanza Gracia
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£14.80
Obelisco Magia Islandesa
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£11.96
Obelisco Sobre Esoterismo Cristiano
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£12.50
Obelisco El Pensamiento Esoterico de Leonardo Da Vinci
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£11.72
Obelisco La Magia de las Piedras y los Cristales
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£15.39
Obelisco Hechizos Para la Prosperidad: Consejos Magicos
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£9.99
NIAS Press Monks and Magic: Revisiting a Classic Study of Religious Ceremonies in Thailand
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1975, B.J. Terwiel's Monks and Magic remains a widely cited text. This is an absorbing study of Buddhism as practised at that time in a community in rural Central Thailand. It describes how esoteric spells and magical diagrams were the main interest of children and adolescents but full ritual knowledge was obtained in adulthood and tempered by life experiences. As death approaches, the Buddhist world-view stimulates merit-making. This fourth edition of the work is a major revision that updates the original text, adds new material and offers a contemporary perspective on the original study.Trade Review'This book deserves a welcome from both sides of academic life, teaching and research. Teachers of subjects dealing with Thai language and culture will welcome a clear account of the religious preoccupations - of country people in the central region. The author has come to treat what is normal and respectable there - The hope is thereby to emphasize the main thesis, viz. that there is such a thing as 'animistic Buddhism' and that it is common in rural areas.' - P.J. Bee, "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements A Note on Transliteration 1. Two Orientations in the Practice of Buddhism 2. The Setting and the Fieldwork 3. Children and Religion 4. Adolescents, Amulets and Tattooing 5. The First Period in the Sangha 6. Leaving the Order, Courtship and Marriage 7. Building a House 8. The Precepts and Ritual 9. The Pursuit of Beneficial Karma 10. Old Age, Death, and the Hereafter 11. Conclusions Postscript Glossary of Thai, Pali and Sanskrit Words Bibliography Index
£23.76
Peeters Publishers The Metamorphosis of Magic: From Late Antiquity
Book SynopsisDeities, demons, and angels became important protagonists in the magic of the Late Antique world, and were also the main reasons for the condemnation of magic in the Christian era. Supplicatory incantations, rituals of coercion, enticing suffumigations, magical prayers and mystical songs drew spiritual powers to the humain domain. Next to the magician's desire to regulate fate and fortune, it was the communion with the spirit world that gave magic the potential to purify and even deify its practitioners. The sense of elation and the awareness of a metaphysical order caused magic to merge with philosophy (notably Neoplatonism). The heritage of Late Antique theurgy would be passed on to the Arab world, and together with classical science and learning would take root again in the Latin West in the High Middle Ages. The metamorphosis of magic laid out in this book is the transformation of ritual into occult philosophy against the background of cultural changes in Judaism, Graeco-Roman religion and Christianity. This volume, the first in the new series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at the workshop The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period held from 22 to 24 June 2000, and organised by Jan N. Bremmer and Jan R. Veenstra. The papers have been written by scholars from such varying disciplines as classics, theology, philosophy, cultural history, and law. Their contributions shed new light upon several old obscurities; they show magic to be a significant area of culture, and they advance the case for viewing transformations in the lore and practice of magic as a barometer with which to measure cultural change.
£53.80
Rubi Astrologa Astrología y Numerología 2024
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Joshua Free Merlyn's Complete Book of Magick: An Occult
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£45.00
