Magic Studies category: 1086 books
Queer Magic
LGBT+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Queer Magic and Mysticism in History and Today
Queer Magic provides nourishment for LGBT+ souls and their allies who are interested in learning about the significant presence and influence of queer folks throughout history. Explore fascinating insights into queer relationships and spiritual...
The Mirror of Magic
A History of Magic in the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A collector’s edition of the classic, illustrated, and comprehensive history of magic and the occult
• Written by renowned Surrealist and magic scholar Kurt Seligmann (1900-1962)
• Includes all 250 illustrations from the original 1948 edition
• Explores magical practices...
Original Magic
The Rituals and Initiations of the Persian Magi
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A complete guide to the theory, practice, and history of Mazdan magic, the first organized system of magic
• Provides a complete curriculum of magical study and initiation centered on exercises keyed to the sacred Zoroastrian calendar
• Details advanced magical rituals and practices...
Icelandic Magic
Practical Secrets of the Northern Grimoires
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
A practical guide to the magical systems of pre-Christian Iceland
• Reveals spells and workings drawn directly from surviving magical books from the 16th to 20th century preserved at the National Library in Reykjavík
• Explores the history of magic in Iceland through original translations...
by F. B. Jevons
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
The Greek words for magic and magician, μαγεία and μάγος, are admittedly of Persian origin, and in all probability did not find their way into Greece before the Persian War, that is, before about 480 b.c. It was therefore an obvious inference, which was drawn in 1863 by O. Hirschfeld (...
by Susan Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Magic is arguably the least understood subject in anthropology today. Exotic and fascinating, it offers us a glimpse into another world but it also threatens to undermine the foundations of anthropology due to its supposed irrational and non-scientific nature. Magic has thus often been 'explained...
Magic in the Cloister
Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications...
Beowulf's Ecstatic Trance Magic
Accessing the Archaic Powers of the Universal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Use ecstatic trance to journey to the time of Beowulf and learn first hand the ancient magic of the early Nordic people
• Reveals a hidden side to the epic of Beowulf through the perspective of Queen Wealhtheow
• Shows how Grendel respected and would not harm Queen Wealhtheow because...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Around the turn of the century, when Aleister Crowley was working out his system of Magick, the source that he turned to for basics was the system of Abramelin of Egypt. From Abramelin he took his concepts of protections, purifications, evocations, vestments, and dromena down to specific details.This...
by H.P. Blavatsky
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Occultism is not magic. It is comparatively easy to learn the trick of spells and the methods of using the subtler, but still material, forces of physical nature; the powers of the animal soul in man are soon awakened; the forces which his love, his hate, his passion, can call into operation, are...
Magic
A History of Its Rites, Rituals, and Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
"The most arresting, entertaining, and brilliant of all studies on the subject." — Arthur Edward WaiteA great work of literature as well as a pioneering classic of occultism, this voluminous historical survey traces the roots and manifestations of magic through the ages as a secret tradition persisting...
Introduction to Magic, Volume II
The Path of Initiatic Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Authentic initiatic practices, rituals, and wisdom collected by the UR Group
• Shares a rigorous selection of initiatory exercises, including instructions for creating the diaphanous body of the Opus magicum, establishing initiatic consciousness after death, and the construction of magical...
Pagan Magic of the Northern Tradition
Customs, Rites, and Ceremonies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
A practical guide to the magical history, customs, and practices of pre-Christian Northern Europe
• Details the everyday magic of the Northern Tradition, including household magic, protection spells, and the significance of the days of the week
• Explores direct natural magic, such...
Russian Black Magic
The Beliefs and Practices of Heretics and Blasphemers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A rare look into the history, theory, and craft of the black mages and sorcerers of Russia
• Examines practical rituals and spells, the demonic pantheon, places of power, offerings and sacrifices, Hell Icons, and instructions for cemetery magic
• Provides insight into the fundamental...