History of Magic - Couverture souple

Levi, Eliphas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0090307623 ISBN 13 : 9780090307623

Editeur : Rider, 1969

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Magic has been confounded too long with the jugglery of mountebanks, the hallucinations of disordered minds and the crimes of certain unusual malefactors. There are otherwise many who would promptly explain Magic as the art of producing effects in the absence of causes; and on the strength of such a definition it will be said by ordinary people—with the good sense which characterises the ordinary, in the midst of much injustice—that Magic is an absurdity. But it can have no analogy in fact with the descriptions of those who know nothing of the subject; furthermore, it is not to be represented as this or that by any person whomsoever: it is that which it is, drawing from itself only, even as mathematics do, for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and her laws. Eliphas Levi

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in French in 1860, and then translated into English by Arthur Edward Waite in 1913, this is one of the true classics of esoteric literature. This ground-breaking work by Levi was quoted extensively (without credit) by Albert Pike in the Scottish Rite masterpiece, "Morals and Dogma." Levi's "The History of Magic" set the standard for esoteric writing and is a major factor in the occult revival of the 19th and early 20th century. This is a photographic reproduction of the 1922 Second English Language Edition. Includes a preface by A.E. Waite as well as illustrations and an index.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rider
• Date d'édition: 1969
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0090307623
• ISBN 13: 9780090307623
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 382
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