Isis Unveiled (Volume 2 (Theology, section 1)); A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... John XX, nor the VIth and VIIth Gregory; nor yet the famous Borgia of toxicological memory. Neither were those who remained ignorant of the hidden lore friends of the sons of Loyola. Where, in the records of European Magic, can we find cleverer enchanters than in the mysterious solitudes of the cloister? Albertus Magnus, the famous Bishop and conjurer of Ratisbon, was never surpassed in his art. Roger Bacon was a monk, and Thomas Aquinas one of the most learned pupils of Albertus. Trithemius, Abbot of the Spanheim Benedictines, was the teacher, friend, and confidant of Cornelius Agrippa; and while the confederations of the Theosophists were scattered broadcast about Germany, where they first originated, assisting one another, and struggling for years for the acquirement of esoteric knowledge, any person who knew how to become the favored pupil of certain monks, might very soon be proficient in all the important branches of occult learning. This is all in history and cannot be easily denied. Magic, in all its aspects, was widely and nearly openly practised by the clergy till the Reformation. And even he who was once called the 'Father of the Reformation' -- the famous John Reuchlin,31 author of the Mirific Word and friend of Pico di Mirandola, the teacher and instructor of Erasmus, Luther, and Melancthon -- was a kabalist and occultist. The ancient sortilegium, or divination by means of sortes or lots -- an art and practice now decried by the clergy as an abomination, designated by Stat. 10 Jac. as felony, and by Stat. 12 Caroli II excepted out of the general pardons, on the ground of being sorcery 62 -- was widely practised by the clergy and monks. Nay, it was sanctioned by St. Augustine himself, who does not "disapprove of this method of learning futurity, prov...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235219321
- ISBN 13 9781235219320
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages164
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