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The Citadel Press, Secaucus 1977. Second paperbound printing. Gr.8° [247 x 200 mm]. With a New Introduction by Timothy d Arch Smith. With 15 Plates [unpaginiert]. xviii, 175; 198 S. illustr. Paperback. Facsimile from the edition: Lackington, Allan and Co., London, Finsbury Square 1801. - For the 1801 edition, see Caillet 767. Ferguson (Collection) I, p. 67 and Ferguson (Bibliotheca Chemica) I, p. 75. Pritchard 94. Further with illustrations in Francis King "Magic. A Pictorial Documentation". Zu Barrett siehe Drury S. 72. Greer S. 104. Roberts S.115. "The Magus did offer the public a fairly complete occult manual, which taught the principles of arithmology and correspondences, planetary and Kabbalistic magic, and scrying technique. A series of potted biographies of "Great Magicians" completed the work [Zoroaster, Hermes Trismegistus, Apollonius of Tyana, Peter De Abano, Albertus Magnus, John Dee and Edward Kelly, Agrippa etc.]. There was stuff aplenty for the aspiring magi, as well as for the gothic novelists who were a part of the same reaction against classicism and pure reason." - Full title: "The MAGUS or CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCER; being A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY. IN THREE BOOKS: Containing the Antient and Modern Practice of the Cabalistic Art, Natural and Celestial Magic, &c.; thewing the wonderful Effects that may be a Knowledge of the Celestial Influences, the occult Properties of Metals, Herbs, and Stones, and the APPLICATIONS OF ACTIVE TO PASSIVE PRINCIPLES. EXHIBITING THE SCIENCES OF NATURAL MAGIC; Alchymy, or Hermetic Philosophy; also THE NATURE CREATION, ANDFAL OF MAN; His natural and supernatural Gifts; the magical Power inherent in the Soul, &c:; with a great Variety of rare Experiments in Natural Magic: THE CONSTELLATORY PRACTICE, or TALISMANIC MAGIC; The Nature of the Elements, Stars, Planets, Signs, &c.; the Construction and Composition of all Sorts of Magic Seals, Images, Rings, Glasses, &c.; The Virtue and Essicacy of Numbers, Characters, and Figures, of good and evil Spirits. MAGNETISM; AND CABALISTICAL OR CEREMONIAL MAGIC; In which the secret Mysteries of the Cabala are explained; the Operations of good and evil Spirits; all Kinds of Cabalistic Figures, Tables, Seals, and Names, with their Use, &c. THE TIMES, BONDS, OFFICES, AND CONJURATION OF SPIRITS. To which is added Biographia Antiqua, or the Lives of the most eminent Philosophers, Magi, &c. The Whole illustrated with a great Variety of CURIOS ENGRAVINGS, MAGICAL AND CABALISTICAL FIGURES, &c." - Copy rubbed and minimally bumped, otherwise a good copy. Sprache : en.
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