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English author and occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) wrote about magical practices and theory, including those of theurgy ("high magic") and goetia ("low magic"). In The Book of the Law and The Vision and the Voice , the Aramaic magical formula Abracadabra was changed to Abrahadabra , which he called the new formula of the Aeon of Horus .
Magia Naturalis (in English, Natural Magic) is a work of popular science by Giambattista della Porta first published in Naples in 1558. Its popularity ensured it was republished in five Latin editions within ten years, with translations into Italian (1560), French, (1565) Dutch (1566) and English (1658) printed.
1. Since everything in nature can be wholly explained in terms of nonrational causes, human reason (more precisely, the power of drawing conclusions based solely on the rational cause of logical insight) must have a source outside of nature. 2. If human reason came from non-reason it would lose all rational credentials and would cease to be ...
It’s a nature-based religion, which means that a lot of it is connected to the cycles of the moon and the cycles of the year.” "(Witchcraft) is very earth-centered," says Mar. "The earth is ...
The English words magic, mage and magician come from the Latin term magus, through the Greek μΞ¬γος, which is from the Old Persian maguš. (πΆπ¦π’π|πΆπ¦π’π, magician). [11] The Old Persian magu-is derived from the Proto-Indo-European megΚ°-*magh (be able). The Persian term may have led to the Old Sinitic *M γ ag (mage or ...
Title page of the book. Aufschlüsse zur Magie aus geprüften Erfahrungen über verborgene philosophische Wissenschaften und verdeckte Geheimnisse der Natur, Erstes Buch (English: Insights into magic from tested experiences about hidden philosophical sciences and hidden secrets of nature, book one) is a Christian theosophical work written by Karl von Eckartshausen and published in 1788 in Munich.
First edition (publ. Geoffrey Bles) Miracles is a book written by C. S. Lewis, originally published in 1947 and revised in 1960.Lewis argues that before one can learn from the study of history whether or not any miracles have ever occurred, one must first settle the philosophical question of whether it is logically possible that miracles can occur in principle.
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