In this second edition, Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis has added over thirty new entries and significantly expanded over one hundred other entries, incorporating more knowledge and passages from primary sources.
This comprehensive treasury of Jewish teachings, drawn from sources spanning Jewish scripture, the. More than new entries cover recent phenomena, concepts, cults, personalities, organizations and publications. Prominent individuals and personalities in this field are covered and entries on particular countries trace the devlopment of occultism and parapsychology in each. Provides a history of magic squares and similar structures, describing their construction and classification, along with informaiton on newly discovered objects.
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice presents the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture.
Richard Leviton has become the pre-eminent authority on sacred sites and visionary geography. Through books such as Signs on the Earth, The Emerald Modem, and The Galaxy on Earth he has explored both the personal and universal aspects of our connection to the planet.
Now he shows in Encyclopedia of Earth Myths how many of the oldest and most evocative of the world's myths contain a secret about the Earth. They tell something vital about its make-up and history and. 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.
The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied side by side with works of more licit genres.
In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this. This extraordinary reference covers witches, shamen, voodoo priests and priestesses, and oracles; provides the low-down on pentagrams, exorcisms, coven rituals, and conjuring spirits; and tells how to cast spells for protection, invisibility, and illness prevention. Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order.
Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are interconnected. Over almost chapters it illustrates and examines the relationship between architecture and mathematics. Contributors of these chapters come. Explores this dark aspect of folklore and religion and the role that demons play in the modern world.
Includes numerous entries documenting beliefs about demons and demonology from ancient history to the present. Occult Encyclopedia of Magic Squares. Get Books. This is no ordinary reprint of common magic squares found in Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Did you know that there are four. Der Mensch und seine Zeichen. Die Blume des Lebens Bd. Transzendentale Magie. The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy. A comprehensive illustrated reference guide with more than entries on the subjects of magic and alchemy.
Albert G. Mackey appears as author of this " Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences," which, being a library in inself, superseded most of the Masonic works which have been tolerated by the craft — chiefly because none better could be obtained.
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