Download or read book The Occult Sciences A Compendium of Transcendental Doctrine and Experiment written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensive guide to all things occult deals with magical practices, spiritualism, mesmerism, theosophy, necromancy, and much more. First published in 1923, The Occult Sciences is written by scholarly mystic and poet, A. E. Waite. The prolific writer published many works on occult subjects and co-created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. His vast knowledge of the occult is evident in this informative volume, and he touches on many topics including crystal-gazing and alchemy. This reference guide’s contents include: - Magic: Definitions - White Magic: The Evocation of Angels - White Magic: The Evocation of the Spirits of The Elements - Black Magic: The Evocation of Demons - Necromancy: The Evocation of the Souls of the Dead - Secret Sciences in Connection With Magic - Alchemy - The Elixir of Life - Crystallomancy - The Composition of Talisman

Download or read book The Grand Albert English Edition written by Edmund Kelly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GRAND ALBERT ENGLISH EDITION Or better known as LES ADMIRABLES SECRETS D'ALBERT LE GRAND, The Grand Albert is a grimoire, a famous book of popular magic, perhaps around 1245, it received its definitive form, in Latin, around 1493, a French translation in 1500, and its most expansive (and best known) French editions from 1703. Containing several treatises on the design of Women, the Virtues of Herbs, Precious Stones, &Animals. Increased with a curious abstract of physiognomy, and a condom against the plague, malignant fevers & poisons. This edition is possibly the first that's been translated into the English language & the layout kept as close to the original to keep this book as authentic as possible. Edited & translated to English by Edmund Kelly The Grand Albert along with its little brother Petit Albert is a book of SECRETS that hold its place in occult literature

Download or read book The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus written by Michael R. Best and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to attract readers, it was not uncommon for magical texts of the 16th century to take on the name of a notable figure. Such is the case with The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus, whose secrets are, in fact, a compilation from a number of different sources by an anonymous author who was, according to editors Best and Brightman, probably one of Albertus Magnus' followers.

Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women s Secrets written by Helen Rodnite Lemay and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Secrets provides the first modern translation of the notorious treatise De secretis mulierum, popular throughout the late middle ages and into modern times. The Secrets deals with human reproduction and was written to instruct celibate medieval monks on the facts of life and some of the ways of the universe. However, the book had a much more far-reaching influence. Lemay shows how its message that women were evil, lascivious creatures built on the misogyny of the work's Aristotelian sources and laid the groundwork for serious persecution of women. Both the content of the treatise and the reputation of its author (erroneously believed to be Albertus Magnus) inspired a few medieval scholars to compose lengthy commentaries on the text, substantial selections from which are included, providing further evidence of how medieval men interpreted science and viewed the female body.

Download or read book A History of Embryology written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1959, this book describes the Western history of embryology from prehistoric concepts of foetal growth to the close of the eighteenth century.

Download or read book The Occult Sciences written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of occultism, by which we mean those sciences, called transcendental and magical, a knowledge of which has been transmitted and accumulated in secret, or is contained in books that have an inner or secret meaning, has been very fully dealt with in this volume. The results of many studies were condensed into this portable volume, which conducts the inquirer into the vestibule of each branch of " the occult sciences," and places within his reach the proper means of prosecuting his researches further in any desired direction. This book has been carefully rebuilt from a long lost work. It has been thoroughly revised and meets 21st century standards in terms of layout and readability. Contents: Part I. Definitions. White Magic. The Evocation Of Angels. White Magic. The Evocation Of The Spirits Of The Elements. Black Magic. The Evocation Of Demons. Necromancy. The Evocation Of The Souls Of The Dead. Part II. Alchemy. The Elixir Of Life. Crystallomancy. The Composition Of Talismans. Divination. Aeromancy Alectromancy Aleuromancy Alphitomancy Amniomancy Anthropomancy Arithmomancy Astragalomancy Axinomancy Belomancy Bibliomancy Capnomancy Ceroscopy Cleidomancy Dactylomancy Gastromancy Hydromancy Lithomancy Pyromancy Myomancy Onomancy Onychomancy Oomancy The Divining Rod. Astrology. Kabbalism. Part III. The Mystics. The Rosicrucians. The Freemasons. Part IV. Mesmerism. Modern Spiritualism Theosophy

Download or read book Katalog der Privat Bibliothek seiner Majest t des K nigs von Hannover With Nachtrags Katalog written by L. Nolte and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Morandi s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics written by Brendan Dooley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede--was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune telling, and political chicanery. His most serious crime was to have predicted the death of Pope Urban VIII and allowed news of this to spread as far as Spain, where cardinals quickly embarked for Italy to attend a conclave that would not occur for fourteen years. The pope, furious at such astrological and political effrontery, personally ordered the criminal inquiry that led to Morandi's arrest, trial, and death in prison, probably by assassination. Based on new evidence, this book chronicles Morandi's fabulous rise and fall against the backdrop of enormous political and cultural turmoil that characterized Italy in the early seventeenth century. It documents a world in which occult knowledge commanded power, reveals widespread libertinism behind monastery walls, and illuminates the arduous metamorphosis of intellectual culture already underway. It also sets the stage for, and lends new understanding to, the trial of Galileo that would follow shortly. The mystery of Morandi concerns the basic compulsion to advance in a status-drenched society and the very nature of knowledge at the birth of science. Told here in colorful detail, Morandi's story is fascinating in its own right. Beyond that, it allows us to glimpse the underside of early modern high society as never before.

Download or read book Lives of alchemystical philosophers written by Francis Barrett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those unfamiliar with modern alchemical criticism, even if they have some acquaintance with the mystical labyrinth of the turba philosophorum , will probably learn with astonishment that the opinions of competent judges are divided not only upon the methods of the mysterious Hermetic science, but upon the object of alchemy itself. That it is concerned with transmutation is granted, but with the transmutation of metals, or of any physical substance, into material gold, is strenuously denied by a select section of reputable students of occultism. The transcendental theory of alchemy which they expound is steadily gaining favour, though the two text-books which at present represent it are both out of print and both exceedingly scarce. In the year 1850 "A Suggestive Inquiry concerning the Hermetic Mystery and Alchemy, being an attempt to recover the Ancient Experiment of Nature," was published anonymously in London by a lady of high intellectual gifts, but was almost immediately withdrawn for reasons unknown, and which have given occasion, in consequence, to several idle speculations. This curious and meritorious volume, quaintly written in the manner of the last century, originated the views which are in question and opened the controversy.

Download or read book Lives of alchemystical philosophers based on materials collected in 1815 and supplemented by recent researches with a philosophical demonstration of the true principles of the magnum opus or great work of alchemical re construction and some account of the spiritual chemistry written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Name of the Rose written by Umberto Eco and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.

Download or read book The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England written by Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together social and medical history and literary studies, The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England studies the social practices and metaphorical representations of childbirth in medieval and early modern texts and argues for the existence of a reproductive unconscious. Discussing midwifery treatises, obstetrical and gynecological manuals, and devotional texts written for or by women, the author illustrates the ways in which medieval and early modern men and women negotiated a conflict between the ideological and material need of the culture for them to procreate, and an ideological injunction that they remain virginal and non-procreative.

Download or read book Alchemists Through the Ages written by Arthur E. Waite and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alchemy-the word itself conjures up images of charlatans mixing potions and concocting remedies during the Middle Ages in a futile quest to transform lead into gold. But the roots of alchemy can be traced back more than 2,500 years to locales as disparate as Egypt, India, and China, and it was considered serious science until as recently as the 16th century. In this highly regarded volume first published in 1888, Arthur E. Waite examines the lives and works of more than fifty alchemists, from the year 850 through the end of the 18th century. Readers will learn about such renowned figures as Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and Pope John XXII, and decide for themselves whether alchemy was the true precursor to modern chemistry or a pseudo-science populated by quacks. American-born British author ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE (1857-1942) was co-creator of the famous 1910 Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Among his numerous books are Book of Ceremonial Magic, Devil Worship in France, and New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.

Download or read book Plants and the Plague The Herbal Frontline written by Marcus Harrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plague has gone down in history as one of the terrors of humanity, and if there was perhaps but one word that conjured fear in the minds of people centuries ago it would have been that of 'plague'. Without any understanding of germ theory physicians could only attempt to deal with the visible symptoms of a plague attack and not overcome the bacterium at its' heart, Yersinia pestis. Plants and the Plague looks at around three dozen plant species used in the herbal medicine response to plague and pestilence in past centuries. It also looks at the clinical background to the disease, past medical thinking on the subject, courses of treatment formerly used, and numerous plague remedies that the selected plants found their way into. It is a story of superstition, tragedies of error, and faith in misguided medical precepts, but also one of incredible bravery on the part of those physicians and doctors who stayed behind to treat the afflicted and dying in the face of this killer disease.