Download or read book The Magiculum written by Todd Landman and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays has been written by magicians who really care about magic. Having discovered magic at a young age, they have allowed it to mature alongside their intellectual and practical formation. They contemplate different dimensions of magic and how they relate to it. Their stories and reflections reveal remarkable similarities in the themes that they address: Magic as power. Magic as escape. Magic as protection. Magic as play. Magic as medium. Magic as unknowable. Magic as symbol. Magic as language. Magic as incomplete. The book will touch anyone who has imagined a magical world and who has a sense of wonder, either as a child or as an adult. Broad in its approach, specific in its intent, 'The Magiculum' offers much to contemplate.
Download or read book Performing Deception written by Brian Rappert and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself. Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibilities for acting in the modern world. Performing Deception covers a wide range of theories in sociology, philosophy, psychology and elsewhere in order to offer a striking assessment of the way secrecy and deception are woven into social interactions, as well as the illusionary and paradoxical status of expertise.
Download or read book Cyber Influence and Cognitive Threats written by Vladlena Benson and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of fresh allegations that personal data of Facebook users have been illegally used to influence the outcome of the US general election and the Brexit vote, the debate over manipulation of social Big Data continues to gain more momentum. Cyber Influence and Cognitive Threats addresses various emerging challenges in response to cybersecurity, examining cognitive applications in decision-making, behaviour and basic human interaction. The book examines the role of psychology in cybersecurity by addressing each factor involved in the process: hackers, targets, cybersecurity practitioners, and the wider social context in which these groups operate. Cyber Influence and Cognitive Threats covers a variety of topics including information systems, psychology, sociology, human resources, leadership, strategy, innovation, law, finance and others. Explains psychological factors inherent in machine learning and artificial intelligence Explores attitudes towards data and privacy through the phenomena of digital hoarding and protection motivation theory Discusses the role of social and communal factors in cybersecurity behaviour and attitudes Investigates the factors that determine the spread and impact of information and disinformation
Download or read book Goodliffe s Abracadabra written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magic of Armadel written by Victor Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grimoire of Armadel is a book of Celestial Magick and contains information, seals, and sigils of Angels, Demons and other Celestial Spirits. It is classed as a Christian/Theistic Grimoire, and it was first translated by S.L. McGregor Mathers in the late 1890's from the original French and Latin manuscript that can be found in the Biblotheque l'Arsenal in Paris. The only recreation of the book with enhanced and well defined illustrations in full colour that is available to the general public. Note from the Publisher: The illustrations in this book come from high definition scans of the original seals. The scans have been painted over by hand using ink and then re-scanned in order to improve the texture and make the shapes and letters more legible, as some of the pages and illustrations of the original book have deteriorated due to the manuscript's age, and they appear faded or broken.
Download or read book The History of Magic written by Éliphas Lévi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Alphonse Louis Constant, French magician Éliphas Lévi (1810-75) wrote prolifically on the occult sciences. His Histoire de la magie was first published in 1860. In it, Lévi recounts the history of the occult in Western thought, encompassing its biblical, Zoroastrian and ancient Greek origins, various magical practices of the medieval and early modern periods - including hermeticism, alchemy and necromancy - and the role of magic in the French Revolution. The last section of the book describes nineteenth-century magical practices and includes details of Lévi's own occult experiences. Prepared by Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942), this English translation was first published in 1913. An editor and translator of numerous magical texts, Waite includes here a preface comprising an eloquent defense of Lévi and intellectual magic. The original French edition is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
Download or read book The Old Book of Magic written by Lauron William De Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern magic a practical treatise on the art of conjuring by prof Hoffmann written by Angelo John Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sacred Magic Of Abramelin The Mage written by S. L. MacGregor Mathers and published by FilRougeViceversa. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The particular scheme or system of Magic advocated in the present work is to an extent "sui generis," but to an extent only. It is rather the manner of its application which makes it unique. In Magic, that is to say, the Science of the Control of the Secret Forces of Nature, there have always been two great schools, the one great in Good, the other in Evil the former the Magic of Light, the latter that of Darkness the former usually depending on the knowledge and invocation of the Angelic natures, the latter on the method of evocation of the Demonic races. Usually the former is termed White Magic, as opposed to the latter, or Black Magic.The invocation of Angelic Forces, then, is an idea common in works of Magic, as also are the Ceremonies of Pact with and submission to the Evil Spirits. The system, however, taught in the present work is based on the following conception: () That the Good Spirits and Angelic Powers of Light are superior in Power to the Fallen Spirits of Darkness. () That these latter as a punishment have been condemned to the service of the Initiates of the Magic of Light. (This Idea is to be found also in the Kôran; or, as it is frequently and perhaps more correctly written, "Qûr-an".) () As a consequence of this doctrine, all ordinary material effects and phenomena are produced by the labour of the Evil Spirits under the command usually of the Good. () That consequently whenever the Evil Demons can escape from the control of the Good, there is no evil that they will not work by way of vengeance. () That therefore sooner than obey man, they will try to make him their servant, by inducing him to conclude Pacts and Agreements with them. () That to further this project, they will use every means that offers to obsess him. () That in order to become an Adept, therefore, and dominate them; the greatest possible firmness of will, purity of soul and intent, and power of self-control is necessary. () That this is only to be attained by self-abnegation on every plane. () That man, therefore, is the middle nature, and natural controller of the middle nature between the Angels and the Demons, and that therefore to each man is attached naturally both a Guardian Angel and a Malevolent Demon, and also certain Spirits that may become Familiars, so that with him it rests to give the victory unto the which he will. () That, therefore, in order to control and make service of the Lower and Evil, the knowledge of the Higher and Good is requisite
Download or read book Magic and Alchemy written by Robert Michael Place and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'magic' evokes many ideas, from a stage magician performing illusions to the pyrotechnics of witches and wizards depicted in movies and on television. This book covers the history, practices, and philosophies of magic and alchemy in Western history. It also looks at the tools used by magicians and alchemists.
Download or read book The Magical Origin of Kings written by Sir James George Frazer and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... lecture iii Magical telepathy in war--Homoeopathic Magic in relation to plants, animals, inanimate things, and the dead--Homoeopathic Magic used to annul evil omens--Examples of Contagious Magic--Magical contact between a wounded person and the weapon that hurt him--Magical contact of footprints--Public magicians develop into kings--Rise of monarchy essential to the emergence of mankind from savagery. In the last lecture I explained the two great principles of magic, which may be called the Law of Similarity and the Law of Contact. The law of similarity is the foundation of homoeopathic or imitative magic. The law of contact is the foundation of contagious magic. Both branches of magic assume the possibility of acting on persons and things at a distance. At the end of last lecture I illustrated this primitive belief in telepathy by the rules observed by people at home while their friends are away hunting or searching for precious commodities, such as camphor. Rules of the same sort, based on a belief in the sympathetic connection between persons at a distance, are observed by friends and relations at home while the men are out on the warpath. Thus among the Toradjas of Central Celebes, when a party is away hunting for heads, the villagers who stay at home, and Lect. in telepathy in war 61 especially the wives of the head-hunters, have to observe certain rules in order not to hinder the absent men at their task. In the first place the entrance to the lobo or spirit-house is shut. For the spirits of their fathers, who live in that house, are now away with the warriors, watching over and guarding them; and if any one entered their house in their absence, the spirits would hear the noise and return in great anger at thus being recalled from...
Download or read book The Old and the New Magic written by Henry Ridgely Evans and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Old and the New Magic" by Henry Ridgely Evans Henry Ridgely Evans was an American amateur magician and magic historian. His passion for magic inspired him to bring the history of the art to the masses. In this book, he describes the evolution of magic and how the, at the time, modern rendition of the field came to be after years of mysticism, misunderstanding, and even the influences of the occult.
Download or read book The Magic Story written by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Magic written by Joseph Ennemoser and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Ceremonial Magic written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ordinary fields of psychological inquiry, largely in possession of the pathologist, are fringed by a borderland of occult and dubious experiment into which pathologists may occasionally venture, but it is left for the most part to unchartered explorers. Beyond these fields and this borderland there lies the legendary wonder-world of Theurgy, so called, of Magic and Sorcery, a world of fascination or terror, as the mind which regards it is tempered, but in either case the antithesis of admitted possibility. There all paradoxes seem to obtain actually, contradictions coexist logically, the effect is greater than the cause and the shadow more than the substance. Therein the visible melts into the unseen, the invisible is manifested openly, motion from place to place is accomplished without traversing the intervening distance, matter passes through matter. There two straight lines may enclose a space; space has a fourth dimension, and untrodden fields beyond it; without metaphor and without evasion, the circle is mathematically squared. There life is prolonged, youth renewed, physical immortality secured. There earth becomes gold, and gold earth. There words and wishes possess creative power, thoughts are things, desire realises its object. There, also, the dead live and the hierarchies of extra-mundane intelligence are within easy communication, and become ministers orÊtormentors, guides or destroyers, of man. There the Law of Continuity is suspended by the interference of the higher Law of Fantasia. But, unhappily, this domain of enchantment is in all respects comparable to the gold of Faerie, which is presumably its medium of exchange. It cannot withstand daylight, the test of the human eye, or the scale of reason. When these are applied, its paradox becomes an anticlimax, its antithesis ludicrous; its contradictions are without genius; its mathematical marvels end in a verbal quibble; its elixirs fail even as purges; its transmutations do not need exposure at the assayer's hands; its marvel-working words prove barbarous mutilations of dead languages, and are impotent from the moment that they are understood; departed friends, and even planetary intelligences, must not be seized by the skirts, for they are apt to desert their draperies, and these are not like the mantle of Elijah.
Download or read book The History of Magic written by Liphas LVI and published by Lost Library. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The History of Magic' was first published in 1913 and is still considered a comprehensive source book on the history of magic and occultism.
Download or read book Mind of the Magic written by Holly Lisle and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble just seems to follow Faia Rissedotte. She's a powerful mage, perhaps the most powerful. And it's Faia's fate to bring the Delmuire Barrier down, to end life as it has been for millenia on Arhel, and to reunite it with the rest of the world. Much as Faia will fight it, Fate will have its way with her--but even the gods won't be the same when she's done.
