The History of Magic

A book of photographs of Woodruffs acrylic on canvas paintings. "The text has been adapted from a description of a 17th Century alchemy technique developed by the Abbe de Vallemont, Pierre de Lorraine as described by Kurt Seligman in his book The History of Magic (1948, Pantheon Books)... 

Drury, Neville. The history of magic in the modern age a quest for personal transformation. New York Caroll Graf, 2000. 5 133... 

Levi, Eliphas. The history of magic. Philadelphia McKay, 1914. 

Levi, Eliphas. The history of magic. 1913 reprint, New York Weiser, 1999. 384p. ISBN 0-87728-929-8... 

Seligmann, Kurt. The history of magic. New York Pantheon Books, 1948. 504p. With chapters on Alchemy, Witchcraft, The Devil, Cabala, Astrology etc... 

Seligmann, Kurt. The history of magic and the occult. Random House, 1997. 

Levi influenced most of the notable occultists of his century, including his student Paul Christian (1811-1877), who wrote The History of Magic, published in 1870. He also influenced the Swiss occultist and hypnotist, Oswald Wirth (1860-1943), who in 1889 published a redesigned occult Tarot of his own. Levi s work also had an impact on the French Rosicrucian Papus (1865-1916), who wrote 260 books on the occult, including The Tarot of the Bohemians, published in 1889. Perhaps Levi s most important influence, though, was in England. 

Kurt Seligmann, The History of Magic and the Occult (New York Harmony Books, 1975), 13-14. 

The History of Magic, Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries. Ed. A.E. Waite, rpt. London Rider, 1982 [edition cited here]. 

For the history of this dispute Debus, Chemical Philosophy (1977), 1, 129-34. Also see Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science, multivol. (New York Columbia University Press, second reprint, 1953), 5, 652-67. 

Thorndike, Lynn. "Bernard of Trevisan." In History of magic and experimental science up to the seventeenth century, 3 611-627... 

Baigent, Michael and Richard Leigh. The elixir and the stone a history of magic and alchemy. London, New York Viking, 1997. xxv, 453 p. ISBN 0-670-86218-5... 

Bessy, Maurice. A pictorial history of magic and the supernatural. Spring Books, 1967. 317p. 

Kupperman, J.S. A history of the Western mystery tradition to the twentieth century the mythology of magic. J Western Mystery Tradition, no. 0 (Vernal Equinox 2001). rhttp //www.iwmt.org/vlnO/historv.htmll. 

Thorndike, Lynn. A history of magic and experimental science during the first thirteen centuries of our era. New York Columbia Univ P, 1923. 2 vols (835, 1036p.)... 

Thorndike, Lynn. "The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe." PhD thesis, Columbia Univ, 1905. 

Thorndike, Lynn. The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe edited by Joel Radcliffe. New York 1905 reprint, Seattle (WA) Ars Obscura P. 12, 107p. ISBN 0- 9623780-9-7... 

Taylor, R. " Architecture and magic considerations on the Idea of the Escorial." In Essays in the history of architecture presented to Rudolf Wittkower, eds. D. Fraser, H. Hubbard and M.J. Lewine, 81-109. London Phaidon, 1967. 

The second half of the eighteenth century is usually served up as the Age of Reason, with a heavy menu of philosophers like Rousseau, Hume, and Adam Smith. McCalman s Cagliostro shows that it was no less the age of magic, mystery, and mayhem. The Last Alchemist is presented with wit and elegance. —Norman Davies, author of Europe A History... 

Mass., 2001), 1—37. For an example of the merits of an eclectic approach see Michael Hunter, Alchemy, Magic and Moralism in the Thought of Robert Boyle , British Journal for the History of Science, 23 (1990), 387-410. 

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