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A Treatise On Magic Or On The Intercourse Between Spirits And Men
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Author : Frederick Henry Quitman
language : en
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Release Date : 1810
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Author : Frederick Henry Quitman
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-07-19
A Treatise On Magic Or On The Intercourse Between Spirits And Men written by Frederick Henry Quitman and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-19 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Excerpt from A Treatise on Magic, or on the Intercourse Between Spirits and Men: With Annotations Willing to allow this privilege to others, I Wish, on no consideration, to be restrained In its enjoyment. For. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Treatise On Magic
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Author : Frederick Henry Quitman
language : en
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Release Date : 2016-01-21
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Magic is the art of producing supernatural effects, by the agency of spirits. If, for that purpose, a good spirit is employed, it is called Theurgy; if an evil spirit is put to work, it is Sorcery. The performers of such operations are generally styled Magicians. From this definition it appears, that the interposition of supernatural beings is absolutely required to magical practices: Consequently, exhibitions that are founded on mere natural causes, however surprising they may appear, are not to be ranked among magical arts. To that class belong all tricks of sleight of hand, practised by jugglers; all performances that require a certain apparatus, e. g. the restoration of written instruments burnt to ashes; all exhibitions that depend upon physical or mathematical experiments, and finally all effects produced by chymical operations, for instance, the palingenesis of plants. Even astrology, when considered merely as a science of foretelling future: events from the position of the stars, and grounded on a supposition that they possess a natural foreboding power, ought not to be called magic: but it comes under that name, when, by it, is understood the art of discovering secrets, of predicting future accidents, of changing metals, or of curing distempers by the influence of certain spirits ruling over the celestial bodies. The practice of auguring, so common among the ancients, was therefore no effect of magic, because they believed some foreboding power to be inherent in the very signs which they had observed, without the concurrence of supernatural beings.
A Treatise On Magic
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Author : Frederick Henry Quitman
language : en
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Release Date : 2019-06-04
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This short but intriguing work is the result of early 19th century protestant rationalism. Eschewing superstition while accepting both Jesus and the general mode of Christian worship, Quitman here identifies (rightfully) pagan and occult elements sprinkled into Christendom along with Judaism and Islam.Along with this come various folk superstitions, incantations and the sort, and a bit of discourse on that old serpent the Devil.
Enchanted New York
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Author : Kevin Dann
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-10-27
Enchanted New York written by Kevin Dann and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with Travel categories.
A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour—a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic, literary, and commercial celebrity lends an aura of the fantastic to even its most commonplace locales. Enchanted New York chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York’s central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won’t find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor’s guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies—from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project—to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder–working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world’s premier stage magician’s feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious—and meaningful—marquee of magic. Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses—no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.
A Place Of Darkness
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Author : Kendall R. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2018-03-01
A Place Of Darkness written by Kendall R. Phillips and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-01 with Performing Arts categories.
“An illuminating history . . . it’s clear that the right story can still terrify us; A Place of Darkness is a primer on how the movies learned to do it.” —NPR Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term “horror film” was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty cinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term “horror film.” Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old-World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since. “[A] fascinating read.” —Sublime Horror
Hearing Things
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Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-30
Hearing Things written by Leigh Eric Schmidt and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-30 with Religion categories.
ÒFaith cometh by hearingÓÑso said Saint Paul, and devoted Christians from Augustine to Luther down to the present have placed particular emphasis on spiritual arts of listening. In quiet retreats for prayer, in the noisy exercises of Protestant revivalism, in the mystical pursuit of the voices of angels, Christians have listened for a divine call. But what happened when the ear tuned to GodÕs voice found itself under the inspection of Enlightenment critics? This book takes us into the ensuing debate about Òhearing thingsÓÑan intense, entertaining, even spectacular exchange over the auditory immediacy of popular Christian piety. The struggle was one of encyclopedic range, and Leigh Eric Schmidt conducts us through natural histories of the oracles, anatomies of the diseased ear, psychologies of the unsound mind, acoustic technologies (from speaking trumpets to talking machines), philosophical regimens for educating the senses, and rational recreations elaborated from natural magic, notably ventriloquism and speaking statues. Hearing Things enters this labyrinthÑall the new disciplines and pleasures of the modern earÑto explore the fate of Christian listening during the Enlightenment and its aftermath. In SchmidtÕs analysis the reimagining of hearing was instrumental in constituting religion itself as an object of study and suspicion. The mysticÕs ear was hardly lost, but it was now marked deeply with imposture and illusion.
Life And Correspondence Of John A Quitman
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Author : John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Life And Correspondence Of John A Quitman written by John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Cuba categories.
Catalogue Of Books Added To The Library Of Congress From Dec 1 To Dec 1
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Author : Library of Congress
language : en
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Release Date : 1872
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Catalogue Of The Library Of Congress
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Author : Library of Congress
language : en
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Release Date : 1872
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