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Magic and Age of Reason
Magic and study of occult arts successfully survived Renaissance and entered the Baroque era. And even more. the study of the occult arts remained intellectually respectable well into the seventeenth … more →
Beyond Your Imagination
Magic and Age of Reason
egabriel wrote 3 weeks ago: Magic and study of occult arts successfully survived Renaissance and entered the Baroque era. And ev … more →
Study of the occult arts
egabriel wrote 1 month ago: Well, times for magic were certainly changing during Renaissance. Magic saw a resurgence in hermetic … more →
The cult of relics
egabriel wrote 2 months ago: I guess, it is high time I switched to magic in Middle Ages. So, where should I begin? There is so m … more →
'True Blood' actor writes Archaia series
goremasterfx wrote 2 months ago: Michael McMillian By Hugh Armitage – DigitalSpy.com True Blood actor Michael McMillian will write a … more →
History of Singapore Magic
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jcsum wrote 7 months ago: In late 2006, the Concept:Magic set out on an on-going project as part of Concept:Magic’s cont … more →
The Laws of the Twelve Tablets
egabriel wrote 9 months ago: Thus, by acquiring knowledge one can aspire to gain knowledge even from the gods. Yet, even the auth … more →
Superstition as fear of the gods
egabriel wrote 9 months ago: In the late antiquity people were certainly extremely superstitious. I am talking not only about sim … more →
Greatest magicians of all times
egabriel wrote 11 months ago: I was researching the development of magic in the late antiquity period of Roman empire for my web a … more →
Combination of poet, magus, teacher, and scientist
egabriel wrote 11 months ago: Empedocles too has ascribed to him marvelous powers associated with later magicians. This guy was de … more →
Famous mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras
egabriel wrote 11 months ago: Magical powers were also attributed to the famous mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, as recor … more →
The most famous figures
egabriel wrote 11 months ago: I was always anxious to find when was the rise of positive concept of magic in ancient Greece. While … more →
Second-class power
egabriel wrote 11 months ago: Magic then is a second-class power, it does not compare to the powers of tradition or of the gods. I … more →
The encounter of Odysseus with the Titan Circe
egabriel wrote 1 year ago: As a web analyst, who completed many types of research on ancient history, I think that the earliest … more →
Horrors and powers of witchcraft
egabriel wrote 1 year ago: In Seneca’s version Medea’s power of hating, which she can switch on and intensify at will is still … more →
Jealous wives
egabriel wrote 1 year ago: However Dido soon comes to realize that the love magic is not powerful enough to bring Aeneas back t … more →
Traveling hero meets a beautiful female
egabriel wrote 1 year ago: Much of ancient Roman literature dealing with magic are, basically, retellings of Greek myths. Roman … more →
Direct evidence
egabriel wrote 1 year ago: Thus amulets were actually often a mixture of various formulas from Babylonian, Egyptian, and Greek … more →
Magic acts or rituals
egabriel wrote 1 year ago: In other cases certain spells allow one to send out a daemon or daemons to harm one’s enemies or eve … more →
Magical papyri
egabriel wrote 1 year ago: It seems, that a huge interest in magic was on the rise in the Hellenistic period, especially around … more →
