The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy

The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Language: English

Pages: 370

ISBN: 0816060487

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


With more than 500 entries, this work serves as a reference to the history of the Western magical and alchemical traditions, sorting history from myth and folklore and examining mystical beliefs through the ages. It covers such topics as history, lore, famous people, philosophies, procedures, materials, rituals, and relationships to science.

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disoriented, and lost. Fairies bewitch both animals and people. Fairies steal human women for wives. They steal human babies and substitute their own sickly children, or changelings, in their place. Fairy women like to spin. Fairies especially love to dance at night, forming circle dances that leave marks in grass or rings of mushrooms called fairy rings. The grass beneath them withers and is called a briza or dawdle. If a person walks across one of these dance rings, he is likely to become

psychic elements. The Third Degree is the entire Second Order and represents union, in which the initiate prepares for initial contact with the Higher Self. These three degrees occur repeatedly and cyclically in magical integration. Furt her Reading: Cicero, Chic, and Sandra Tabatha Cicero. The Essential Golden Dawn. St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, 2004. Howe, Ellic. Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887–1923. York Beach, Maine: Red Wheel/Weiser,

not come to them they fix on a day for their experiment and exhaust all their arts; then they dissemulate their failure so that finally, though there is no such thing in nature, they pretend to make genuine gold and silver by a sophistic transmutation; to such an extent does their damned and damnable temerity go that they stamp upon the base metal the characters of public money for believing eyes, and it is only in this way that they deceive the ignorant populace as to the alchemic fire of their

the second movie after Titanic to earn more than $1 billion and be nominated for 11 Academy Awards. The Fellowship of the Ring won four Academy Awards in 2002, and The Two Towers took home two Oscars the next year. The Return of the King won all 11 of its nominated Oscar categories in 2004, including Best Picture, Best Director (Peter Jackson), and Best Song (“Into the West” by Annie Lennox). Although fans of the trilogy noted inconsistent details and the reordering of some scenes, Jackson’s

in Das Kloster, vol. I by J. Scheible, 1845. (Author’s collection) 4 Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius stood by his contemporaries, and he angered authorities of church and state. He was born on September 14, 1486, in Cologne, and in 1499 entered the university there. He probably adopted the name “von Nettesheim,” or “of Nettesheim,” himself, after the founder of Cologne. Agrippa had a quick and inquiring mind. He learned eight languages and engaged in a deep study of al chemy, the her met ica, and

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