THE MAGUS: A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY
Book Details + Condition: The Citadel Press (Secaucus, NJ), 1975. Large softcover. 198 pages, with illustrations and tables throughout. By Francis Barrett. Contents include:
- Natural Magic Defined
- Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchantments
- Of the Wonderful Virtues of Some Kinds of Precious Stones
- The Secret of the Philosophers' Stone
- Of Alchemy, and its Divine Origins
- Transmutation
- Of the Four Elements
- Magnetism
- Cabalistical Magic
- Of the Order of Evil Spirits
- The Magic Circle
- Zoroaster the Son of Urasmus
- Henry Cornelius Agrippa
- Doctor Dee
- And much more.
Please see our limited edition, earlier copy of THE MAGUS currently for sale. Firm binding; wear to covers, with chipping and creasing present; approximately 25 pages with inked notations - some more inked than others, with some blank pages covered in notes or tables.
Full title: BIOGRAPHIA ANTIGUA: OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND WRITINGS OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN MAGI, CABALISTS, AND PHILOSOPHERS, DISCOVERING THE PRINCIPLES AND TENETS OF THE FIRST FOUNDERS OF THE MAGICAL AND OCCULT SCIENCES: WHEREIN THE MYSTERIES OF THE PYTHAGORIANS, GYMNOSOPHISTS, EGYPTIANS, BRAGMANNI, BABYLONIANS, PERSIANS, ETHIOPIANS, CHALDEANS, &C ARE DISCOVERED: INCLUDING A PARTICULAR AND INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF ZOROASTER, THE SON OF OROMASIUS, THE FIRST INSTITUTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY FIRE, AND MAGIC; LIKEWISE OF HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, THE EGYPTIAN, AND OTHER PHILOSOPHERS, FAMOUS FOR THEIR LEARNING, PIETY, AND WISDOM. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SHORT ESSAY, PROVING THAT THE FIRST CHRISTIANS WERE MAGICIANS, WHO FORETOLD, ACKNOWLEDGES, AND WORSHIPPED THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, AND FIRST FOUNDER OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
