THE MAGUS: A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY
Book Details + Condition: Thorsons Publishers Limited and Samuel Weiser Inc (Wellingborough, England and New York, NY), 1980. Limited facsimile edition of the original 1801 work. Limited to 999 numbered copies, of which this is number 186. Hardcover maroon cloth boards, with gilt titling to black spine label. Includes original shipping protective cardboard case. 198 pages. Illustrated with numerous engravings in text and with plates of Kabbalistic and astrological tables (some fold-out), magical equipment, and color plates of demons and other magical creatures. Francis Barrett's foundational text of Western occultism and ceremonial magic played an important part in inspiring the 19th-century occult revival, and tremendously influenced such key figures as Eliphas Levi, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, etc. 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.
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.
A beautiful copy of a very scarce limited and numbered edition, in very good condition, as it has been preserved in its original shipping protective box. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes. More shipping included, due to size of book.
