The magus : or Celestial intelligencer; being a complete system of occult philosophy. In three books: containing the ancient and modern practice of the cabalistic art, natural and celestial magic, &c.; shewing the wonderful effects that may be performed by a knowledge of the celestial influences, the occult properties of metals, herbs, and stones, and the application of active to passive principles exhibiting the sciences of natural magic; alchymy, or hermetic philosophy; and also the nature, creation, and fall of man; his natural and supernatural gifts; the magical power inherent in the soul, &c.; with a great variety of experiments in natural magic: the constellatory practice, or talismanic magic; the nature of the elements, stars, planets, signs, &c.; the construction and composition of all sorts of magic seals, images, rings, glasses, &c.; the virtue and efficacy of numbers, characters, and figures, of good and evil spirits. Magnetism, and cabalistical or ceremonial magic; in which the secret mysteries of the Cabala are explained; the operations of good and evil spirits; all kinds of cabalistic figures, tables, seals, and names, with their use, &c. The times, bonds, offices, and conjuration of spirits. To which is added Biographia antiqua, or The lives of the most eminent philosophers, maji, &c. The whole illustrated with a great variety of curious engravings, magical and cabalistical figures, &c
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Title: The magus : or Celestial intelligencer; being a complete system of occult philosophy. In three books: containing the ancient and modern practice of the cabalistic art, natural and celestial magic, &c.; shewing the wonderful effects that may be performed by a knowledge of the celestial influences, the occult properties of metals, herbs, and stones, and the application of active to passive principles exhibiting the sciences of natural magic; alchymy, or hermetic philosophy; and also the nature, creation, and fall of man; his natural and supernatural gifts; the magical power inherent in the soul, &c.; with a great variety of experiments in natural magic: the constellatory practice, or talismanic magic; the nature of the elements, stars, planets, signs, &c.; the construction and composition of all sorts of magic seals, images, rings, glasses, &c.; the virtue and efficacy of numbers, characters, and figures, of good and evil spirits. Magnetism, and cabalistical or ceremonial magic; in which the secret mysteries of the Cabala are explained; the operations of good and evil spirits; all kinds of cabalistic figures, tables, seals, and names, with their use, &c. The times, bonds, offices, and conjuration of spirits. To which is added Biographia antiqua, or The lives of the most eminent philosophers, maji, &c. The whole illustrated with a great variety of curious engravings, magical and cabalistical figures, &c
Classmark: Early Science 4 1801 BAR
Creator(s): Barrett, Francis
Publisher: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1801
Language: English
Size and medium: xv, 1 unnumbered page, 175, 198 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/250541
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015904829705181
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Separate title pages: The true secret of the philosophers' stone: p.[51]; The magus; or, Celestial intelligencer: p.[71]; The magus; or celestial intelligencer, book II. Part I. Containing magnetism, and cabalistical magic. The cabala; or, the sacred mysteries of ceremonial magic illustrated: p.[31]; On the particular composition of the magical circle... book II, part III: p.[105]; The magic and philosophy of trithemius of Spanheim: containing his book of secret things ... part IV: p.[128]; Biographia antiqua; or, an account of the lives and writings of the ancient and modern magi, cabalists, and philosophers: p.[141].
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