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chrislehrich's The Occult Mind: magic in theory and practice, which has, by the way, a very nice cover.
Chris basically sets out to discuss how magic is viewed scholarly, in particular renaissance magic. Which in many ways makes it an elegant thing to read after just finishing the Aegypt quatrology. The book is a very heavy read, filled with necessary jargon and highly complex concepts. Chris successfully uses terminology and material consistently, and writes extremely well, keeping the book understandable to the casual reader as well as the specialist (or I’ve been reading this stuff way to much). Though it definitely helps to be familiar with at least the basics of Dee and Bruno, Yates and Eliade, as this book fits in a conversation with those authors and the scholarship around them.
chrislehrich's The Occult Mind: magic in theory and practice, which has, by the way, a very nice cover.Chris basically sets out to discuss how magic is viewed scholarly, in particular renaissance magic. Which in many ways makes it an elegant thing to read after just finishing the Aegypt quatrology. The book is a very heavy read, filled with necessary jargon and highly complex concepts. Chris successfully uses terminology and material consistently, and writes extremely well, keeping the book understandable to the casual reader as well as the specialist (or I’ve been reading this stuff way to much). Though it definitely helps to be familiar with at least the basics of Dee and Bruno, Yates and Eliade, as this book fits in a conversation with those authors and the scholarship around them.
