Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic & Modern Occulture (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions) - Egil Asprem - Libros - State University of New York Press - 9781438441917 - 1 de mayo de 2012
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Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic & Modern Occulture (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)


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This fascinating work explores John Dee's Enochian magic and the history of its reception. Dee (1527-1608/9), an accomplished natural philosopher and member of Queen Elizabeth I's court, was also an esoteric researcher whose diaries detail years of conversations with angels achieved with the aid of crystal-gazer Edward Kelley. His Enochian magic offers a method for contacting angels and demons based on secrets found in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Examining this magical system from its Renaissance origins to present day occultism, Egil Asprem shows how the reception of Dee's magic is replete with struggles to construct and negotiate authoritative interpretational frameworks for doing magic. Arguing with Angels offers a novel, nuanced approach to questions about how ritual magic has survived the advent of modernity and demonstrates the ways in which modern culture has recreated magical discourse. "Arguing with Angels is a major contribution to the study of Western esotericism in general, and to the study of Enochiana in particular. It places the history and reception of the Enochian tradition within the broader context of Western esotericism, thereby making Enochiana relevant. Egil Asprem not only shows a thorough familiarity with relevant theories, but also relates to them critically and argues convincingly for his own interpretations and conclusions." -- Henrik Bogdan, author of Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 1 de mayo de 2012
ISBN13 9781438441917
Editores State University of New York Press
Páginas 220
Dimensiones 163 × 234 × 20 mm   ·   439 g
Lengua Inglés  

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