By Egil Asprem
ISBN-10: 1438441924
ISBN-13: 9781438441924
This attention-grabbing paintings explores John Dee’s Enochian magic and the historical past of its reception. Dee (1527–1608/9), an entire typical thinker and member of Queen Elizabeth I’s courtroom, used to be additionally an esoteric researcher whose diaries aspect years of conversations with angels accomplished by way of crystal-gazer Edward Kelley. His Enochian magic deals a mode for contacting angels and demons in keeping with secrets and techniques present in the apocryphal booklet of Enoch.
Examining this magical approach from its Renaissance origins to offer day occultism, Egil Asprem indicates how the reception of Dee’s magic is replete with struggles to build and negotiate authoritative interpretational frameworks for doing magic. Arguing with Angels deals a unique, nuanced method of questions about how ritual magic has survived the appearance of modernity and demonstrates the ways that smooth tradition has recreated magical discourse.
Egil Asprem is a examine Fellow on the heart for heritage of airtight Philosophy and comparable Currents on the collage of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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