The Magical Imagination

The Magical Imagination

Author: Karl Bell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1107002001

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Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.


Magical Images and the Magical Imagination

Magical Images and the Magical Imagination

Author: Gareth Knight

Publisher: Skylight Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1908011521

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The knowledge and use of magical images was once a closely guarded secret of initiates and adepts in the Mystery Schools. Gareth Knight gives easy-to-follow classifications of the various kinds of magical image, along with instructions for their use as agents of self realisation and spiritual service. Indispensible for beginners and advanced practitioners alike, this book presents the theory and techniques of creative visualisation and meditation. These practical teachings range from the circulation of force within the aura for the purpose of balancing the personality to the development of a full magical system of pathworking, enabling deep contact with inner sources of wisdom. Now in its third edition, a new section is included on the magical images of the Tarot, plus an extensive chapter on Qabalistic pathworking in the Western Mystery Tradition.


Magical Imagination

Magical Imagination

Author: Nick Farrell

Publisher: Skylight Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1908011726

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Imagination is our inner vision, our human skill to see different realities. It can take us to the throne of God, it can connect us to the stream of infinity and allow us to see the universe for what it really is. Controlled use of the imagination is fundamental to magical practice, and this comprehensive study by an experienced practitioner provides the keys to understanding and using these powerful inner techniques. Based on Nick Farrell's previous book Magical Pathworking, this greatly revised and expanded edition includes new chapters which further develop the techniques of pathworking for magical and spiritual purposes. It covers group work, divination, visiting other inner world dimensions and working towards what Farrell calls objective pathworking. "Even if you think you know all about visualisation, pathworking and the magical key of imagination - even if you teach the subjects - this book will astound you. Nick Farrell explores magical imagination with depth and discernment, revealing principles and methods that will enrich and transform your magical and spiritual practice. Quite simply, this book is the best of its kind and extends the magical use of imagination to new heights and insights. It is an essential book for all magicians, Pagans and anyone who works with the inner realms." - Peregrin Wildoak, author of By Names and Images.


Magical Imaginations

Magical Imaginations

Author: Genevieve Guenther

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2012-01-30

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1442693967

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In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration,' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking spirits with words. Magical Imaginations explores how major writers of the period – including Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare – negotiated this troubling link between poetry and magic in their attempts to transform readers and audiences with the power of art. Through analyses of texts ranging from sermons and theological treatises to medical tracts and legal documents, Genevieve Guenther sheds new light on magic as a cultural practice in early modern England. She demonstrates that magic was a highly pragmatic, even cynical endeavor infiltrating unexpected spheres – including Elizabethan taxation policy and Jacobean political philosophy. With this new understanding of early modern magic, and a fresh context for compelling readings of classic literary works, Magical Imaginations reveals the central importance of magic to English literary history.


Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition

Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition

Author: Antoine Faivre

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2000-02-17

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780791444351

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A historical and interpretive study of three aspects of Western esotericism from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.


The Devil and the Victorians

The Devil and the Victorians

Author: Sarah Bartels

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-04

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1000348040

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In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this growing body of scholarship, little historiographical work has addressed the Devil. This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian context, emphasising his pervasiveness and diversity. Drawing on a rich array of primary material, including theological and folkloric works, fiction, newspapers and periodicals, and broadsides and other ephemera, it uses the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambivalent relationship with the supernatural. Both the Devil and hell were theologically contested during the nineteenth century, with an increasing number of both clergymen and laypeople being discomfited by the thought of eternal hellfire. Nevertheless, the Devil continued to play a role in the majority of English denominations, as well as in folklore, spiritualism, occultism, popular culture, literature, and theatre. The Devil and the Victorians will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-century English cultural and religious history, as well as the darker side of the supernatural.


Conjuring Asia

Conjuring Asia

Author: Chris Goto-Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1107076595

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This book charts the history of modern magic across India, China and Japan, analyzing representations in the cultural imagination of the West.