Ted Hand doth schreibble :
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> One of the places Idel is looking in order to explain the "magic and
> kabbalah" connection in Pico is the Jewish thinker Alemanno, who had
> idiosyncratic takes on magic and the sefirot. But many of Idel's studies
> (especially the Golem and Hasidism books) tackle the problem of magic.
> Other scholars with important recent studies on Jewish magic are Lesses,
> Swartz, Trachtenberg, Bohak, Janowitz, to name a few.
I take it, then, that you have seen Idel's *Jewish Magic
from the Renaissance Period to Early Hasidism*, in Neusner's
*Religion, Science and Magic*(?)
Second your recommendation of Fine's *Physician of the Soul*,
and of the works of Lesses & Co.
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
*Of the Division of Chaos*
-Dr. Simon Forman
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