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BOOKS: Arguing with Angels
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Arguing with Angels
Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture
Egil Asprem - Author
SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
Price: $75.00
Hardcover - 224 pages
Release Date: May 2012
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4191-7
forthcoming
Summary
An exploration of John Dee's Enochian magic of angel contact, its
reinterpretation over the years, and its endurance to the present day.
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.
Egil Asprem is a Research Fellow at the Center for History of Hermetic
Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands.
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