wow, that looks fabulous, Egil does some great stuff
Dave E
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Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] FW: [agade] BOOKS: Arguing with Angels
> Woo !
>
> BOOKS: Arguing with Angels
>
> >From <http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5336-arguing-with-angels.aspx>:
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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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