History of Magic, Part 2
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780766126367
Subjects: Fortune-telling & divination; Parapsychology, psychic powers, ESP; New Age; Body, Mind & Spirit; New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit; Divination - General; Magick Studies; Parapsychology - General
First sentence: As we now have made ourselves acquainted with a number of the historical facts regarding magic amongst the Greeks and Romans, we may be allowed to cast a critical glance backwards on the mythical ground of the same, in order to justify certain assertions made above,-namely, that the Grecian mythology is throughout of a magical character; that in Anthropomorphism the power of nature is symbolised; that magic reflects itself in the mythology, and in the highest antiquity was a kind of natural philosophy.