Magic, Mystery, and Science
Subtitle: The Occult in Western Civilization
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780253216564
Subjects: History of science; Occultism & quasi-religious beliefs; Cults; Science; History; Occultism; Religion
First sentence: Ancient Egypt has been seen as a source of magical wisdom for millennia-from before the time that Moses battled, miracle for miracle, with Egyptian magicians, to Aleister Crowley, a modern Englishman who supposedly communed with spiritual powers from within a pyramid.