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Abstract Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature the apostl...

What if judgment returned to the craft of magic?How would that relieve the burdens of critique and realign its priorities? These questions regarding the value of magic to thinking ...

This book focuses on the theme of magic in Tibetan contexts, encompassing both premodern and modern text-cultures as well as contemporary practices. Combining the theoret...

This chapter focuses on the Knights of the Golden Circle. George Washington Lafayette Bickley became one of the most famous members of the Brotherhood of the Union after he founded...

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–71) is often called the father of modern conjuring. His name was later adopted by magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, whose highly sceptical e...

Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditionsis a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements. Topi...

Trust is at the root of all positive relationships. This accessible and empowering book teaches how to form an inner circle of trusted confidants in your workplace and at home that...

Abstract In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society “to answer the great questions” of special importance to women: “What are w...