Author: Edward Bruce Boughton BARKERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Mendal, a Mode of Oriental Divination, Etc
Author: Edward Bruce Boughton BARKERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Health Hints: Showing how to Acquire and Retain Bodily Symmetry, Health, Etc
Author: Health HintsWhat and how to read: a guide to recent English Literature, containing a classified list of the best books published in England and America during the past five years, etc
Author: G. A. F. VAN RHYNWhat and how to Read
Author: Gustav Adolph Fidelie Van RhynPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
What and How to Read. A Guide to Recent English Literature
Author: Gustav Adolph Fidelio Van RhynPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385397014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A Critical History of Hypnotism
Author: Saul Marc RosenfeldPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477177167
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Despite more than two centuries of having tacitly recognized its enormous potential utility, the phenomenon of hypnosis has always been commonly regarded with outright Fear and Loathing. How is it possible that something as beneficial to humanity as hypnosis ever came to be viewed in such a horrible manner? I intend to show that the history of hypnotism provides us with the clue to this unfortunate legacy; and I've neither spared anyone's feelings nor pulled any punches in this quest to reveal the shamefully appalling level of incompetence and ignorance that has characterized the (mis)use of this phenomenon since its discovery by Mesmer more than two hundred years ago.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Book of the Sacred Magic
Author: Abramelin the MagePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465546197
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Owing perhaps to the circumstance that the indispensable "Bædecker" accords only a three or four line notice to the "Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal"; but few English or American visitors to Paris are acquainted with its name, situation, or contents, though nearly all know at least by sight the "Bibliothèque Nationale" and the "Bibliothèque Mazarin". This "Library of the Arsenal," as it is now called, was founded as a private collection by Antoine René Voyer D'Argenson, Marquis de Paulny; and was first opened to the public on the 9th Floréal, in the fifth year of the French Republic (that is to say, on 28th April, 1797), or just a century ago. This Marquis de Paulny was born in the year 1722, died in 1787, and was successively Minister of War, and Ambassador to Switzerland, to Poland, and to the Venetian Republic. His later years were devoted to the formation of this Library, said to be one of the richest private collections known. It was acquired in 1785 by the Comte DíArtois, and to-day belongs to the State. It is situated on the right bank of the Seine, in the Rue de Sully, near the river, and not far from the Place de la Bastille, and is known as the "Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal". In round numbers it now possesses 700,000 printed books, and about 8000 manuscripts, many of them being of considerable value. Among the latter is this Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin, as delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his son Lamech; which I now give to the public in printed form for the first time. Many years ago I heard of the existence of this manuscript from a celebrated occultist, since dead; and more recently my attention was again called to it by my personal friend, the well-known French author, lecturer and poet, Jules Bois, whose attention has been for some time turned to occult subjects. My first-mentioned informant told me that it was known both to Bulwer Lytton and Éliphas Lévi, that the former had based part of his description of the Sage Rosicrucian Mejnour on that of Abra-Melin, while the account of the so-called Observatory of Sir Philip Derval in the "Strange Story" was to an extent copied from and suggested by that of the Magical Oratory and Terrace, given in the Eleventh Chapter of the Second Book of this present work. Certainly also the manner of instruction applied by Mejnour in "Zanoni" to the Neophyte Glyndon, together with the test of leaving him alone in his abode to go on a short journey and then returning unexpectedly, is closely similar to that employed by Abra-Melin to Abraham, with this difference, that the latter successfully passed through that test, while Glyndon failed. It would also be especially such experiments as those described at length in the Third Book, which the author of the "Strange Story" had in view when he makes Sir Philip Derval in the MS. history of his life speak of certain hooks describing occult experiments, some of which he had tried and to his surprise found succeed.