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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452764403321

Autore

Szőnyi György Endre

Titolo

John Dee's occultism [[electronic resource] ] : magical exaltation through powerful signs / / György Endre Szőnyi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7914-8442-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions

Disciplina

133/.092

Soggetti

Symbolism

Magic - History

Occultism - History

Renaissance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-351) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""John Dee�s Occultism""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part 1. Definitions""; ""1. Principles and Demarcations""; ""THE CHALLENGE OF THE ESOTERIC""; ""FROM SCIENCE HISTORY TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY""; ""THE POST-COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVE""; ""2. Mysticism, Occultism, Magic Exaltation""; ""FALL AND REBIRTH""; ""THE ORGANIC WORLD MODEL""; ""THE DOCTRINE OF EXALTATION""; ""Part 2. Input: “In many bokes and sundry languages . . .�""; ""3. The Sources of Renaissance Magic""; ""TRADITIONS OF CLASSICAL MAGIC""

""Frances Yates and the Rediscovery of Renaissance Magic""""Hermetic Magic""; ""Neoplatonism and Classical Theurgy""; ""MEDIEVAL MAGIC""; ""Medieval Ceremonial Magic""; ""Magical Exaltatio in the Picatrix""; ""4. Florentine Neoplatonism and Christian Magic""; ""FICINO�S TALISMANIC MAGIC""; ""PICO�S ENCOMIUM OF EXALTATIO""; ""Cabala and �exaltatio�""; ""Pico�s “Oration,� Cabalistic Magic, and Exaltatio""; ""5. Occult Philosophy, Symbolism, and Science""; ""TRITHEMIUS AND ANGEL MAGIC""; ""AGRIPPA�S TRIPARTITE MAGIC""; ""De occulta philosophia""

""De incertitudine et vanitate omnium scientiarum""""PARACELSUS,



ALCHEMY, THEOSOPHY""; ""ENOCH, SCIENCE, APOCALYPTIC PROPHECY""; ""Part 3. Output: ""Glyms or Beame of Radicall Truthes�""; ""6. The Ideology and Occult Symbolism of Dee�s Natural Philosophy""; ""ASTROLOGY: PROPAEDEUMATA APHORISTICA""; ""ALCHEMY: MONAS HIEROGLYPHICA""; ""MAGIC: THE MATHEMATICALL PRAEFACE""; ""7. Illuminaton and Angel Magic""; ""ANGEL MAGIC AND THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT LANGUAGE""; ""THE THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY OF ANGEL MAGIC""; ""Theory and Sources""; ""The Choreography of the Scrying Sessions""

""DEE�S RELIGION AND THEOLOGY""""The Theological Framework of His Vision""; ""Humanism, Religion, and Denomination""; ""8. Dee and the Interpretive Community""; ""“EASTWARD HO!� DEE, PATRONAGE, AND CENTRAL EUROPE""; ""The Lure of East-Central Europe""; ""The Lure of Dee and Kelly for Eastern Europe""; ""MERIC CASAUBON AND THE POLITICS OF INTERPRETATION""; ""Magician, Heretic, and Witch""; ""Casaubon�s Politics""; ""9. Conclusion: Dee and Renaissance Symbolism""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliographies""; ""JOHN DEE�S WORKS""; ""SOURCES AND THEIR MODERN EDITIONS""

""REFERENCE WORKS PARENTHETICALLY CITED""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""