Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture

Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture (Western Esoteric Traditions)
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An exploration of John Deeâ€™s Enochian magic of angel contact, its reinterpretation over the years, and its endurance to the present day. This fascinating work explores John Deeâ€™s Enochian magic and the history of its reception. Dee (1527â€“1608/9), an accomplished natural philosopher and member of Queen Elizabeth Iâ€™s court, was also an esoteric researcher whose diaries detail years of conversations with angels achieved with the aid of crystal-gazer Edward Kelley. His Enochian magic offers a method for contacting angels and demons based on secrets found in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Examining this magical system from its Renaissance origins to present day occultism, Egil Asprem shows how the reception of Deeâ€™s magic is replete with struggles to construct and negotiate authoritative interpretational frameworks for doing magic. Arguing with Angels offers a novel, nuanced approach to questions about how ritual magic has survived the advent of modernity and demonstrates the ways in which modern culture has recreated magical discourse. â€œArguing with Angels is a major contribution to the study of Western esotericism in general, and to the study of Enochiana in particular. It places the history and reception of the Enochian tradition within the broader context of Western esotericism, thereby making Enochiana relevant. Egil Asprem not only shows a thorough familiarity with relevant theories, but also relates to them critically and argues convincingly for his own interpretations and conclusions.â€ â€” Henrik Bogdan, author of Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation Egil Asprem is a Research Fellow at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Country USA
Brand State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State University of New York Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781438441900
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781438441900
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture (Western Esoteric Traditions)

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