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Author Szőnyi, György Endre

Title John Dee's occultism : magical exaltation through powerful signs / György Endre Szőnyi
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 362 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions
SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions.
Contents 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 MagicHermetic 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 scientiarumPARACELSUS, 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 THEOLOGYThe 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 CITEDIndex -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index
Notes English
Subject Dee, John, 1527-1608.
SUBJECT Dee, John, 1527-1608 fast
Subject Symbolism.
Magic -- History
Occultism -- History
Renaissance.
Renaissance.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
Magic
Occultism
Renaissance
Symbolism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003069327
ISBN 9780791484425
0791484424