The Myth of the MagusCambridge University Press, 1993 M03 26 - 281 páginas The Magus, a legendary magician of superhuman powers, is an archetype central to myth and religion across many cultures. Identifying its anthropological origins in ancient rituals performed by a shaman or wizard to ensure the prosperity of his tribe, E. M. Butler goes on to trace its subsequent development in pre-Christian religious and mystic philosophers, in medieval sorcerers and alchemists, and finally in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century occult revival. From Zoroaster to Solomon, Merlin to Faust, Cagliostro to Rasputin, legends of the Magus are explored and where possible compared with the historical record in this fascinating account, first published in 1948, of one of the major figures in religious and occult mythology. |
Contenido
THE WISE MEN OF THE EAST | 15 |
B ZOROASTER | 20 |
HEBREW HOLY MEN | 29 |
B SOLOMON | 35 |
THE SAGES OF GREECE | 44 |
B APOLLONIUS OF TYANA | 55 |
THE DOWNFALL OF THE MAGUS | 66 |
B SIMON MAGUS | 73 |
B JOAN AND FAUST | 116 |
C DOCTOR FAUST | 121 |
D FRIAR BACON | 144 |
IN THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY | 160 |
B GAUFFRIDI AND GRANDIER | 172 |
THE RETURN OF THE MAGI | 177 |
ARISTEAS REDIVIVUS | 179 |
THE MAN OF MYSTERY | 185 |
THE DARK AGES | 85 |
UNDER THE CHRISTIAN CLOUD | 87 |
B THEOPHILUS | 91 |
C GERBERT | 94 |
POSTPAGAN SHADES | 98 |
B MERLIN | 104 |
BENEATH A BLACK SUN | 112 |
THE GRAND COPHT | 215 |
MADAME AND THE MASTERS | 243 |
THE HOLY DEVIL | 261 |
CONCLUSION | 264 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 269 |
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