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Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Introduction 1 STUDY NO ABOMINATION: THE HEBREW BIBLE AND APOCRYPHA

1 A Wonder-working Contest: Exod. 7:1–8:15 2 Who Parts the Red Sea? Exod. 14:5–31 3 A Snake on a Pole: Num. 21:4–9 4 Messengers from Heaven: Gen. 28:10–19 5 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live: Exod. 22:17–19 6 Urim and Thummim: Exod. 28:3–30 7 Sun, Moon and Stars: Deut. 4:15–20 8 A Goat for Azazel: Lev. 16:1–10 9 Prophets and Diviners: Deut. 18:9–21 10 The Witch of Endor: 1 Sam. 28 11 Sinning with Omen-takers and Ghost-talkers: 2 Kings 21:1–15 12 Angels at the Throne: Isa. 6:1–3 13 A Vision of the Enticer: 1 Kings 22:1–38 14 Dry Bones and the Spirit: Ezek. 37:1–10 15 Lilith and the Goat-demons: Isa. 34:8–16 16 The Adversary in the Court of Heaven: Job 1:6–12 17 Satan Incites David: 1 Chron. 21:1–5 18 The Angel Raphael: Tobit 4–6

2 POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS: THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT

1 God Sent the Angel Gabriel: Luke 1:5–38 2 Astrology Guides the Magi: Matt. 2:1–12 3 Get Away from Me, Satan! Matt. 4:1–11 4 A Battle of Angels: Rev. 12:1–9 5 The Sheep and the Goats: Matt. 25:31–41 6 Principalities, Powers and Dominations: Ephes. 1:15–23 7 My Name is Legion: Mark 5:1–42 8 Expelling Demons in the Name of Jesus: Mark 9:38–40 9 Signs and Wonders, True or False? Mark 13:1–23 10 Jesus and Beelzebub: Matt. 12:22–8 11 Can a Man Who Sins Produce Such Signs? John 9:1–17 12 Jesus Frenzied in the Spirit: John 11:1–48 13 To Touch Even the Fringe of His Robe: Mark 6:45–56 14 The Fig Tree that You Cursed: Mark 11:12–24 15 Apostles Make the Lame Walk: Acts 14:8–20 16 In the Name of Jesus Christ, Come Out of Her: Acts 16:16–32 17 She Opened Her Eyes and Sat Up: Acts 9:32–43 18 He Astonished Them with Acts of Magic: Acts 8:4–25

3 FIRE PRIESTS, MAGOI AND MAGEIA

1 The Will of Ohrmazd and Ahriman: The Greater Bundahishn, 1.1–32 2 Sacred Fire Slays the Demons: Vendidad, 8.73–81 3 Night-roamers and Magi: Heraclitus, frg. 14 4 The Wisdom of the Magi: Plato, I Alcibiades, 121A–22A 5 Rites in Fire Temples: Strabo, 15.3.15 6 Skills of the Magi: Pausanias, 5.27.1–6 7 Magic From the Orient: Diogenes Laërtius, 1.1–9

4 DRUGS, CHARMS AND FAIR WORDS: GRECO-ROMAN ANTIQUITY

1 Deadly Drugs or Lucky: Homer, Odyssey, 10.275–306 2 Magi, Purifiers, Gypsies and Con-men: Hippocrates, The Sacred Disease, 1–6, 21 3 A Charm to Go with the Medicine: Plato, Charmides, 155B–58C 4 A Science of Erotics: Plato, Symposium, 185E–88D 5 Love, Divination and Incantations: Plato, Symposium, 201D–3A 6 All Trickery and Magicking: Plato, Laws, 908C–10D 7 A Law on Poisoning: Plato, Laws, 932E–33E 8 A Haunted House: Plautus, Mostellaria, 447–531 9 Foreseeing the Future: Cicero, On Divination, 1.1-5, 30–35 10 Drawing Down the Moon: Virgil, Eclogue, 8.64–100 11 This Dark Technology of Magic: Virgil, Aeneid, 4.474–515 12 Down to Hell the Trip is Smooth: Virgil, Aeneid, 6.33–314 13 Who Invented Such Things? Pliny, Natural History, 28.4–32 14 This Most Fraudulent of the Arts: Pliny, Natural History, 30.1–18 15 Configurations of Sun, Moon and Stars: Ptolemy, Treatise in Four Books, 1.1–2 16 Dangerous and Forbidden Sorceries: Apuleius, The Defence 17 Brokers, Greeters and Carriers: Apuleius, On the God of Socrates, 4–11 18 Testing an Amulet: Galen, On Simple Medicines, 6.3.10

5 THE PRIMAL MAGE AND SORCERER: LATE ANTIQUITY

1 A Philosopher and an Honest Man: Philostratus, Life of Apollonius, 1.1–2 2 A Thunderbolt Struck the Table: Philostratus, Life of Apollonius, 4.42–5 3 Totally Unsolvable Problems: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Problems, prologue 4 An Indwelling Spirit of the More Divine Degree: Porphyry, Life of Plotinus 5 The Reigning Sympathy: Plotinus, Enneads, 4.4.40–44 6 Artful, Shape-shifting Hell-dweller: Greek Magical Papyri, 4.2708–84 7 The Holy Books of Hermes: Zosimos, On the Letter Ω 8 Formed in the Likeness of the Cosmos: Firmicus Maternus, Instruction, 2.1–2 9 Compelled by Fatal Necessity: Firmicus Maternus, Instruction, 1.7.13–22 10 Demons and Heroes: Iamblichus, On the Mysteries of Egypt, 2.2–11 11 Statues Ensouled and Conscious: Asclepius, 23–4, 37–8 12 Natural Powers, Sympathies and Antipathies: Kyranides, prologue and 1.13 13 That Art is Not Theurgy: Iamblichus, On the Mysteries, 3.28–31 14 Undescribable Properties: Pseudo-Galen, On Kidney Diseases, 5.676–9 15 Jynxes: Synesius, On Dreams, 1.1–3.2 16 Attracting by Likeness: Proclus, On the Priestly Art

6 ARMIES OF SORCERY AND FLIGHTS OF ANGELS: EARLY CHRISTIAN EUROPE

1 The Fall of Simon Magus: Acts of Peter, 30–33 2 Belly-talkers: Origen, On the First Book of Kings 3 Lies of a Demon-ridden Hag: Eustathius of Antioch, Against Origen’s Thesis, 27–30 4 Unclean and Inconstant Spirits: Lactantius, Divine Institutes, 2.15–17 5 The Rites Are No Good: Lactantius, Divine Institutes, 4.27 6 The Great Pan is Dead: Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, 5.16–17 7 The Coals of the Devil’s Deceit: Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of Anthony, 3–9 8 Magic and Sorcery Fail: Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of Anthony, 73–79 9 This Noxious and Criminal Science: Augustine, City of God, 8.19 10 Chronic Superstition: Augustine, City of God, 8.22 11 Deluded by Lying Angels: Augustine, On Christian Teaching, 4.30–45 12 Angelic and Demonic Sex: Augustine, The City of God, 15.23 13 Nine Revelatory Names: Dionysius, The Celestial Hierarchy, 2.1–3, 6.1–2 14 The Wicked and the Unquiet Dead: Martin of Braga, Correcting the Ways of Peasants 15 A Deal with the Devil: Paul the Deacon, A Miracle of Holy Mary 16 Jesus Defiled by Judas: The Generations of Jesus

7 ARTS OF MAGIC THAT ASTONISH US: THE MIDDLE AGES

1 The Three Parts of the World’s Philosophy: The Emerald Tablet 2 Have You Believed? Burchard of Worms, Corrector, 5.60–70, 151–3, 170–80 3 Illusions and Phantoms: Gratian, Decretum, 2.26.5.12 4 An Excellent Astrologer: Pseudo-Ptolemy, The Book of a Hundred Sayings, 1–10 5 Making a Golem: Eleazar of Worms, Commentary on the Book of Formation 6 The Name of This Science is Necromancy: Picatrix 1.2, 4 7 Make No Mistakes with the Names: Picatrix 1.5 8 Images, Forms and Figures: Picatrix 2.11 9 Talismans at the Apex of Astronomy: Albert the Great, The Mirror of Astronomy 10 Forms and Powers in Stones: Albertus Magnus, On Minerals, 1.1.6 11 Magic in Nature: Albert the Great, On Minerals, 2.3.5–6 12 Magic Philosophized: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Against the Heathens, 3.104–7 13 Witchcraft, Impotence and Frigidity: Aquinas, Commentary on the Sentences, 4.34.3 14 Incubus and Succubus: Aquinas, Summa of Theology, 1.51.2–3 15 Sulphur, Arsenic and Mercury: Geber, Summa on Completing, 1.24–30 16 Preparing the Stone: Geber, Summa on Completing, 3.24–30 17 An Art to Answer All Questions: Ramon Lull, The Brief Art 18 Hell’s Doorkeeper: Dante, Inferno, 5.1–45 19 No Need for Demons: Nicole Oresme, On the Causes of Wonders 20 Spirits Inside the Circle: A Magic Manual 21 Repairing the Book of Consecrations: A Magic Manual 22 Invoking Satan as Mirage: A Magic Manual

8 ANCIENT WISDOM AND FOLLY: THE EARLIER RENAISSANCE

9 ANCIENT WISDOM MODERNIZED: THE LATER RENAISSANCE

1 These Effects Are Real: Pomponazzi, On Spells, chap. 13 2 A Higher and Holier Philosophy: Agrippa, The Occult Philosophy, 1.1–2 3 Naming the Demons and Angels: Agrippa, The Occult Philosophy, 3.18, 20, 24–5 4 An Anatomy of Magic: Paracelsus, The Labyrinth, 9 5 The Philosopher’s Stone: A Rose Garden of Philosophers 6 A Practical Part of Natural Philosophy: Porta, Natural Magick, 1.3 7 An Excellent Art Discredited: Porta, Natural Magick, 5 pr.–2 8 Desiring the Company of Iron: Porta, Natural Magick, 7 pr.–2 9 So May a Man Secretly See: Porta, Natural Magick, 17 pr.–2, 5 10 The Monad’s Progeny: John Dee, The Hieroglyphic Monad 11 Instructions from Angels: John Dee’s Diaries 12 Love is the Great Demon: Bruno, A General Theory of Bonds, 3.12–15 13 The Bonds of Magic: Bruno, On Natural Magic, 49–83 14 Abominable and Devilish Inventions: Scot, Discoverie, 1.7–9

10 MAGIC SEEN, HEARD AND MOCKED

1 Merlin’s Enchanted Sword: Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 2.8.17–22 2 Within This Circle: Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (A–Text), 1.3 3 Fairies and Hobgoblins: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2.1 4 A Spirit Too Delicate: Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1.2 5 The Simple Idiot Should Not Learn It: Jonson, The Alchemist, 2.2 6 Fake Magic Goes to College: Mewe, False Magic, 3.6–7 7 A Summons to Pandaemonium: Milton, Paradise Lost, 1.253–798 8 Peccant Humours: Molière, The Doctor In Spite of Himself, 2.4 9 A Virtue Dormitive: Molière, The Imaginary Invalid, finale 10 A Cunning Man, Hight Sidrophel: Butler, Hudibras, 2.3

11 MAGIC IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE

1 Noble Ends: Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1.4.1–11 2 News of the Invisible Brethren: A Rosicrucian Manifesto 3 Heresy No Magic: Naudé, Apology 4 Crazies and Contagion: Naudé, Apology 5 Cold Slain by Heat: Campanella, On Sense and Magic, 2.26 6 Consensus: Campanella, On Sense and Magic, 3.13–14 7 Science is Magic: Campanella, On Sense and Magic, 4.5–6 8 A Little World in Action: Fludd, Mosaicall Philosophy 9 Proof Positive: Hopkins, Discovery of Witches 10 The Ancient Real Theosophy: Vaughan, Anthroposophia theomagica 11 The True Philosophick Cabbala: More, Conjectura cabbalistica, 2.3 12 Magnetisms: Athanasius Kircher, Nature’s Magnetic Kingdom, 1 13 A Demon Witnessed by Multitudes: Joseph Glanvill to Lord Brereton 14 Angel Midwives: Leibniz, Letter to Thomasius 15 Intercourse with Good Spirits: Boyle, Dialogue on the Converse with Angels 16 The Kingdom of Darkness: Leibniz, Correspondence with Clarke, 1 and 5

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