The ideas of philosophers (Ficino, Pico, Della Porta, Bruno) on magic interfered with popular alternative and witchcraft rites.
This book focuses on wandering scholastics (Trithemius, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Bruno) and will be a stimulating read for all those interested in Renaissance mentality.
Paracelsus (1493–1541) One of the greatest of alchemists and Hermetic philosophers, whose popular but unorthodox healing methods and supreme arrogance ran him afoul of the…
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) was an important occult philosopher whose seminal work, Occult Philosophy, had a profound impact on the development of Western occultism and Magic.
The Black Mass is an obscene parody of the Catholic Holy Mass at which the Devil is worshipped. During the Inquisition, witch hunters and Demonologists…
magic The ability or power to manifest by aligning inner forces with natural and supernatural forces. Inner forces are will, thought and imagination; natural forces…
Fairies are beings who occupy a middle realm between Earth and heaven. Fairies have magical powers and aresometimes associated with Demons and Fallen Angels. In…