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You think magic is dead. You are wrong about almost every part of that sentence.
The Invisible Academy is a long, ferociously researched, dryly funny history and anatomy of high magic — the formal, learned, written tradition of magical practice that has run continuously from Mesopotamia to your laptop and that has never, despite extensive efforts to mock it out of existence, actually gone away.
The book begins with a definition the rest of the field has been refusing to write: high magic is not the herb-witch in the cottage. It is not the suburban oracle deck. High magic is a literate tradition that requires a library, a calendar, a specific astrological window, and a willingness to stay awake past midnight in a circle drawn in sea-salt by the light of a candle made of a particular kind of fat.
From the *Picatrix* — the Arabic compendium of Islamic civilizational achievement that became the spine of the entire European magical tradition — to Cornelius Agrippa's *Three Books of Occult Philosophy*, to the *Sefer Raziel*, to the *Book of Abramelin*. Then onward, through the Cahokian astronomers, the Tibetan Kalachakra, the Vodou peristyle, African diasporic traditions, and practitioners interviewed in this book — Margaret in New Orleans, Sarah in Brooklyn, Lin in Taipei — who do, every week, the thing the rest of the world has decided cannot be done.
The book is not credulous. The author is a researcher, not a believer. He says so plainly. He also does not insult the practitioners' intelligence by pretending the practices have not, for thousands of years, produced consistent results in the people who perform them.
The Invisible Academy is what you read if you want to understand why the tradition has survived. It works because of what magic has always been: a technology of attention that produces effects in the practitioner that the practitioner cannot produce by any other means.
The angels have spoken. The circle is drawn. The first textbook is waiting.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You think magic is dead. You are wrong about almost every part of that sentence. The Invisible Academy is a long, ferociously researched, dryly funny history and anatomy of high magic - the formal, learned, written tradition of magical practice that has run continuously from Mesopotamia to your laptop and that has never, despite extensive efforts to mock it out of existence, actually gone away. The book begins with a definition the rest of the field has been refusing to write: high magic is not the herb-witch in the cottage. It is not the suburban oracle deck. High magic is a literate tradition that requires a library, a calendar, a specific astrological window, and a willingness to stay awake past midnight in a circle drawn in sea-salt by the light of a candle made of a particular kind of fat. From the *Picatrix* - the Arabic compendium of Islamic civilizational achievement that became the spine of the entire European magical tradition - to Cornelius Agrippa's *Three Books of Occult Philosophy*, to the *Sefer Raziel*, to the *Book of Abramelin*. Then onward, through the Cahokian astronomers, the Tibetan Kalachakra, the Vodou peristyle, African diasporic traditions, and practitioners interviewed in this book - Margaret in New Orleans, Sarah in Brooklyn, Lin in Taipei - who do, every week, the thing the rest of the world has decided cannot be done. The book is not credulous. The author is a researcher, not a believer. He says so plainly. He also does not insult the practitioners' intelligence by pretending the practices have not, for thousands of years, produced consistent results in the people who perform them. The Invisible Academy is what you read if you want to understand why the tradition has survived. It works because of what magic has always been: a technology of attention that produces effects in the practitioner that the practitioner cannot produce by any other means. The angels have spoken. The circle is drawn. The first textbook is waiting. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798197647290
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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - You think magic is dead. You are wrong about almost every part of that sentence. The Invisible Academy is a long, ferociously researched, dryly funny history and anatomy of high magic - the formal, learned, written tradition of magical practice that has run continuously from Mesopotamia to your laptop and that has never, despite extensive efforts to mock it out of existence, actually gone away. The book begins with a definition the rest of the field has been refusing to write: high magic is not the herb-witch in the cottage. It is not the suburban oracle deck. High magic is a literate tradition that requires a library, a calendar, a specific astrological window, and a willingness to stay awake past midnight in a circle drawn in sea-salt by the light of a candle made of a particular kind of fat. From the \*Picatrix\* - the Arabic compendium of Islamic civilizational achievement that became the spine of the entire European magical tradition - to Cornelius Agrippa's \*Three Books of Occult Philosophy\*, to the \*Sefer Raziel\*, to the \*Book of Abramelin\*. Then onward, through the Cahokian astronomers, the Tibetan Kalachakra, the Vodou peristyle, African diasporic traditions, and practitioners interviewed in this book - Margaret in New Orleans, Sarah in Brooklyn, Lin in Taipei - who do, every week, the thing the rest of the world has decided cannot be done. The book is not credulous. The author is a researcher, not a believer. He says so plainly. He also does not insult the practitioners' intelligence by pretending the practices have not, for thousands of years, produced consistent results in the people who perform them. The Invisible Academy is what you read if you want to understand why the tradition has survived. It works because of what magic has always been: a technology of attention that produces effects in the practitioner that the practitioner cannot produce by any other means. The angels have spoken. The circle is drawn. The first textbook is waiting. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798197647290
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