In letters to friends, Heinrick Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) wrote of a secret key to his occult philosophy; later students of magic looked to the Forth Book of Occult Philosophy as
For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. Smith has also produced a significant corpus of ess
There being no recognized academic discipline devoted to analyzing occult, magical, or esoteric traditions, Lehrich (religion and writing, Boston U.) draws insights from several established discipline
"Given the historical orientation of philosophy, is it unreasonable to suggest a wider cast of the net into the deep waters of magic? By encountering magical thought as theory, we come to a new unders
