A History of White Magic

A History of White Magic

by Gareth Knight
A History of White Magic

A History of White Magic

by Gareth Knight

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Overview

The world of magic is one of high imagination. In this wide-ranging historical survey Gareth Knight shows how the higher imagination has been used as an aid to the evolution of consciousness, from the ancient Mystery Religions, through Alchemy, Renaissance Magic, the Rosicrucian Manifestos, Freemasonry and 19th century Magical Fraternities, up to the modern era. Knight considers magic as a middle ground between science and religion, reconciling them in a technology of the imagination, which properly used, can bring about personal regeneration and spiritual fulfilment. He uses Coleridge's theory of the imagination as a basis for the validity of magic as science and art in its own right. Many systems and structures have come down through the ages slightly shoddy, misrepresented, maligned, misaligned. With this book a deconstruction becomes a recycling of raw material for the purposes of re-ordering and re-configuring - a righted prism, a shored up temple, a foundational re-ballasting.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781908011046
Publisher: Skylight Press
Publication date: 03/31/2011
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 682,699
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)
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