Music in Renaissance Magic

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226807928
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Book Synopsis Music in Renaissance Magic by : Gary Tomlinson

Download or read book Music in Renaissance Magic written by Gary Tomlinson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography—issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past —Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion. "A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the idea of New Age Music—that music can promote spiritual well-being—from the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper."—Kyle Gann, Village Voice "An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music."—Peter Burke, NOTES "Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book."—Anne Lake Prescott, Studies in English Literature

The Great Art of Knowing

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Total Pages : 178 pages
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Book Synopsis The Great Art of Knowing by : Daniel Stolzenberg

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Hekate

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ISBN 13 : 9781905297351
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Book Synopsis Hekate by : Sorita D'Este

Download or read book Hekate written by Sorita D'Este and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of devotional essays on working with Hekate.

Circle for Hekate -Volume I, History & Mythology

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ISBN 13 : 9781910191071
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Book Synopsis Circle for Hekate -Volume I, History & Mythology by : Sorita D'Este

Download or read book Circle for Hekate -Volume I, History & Mythology written by Sorita D'Este and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws together scholarly research from a wide range of sources, highlighting the manifold and universal nature of the goddess Hekate. Suitable for reading as a standalone text by those fascinated in the history and myths related to her, it also serves as background reading for those seeking a clear contextual foundation for practice.

Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-century England

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ISBN 13 : 9780300073836
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Book Synopsis Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-century England by : Penelope Gouk

Download or read book Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-century England written by Penelope Gouk and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of natural magic in the rise of seventeenth-century experimental science has been the subject of lively controversy for several decades. Now Penelope Gouk introduces a new element into the debate: how music mediated between these two domains. Arguing that changing musical practice in sixteenth-century Europe affected seventeenth-century English thought on science and magic, she maps the various relationships among these apparently separate disciplines.Gouk explores these relationships in several ways. She adopts the methods of social geography to discuss the disciplinary, social, and intellectual overlapping of music, science, and natural magic. She gives a historical account of the emergence of acoustics in English science, the harmonically based physics of Robert Hooke, and the position of harmonics within Newton's transformation of natural philosophy. And she provides a gallery of images in which contemporary representations of instruments, practices, and concepts demonstrate the way in which,musical models informed and transformed those of natural philosophy. Gouk shows that as the "occult" features of music became subject to the new science of experimentation, and as their causes became evident, so natural magic was pushed outside the realms of scientific discourse.

The Mechanical Mind in History

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Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
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Total Pages : 480 pages
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Book Synopsis The Mechanical Mind in History by : Phil Husbands

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The Temple of Hekate

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ISBN 13 : 9781905297498
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Book Synopsis The Temple of Hekate by : Tara Sanchez

Download or read book The Temple of Hekate written by Tara Sanchez and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Temple of Hekate is a vibrant and exciting collection of modern rituals and practices exploring the mysteries of the Goddess Hekate. In this book Tara Sanchez draws together her knowledge of ancient practices and literature merging it with her personal experiences and ideas. Thoroughly modern, but steeped in history, this is a book of rituals, meditations, divinations and other techniques through which the reader is invited to explore the magick of this ancient goddess of the crossroads, sorcery and witchcraft. The reader is introduced to essential practices such as keeping a magickal journal, setting up the altar, ritual purification, sacred space, preparing incenses and making a ritual robe; as well as more advanced practices such as ritual gestures, sacred vowels and dream incubation. Other techniques covered include knot magick and phylacteries, psychic development and the use of banishing rituals. The exercises in this book present the beginner with everything they need, and the experienced practitioner with a new and fresh perspective. Divination is a very popular area of study amongst those interested in modern witchcraft and magic, and this book presents a unique Hekatean approach to using and interpreting the Major Arcana of the Tarot. Through drawing together ideas from ancient literature and applying it to modern works, the author has created the Oracle of Her Sacred Fires. This oracle is a system of divination by dice and draws on the writings of dozens of modern priests, priestesses and mystics who contributed to the anthology Hekate Her Sacred Fires (d'Este, 2010) - a wonderful blend of old and new! The comprehensive appendixes provide additional reference material which can be used to enhance workings with the Goddess Hekate. They include material on Hekate and the other Gods, herbs, plant and animal correspondences, other spiritual beings such as daemons, the winds and the four elements - as well as techniques for reduction sigils and planetary hours. Filled with a blend of ancient and modern wisdom, ritual, technique and theory - this book is essential reading for complete beginners, intermediate students and experienced hands who are looking for relevant 21st century insights and ideas, which also honour the past - and in the process it opens up entirely new ways through which to explore the magick of the Goddess Hekate today.

Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674891999
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Book Synopsis Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle by : Stephen Jay Gould

Download or read book Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.

Instruments and the Imagination

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400864119
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Book Synopsis Instruments and the Imagination by : Thomas L. Hankins

Download or read book Instruments and the Imagination written by Thomas L. Hankins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects. By looking at these and the first recording instruments, the stereoscope, and speaking machines, the authors show that "scientific instruments" first made their appearance as devices used to evoke wonder in the beholder, as in works of magic and the theater. The authors also demonstrate that these instruments, even though they were often "tricks," were seen by their inventors as more than trickery. In the view of Athanasius Kircher, for instance, the sunflower clock was not merely a hoax, but an effort to demonstrate, however fraudulently, his truly held belief that the ability of a flower to follow the sun was due to the same cosmic magnetic influence as that which moved the planets and caused the rotation of the earth. The marvels revealed in this work raise and answer questions about the connections between natural science and natural magic, the meaning of demonstration, the role of language and the senses in science, and the connections among art, music, literature, and natural science. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Hekate Soteira

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
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The Man who Took Trips

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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis The Man who Took Trips by : Roy Ald

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The Candle of Vision

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Total Pages : 200 pages
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Book Synopsis The Candle of Vision by : George William Russell

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Edgar Cayce on ESP.

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ISBN 13 : 9780446916912
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Book Synopsis Edgar Cayce on ESP. by : Doris Agee

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Science and the Paranormal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Book Synopsis Science and the Paranormal by : George Ogden Abell

Download or read book Science and the Paranormal written by George Ogden Abell and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays on the Bermuda Triangle, biorhythms, psychic healing, ESP, psychokinesis, etc.

The Psychic Force

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Total Pages : 358 pages
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Tubelo's Green Fire

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ISBN 13 : 9781906958121
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Tubelo's Green Fire by : Shani Oates

Download or read book Tubelo's Green Fire written by Shani Oates and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores historical and contemporary ideas of witchcraft through the perspective of the Clan of Tubal Cain - a closed Initiatory group aligned to the Shadow Mysteries within the Luciferian stream. As students of arte we mediate the ancestral stream, teaching through practice with the sacred tenets of Truth, Love and Beauty. The Word is thus manifest in deed and vision. A driving thirst for knowledge is the forerunner of wisdom. Knowledge is a state that all organic life posesses, wisdom is the reward of the spirit, gained in the search for knowledge. Truth is variable - what is true now, will not be true tomorrow, since the temporal truths are dependent upon ethics and social mores - therefore wisdom is possibly eternal Truth, untouched by man's condition. So we must come to the heart of the People, a belief that is based upon Eternity, and not upon social needs or pressures - the 'witch' belief then is concerned with wisdom, our true name, then is the wise people and wisdom is our aim. - Robert Cochrane 1931-1966

This Is Spiritualism

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ISBN 13 : 9780853841081
Total Pages : 223 pages
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Book Synopsis This Is Spiritualism by : Maurice Barbanell

Download or read book This Is Spiritualism written by Maurice Barbanell and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: