What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality,
mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or'other'? Wicca has been defined by …

This bibliography is part of a major bibliographical project on Greek historians writing about
the ancient Near East (Herodotus, Ctesias2, Berossos and Manetho), which was initiated by …

One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a
sovereign remedy capable not only of healing the body but of transforming it. Given the …

Featuring over 150 entries, numerous illustrations and valuable extracts of primary source
material, this timely new work covers millennial movements throughout the world …

Although we tend to treat the medium as a modern notion, it was possible to think about the
topic in earlier periods as well. This essay looks at one place where that possibility emerges …

Duplice è stata fin dall'origine la produzione degli alchimisti: il ri sultato materiale delle
operazioni di laboratorio su cui fondavano il proprio sapere ei fiumi di parole che hanno …

Recent scholars have tended to interpret 2 Corinthians 12: 1-10 as an attempt to belittle
ecstatic experiences, such as Paul's ascent to paradise, in favor of suffering in the service of …

" 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 …

Research into the so-called “philosophical” Hermetica has long been dominated by the
foundational scholarship of André-Jean Festugière, who strongly emphasized their Greek …

This Element defends a version of the classical theory of divine ideas, the containment
exemplarist theory of divine ideas. The classical theory holds that God has ideas of all …