Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power - Softcover

Meyer, Marvin; Smith, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060655844 ISBN 13: 9780060655846

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996

Synopsis

Empower yourself; learn how to tongue-tie someone, perform an erotic spell for a woman to obtain a male lover, invoke a thundering power to perform your every wish.

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Review:

The authors make a grand tour of Western philosophy, theology, and ethics. They provide brilliant analyses of pertinent thinkers, including Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Kant, Rousseau... The writing is fluid and engaging... Library Journal

From the Back Cover:

"This book is a treasure-trove of material illustrating folk beliefs and practices of a people in Egypt spanning more than a thousand years."--Birger A. Pearson, University of California, Berkeley

"An excellent collection of magical texts.... I teach my students that there is no strict dividing line between magic and religion, even in Christianity, and this is a vital sourcebook to make this truth a reality for them."--Kurt Rudolph, Philipps Universitat, Marburg, and author of Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism

"This book is well organized and exceedingly well edited. There are helpful introductions to each chapter and, even more, to each selection.... [It] could scarcely be more user friendly for lay readers.... There exists nothing like it, at least nothing so accessible to nonexperts."--Robert Segal, Lancaster University, editor of The Gnostic Jung

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0060655844
• ISBN 13: 9780060655846
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432