Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture (SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions)
by Egil Asprem
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This fascinating work explores John Dee's Enochian magic and the history of its reception. Dee (1527 ́1608/9), an accomplished natural philosopher and member of Queen Elizabeth I's court, was also an esoteric researcher whose diaries detail years of conversations with angels achieved with the aid of crystal-gazer Edward Kelley. His Enochian magic offers a method for contacting angels and demons based on secrets found in the apocryphal Book of Enoch.Examining this magical system from its show more Renaissance origins to present day occultism, Egil Asprem shows how the reception of Dee's magic is replete with struggles to construct and negotiate authoritative interpretational frameworks for doing magic. Arguing with Angels offers a novel, nuanced approach to questions about how ritual magic has survived the advent of modernity and demonstrates the ways in which modern culture has recreated magical discourse. show lessTags
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Puts Dee & Kelley's work in context. Despite being an academic work, it is accessible to the non-academic audience.
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Egil Asprem is a Research Fellow at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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