The Books of Magic brings that work together in twelve lectures, each devoted to a different magical culture and to the…
THE BOOKS OF MAGIC 2. A Global History of Grimoires, Charms and Forbidden Knowledge For the past several years, we have been researching and translating magical books from across the world, including manuscripts and printed works that circulated for centuries under a cloud of suspicion. The Books of Magic explores these texts not as quaint curiosities, but as evidence of the human desire to find knowledge beyond the limits of ordinary religion, medicine and reason. The German-speaking world produced one of Europe’s richest traditions of so-called black books. Georg Conrad Horst’s vast Zauber-Bibliothek gathered together writings on magic, spirits, apparitions and occult belief, while The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses claimed to preserve secret Mosaic wisdom in the form of divine names, seals and magical diagrams.
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