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The Real History of the Magic Circle Part 2: From the Goetic Circle to the Modern Magical Mind
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EARLY-MODERN MAGIC AND THE GOETIC TRADITION
Anonymous. Historia von D. Johann Fausten. Frankfurt, 1587.
Harms, Daniel, James R. Clark, and Joseph H. Peterson, eds. The Book of Oberon: A Sourcebook of Elizabethan Magic. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2015. Based on Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.26.
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. Earliest printed A-text, 1604.
Mirčev, Andrej. The Poetics of Performance Diagrams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Weyer, Johann. Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. Published as an appendix to later editions of De praestigiis daemonum.
Scot, Reginald. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. London, 1584.
Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, or The Lesser Key of Solomon. Seventeenth-century manuscript compilation.
Peterson, Joseph H., ed. The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis. Comparative manuscript edition.
ABRAMELIN AND RITUAL SPACE
Franchetto, Andrea. “Temporary and Imaginal Sacred Space in the Textual Transmission of Modern Ritual Magic: The Temple of Abramelin (15th–20th Century).” In Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space, edited by Aaron French and Katharina Waldner, 77–102. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024.
The Book of Abramelin. Seventeenth-century German and Italian manuscript witnesses to a work generally placed by modern scholarship in an earlier late-medieval/early-modern environment. For the influential English tradition, see S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.
ÉLIPHAS LÉVI AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY OCCULT REVIVAL
Lévi, Éliphas. Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie. 2 vols. Paris, 1854–1856.
Lévi, Éliphas. Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual. Translated by Arthur Edward Waite. London: George Redway, 1896.
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “A Catholic ‘Magician’ Historicizes ‘Magic’: Éliphas Lévi’s Histoire de la Magie.” In History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto, Susanne Rau, and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.
GOLDEN DAWN AND ALEISTER CROWLEY
Plaisance, Christopher A. “Magic Made Modern? Re-evaluating the Novelty of the Golden Dawn’s Magic.” Correspondences 2, no. 2 (2014): 159–187.
Regardie, Israel. The Golden Dawn: An Account of the Teachings, Rites and Ceremonies of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Vol. 1. Chicago: Aries Press, 1937.
Wheeler, Graham John. “A Microcosm of the Esoteric Revival: The Histories of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.” Correspondences 8, no. 1 (2020): 5–44.
Crowley, Aleister. Book Four, Part II: Magick. 1912–1913. See especially Chapter II, “The Circle.”
Crowley, Aleister. Magick in Theory and Practice. Paris: Lecram Press, 1929.
Mathers, S. L. MacGregor, trans.; Aleister Crowley, ed. The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King. 1904.
WICCA AND MODERN WITCHCRAFT
Callow, John. Gerald Gardner and the Creation of Wicca. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Davies, Owen. Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.
RITUAL, COGNITION, AND EXPERIENCE
Franchetto, Andrea. “Imaginal Architectural Devices and the Ritual Space of Medieval Necromancy.” Endeavour 44, no. 4 (2020): 100748.
Hobson, Nicholas M., Daniel Bonk, and Michael Inzlicht. “Rituals Decrease the Neural Response to Performance Failure.” PeerJ 5 (2017): e3363.
Lang, Martin, Jan Krátký, John H. Shaver, Danijela Jerotijević, and
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Occult Research Institute
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@TheOccultRejects
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EARLY-MODERN MAGIC AND THE GOETIC TRADITION
Anonymous. Historia von D. Johann Fausten. Frankfurt, 1587.
Harms, Daniel, James R. Clark, and Joseph H. Peterson, eds. The Book of Oberon: A Sourcebook of Elizabethan Magic. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2015. Based on Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.26.
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. Earliest printed A-text, 1604.
Mirčev, Andrej. The Poetics of Performance Diagrams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Weyer, Johann. Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. Published as an appendix to later editions of De praestigiis daemonum.
Scot, Reginald. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. London, 1584.
Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, or The Lesser Key of Solomon. Seventeenth-century manuscript compilation.
Peterson, Joseph H., ed. The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis. Comparative manuscript edition.
ABRAMELIN AND RITUAL SPACE
Franchetto, Andrea. “Temporary and Imaginal Sacred Space in the Textual Transmission of Modern Ritual Magic: The Temple of Abramelin (15th–20th Century).” In Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space, edited by Aaron French and Katharina Waldner, 77–102. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024.
The Book of Abramelin. Seventeenth-century German and Italian manuscript witnesses to a work generally placed by modern scholarship in an earlier late-medieval/early-modern environment. For the influential English tradition, see S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.
ÉLIPHAS LÉVI AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY OCCULT REVIVAL
Lévi, Éliphas. Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie. 2 vols. Paris, 1854–1856.
Lévi, Éliphas. Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual. Translated by Arthur Edward Waite. London: George Redway, 1896.
Otto, Bernd-Christian. “A Catholic ‘Magician’ Historicizes ‘Magic’: Éliphas Lévi’s Histoire de la Magie.” In History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past, edited by Bernd-Christian Otto, Susanne Rau, and Jörg Rüpke. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.
GOLDEN DAWN AND ALEISTER CROWLEY
Plaisance, Christopher A. “Magic Made Modern? Re-evaluating the Novelty of the Golden Dawn’s Magic.” Correspondences 2, no. 2 (2014): 159–187.
Regardie, Israel. The Golden Dawn: An Account of the Teachings, Rites and Ceremonies of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Vol. 1. Chicago: Aries Press, 1937.
Wheeler, Graham John. “A Microcosm of the Esoteric Revival: The Histories of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.” Correspondences 8, no. 1 (2020): 5–44.
Crowley, Aleister. Book Four, Part II: Magick. 1912–1913. See especially Chapter II, “The Circle.”
Crowley, Aleister. Magick in Theory and Practice. Paris: Lecram Press, 1929.
Mathers, S. L. MacGregor, trans.; Aleister Crowley, ed. The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King. 1904.
WICCA AND MODERN WITCHCRAFT
Callow, John. Gerald Gardner and the Creation of Wicca. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Davies, Owen. Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.
RITUAL, COGNITION, AND EXPERIENCE
Franchetto, Andrea. “Imaginal Architectural Devices and the Ritual Space of Medieval Necromancy.” Endeavour 44, no. 4 (2020): 100748.
Hobson, Nicholas M., Daniel Bonk, and Michael Inzlicht. “Rituals Decrease the Neural Response to Performance Failure.” PeerJ 5 (2017): e3363.
Lang, Martin, Jan Krátký, John H. Shaver, Danijela Jerotijević, and