The Magus (Barrett book)

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This article is about a book on the occult. For the novel by John Fowles, see The Magus (novel). For other uses, see The Magus (disambiguation).
Illustration of Cassiel from The Magus by Francis Barrett (1801).

The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer is a handbook of the occult and ceremonial magic compiled by occultist Francis Barrett published in 1801.

Contents and sources

Much of the material was collected by Barrett from older occult handbooks, as he hints in the preface:

We have collected out of the works of the most famous magicians, such as Zoroaster, Hermes, Apollonius, Simon of the Temple, Trithemius, Agrippa, Porta (the Neapolitan), Dee, Paracelsus, Roger Bacon, and a great many others...

In fact, most of the material comes from Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and Pietro d'Abano's Heptameron.[1]

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Publication and influence

The book was originally published with two books in a single volume, as was common with many texts of this period. It facilitated the modern revival of magic by making information from otherwise rare books more readily available.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Magic and Astrology of Francis Barrett".
  • Robbins, Rossell (1959), The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, Crown Publishers Inc.,
    ISBN 0-600-01183-6

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