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Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Late Medieval Ritual Magic

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This is a fantastic book especially if you are looking from a historical perspecive. The book is very intellegently written, and it is very apparent the author spent a great deal of time researching the work. This is not just another rehash as so many other books are. Highly reccommended for any magicians library.

This is really pretty excellent. I'm surprised the history of magic isn't touched on more often in general European history classes that are required in high school and college. Not only is it generally interesting (more interesting than say, learning about the successions of popes and about petty civil wars - at least to myself), but it gives a rare insight into the way the minds of people worked at the time, their hopes, their desires, and their fears, as well as gives a different viewpoint on religion of the day as a whole.

This book is another great book in the Magic in History series. It contains many Latin originals (with translation) and the essays are superb. This armchair historian loves it.

While this title will not offer a step by step lesson plan as do some of the classical Grimoires, it does offer a wealth of information, previously unavailable, which can be built into the experienced magus' work. Hence it is highly recommended for the more advanced practitioner and for the occult scholar, but not for the aspirant, student or neophyte.