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IN the days before the period of scepticism which dawned brutally upon Europe about the beginning of the eighteenth century the history of the private life of all peoples is dominated by their awe of the invisible world and their irrepressible inclination to adventure in it.
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Middle Ages, Robert Fludd, Jerome Cardan, Abraham Palingh, Mlle Le Normand, Ulrich Molitor, Collin de Plancy, Cornelius Agrippa, Francis Barrett, Nicolas Flamel, Nicolas Valois, The Hague, Basile Valentin, Breughel the Elder, Der Ritter, Elias Ashmole, Heinrich Khunrath, Israel van Meckenem, Johannes de Cuba, Major Arcana, Olaus Magnus, Roger Bacon, The Magus, Charnier des Innocents, Great World
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