By Paul Kléber Monod
ISBN-10: 0300123582
ISBN-13: 9780300123586
The overdue 17th and eighteenth centuries are referred to as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of technology and cause. yet during this illuminating ebook, Paul Monod unearths the wonderful volume to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and different giants of rational concept and empiricism additionally embraced the non secular, the mystical, and the occult.
Although public attractiveness of occult and magical practices waxed and waned in this interval they survived underground, experiencing a substantial revival within the mid-eighteenth century with the increase of latest antiestablishment non secular denominations. The occult spilled over into politics with the radicalism of the French Revolution and into literature in early Romanticism. even if authentic disapproval was once at its most powerful, the facts issues to a transforming into viewers for occult courses in addition to to subversive well known enthusiasm. finally, unearths Monod, the occult was once no longer discarded in prefer of “reason” yet used to be integrated into new different types of studying. In that feel, the occult is a part of the fashionable international, now not easily a relic of an unenlightened earlier, and remains to be with us at the present time.
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We should also remain aware that many of these texts were consciously written for use, not simply for edification: that is, they were designed to be employed in some form of practice. How they were used is often very difficult to reconstruct. At times, the text demanded a rigorous adherence to every word, but this was possible only through some sort of translation of symbols or jargon. At other times, texts were more user-friendly, providing explanations and allowing themselves to be considered selectively.
London was a magnet for anyone who wanted to make money out of the occult sciences, no matter where they were born. The astrologer-alchemist-magician John Heydon, a West Countryman by birth, settled in the capital, first as a lawyer, then as an “Astromagus,” as he termed himself. 4 Others were drawn to London for more philanthropic reasons. From Charing Cross, where Parliament pulled down the Eleanor cross, the medieval monument that gave it its name, in 1647 and replaced it with a fish shop, the German immigrant Samuel Hartlib managed his “Office of Address,” an international web of communication for those interested in scientific knowledge, including alchemy.
Each of these factors had a profound impact on the occult. indd 14 09/02/13 5:01 PM I n t ro d u c t i o n : Wh at Wa s t h e O c c u lt ? 15 ritual magic were tied from the first to religious heterodoxy and sectarianism, an association that lasted throughout the eighteenth century. Occult writers took full advantage of the commercial possibilities of publishing, especially in the hotly competitive cultural atmosphere of the 1780s. Occult secrets became selling points for clubs and associations that have been seen as models of early- modern sociability.
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