Albertus Magnus: Egyptian Secrets, White & Black Art for Man & Beast

by Albertus Magnus, L.W. de Laurence

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Genres: Occult, Philosophy, Esoterica, Spirituality

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1725

About the author

born in perhaps 1206

German religious philosopher Saint Albertus Magnus, originally Albert, count von Bollstadt, and also noted as the teacher of Saint Thomas Aquinas, sought to apply methods of Aristotle to current scientific questions.

Also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, this member of the Catholic order of preachers (Dominicans) served as friar and from 1260 to 1262 as bishop of Regensburg. During his lifetime, people knew him as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and later appended the term magnus ("the great") to his name. Scholars, such as James Athanasius Weisheipl and Joachim Roland Söder, referred to this greatest theologian of the Middle Ages. The Church honors him among its 35 doctors.

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Reviews

[W.B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an awesome book of incantations, blessings and curses...mystical cabala abounds...most of the spells are really all about the language itself being used...language as more than economic unit...language as alive, sentient, interpenetrating the material world...language as the genie of matter, which (according to these texts) can be manipulated and made to destroy or heal...preserve or wither...a weird delight...I will write about this and use excerpts on my blog shortly...

[Heidi Raič]

The history of how this text came about is entirely fascinating and I’m diving deeper. Apparently this text has nothing to do with Albert Magnus, and it’s mistranslated to be not Egyptian secrets but Romani. My favorite bit of the text is how to become invisible! How fun. Interesting also to see what were the common concerns in 1200’s Cologne.