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PAPUS Pseudonym of Dr. Gérard Encausse (1865–1916), a highly influential French occultist.

ELEMENTARY TREATISE

ON

PRACTICAL MAGIC

ADAPTATION, REALIZATION, THEORY OF MAGIC

WITH AN

APPENDIX

ON THE HISTORY & BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MAGIC EVOCATION

AND A

462

Dictionary of Countryside Magic,

Of Love Potions, etc.

And nevertheless it does not follow that
these arts are vain?, for if truly
there were not, and if there were not done
by means of them many
marvelous and harmful things, the
divine and human laws would not have so
strictly ordered them to be exterminated.
(H.-C. AGRIPPA) Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535), a famous Renaissance polymath and occult writer. This quote justifies the study of magic by noting its power is recognized by the very laws that forbid it.

WORK ADORNED WITH 158 FIGURES, PLATES AND TABLES

ILLUSTRATIONS BY LOUIS DELFOSSE

SECOND EDITION

257

PARIS

CHAMUEL, PUBLISHER

29, RUE DE TRÉVISE, 29

1893

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