[PDF.79tl] Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power

Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power

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 | #618913 in Books |  1999-03-15 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.95 x5.98l,1.32 | File type: PDF | 432 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| There is nothing quite like it and so ordered it again|By pat bernardini|This is a scholarly work about early Coptic Christians belief in magic. The little illustrations are charming althought there are not many of them. . Originals are in museums. At the time, you could purchase magical spells from monks and this book details the practice. To me, It's fascinating. I purch|From Publishers Weekly|Traditionalists may find heretical the use of "Christian" as a modifier for "magic." But it's an apt combination for this gathering of previously untranslated curses, recipes and spells ritualistically cast by Egyptian Christians. In the C

This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These remarkable Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless powers" and evil spirits, spells invoking thunderous powers, descriptions of fire baptism, and even recipes from a magical "cookbook." Virtually all the texts are by Coptic C...

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