Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 7

Name: Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 7
ISBN: 9781003074045

doi:10.4324/9781003074045

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Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 7

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The publication of the 44-volume Works of Daniel Defoe continues with this collection of Defoe's satirical poetry and fantasy writings, and writings on the supernatural.

Of the Magick of the present Time, as it stands strip’d in the last Chapter, from all the Pretences of the Magicians, and the Delusions of Hell; of what Length it has gone, or is like to go, in deluding Mankind; what the Magicians can do, and that they really have now no Converse with the Devil at all: So that the Art being at an End, the History comes to an End of course.

chapter Chap. VI|8 pages

Of raising the Devil by Magical Operations; whether the Magicians really have such a Power or no, and if they have, whether it is perform’d as an Art, and by the Consequence of Magical Experiments, or whether it is by Concert and mutual Consent, between Satan and the Magicians.

chapter Chap. VII|8 pages

Seeing, as the Magicians pretend, they do not Deal with the Devil, or raise the Devil, Who it is they do Deal with, how is their Correspondence managed, and why do they Deal with Good Spirits, by Conjurings and the Black Art?

Satire, Fantasy and Writings on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe, Part II vol 7

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

part |146 pages

A System of Magick; or, A History of the Black Art

chapter |3 pages

Preface

chapter |23 pages

Introduction. Of the Meaning of the Terms; who and what kind of People the Magicians were, and how the Words Magick or Magician were originally understood

chapter Chap. II|15 pages

How Wisdom and Learning advanc’d Men in the First Ages to Royalty and Government, and How Many of the Magicians were made Kings on that Account; as Zoroaster, Cadmus, and many others

chapter Chap. III|20 pages

Of the Reason and Occasion which brought the ancient honest Magi, whose original Study was Philosophy, Astronomy, and the Works of Nature, to turn Sorcerers and Wizzards, and deal with the Devil; and how their Conversation began.

chapter Chap. IV|21 pages

Of what Shapes the Devil assum’d in his first Appearances to the Magicians, and others, in the First Ages of the World; and whether He is, or has been, allow’d to assume a Human Shape, or no.

chapter Chap. V|10 pages

A Farther Account of the Devil’s Conduct in Imitating Divine Inspirations; Something of the Difference between them; and particularly of Signs and Wonders, False as well as True, and the Cheats of the Former.

chapter Chap. VI|27 pages

Of who were the first Practicers of Magick, as a Diabolical Art, and how it was handed on to the Ægyptians and Phoenicians, where it was first openly encouraged.

chapter Chap. VII|22 pages

Of the Practice and Progress of Magick, as it is now explain’d to be a Diabolical Art; how it spread it self in the World, and by what Degrees it grew up to the Height which it has since arriv’d to

part II|118 pages

A System of Magick

chapter |6 pages

Introduction. Of the Black Art it self; what it really is, why there are several differing Practices of it in the several Parts of the World, and what those Practices are; as also, what is contained in it in General.

chapter Chap. I|13 pages

Of Modern Magick, or the Black Art as now in its Practice and Perfection

chapter Chap. II|23 pages

The Scene chang’d; That as the Devil acted at First with his Black Art without the Magicians, so the Magicians seem to carry it on now without the Devil

chapter Chap. III|23 pages

Of the present Pretences of the Magicians: How they defend themselves; and some Examples of their Practice

chapter Chap. IV|23 pages

Of the Doctrine of Spirits as it is understood by the Magicians; How far it may be supposed there may be an Intercourse with Superior Beings, without any Familiarity with the Devil, or evil Spirits; with a Transition to the present Times.

chapter Chap. V|14 pages

chapter Chap. VI|8 pages

Of raising the Devil by Magical Operations; whether the Magicians really have such a Power or no, and if they have, whether it is perform’d as an Art, and by the Consequence of Magical Experiments, or whether it is by Concert and mutual Consent, between Satan and the Magicians.

chapter Chap. VII|8 pages

Seeing, as the Magicians pretend, they do not Deal with the Devil, or raise the Devil, Who it is they do Deal with, how is their Correspondence managed, and why do they Deal with Good Spirits, by Conjurings and the Black Art?