Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic

by Nevill Drury

Book Overview

The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. In Stealing Fire from Heaven, Nevill Drury offers an overview of the modern occult revival and seeks to explain this growing interest in ancient magical belief systems.

Gnosticism and the Hermetica, the medieval Kabbalah, Tarot and Alchemy, and more recently, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, collectively laid the basis for the modern magical revival, which first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199751005
• ISBN13: 9780199751006
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"