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2017
First paragraph: The occult sciences were woven into the fabric of everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain. By no means the exclusive preserve of late Romantic all-male secret societies or, subsequently, of the urban bourgeoisie who formed the core membership of occult organizations such as the Theosophical Society or the Hermetic Order of the ...
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First paragraph: The occult sciences were woven into the fabric of everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain. By no means the exclusive preserve of late Romantic all-male secret societies or, subsequently, of the urban bourgeoisie who formed the core membership of occult organizations such as the Theosophical Society or the Hermetic Order of the ...
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Is (Islamic) Occult Science Science?
Theology and Science, 2020More than any other object of historical and anthropological study, Islamicate occult science cuts to the quick of what it means to be modern, to be Western, to be scientific.
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2012
This examination of the connection between the belief in miracles and religious practices in ancient times was originally written by French politician and polymath Anne-Joseph-Eusèbe Baconnière de Salverte (1771–1839) and published in 1829. In 1846, it was translated into English by a Scottish physician and writer, Anthony Todd Thomson (1778–1849), and
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This examination of the connection between the belief in miracles and religious practices in ancient times was originally written by French politician and polymath Anne-Joseph-Eusèbe Baconnière de Salverte (1771–1839) and published in 1829. In 1846, it was translated into English by a Scottish physician and writer, Anthony Todd Thomson (1778–1849), and
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2011
Austrian philosopher, playwright, and artist Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) is perhaps best known as an educational philosopher and reformer, the founder of Steiner (or Waldorf) schools located around the world. Steiner was an active member and leader of the German branch of Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Society before forming his own Anthroposophical ...
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Austrian philosopher, playwright, and artist Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) is perhaps best known as an educational philosopher and reformer, the founder of Steiner (or Waldorf) schools located around the world. Steiner was an active member and leader of the German branch of Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Society before forming his own Anthroposophical ...
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2000
In his Muqaddima (Prolegomena) the well-known sage Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808/1406) reported a diversity of opinion among Muslim jurists concerning the grounds for the imposition of the death penalty upon practitioners of magic. The term he employed here is siḥr , an appellation which denotes a very wide range of occult phenomena; it is generally rendered ...
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In his Muqaddima (Prolegomena) the well-known sage Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808/1406) reported a diversity of opinion among Muslim jurists concerning the grounds for the imposition of the death penalty upon practitioners of magic. The term he employed here is siḥr , an appellation which denotes a very wide range of occult phenomena; it is generally rendered ...
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Contributions of ‘citizen science’ to occultation astronomy
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering SciencesThe modern term ‘citizen science’ describes a very old tradition in the natural sciences. Until the specialization of the sciences at the end of the eighteenth century, the emergence of technical universities and the formation of a modern scientific enterprise, citizen science was the norm.
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Pseudo-Sciences and the Occult
2007In the course of the nineteenth century the increasing importance of science changed the role that ‘mystery’ played in the collective imagination. Even before Queen Victoria’s reign Thomas Carlyle had reassessed common religious and popular beliefs in a chapter of Sartor Resartus (1833–34) entitled ‘Natural Supernaturalism’.
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Al-Qirqisānī on the Occult Sciences
The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1986Les Qaraites reprochaient aux Rabbanites leurs pratiques superstitieuses. Qirqisani (X s.) consacre les chapitres IX-XI de la sixieme partie de son code juridique " Le Livre des Lumieres " a refuter, preuves bibliques a l'appui, et rationnellement, la sorcellerie, les augures et autres presages et les sciences occultes, c'est-a-dire l'astrologie, qu'il
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