BYGONE BELIEFS - Redgrove, 1st 1920 - MAGICK TALISMANS SUPERSTITION ALCHEMY

BYGONE BELIEFS: BEING A SERIES OF EXCURSIONS IN THE BYWAYS OF THOUGHT

Book Details + Condition: William Rider & Son (London). First Edition, 1920. Hardcover with publisher's red cloth boards, gilt titling (etc) to spine. 205 pages; Illustrated throughout. Author H. Stanley Redgrove was an expert in the study of superstitions and the occult, and wrote several books on these and other related subjects, as well as being a prolific contributor to The Occult Review (first editions also sold at Black Cat Caboodle). In BYGONE BELIEFS, he purports that there is a concrete reason for every belief, even the most fantastic - and that it should be our (contemporary) objective to discover the reason and meaning. He explains that dismissing much of the thought of the past as mere superstition, not worthy of investigation, is dangerous - and considers it un-scientific to do so. Contents include:

- Pythagoras and his Philosophy

- Medicine and Magic

- Superstitions Concerning Birds

- The Power of Sympathy

- Ceremonial Magic in Theory and Practice

- The Quest of the Philosopher's Stone

- The Phallic Element in Alchemical Doctrine

- Roger Bacon: An Appreciation

- The Cambridge Platonists

- And much more.

Firm binding; lightly rubbed corners and edges; chafed spine ends; normal aging and toning to pages; interior is clean and free of markings.