Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy
14 Magic in History

Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy

By
Marla Segol
Marla Segol
2021 • 224 pages

Traces the evolution of a Hebrew microcosm that models the interaction of human and divine bodies at the heart of both kabbalah and some forms of Western sex magic. Focuses on Jewish esoteric and medical sources from the fifth to the twelfth century from Byzantium, Persia, Iberia, and southern France.

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Magic in History

Magic in History is a 14-book series with 14 released primary works first released in 1958 with contributions by D.P. Walker, Frank Klaassen, and Juris Lidaka.

Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic
Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity
Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages
Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France
Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England
The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe
Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization
Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England: Richard Napier's Medical Practice
The Long Life of Magical Objects: A Study in the Solomonic Tradition

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