The Newberry library, in Chicago, has opened a portal: Transcribing Faith inside the Religious Change project: 1450-1700 where it shows online scanned texts from these ages, with them it shows and evaluates the change in a spiritual and intellectual level which happened from Middle Ages to Modern Era.
Necromancers psichagogos, which meant that they were able to summon and manipulate the dead to achieve goals beyond divination. These necromancers were called goetis from goetia,, referred to dark magic intended to manipulate spirits or demons with evil intentions. This meant they were used to attract them to the world of living as well as for...
The term necromancy refers to a corpse -nekros in Greek- and it was related in its beginnings to the divinatory way through summoning dead people. This concept was used for every practice in which it was possible to talk with spirits and summon them to obtain aims that were considered illicit, dark and devilish practices that changed...
The main problem we face speaking about magic, sorcery and witchcraft, is that all concepts we receive from written sources are distorted either by the author or by his erudition which prevents him to have a respectful view of the magical belief.
Due to the reference made in this work for the Middle Ages where Yellow, Blue, Red, White and Black were considered to be "true colours" and having in mind that Nicolas Conver's Tarot comes from the 18th century and the "minor colours" term is very questionable, this article is established as a second part of Medieval symbology about the colours...
The most ancient reference we have about Marseille's Tarot -not about cartomancy or other deck of cards- comes from 15th century, it may have appeared in the north of Italy and from there it moved through Europe until it arrived to the south of France where it became popular. Gathered under the name of Visconti-Sforza, the different games of...
For some people, astrology is an exploitation with scientific base. The mathematical celestial measurements which are precise in equinox or in stars movements, as well as stars reunion to identify a more or less known form... All of them are scientific characteristics. But the star's involvement in the development of a human being is not...
The concept for magicology or magic studies is used in a very limited way not only because of that in fact is less used than other terms but because many people think about if it is really plausible to make a scientific study of magic. This means, a study about that power and those supernatural forces in which people believe;...
ABRA was born in 2016 and nowadays has been completed as a web page, however I would want to spread it more. ABRA desires to be as the original Latin and Spanish acronym can tell (Academia Bibliothecaque Religionum et Arcanorum - Academia y Biblioteca de las Religiones y lo Arcano) an academy and a library for the...
