COURSE PROGRAM
“THE HISTORY OF MAGIC”
Alternative cosmogonies: the Ancient World (Egypt, Assyria, Sumeria, Greece, Persia, Rome). the Middle Ages (The Eastern and Western Empires, Germany, France, Italy, Britain), the Arabic world, the Crusades. Legends and myths, the great mages and sages, schools of philosophy and magic, the beginnings of scientific magic, the branches of scientific magic. Source study, falsification, sects, and impostors.