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The four gospels are preceded by a full-page portrait miniature of the appropriate evangelist. Per tradition, they are represented as contemporary scribes surrounded by all the tools of their

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The History of Magic with the subtitle Including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries by Éliphas Lévi (Alphonso Louis Constant) was published in 1922. Over 618 pages it outlines the practice of magic from ancient times to the modern schools. The book separates its content into traditions such as Hermetic Magic, Magic in India, The Holy Kabalah, The Alexandrian School, Women in #EliphasLevi #magic

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Back in January, we marveled over the work of Guy Laramée, a Canadian artist who carves breathtakingly detailed natural landscapes into thick, decaying, and sometimes warped antique books. But when Colossal alerted us that Laramée had posted some…

The sands of the Sahara have all but swallowed Chinguetti, a near ghost town found at the end of a harsh desert road in Mauritania, West Africa. Its majority of abandoned houses are open to the elements, lost to the dunes of a desert aggressively expanding southward at a rate of 30 miles per year. W

Ancient Bible manuscripts reveal much about the accuracy of the Bible when it was written, and the accurate transmission of its message.

fol. 170r of the Book of Ballymote (AD 1390), part of the Auraicept na n-Éces, explaining the Ogham script. the page shows varianst of Ogham, nrs. 43 to 77 of 92 in total, including shield ogham (nr...

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Archaeologists may have found where one of the country's oldest manuscripts was written.