JMG Not so much a question - more a thank you. Over on I think Kek 3 I asked about a reading source for Charles Stuart 1st (Britain) getting into occult practice. You had made the point about delusions of magical power distracting leaders from a reality building thus toward a disaster. You recommended Vaughan Hart's 1994 Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts. I rapidly obtained at astonishingly low cost for UK a fine copy of this very interesting book having insights into a previous crux time in British history. And I knew nothing of Inigo Jones interest in Stonehenge. It has given me, however, a task. The book was purportedly ex libris and from a well known large online seller of used books but actually appears to have been out on loan from 2002. Am checking but have yet to hear back from the University concerned.
Caution (and ordinary ethics) in magic however low cost compared with the Stuart extraordinary extravagance? best Phil H
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Date: 2018-08-13 12:02 pm (UTC)Not so much a question - more a thank you.
Over on I think Kek 3 I asked about a reading source for Charles Stuart 1st (Britain) getting into occult practice. You had made the point about delusions of magical power distracting leaders from a reality building thus toward a disaster.
You recommended Vaughan Hart's 1994 Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts. I rapidly obtained at astonishingly low cost for UK a fine copy of this very interesting book having insights into a previous crux time in British history. And I knew nothing of Inigo Jones interest in Stonehenge. It has given me, however, a task. The book was purportedly ex libris and from a well known large online seller of used books but actually appears to have been out on loan from 2002. Am checking but have yet to hear back from the University concerned.
Caution (and ordinary ethics) in magic however low cost compared with the Stuart extraordinary extravagance?
best
Phil H