Magick Matters

13.02.2021

“The Wisdom of the Kabbalah” by Dan Cohn-Sherbok

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"The Kabbalistic tradition (the mystical branch of Judaism) is driven by humanity's yearning to experience the ecstasy of God's presence. A profound and mysterious movement over two thousand years old, it is characterised by the intensity of the spiritual experiences recorded by its greatest mystics. This vivid anthology draws widely on the works of both these individual thinkers, and on such writings as the Book of Zohar (Book of Splendor) and the Sefer Yetsirah (Book of Creation) to offer a wealth of words both inspired and inspiring. The themes in this collection range from the human preoccupations of happiness and virtue to such divine matters as the nature of infinity and the idea of glory, ...>>

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13.02.2021

“The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos” edited by S.T. Joshi

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"Following up on the success of A Mountain Walked, this volume presents another dozen tales of the Cthulhu Mythos that show how H. P. Lovecraft’s motifs, conceptions, and imagery have affected an entire century of weird writing. Beginning with a delightful parody of Lovecraft written by Edith Miniter in 1921, this anthology features The Red Brain, a story of incalculable cosmic horror by Donald Wandrei; The Beast of Averoigne” in which Clark Ashton Smith plays a riff on The Dunwich Horror; and C. Hall Thompson’s The Will of Claude Ashur, an ingenious adaptation of The Thing on the Doorstep. Ramsey Campbell, one of the leading weird writers of today, ...>>

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13.02.2021

“A Mountain Walked” edited by S.T. Joshi

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"H. P. Lovecraft wrote The Call of Cthulhu in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most widely imitated shared-world universes in weird fiction. Even in his lifetime, many other writers added to the Mythos, and after his death hundreds if not thousands of authors of weird, fantasy, and science fiction have added their distinctive elaborations on Lovecraft’s basic themes and ideas. This volume features some of the best Cthulhu Mythos writing over the past century. Beginning with such rare but classic stories as Mearle Prout’s The House of the Worm and Robert Barbour Johnson’s Far Below, from the pages of Weird Tales, the anthology moves on to James Wade’s novella The ...>>

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13.02.2021

“A Degree in a Book: Philosophy: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject – in One Book!” by Peter Gibson

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"Filled with beautiful full colour diagrams and illustrated throughout, Degree in a Book: Philosophy is a perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike. With mind maps for each chapter, definition boxes, easily digestible features on the history of philosophy and suggestions for further reading, it provides you with everything you need to understand the fundamental issues. Learning philosophy has never been easier. Including ideas from Aristotle and Zeno to Descartes and Wittgenstein, it covers the whole range of western thought."...>>

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13.02.2021

“Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet” by Mael Renouard

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“One day, as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarchais, I had the idea—it came and went in a flash, almost in spite of myself—of Googling to find out what I’d been up to and where I’d been two evenings before, at five o’clock, since I couldn’t remember on my own.” So begins Maël Renouard’s Fragments of an Infinite Memory, a provocative and elegant inquiry into life in a wireless world. Renouard is old enough to remember life before the internet but young enough to have fully accommodated his life to the internet and the gadgets that support it. Here this young philosopher, novelist, and translator tries out a series of conjectures on how ...>>

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