Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Celestial Magic

The University of Wales Trinity Saint David
The Sophia Centre
In association with the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology
  
See our website for details of speakersabstracts and booking  

Friday 21 June (evening) - Sunday 23 June 2013
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, 16-19 Queen Square,
Bath BA1 2HN, UK 

Keynote speakers:

Joscelyn Godwin, Professor of Music at Colgate University, New York State,

'Astral Ascent in the Occult Revival'

Prof Peter Forshaw
Universitair Docent (Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor) for the History of Western Esotericism in the Early Modern Period at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam.

'The Goal of the Wise: Medieval and Renaissance Astral Magic and the Influence of the Picatrix'

Prof. Elliot R. Wolfson, Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

'Ascending Jacob's Ladder: Celestial Magic and the Demiurgical Angel in Merkavah Mysticism and Kabbalistic Esotericism'