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http://www.thethinkersgarden.com/2018/09/the-roots-and-enduring-influence-of-islamic-magic/

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Issue #9: Rogueries of Fortune-Hunters

This issue chronicles the rogueries of history’s most eccentric outlaws and tricksters.

In homage to the semi-mythical and fictional misadventures of Faust and Wolfstein, this issue chronicles the antinomian lives of history’s most artful dodgers. A kind of real-life rogues’ gallery, it showcases the dastardly deeds of those who—perhaps impelled by Laverna’s hidden promptings—wasted away in their fortune-hunting exploits.

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Issue #8: Legends and Idylls of Auvergne

In this special “walking” issue, we guide you through the sparsely-trodden occult history of Auvergne.

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Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm - Mountain in the Alps

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The Socialist Roots and Utopian Dreams of Eliphas Lévi - The Thinker's Garden

The legendary Eliphas Lévi was originally a socialist radical. We spoke to Dr Julian Strube to learn more about the political origins of the man Helena Blavatsky once described as "the most learned Kabbalist and Occultist of our Age".

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The Dragon Collector by Michael Parkes

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Sir William Russell Flint (1880 - 1969) - Calypso and Odysseus

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Sir Joseph Noel Paton (1821 - 1900) - Warriors

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“As independent distributors of pamphlets and broadsides, these women played a significant part in the "literary buccaneering" and news wars of early modern Britain.“

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Issue #2: An Atlas of Magic

A magical journey through London, the West Indies, Malta, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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The Adventures of Charles Godfrey Leland - The Thinker's Garden

Charles Godfrey Leland was an educator, oil prospector, and part-time mystic. These are his rough-and-tumble adventures.

In 1870, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton hosted a quirky American man of letters named Charles Godfrey Leland at his manor house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire. The two thinkers were drawn to each other. They had a natural rapport, like long-lost brothers. Most importantly, they shared an ardent love for the occult. Bulwer-Lytton, the laconic parapsychological investigator and author of Zanoni, was so taken with Leland that he offered to loan him his dream divination device: the Stanhope crystal.

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The Travels of Young Charles Godfrey Leland - The Thinker's Garden

Charles Godfrey Leland was a below-average student, but his roguish travels in Germany and France served to kickstart his extraordinary scholarly career.

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"The thoughts of human hearts outvie the movements of a million suns, the rush of systems infinite through space." 

- R.A. Proctor

Art by Alexandre Séon.

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This early "Teflon Don" was an ex-priest, bandit king, and reputed sorcerer from Southern Italy.

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The lore of the mermaid brought to the African mainland by European voyagers had a tremendous effect on Central and West African religious cultures. Interestingly, these extensive traditions still thrive today. 

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that any  “sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. His statement may ring true in the work of Spanish artist Moon Ribas. In a way, Moon’s art is ‘techno-magical’. She creatively utilises cutting-edge gadgetry to explore the latent possibilities of the human senses.

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Excerpt from “A Dreamer of Dreams” by Madison Cawein (1911).