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[[File:Chart of the Angels Names.jpg|350px|thumb|Page from The Magus showing the 72 [[Kabbalistic angel]]s]] | |||
'''The Magus''', or '''Celestial Intelligencer''' is a handbook of the [[occult]] and ceremonial magic compiled by [[occultist]] [[Francis Barrett]] published in 1801. | '''The Magus''', or '''Celestial Intelligencer''' is a handbook of the [[occult]] and ceremonial magic compiled by [[occultist]] [[Francis Barrett]] published in 1801. | ||
==Content and sources== | ==Content and sources== | ||
The book is an edited volume of older works collected by Barrett from [[grimoire]]s, as he hints in the preface: "We have collected out of the works of the most famous magicians, such as Zoroaster, Hermes, Apollonius, Simon of the Temple, Trithemius, Agrippa, Porta (the Neapolitan), Dee, Paracelsus, Roger Bacon, and a great many others..." | The book is an edited volume of older works collected by Barrett from [[grimoire]]s, as he hints in the preface: "We have collected out of the works of the most famous magicians, such as Zoroaster, Hermes, Apollonius, Simon of the Temple, Trithemius, [[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]], Porta (the Neapolitan), [[John Dee]], [[Paracelsus]], Roger Bacon, and a great many others..." | ||
Most of the material comes from Agrippa's ''[[Three Books of Occult Philosophy]]'' and Pietro d'Abano's ''[[Heptameron]]''. | Most of the material comes from Agrippa's ''[[Three Books of Occult Philosophy]]'' and Pietro d'Abano's ''[[Heptameron]]''. | ||