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Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic

Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition

by Peter Kingsley

Kingsley reads Empedocles as a magician and healer in a Sicilian and Pythagorean tradition, interpreting the four roots and their divine names through local cult and volcanic landscape. He then traces how these ideas passed through later Pythagoreanism into Hermetic and Arabic alchemy and magic. An original and much-debated study.

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