Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe by Sophie Page (The Pennsyvania State University Press, 2013) Paperback Sexuality and New Religious Movements

Sexuality and New Religious Movements

we shall carve deep inside the hidden manifestations

A series of poems written by Parsons reveal his feelings toward his often absent lover

Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic

Chapter 6: Vampires and the Magician

Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe by Sophie Page (The Pennsyvania State University Press, 2013) Paperback Sexuality and New Religious MovementsSophie Page. Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe, Magic in History. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Paperback edition. 232 pages. Condition: New Description from the publisher: "During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts