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HISTORY OF GENII AND FAMILIAR SPIRITS IBD

JOHN BEAUMONT
TOPAZ HOUSE PUBLICATIONS
01 / 2017
9780990668282
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Sinopsis

John Beaumont, born c. 1650, died 1731, was a physician and antiquarian who lived in Somerset, in the southwest of England. Through his fossil collecting, as well as papers documenting new mining techniques, Beaumont became a fellow of the Royal Society. However, Beaumont also had a secret, one which he would expose first in hisá &ldquo,History of Genii and Familiar Spirits&rdquo, and later in &ldquo,Gleanings of Antiquities&rdquo,.á For years, Beaumont had conversations with entities that he publicly labeled &ldquo,Genii&rdquo,, but that in personal communications he labeled &ldquo,Fairies&rdquo,. These beings gave him advice and told him about their nature. Beaumont&rsquo,s communication with these spirits, which he declares happened thousands of times over the course of many years, is what lead to the composition of &ldquo,History of Genii and Familiar Spirits&rdquo,, published in 1705. The book was written to vindicate the idea of a personal Genius or Familiar Spirit, who advises and guides an individual in all the vicissitudes of life, as a valid phenomenon, one not caused by mental illness or other physical disorder, and also not the work of evil spirits.á Beaumont was made use of some of the most sophisticated sources of his day for this purpose. He marshaled sources from the Renaissance, classical Greece and Rome, and from the vernacular tradition, using them to great effect, synthesizing them into a coherent whole which is still authoritativeátoday. Many of sources that Beaumont employs are translated into English for the first time by the author, making the work especially valuable. This edition of &ldquo,History of Genii and Familiar Spirits&rdquo, also includes the chapterá &ldquo,Notes concerning Genii or Familiar Spirits &rdquo, from the laterá &ldquo,Gleanings of Antiquities&rdquo,, published in 1724.á

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