Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism by Dylan M. Burns (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) Hardcover many forms of magic had

many forms of magic had been tamed and were

This study seeks to illuminate the distinctiveness of the Scottish experience

this volume examines the unbridled passions of witchcraft from the Middle Ages to the present

Colour frontispiece ‘Altar of Lam’ by Steffi Grant

which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners

Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism by Dylan M. Burns (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) Hardcover many forms of magic hadDylan M. Burns. Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Hardcover. 319 pages. Condition: Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slight shelf wear on upper right corner of dust jacket. Description from the publisher: In the second century, Platonist and Judeo Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses