Specialist in Controversial Beliefs and Experiences ‘A person of great intellectual ability and enterprise.’ – Prof. John Poynton, OMS Writer, Editor, Social Scientist Dr Leo Ruickbie, FRHistS, FRAI, ARPS, PhD (Lond), MA, BA (Hons), ACIQ, Associate of King’s College London, is a Visiting Fellow in Psychology at the University of Northampton, where he is a…
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Faustus
The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician
Black Magic Code
“It began with a letter to a dead man…” My article ‘The Black Magic Code’ on Trithemius, cryptography and nigromancy published in Abraxas Journal. For more details see http://fulgur.co.uk/shop/abraxas/abraxas-journal-issue-6/
Dealing with the Devil
This paper given at Reinventing the Renaissance Occult, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 14 November 2009, explored the development of the Faustian Pact, looking at how the Renaissance magician Faustus came to be condemned as having made a pact with the Devil, and how this condemnation itself came to be a pattern for magical practice. Pacts…
On the Shelf Review – Ruickbie’s Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician
I don’t know what I pay you guys for, because nobody mentioned to me that the most thorough treatment of the Renaissance magus Faust, Leo Ruickbie’s Faustus, had just appeared. Nevertheless, you’re all forgiven, and I’ll review it for you. Writing a biography of Jorg Faust is an extremely daunting task. […] This is the…