Modern Magic

Maximilian Schele De Vere (1820 - 1898)

M. (Maxamilian) Schele de Vere was born in Sweden in 1820 and studied language in Germany before eventually becoming a professor of modern language at the University of Virginia in 1844 where he would teach for more than 50 years. During his time as a professor, he would write many books, mostly focusing on language. One of his last works, being first published in 1873, "Modern Magic" instead focuses on the occult. From the preface: "The main purpose of our existence on earth—aside from the sacred and paramount duty of securing our salvation—is undoubtedly to make ourselves masters of the tangible world around us, as it stands revealed to our senses, and as it was expressly made subject to our will by the Creator. We are, however, at the same time, not left without information about the existence of certain laws and the occurrence of certain phenomena, which belong to a world not accessible to us by means of our ordinary senses, and which yet affect seriously our intercourse with Nature and our personal welfare... The least that we can do is to ascertain the precise nature of these laws, and, after stripping these phenomena of all that can be proved to be merely incidental or delusive, to compare them with each other, and to arrange them carefully according to some standard of classification" - Summary by CaptainKetchup

Genre(s): Philosophy, Religion

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Penny Witt
00:13:29
Play 01 Witchcraft Heather Eney
00:54:19
Play 02 Black and White Magic DJRickyV
01:00:51
Play 03 Black and White Magic Continued DJRickyV
01:03:57
Play 04 Dreams Owlivia
00:32:43
Play 05 Visions Owlivia
00:38:36
Play 06 Visions continued Owlivia
00:23:35
Play 07 Ghosts Part 1 DJRickyV
01:13:51
Play 08 Ghosts Part 2 DJRickyV
01:04:57
Play 09 Ghosts Part 3 DJRickyV
01:03:07
Play 10 Ghosts Part 4 DJRickyV
01:37:07
Play 11 Divination Owlivia
00:52:24
Play 12 Divination - Second Sight Owlivia
00:18:49
Play 13 Divination -- Oracles and Prophesies Heather Eney
00:36:51
Play 14 Divination -- The Divining Rod 4Laurie4
00:07:26
Play 15 Possession Elizabeth Horan
00:40:03
Play 16 Possession -- Vampirism Veronica Maresh Mead
00:12:41
Play 17 Possession -- Zoanthropy Heather Eney
00:09:10
Play 18 Magneticism Owlivia
00:47:03
Play 19 Magnetism Continued Owlivia
00:28:40
Play 20 Magnetism --Somnambulism Heather Eney
00:09:39
Play 21 Miraculous Cures Heather Eney
00:36:06
Play 22 Mysticism KHand
00:29:58