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  • God's Pretenders: Incredible True Stories of Magic and Alchemy

  • By: G. Michael Vasey
  • Narrated by: Lorraine Ansell
  • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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God's Pretenders: Incredible True Stories of Magic and Alchemy

By: G. Michael Vasey
Narrated by: Lorraine Ansell
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Summary

Harry Potter has nothing on these real wizards and alchemists who wielded God-like magical powers and performed the most amazing magical spells.

These amazing magicians, wizards, and warlocks could:

  • Change the weather
  • Heal the sick
  • Raise the dead
  • Turn lead into gold
  • Be in two places at once
  • Make fire with their will power
  • Levitate
  • Live forever and never age

The book contains chapters on the following magicians:

  • Apollonius of Tyana - Wizard, Wanderer & Sage
  • Simon Magus - The Pretender Messiah
  • Michael Scot - The Great Scottish Wizard
  • Nicholas Flamel and the Book of Abraham the Jew
  • Paracelsus and the Beginnings of Science
  • Henry Cornelius Agrippa - The Occult Philosopher
  • John Dee & Edward Kelly - Elizabethan Magical Adventurers
  • Sir Francis Bacon / St. Germain - Royal Adept?
  • Sir Isaac Newton - Scientist and Secret Alchemist
  • Eliphas Levi - Founder of Modern Magic
  • Austin Osman Spare - Artist and Dark Magician
  • Frantisek Bardon - The Czech Master Magician
  • The Ordinary Magician - A Modern Tale of Magick

Listen now to learn about the amazing lives of real magicians and discover that fact is indeed often stranger than fiction....

©2015 G. Michael Vasey (P)2016 G. Michael Vasey
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