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God's Pretenders: Incredible True Stories of Magic and Alchemy
- Narrated by: Lorraine Ansell
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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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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