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The History of Magic Business_Gift_Guide Writing with a novelist’s commandAn extensive classic work on the origins of ceremonial magic throughout the world's many cultures and religions. French occultists Alphones Louis Constant (18101875) was born in Paris to a shoemaker father. At age twenty two, he entered the seminary at Saint Sulpice for an education that would prepare him for the priesthood. While he did become ordained a deacon, he found that his doubts regarding the doctrine of the Catholic Church precluded him from