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Stanislas de Guaita examines black magic, sorcery and the symbolic figure of Satan in this French-language occult study. Combining accounts of historical cases with interpretations of magical traditions, he considers the forces and intentions that he believes underlie apparently supernatural phenomena.
The discussion ranges across possession, enchantment, ceremonial practices, spiritualist claims and the relation between human will and occult power. Original engravings and historical portraits accompany the text. This is the complete 1891 first published volume of Le Serpent de la Genèse, with its own conclusion, detailed contents and table of illustrations; later volumes are separate works.