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Ebenezer Sibly was an astrologer, an herbalist, a physician, and a magician. A copyist of grimoires, his library and manuscripts formed the basis for Frances Barrett's "The Magus". "The Station of Man in the Universe" collects Sibly's writings on how the magical universe is structured, what the nature of demons and angels are, what happens after death, and what the varieties of magic are, that are contained in his work "A New Complete Illustrated Guide to the Celestial Science of Astrology". Together, the essays provide a glimpse into the worldview of a magician who practiced Solomonic magic in the grimoire tradition of the late 18th century, before the Theosophical Society and the Golden Dawn.
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Ebenezer Sibly (1751 – c. 1799) was an English physician, astrologer and writer on the occult. A Swedenborgian and a follower of Mesmer, he combined esoteric and occult thought into his conception of the functioning of the human body, biology, and the physical world. He published "A New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology", a guide to astrology drawing on previous texts, "A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences", where he recorded his synthesis of occultism with the medical knowledge of his time, as well as a series of books title "A Universal System of Natural History", where he expressed this synthesis of occultism and natural science, focussing on biology and geology.
John Madziarczyk is a long time student of medieval philosophy and the history of religion, as well as occultism in the early modern era. He has a long standing involvement with occultism.
