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Abraxas, seu Apistopistus
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Searches across scholarly catalogs (UNESCO Index Translationum, Brill, etc.) and general databases (Google Books, Open Library) found no evidence of an English translation for Joannes Macarius's 1657 Latin work 'Abraxas, seu Apistopistus'. The work is frequently cited in archaeological and esoteric studies (e.g., by Erwin Goodenough), but these references are to the original Latin text or the Gnostic gems it describes, not to a complete English translation of the treatise itself.
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Unlock the 'monstrous' secrets of the Gnostic underground through this 17th-century forensic study of ancient talismans and magic gems. Macarius decodes the enigmatic Abraxas—a rooster-headed, serpent-legged deity—to reveal the thin line between heretical magic and sacred art.
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