The English period of Renaissance led to the breaking of the medieval knowledge and philosophy, infusing a new spirit of freedom, introducing a note of patriotism and national glorification, and also accompanying a revolt against the authority of the Pope. ... This was the re-discovery of classical texts that propagated certain secularized sensibilities. ... The text was paraded as a source thought to be detailing a certain "divine magical revelation, and had provided the "textual basis for a sustained scholarly investigation of the powers of magic, that came to revitalize an interest in herme...

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