The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion was released in 1890 by Sir James George Frazer. It is the anthropologist's major opus, and some editions have over 1000 pages. The title is a reference to Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid, in which the hero, Aeneas, uses a golden branch to gain entry into Hades, the underworld. Though some of the text's claims have been refuted, Frazer's overall premise, that human civilizations have progressed from belief in magic to religion to science, has stood the test of time, and the book continues to inspire current literature and art.
There are two basic principles of magic which Frazer emphasizes: ‘First, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion.’
Magical reflection perceives a secret level of reality in which all objects, people, times, and places intersect and interact in unsison. It also regards the line between the human mind and the natural world as permeable and ultimately illusory.
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