| 13th century BCE?
| Zarathushtra founds Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Magi;
Moses founds Judaism;
mythical date of Hermes Trismegistus.
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| 10th century BCE |
Solomon, son of David, King of Israel flourished |
| 4? BCE-33 CE
| Jesus founds Christianity
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| 1st century CE
| Apollonius of Tyana flourished
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| 1st to 3rd CE (?)
| Testament of Solomon composed
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| 100-300 CE |
composition of Corpus Hermetica |
| 204-270 CE |
Plotinus, Neoplatonic philosopher and mystic (born in Egypt) |
| 233-305 CE |
Porphyry, Neoplatonic philosopher and mystic (born in Phoenicia) |
| 250-325 CE |
Iamblicus, Neoplatonic philosopher (was born in Chalcis, Coele-Syria) |
| 411-485 | Proclus, Neoplatonic philosopher (born at Constantinople, Byzantium) |
| 500 CE (circa) |
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite flourished, probably a native of Syria |
| 6th CE
| Sefer Yetzirah edited
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| 10th CE
| Sword of Moses composed
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| 1004-1007 (?)
| al-Majriti, author of Picatrix, dies
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| 1054
| Rome splits from orthodox church, forms Catholic church
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| 1175?-1235
| Michael Scot (Scottish)
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| 1220?-1292
| Roger Bacon (English)
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| 1227
| Pope Honorius III dies
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| 1232
| Ramon Llull born (Majorca)
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| 1240 | Abraham Abulafia, Sicilian Kabbalist,
founder of ecstatic Kabbala, born in Saragosa
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| 1248 | Joseph Gikatilla, Spanish Sephardic Kabbalist, born
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| 1250? | Liber Juratus (Sworn Book of Honorius) compiled
by Honorius of Thebes, son of Euclid
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| 1259 | Peter de Abano [Pietro d'Abano], Italian physician and
philosopher born. Professor of medicine in Padua.
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| 1266 | John Duns Scotus, Scottish scholastic philosopher and thrologian, born
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| 1274 | Ramon Llull's vision on Mount Randa
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| 1280? | Sefer Ha-Zohar written by Moses de León but attributed to Simon ben Yohai
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| 1292? | Abraham Abulafia dies
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| 1308 | John Duns Scotus dies
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| 1314 | Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar,
burned at the stake in Paris
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| 1316? | Ramon Llull dies;
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| 1316 | Peter de Abano dies
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| 1323 | Joseph Gikatilla dies
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| 1346 | Berengarius Ganellus writes the Summa sacre magice |
| 1433 | Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher born. Under the
patronage of the de'Medicis, he translated many Greek classics including the Corpus Hermetica
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| 1453 | Fall of Constantinople to the Turks caused dispersal and
spread of Greek manuscripts and scholarship
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| 1455 | Johannes Reuchlin, German humanist and lawyer, born.
Reuchlin wrote on Kabbalah and propagated Hebrew studies
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| 1462 | Johannes Trithemius born at Trittenheim on the Moselle.
Trithemius was a famous scholar and Benedictine abbot.
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| 1463 | Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and scholar, born
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| 1466 | Francesco Giorgi [Zorzi], Venetian philosopher, born.
Author of De Harmonia Mundi (Venits, 1525)
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| 1471 | Ficino's translation of
Corpus Hermeticum
published |
| 1474 | Ferdinand and Isabella ascend to the throne
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| 1483 | Martin Luther born Eisleben, Saxony, Germany.
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| 1486 | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa born in Cologne Germany;
Malleus Maleficarum published, major instrument of witch hunters;
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola takes his theses to Rome
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| 1489 | Ficino's Libri de Vita published
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| 1492 | Ferdinand and Isabella expel Jews from Spain, center of Cabalistic
studies, caused dispersal and spread of Jewish and Cabalistic
manuscripts and scholarship; discovery of the New World
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| 1493 | Paracelsus (Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) born
Einsiedeln Switzerland. Swiss physician and philosopher. He was tutored
(by his account) by Trithemius. |
| 1494 | Reuchlin's De verbo mirifico published;
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola dies |
| 1499 | Marsilio Ficino dies |
| 1510 | Agrippa's De Occulta
philosophia finished
Guillaume Postel, French mathematician, Kabbalist, and mystic born |
| 1515 | Johan Weyer born
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| 1516 | Johannes Trithemius dies
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| 1517 | Reuchlin's De arte cabalistica published;
Martin Luther posts theses |
| 1520 | Jacques Gohory born (Jan. 20) |
| 1522 | Johannes Reuchlin dies |
| 1525 | Giorgi's De harmonia mundi published
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| 1527 | John Dee born in London
Maximillian II born
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| 1533 | Agrippa's De Occulta philosopha published;
Isaak Luria, Jewish Kabbalist, born in Jerusalem;
Queen Elizabeth I born at Greenwich palace in London (September 7)
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| 1535 | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa dies;
Giambattista della Porta born in Naples. Author of Magia naturalis (Natural Magic) (1585, 1589)
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| 1538? | Reginald Scot born. Author of Discouerie of Witchcraft (1584)
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| 1540 | Francesco Giorgi dies;
Faust dies
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| 1541 | Paracelsus dies
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| 1542 | Inquisition established in Rome
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| 1546 | Martin Luther dies
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| 1548 | Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher born in Nola Italy.
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| 1552 | Simon Forman born
Emperor Rudolph II born
Guillaume Postel publishes Latin translation of Sefer Yetzirah
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| 1554 | Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded
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| 1555 | Edward Kelley born
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| 1558 | Elizabeth I becomes queen of England;
Giambattista della Porta's Magia Naturalis published;
Zohar printed
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| 1560? | Heinrich Khunrath born in Leipzig
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| 1564 | Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica published
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| 1566? | Michael Maier, physician, alchemist, and philosopher, born in
Rensburg, Holstein (Germany). Physician to Emperor Rudolph II.
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| 1572 | Isaak Luria dies
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| 1574 | Robert Fludd, English physician, philosopher, and mystic, born
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| 1575 | Jakob Boehme, German religious mystic, born;
Arbatel Of Magic first appears
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| 1576 | Maximillian II dies
Jacques Gohory dies (Mar. 15) |
| 1581 | Dee and Kelley start their "mystical experiments"
Guillaume Postel dies
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| 1584 | Bruno's Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast published
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| 1588 | Johan Weyer dies
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| 1595 | Edward Kelley dies (Nov)
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| 1599 | Reginald Scot dies
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| 1600 | Giordano Bruno burned at the stake in Rome
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| 1602 | Athanasius Kircher born in Geisa a. d. Ulster,
Germany (May 2)
William Lilly, astrologer and translator of Trithemius, born in Diseworth, county Leicester, England
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| 1603 | Queen Elizabeth I dies;
accession of James I
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| 1605 | Heinrich Khunrath dies
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| 1606 | Trithemius' Steganographia first published
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| 1608 | John Dee dies
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| 1611 | Simon Forman dies
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| 1612 | Emperor Rudolph II dies
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| 1614-15 | Rosicrucian manifestos published in Germany
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| 1615 | Giambattista della Porta dies
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| 1617 | Elias Ashmole born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England (May 23)
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| 1617-19 | Fludd's Utriusque cosmi historia published
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| 1618 | Maier's Atlanta Fugiens published
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| 1618 | Johann Baptista Grossschedel publishes
Calendarium magicum (The Magical Calendar) |
| 1620 | Robert Turner 'of Holshot', translator of magical texts, born
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| 1622 | Thomas Vaughan, English Rosicrucian, born
Michael Maier dies
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| 1624 | Jakob Boehme dies
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| 1636 | Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, German mystic and Kabbalist, born
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| 1637 | Robert Fludd dies
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| 1652 | Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus published
Thomas Vaughan publishes English translation (not his own) of the
Rosicrucian Fama and Confessio
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| 1666 | Thomas Vaughan dies
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| 1677 | Christian Knorr von Rosenroth published first
volume of Kabbala Denudata
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| 1680 | Athanasius Kircher dies
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| 1681 | William Lilly, astrologer and translator of Trithemius, dies
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| 1684 | Christian Knorr von Rosenroth published second
volume of Kabbala Denudata
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| 1688 | Emanuel Swedenborg, scientist and mystic, born in Stockholm, Sweden.
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| 1689 | Christian Knorr von Rosenroth dies
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| 1692 | Elias Ashmole dies
Salem witchcraft panic
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| 1707 | Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, Hebrew poet and Kabbalistic mystic, born Padua
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| 1734 | Franz Anton Mesmer born in Iznang, Swabia (Germany) (May 23)
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| 1747 | Moses Hayyim Luzzatto dies
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| 1749-56 | Swedenborg's Arcana Coelestia published
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| 1751 | Ebenezer Sibly born |
| 1772 | Emanuel Swedenborg dies
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| 1799 or 1800 | Ebenezer Sibly dies |
| 1808 | Frederick Hockley born (Oct. 13) |
| 1810 | Eliphas Levi, (Constant, Alphonse Louis), French occultist, born in Paris, France.
He is said to be largely responsible for the revival of magic in the 19th century.
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| 1815 | Franz Anton Mesmer dies
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| 1831 | Helena Petrovna Blavatski (Helena Petrovna von Hahn), cofounder of the Theosophical Society, born
of German parents in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine).
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| 1832 | Henry Steel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society, born
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| 1865 | Papus (i.e. G.A.V. Encausse), French occultist and author born
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| 1846 | Anna Kingsford (Annie Bonus) born
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| 1847 | Annie Besant (née Wood), author and noted Theosophist born
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| 1848 | William W. Wescott born
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| 1854 | Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers born in London
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| 1856 | Levi's masterpiece Le Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie published
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| 1857 | Arthur Edward Waite born in Brooklyn, New York
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| 1861 | Rudolf Steiner born |
| 1865 | William Butler Yeats born in Ireland |
| 1875 | Eliphas Levi, (Constant, Alphonse Louis) dies (May 31) |
| 1875 | Aleister Crowley (Crowley, Edward Alexander) born (October 12) |
| 1885 | Frederick Hockley dies |
| 1889 | Mathers' edition of Kabbalah Unveiled published |
| 1888 | Anna Kingsford (Annie Bonus) dies
Papus' Traité Elémentaire de Science Occulte published;
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn established in London
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| 1889 | Mathers' edition of Key of Solomon published
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| 1890 | Dion Fortune (i.e. Violet Mary Firth) born;
W.B. Yeats joins the Golden Dawn
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| 1891 | Helena Petrovna Blavatski (Helena Petrovna von Hahn), cofounder of the Theosophical Society, dies
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| 1897 | Levi's Le Clef des Grandes Mystères published
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| 1898 | Julius Evola born
Aleister Crowley joins the Golden Dawn;
Mathers publishes The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage [Abramelin]
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| 1899 | C.G. Leland publishes Aradia, the Gospel of the Witches
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| 1900 | Crowley expelled from the Golden Dawn
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| 1901 | Manly Palmer Hall born
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| 1907 | Henry Steel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society, dies
Israel Regardie born
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| 1909 | Franz Bardon born
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| 1916 | Papus (i.e. G.A.V. Encausse), French occultist and author dies
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| 1918 | Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers dies
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| 1925 | William W. Wescott dies
Rudolf Steiner dies
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| 1933 | Annie Besant (née Wood), author and noted Theosophist dies
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| 1937 | Israel Regardie publishes the Golden Dawn, which
includes the bulk of the Golden Dawns' rituals and teachings.
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| 1939 | William Butler Yeats dies
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| 1942 | Arthur Edward Waite dies
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| 1946 | Dion Fortune (i.e. Violet Mary Firth) dies
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| 1947 | Aleister Crowley (Crowley, Edward Alexander) dies
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| 1958 | Franz Bardon dies
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| 1974 | Julius Evola dies
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| 1985 | Israel Regardie dies
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| 1990 | Manly Palmer Hall dies
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