The monograph of Professor I.A. Isaev is devoted to one of the aspects of the problem developed by the author for a long time - the problem of interaction between power and law. This work identifies irrational moments, the action of which determines the development of legal ideas and power institutions considered in historical retrospect. Myth, mysticism and magic are the key concepts of this analysis, extremely rarely used by rationally oriented jurists. Gnosticism, scholasticism, Renaissance magic were factors that somehow influenced the entire European and world history of law and legal ideas. The book is intended for legal scholars, historians, political scientists and everyone interested in issues of legal culture and problems of power.