As Above So Below
Magic
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Ring the bell, light the candle and open the Book of Shadows -- this has long been the method for seeking arcane lore and delving into the mysterious Powers that rule the Universe. Wizards, Witches, Magicians and Students of the Occult Arts and Psychic Sciences have long sought out the Wisdom of the Ancients, found in the pages of dusty and neglected tomes of hidden and forgotten knowledge.
This book is a serious study of the occult Tarot. Partial Contents: Introduction to the study of Tarot; The General Key to the Tarot; The Sacred Word; Esotericism of Numbers; Key to the Minor and Major Arcana; Connection between the Major and Minor Arcana; Symbolism in the Tarot; History of the Symbolism of the Tarot; Androgony; Cosmogony; General Transition; Summary of the Symbolical Tarot; Key to the Applications of the Tarot; Astronomic Tarot; Initiative Tarot; Kabalistic Tarot; Authors who have interested themselves in the Tarot; Divining Tarot.
This rare book tells the story of alchemy so that most all can understand. The cryptic language and symbolism commonly found is laid bare so we can comprehend exactly what was meant and what was happening during the pursuit of the alchemical elixir.
The Hermitic sciences are the basis for all modern chemistry and medicine, and yet we still long to find that elusive Philosopher's stone, that the ancients spoke matter-of-factly about.
Alchemy the source of many of the practices in religions, witchcraft, wizardry, etc. The alchemy lore is a romance of the human race with the sciences and the unknown.
Study the symbolism within the three major religions of China. Written by a Christian missionary preacher, intended to expose these religions as evil and idolatrous, the author did however reveal many unknown facts about these religions.
Drawn up from unpublished and well authenticated records of the alleged operations of witches and their instigator, the devil.
A very good look at aphrodisia from history...everything from phallic symbolism to foods that excite the sexual senses.
For brief explanation I may say that witch craft is known to its votaries as la vecchia religione, or the old religion, of which Diana is the Goddess, her daughter Aradia (or Herodias) the female Messiah, and that this little work sets forth how the latter was born, came down to earth, established witches and witchcraft, and then returned to heaven.
From ancient Nippur of Babylon these spells and incantations were written into bowls and discovered two thousand years later by archeologists. Read the curses and spells used by the Jews in captivity, as many are rendered in Hebrew.
Now first of all produced out of darkness into the light, against all caco-Magicians, and contemners of the gifts of God; for the profit and delectation of all those, who do truely and piously love the creatures of God, and do use them with thanksgiving, to the honour of God, and profit of themselves and their neighbours.
THOUGH for the most part entirely unconscious of it, man passes the whole of his life in the midst of a vast and populous unseen world. During sleep or in trance, when the insistent physical senses are for the time in abeyance, this other world is to some extent open to him, and he will sometimes bring back from those conditions more or less vague memories of what he has seen and heard there.
The power of oil, the anointing oil, the magic of oil.... Oil was revered in early Semitic cultures.
Brian J. Allen brings the basis, the psychological challenges, (if not psychological warfare), and the reasons for acceptance or rejection of what people have experienced or witnessed... As Skully and Mulder said, "I Want to Believe", the Believers sheds light on why they could not believe, yet others did believe. Are you a believer? or do you reject that which you personally experienced or witnessed?
The case for the "psychic" element in literature rests on a very old foundation; it reaches back to the ancient masters,-the men who wrote the Greek tragedies. Remorse will ever seem commonplace alongside the furies. Ever and always the shadow of the supernatural invites, pursues us.