. Art magic; or, Mundane, sub-mundane and super-mundane spiritism. A treatise in three parts and twenty-three sections: descriptive of art magic, spiritism, the different orders of spirits in the universe known to be related to, or in communication with man; together with directions for invoking, controlling, and discharging spirits, and the uses and abuses, dangers and possibilities of magical art . , Egyptians, Arabians, Parsees, Greeks, and Ro-mans, all drank at the same celestial fountain, and onlyvaried their rites, ceremonials, names, and figures to suitthe ideality of the
. Art magic; or, Mundane, sub-mundane and super-mundane spiritism. A treatise in three parts and twenty-three sections: descriptive of art magic, spiritism, the different orders of spirits in the universe known to be related to, or in communication with man; together with directions for invoking, controlling, and discharging spirits, and the uses and abuses, dangers and possibilities of magical art . , Egyptians, Arabians, Parsees, Greeks, and Ro-mans, all drank at the same celestial fountain, and onlyvaried their rites, ceremonials, names, and figures to suitthe ideality of the land whose age or climactric influencedetermined their intelligence. The Jews, whose records of war, bloodshed, violence,laws, customs, dresses, upholstery, and cuisine^ the Chris-tians hold sacred as the inspired word of God, worshippeda Deity who was only one of the Eloihim or astral tutelaryspirits of the Egyptians. Bel, Belus, Baal, BaalpeorMoloch, Dagon, Jehovah, Jah, I Am, etc., etc , etc., theseand the names of the various other Gods, or tutelary Dei-ties worshipped by the various nations of Arabia and AsiaMinor, including the Jews, are only so many synonyms ofthe one Mediatorial Sun-God, who, under every conceiv-able variety of form and title, reappears in the stupendoussystem of Astral and Solar worship, itself an externalexpression of the sublime and harmonious order of Annubis—lEgyptian Amulet. 64 SECTION V ^ Crux Ansata, JSex- Worship—its antiquity and jneaning. The connec-tion of Sex, Solar and Serpent Worsliij?—the Spiritualand Material Ideas of Antique Faiths contrasted—thedegradation and, deatli of Materialistic Worship, andthe triumph of Spiritual. Ever interpenetrating the signs and symbols of the as-tronomical religion, ranging beside its emblems, yet neverentirely losing its own individuality, or merging its identi-ty in that of its companion, appears a system of worship,looming up from the antique ages, whose origin and mean-ing has, u
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