. 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 . ikeattitude which the early men of the earth sustained to-wards their God. They conversed with their tutelary spirits as a manspeaks with his friend. They looked, and saw that Godwas. They listene
. 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 . ikeattitude which the early men of the earth sustained to-wards their God. They conversed with their tutelary spirits as a manspeaks with his friend. They looked, and saw that Godwas. They listened, and Gods Angels spoke to them invoices as clear as the sighing of the breeze or the mur mur-ing of the brook. They reflected, and their past spiritualorigin and present destiny cast their images on the mir-ror of their minds as truthfully as the limpid waters of thelake reflect the lustre of the stars. Had you asked the intuitional man of old, how he knewthese things^ he would have gazed upon you with astonish-ment, and questioned back, How is it possible that youshould fail to know them V Socrates said, I respect myown soul, though I cannot see it. The men of our purely materialistic and external agedoubt the existence of their own souls because they cannotsee them. How then can they expect to see spirits, hear their voices,or apprehend the nature of that God who is a Spirit ] 102 PAKT II. SECTION V^Il. Spiritism and Magic—Mundane, Suh-Mundane, andSuper-Mundane Sp ir itisin. % Mans earliest religious history is also the history ofSpiritism, or his communion with the realms of Spiritualexistence. To effect this communion, the human organism mustbe adapted to the perception of Spiritual entities, or elsemeans must be found to promote this adaptation. We have mis-spent our time in sketching out the an-cient forms of religious belief, if we have failed to showthat men once communed with their Tutelary Gods andministering spirits intuitively, inspirationally, and evendirectly,
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