Art magic, or, Mudane, sub-mundane and super-mundane spiritism [microform] 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 . ter well wiping its surface, hang it up on a wall, asyou would a looking-glass, but always in a false light. Place theperson who desires to see a spirit, or a scene before this mirror,stat
Art magic, or, Mudane, sub-mundane and super-mundane spiritism [microform] 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 . ter well wiping its surface, hang it up on a wall, asyou would a looking-glass, but always in a false light. Place theperson who desires to see a spirit, or a scene before this mirror,station yourself behind him, fixing your eyes steadily on the 328 AET MAGIC. hinder part of the brain, and summon the spirit in a loud voice inthe name of God, in a manner imposing to the individual lookingin the mirror. It may be naturally supposed that this kind of experimentrequires certain conditions, the first of which is to find an individ-ual endowed with this kind of vision. Nothing is general in psy-chological facts. There was much talk at one time of the magicmirror of Dr. Dee, which was sold, in 1842, among the curiosi-ties in the possession of Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill, forthe enormous sum of three hundred and twenty-six francs. Itwas simply a bit of sea-coal, perfectly polished, cut in a circularform, with a handle. This curiosity formerly figured in the cabi- SHEW STONE OF DR. From the Original in the British Museum. net of the Earl of Peterborough. In the catalogue it was thusdescribed: A black stone, by means of which Doctor Dee evokedspirits/ It passed from the hands of the Earl into those of LadyElizabeth Germaine, then became the property of John, last Dukeof Argyll, whose grandson, Lord Campbell, presented it to Wal-pole. The author of the Theatrum Chemicum, Elias Ashmole,speaks of the same mirror in the following terms: By the aid of this magic stone, we can see whatever per-sons we desire, no matter in what part of the world they be, andwere the
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