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 . cabed, a diviner by intralls. Nebu-cadnezar being to make warre both with the Jews and the Am-monites, and doubting in the way against whether of these heshould make his first onset: First
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 . cabed, a diviner by intralls. Nebu-cadnezar being to make warre both with the Jews and the Am-monites, and doubting in the way against whether of these heshould make his first onset: First, he consulted with his arrowesand staves, of which hath beene spoken of immediately before;Secondly, he consulted with the entrails of beasts. This practicewas generally received among the Heathens, and because the liverwas the principall member observed, it was called Consultationwith the liver. Three things were observed in this kind of divin-ation. First, the colour of the intralls, whether they were allwell-coloured; Secondly, their place, whether none were dis-placed; Thirdly, the number, whether none were wanting. Amongthose that were wanting, the want of the liver or the heart chieflypresaged ill. That day when Julius Caesar was slaine, it is storied,that in two fat oxen then sacrificed, the heart was wanting inthem both. ART MAGIC. 225 SECTION XV. MACIC AND SPIRITISM AMONGST THE CHALDEANS. c. The Tower of Babel, The religious doctrines of the Chaldeans, varied from thoseof the Hindoos and Egyptians chiefly, in their different modes ofexpression, in the name appropriated to different Deities, and thefunctions which these mythical personages were supposed to beendowed with. The basic idea of Solar and Astral worship how-ever prevailed in all nations alike, but the absense of sexual em-blems on Chaldean monumental remains, seems to imply that thispeople adhered to the astronomical religion, without engraftingits popular successor, Sex worship, upon its purer Theosoph}.Alt
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