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 . laymen performing those apostolic Avorks required of them in 272 AET MAGIC. proof of their faith, they resolved in solemn council that hence-forth it should be unlawful for any layman to a
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 . laymen performing those apostolic Avorks required of them in 272 AET MAGIC. proof of their faith, they resolved in solemn council that hence-forth it should be unlawful for any layman to attempt the ritesof exorcism, or the cure of disease, by the laying on of opinion once impelled in this direction soon gained forceby momentum. In Great Britain the ignorant and prejudiced missionarieswho were sent to convert the poor natives to Christianity, com-menced their work by leveling their bitterest diatribes againstthe prevailing worship of Druidism. The ancient rites of the Druids consisted of solar and sexworship interblended. The heaps of stones sometimes piled insingle cairns, sometimes arranged in circles, but above all, thosegigantic rings formed of upright unhewn stones, with others hori-zontally laid across them, were all symbolical of the ancient faithof the Sun worshiper, blending with those emblems significantof the Eastern Phallus and Yoni. The upright unhewn pillars. Stone Henge, or Lithoi were Phallic emblems, the horizontal slabs formed themystic Gate or Tau, both important symbols of Phallic Druidical altars formed of stones there were, which, eitherunder the subtle influences communicated to them by powerfulPriests and Priestesses, or from some peculiar virtue in the stoneitself, when balanced one mass on another, could be caused to rockand thus give responses to inquiring worshipers, just as the mod-ern Spiritists obtain communications through the movements ofinanimate bodies. The curious investigator of Druidical remains an
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