. 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 . f laymen performing thoseapostolic works required of them in proof of their faith,they resolved in solemn council that henceforth it should heunlawful for any layman to attempt the rites of exorci
. 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 . f laymen performing thoseapostolic works required of them in proof of their faith,they resolved in solemn council that henceforth it should heunlawful for any layman to attempt the rites of exorcism^ orthe cure of disease^ hy the laying on of hands. Public opiniononce impelled in this direction soon gained force by mo-mentum. In Great Britain the ignorant and prejudiced mission-aries who were sent to convert the poor natives to Chris-tianity, commenced their work by levelling their bitterestdiatribes against the prevailing worship of Druidism. The ancient rites of the Druids consisted of solar andsex worship interblended. The heaps of stones sometimespiled in single cairns, sometimes arranged in circles, but 346 above all, those gigantic rings formed of upright unhewnstones, with others horizontally laid across them, were allsymbolical of the ancient faith of the Sun worshipper,blending with those emblems significant of the EasternPhallus and Yoni. The upright unhewn pillars or Lithoi. Stone Menge. were Phallic emblems, the horizontal slabs formed themystic Gate or Tau, both important symbols of Phallicworship. Other Druidical altars formed of stones therewere, which—^either under the subtle influences communi-cated to them by powerful Priests and Priestesses, or fromsome peculiar virtue in the stone itself, when balanced onemass on another, could be caused to rock, and thus giveresponses to inquiring worshippers, just as the modernSpiritists obtain communications through the movementsof inanimate bodies. The curious investigator of Druidical remains and an-cient fait
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