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 . n nature, was very commonlyrepresented as a hawk-headed Deity, from the sacredness attachedto the idea that the hawk was the bird of the Sun, could asceudto its resplendent heights and gaz
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 . n nature, was very commonlyrepresented as a hawk-headed Deity, from the sacredness attachedto the idea that the hawk was the bird of the Sun, could asceudto its resplendent heights and gaze with undimmed eye into itsblazing beams. The serpent was esteemed in Egypt, as in otheroriental lands, as an emblem alike of the Deific principles of goodnamely: immortality, rejuvenescence, wisdom and health, and ofdeath, terror, destruction and evil. The famous Anubis, whose emblem so often occurs in Egyp-tian sculptures, was derived from the Dog Star, whose sign inthe ascendant gave notice of the rising of the sacred Kiver Nile,worshiped for its beneficence in irrigating the land. - The Dog Star on this account was esteemed as the door-keeper of the house of life. He held the key of the portals ofimmortality. He was the invariable attendant of Osiris, the Sun-God and Judge of the Dead; hence, the dog-headed Deity Anubisis so constantly seen in connection with sculptures of Anubis—Egyptian Amulet. The sum of Egyptian Theogony is too well known to needfurther description here; nor does it materially affect the magicalpractices of this great people. We shall only, therefore, allude AKT MAGIC. 189 to or describe it, inasmuch as it may throw light upon our specialsubject. The belief in Gods, Goddesses, good and evil spirits, theimmortality of the human soul, and its transmigrations for pur-poses of probation and purification, the magical union betweenthe heavens and the earth, the influences of the sidereal heavensupon nature and human destiny, the fal
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