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 . f crystal seeing. Hence arose the belief that he kept a familiarspirit imprisoned in a splendid crystal which he wore in the hiltof his sword, and that from this demon he derived his theur
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 . f crystal seeing. Hence arose the belief that he kept a familiarspirit imprisoned in a splendid crystal which he wore in the hiltof his sword, and that from this demon he derived his theurgicpowers and remarkable gifts of healing. Paracelsus was a bitter opponent of the then popular systemof drug medication, and as his denunciations of Apothecariesnostrums, and medical charlatanism, were fulminated with all theunsparing violence of an impulsive and fearless opponent, it isno wonder that he was loaded with opprobrium by the rival prac-titioners of his time, fiercely denounced by one party, and as ex-travagantly eulogized by another, hence his real claims to consid- 302 AET MAGIC. eration as a bold and scientific innovator, and an original discov-erer, have scarcely received justice at the hands of posterity. Thefollowing brief excerpts from his treatise on the Magnet, andhis views of the potency of the human will, afford some in-sight into the basic ideas of his philosophy. From, a rare print in the Strasbourg Collection* He says: The magnet has lain before all eyes, yet no-one has ever-thought whether it was of any further use than that of attractingiron. The sordid doctors throw it in my face that I will not fol-low the ancients. But in what should I follow them? All thatthey have said of the magnet is nothing save what every peasantsees; namely, that it attracts iron. But a wise man must enquireand experiment for himself, and thus it is that I have discoveredthat the magnet possesses quite another, though concealed, power,from that visible to ever
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