. 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 . h was Roebaccabed, a diviner by intralls. Nebucadnezarbeing to make warre both with the Jews and the Ammonites, and doubt-irig in the way against whether of these he should make his first onset :F
. 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 . h was Roebaccabed, a diviner by intralls. Nebucadnezarbeing to make warre both with the Jews and the Ammonites, and doubt-irig in the way against whether of these he should make his first onset :First, he consulted with his arrowes and staves, of which hath beenespoken of immediately before ; Secondly, he consulted with the intrallsof beasts. This practice was generally received among the Heathens,and because the liver was the principall member observed, it was calledConsultation with the liver. Three things were observed in this kindof divination. First, the colour of the intralls, whether they were allwell-coloured ; Secondly, their place, whether none were displaced :Thirdly, the number, whether none were wanting. Among those thatwere wanting, the want of the liver or the heart chiefly presaged day when Julius Caesar was slaine, it is storied, that in two fatoxen then sacrificed, the heart was wanting in them both. 283 SECTION XV. Magic and Spiritism amongst the Tlie Totver of Babel.] The religious doctrines of the Chaldeans, varied fromthose of the Hindoos and Egyptians chiefly, in their differ-ent modes of expression, in the name appropriated todifferent Deities, and the functions which these mythicalpersonages were supposed to be endowed with. The basicidea of Solar and Astral worship however prevailed in allnations alike, but the absence of sexual emblems on Chal-dean monumental remains, seetns to imply that this peo-ple adhered to the astronomical religion, without engraft-ing its popular successor, Sex worship, upon its purerTheosophy. Alth
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