. 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 . etzmemorable through all time, belong to this record; it isenough to add that the magical practices to which he re-sorted in aid of his unholy purposes, contributed greatlyto deepen the horror wit
. 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 . etzmemorable through all time, belong to this record; it isenough to add that the magical practices to which he re-sorted in aid of his unholy purposes, contributed greatlyto deepen the horror with which this art was regarded—especially in an age too ignorant and priest-ridden to dis-tinguish the nature of occult science from its worst abuse. It was during the fifteenth century that Henry CorneliusAgrippa flourished—an adept in physical science, scholarly 358 attainments, as well as occult art, which made him thehonored officer of Kings and Princes, the friend, adviserand Physician of Queens and Princesses, and the Paragonof Magicians in all ages. It is from a compendium of hisoccult practices that we are enabled to present our readers,in the following section, with a complete Arhatel of Magic^or full directions for the performance of those curious ritesin which Agripi^a and many of his cotemporaries claimedto be able to ccitrol the legions of Planetary Spirits. Cornelius Frotn a rare print in the Strasburff Collection, It must be remembered that this distinguished Knightand great Adept was a devout Roman Catholic, hence heemployed those sacred names, garments and forms, whichbelonged to his Church, just in the same manner as theArabians, Greeks, Chaldeans and Egyptians employed thenames and formulae of belief peculiar to their time in theirmagical rites. Let it be borne in mind however, that suchfeatures of each system are but the exoteric forms in whichthe esoteric principles are wrapped up. They have noreal potency beyond the satisdictlon tliey procure
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