Art Magic

SECTION I.
Introduction
Definitions
Matter, Force and Spirit
The Grand Trinity of Being page

SECTION II.
Universal Belief in the Fall of Man
Explanation of the Fall
Original Condition of Spirit
Pre-existence of the Soul
Its Descent into Matter
Spirit the Origin of Being

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Opinions of the Hindoos
Extracts from the Vedas
Egyptian Cosmogony
Opinions of the Philosophers of all Ages Concerning God
Testimony of Cahaguet’s Somnambules
Hindoo Child Medium’s Communication
On Divine Cosmogony, Men, Angels, Spirits

SECTION III.
Of Deity
Man’s Incapacity to gauge the Infinite and Eternal
The Grand Spiritual Sun

SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION III.
Opinions of Various Authorities Concerning the Spiritual Sun
Hindoo, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Theology
Mediaeval and Modern Opinions
Sweedenborg and Cahagnet
God no Mystery to the Ancients, How Known

SECTION IV.
Of the most Ancient Worship
The Sabean System
Astronomical Religion
Solar and Astral Gods
The History of the Sun God
His reappearance in every Form of Worship and Relation to Christianity

SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION IV.
The Various Nations that Worshipped the Sun God
SECTION V.
Sex Worship
Its Antiquity and Meaning
The Connection of Solar, Sex and Serpent Worship
The Spiritual and Material Ideas of Ancient faiths contrasted
The Degradation and Death of Materialistic Worship and Triumph of Spiritual

SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION V.
How Solar and Sex Worship came to be Interblended
Origin of Serpent
Worship
Emblems of the three Systems
Crosses
Scriptural
Names
Nileometers
Exoteric and Esoteric Worship
A Prophecy

SECTION VI.
Of the Subordinate Gods in the Universe
Angels
Spirits
Tutelary
Gods
Souls and Elementaries
Jewish Cabala
Classical Authorities
Godwyn on the Tutelary Spirits of the Romans

SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION VI.
Jewish Cabala
Classical Authors

SECTION VII.
Spiritism and Magic
Mundane, Sub-Mundane and Super-Mundane
Spiritism
Elementaries, Human and Angelic Spirits

SECTION VIII.
Man the Microcosm
The Trinity of Elements, Soul, Spirit, Matter
The Astral Fluid and Astral Spirit
The Rosicrucians
Astral Light
Fire Philosophers
Ancient and Modern Priests

SECTION IX.
Ancient Priests and Prophets
Spiritual Gifts
Woman as Priestess and Sibyl
Classification of Spiritually Endowed Persons
Magnetizers and Mediums
Boundless Powers of the Human Spirit

SECTION X.
General Summary of the Conditions and Processes of Magical Art

SECTION XI.
Magic in India
Hindoo Claims to priority
Priests
Bramins
Ecstatics
Fakeers
Initiatory Rites
Magnetism
Narcotics
Soma Drink
The Pitris
Elementaries
Magic and Spiritism

SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION XI.
Illustrations of Magic in India
Stupendous and awful Powers of the Ecstatics
The Lama Bokt
The Princess Belgiojosa’s Experience with Ecstatics
Fire-Eaters in France
Thibetian Lama
Horrible Rites
Ah Achmet’s Mediumship

SECTION XII.
Magic Amongst the Mongolians
Magic and Spiritism Contrasted
Trial of Strength and Agility by Spirits
Spirits Amongst the Karenes
Writing and other Kinds of Mediumship

SECTION XIII.
Magic in Egypt
The Priests
Prophets
Modes of Initiation into the Mysteries

SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION XIII.
The Great Pyramid
Its Probable Use and Object
Extracts from Stewart
Bishop Russell
Herodotus

SECTION XIV.
Magic Amongst the Jews
Their Claims for Antiquity
Abraham
Moses
Priests and Prophets
The Cabala
Bible
Infusion of Chaldean and Persian Ideas
Jesus
The Essenes
Superiority of Hebrew Literature

SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION XIV.
The Modes of Divination, both lawful and unlawful, amongst the Jews

SECTION XV.
Magic amongst the Chaldeans
Priests
Soothsayers
Star-gazers
Astrologers and Astrology
Why are the Moderns Inferior to the Ancients in Spiritual Science?
Ennemoser on the Lapps and Finns “Ghostland ”
Siberian Shaman

SECTION XVI.
Magic amongst the Greeks and Romans
Samothracian and Eleusinian Mysteries
Initiations
The Oracles
Pythia and Averuiau Sybils

SECTION XVII.
Elementary and Planetary Spirits
Mundane, Sub-Mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism
Salamanders
Sylphs
Gnomes
Fairies
Kobolds
Undines
Offices and Powers of the Elementaries
Communion
Its Uses and Dangers
Quotations from “Ghostland.”

SECTION XVIII.
Spiritism and Magic in Transitional Eras
Witchcraft
Persecution by the Christian Church
Decadence of Spiritual Gifts
Knights Templars
Stedinger
Alchemists
Rosicrucians
Philosophers’ Stone and Elixir Vitse

SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION XVIII.
Alchemists and Philosophers of the Middle Ages
Their Magical practices and Opinions

SECTION XIX.
Heptameeon
Magical Elemeuts of Peter d’Abano

SECTION XX.
Summary of Cornelius Agrippa’s Philosophy
Paracelsus
On the Magnet and Power of Will
Witchcraft
Its Possibilities and Fallacies
Case of Jane Brooks

SECTION XXI.
Magical Elements
Various kinds of Divination
Crystal Seeing of Stones
Gems
Colors
Sounds
Noise
Music
Rosicrucian Ideas of Music
The Color-Doctor
Spells
Charms
Amulets
Talismans
Witchcraft

SUPPLEMENT TO SECTION XXI.
The Magic Mirror of Cahagnet
Method of making and using It
Communication from a Planetary Spirit
Formulae of Nostradamus
On the Invocation of Spirits
Call and Discharge for Spirits of the Crystal and Mirror
SECTION XXII.
Magnetism
Psychology
Clairvoyance
Their Relations to Ancient Magic
The Great Modern Triad Paracelsus
Sweedenborg and Mesmer
Correspondence between Billot and Deleuze
Cahagnet’s Somnambules
Modern Magic

SECTION XXIII.
Modern Spiritism
Its Literature
The Harmonial Philosophy and Philosopher
A Sketch
Spiritual Gifts
The Decadence of Spiritisn and its causes
Its Possibilities in the Future
New School of the Prophets
Home-Circles
Conditions