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Title: 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
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Britten, William, fl. 1876 Britten, Emma Hardinge, d. 1899, ed
Subjects: Spiritualism Magic
Publisher: New York, The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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miser, find throughout nature the quality of elementand the character of spiritual life that feed their specialtyand pander to their tastes. The same law applies to thereverse of this position, and therefore it is, that a saint orthe worst of sinners may each attain to magical powers ;but magic is the sunbeam which gives life to the bloomingrose when it falls on the rose germ, or quickens into beingthe noisome fungus when its radiance falls on heaps of cor-ruption. The forces of spirit are designed for good and use, or theycould not be accessible to man. In ages yet to come, whenthe earth and its living freight are all spiritualized, thatwhich is magic now will be ordinary practice then. Theheavens will kiss the earth, and the thin veil which di-vides the inhabitants of either realm will become so trans-parent that every eye will pierce its mystery and rejoicein its holy revealments. Until then knowledge ispower, and all men by knowledge may achieve the powerof practicing art magic. A
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I irtilil 219 SECTION XII. Magic Amongst the Mongolians. Few nations of the East exhibit a greater amount ofdevotion to magic than the Chinese, a people whose antiqui-ty is the problem of history^ whose priority of origindisputes the palm even with India, yet as far back as his-tory can trace or tradition bear witness of, up to the pres-ent day, China, with all its surrounding Mongolian sisternationahties, has inseparably blend&d its religious beliefwith faith in spiritism. Mongolian spiritism divides itselfinto two kinds; the one is the performance of extra mun-dane acts or feats of magical power, the other, communionwith spirits procured through what is now understood tobe natural spiritual endowments. Although there is theclosest resemblance between the magical practices of theMongolians, and the East Indians, it would be impossibleto overlook the spiritism of so vast a nation as that ofChina, and one in which its practices are so widely en-grafted in the peoples nature. The ma

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