Contents

Contents

Part First

Editor's Note: A Publisher's Preface exists that is not listed in the Table of Contents. It is located prior to the Author's Preface but after the Table of Contents

Author's Preface...........................................9-11
Editor's Preface...........................................13
Introductory...............................................15-17

Section I.

Constitution of the Solar Universe - Matter - Extension - Divisibility - Impenetrability - Ether - Force - Attraction and Repulsion ..........18-23

Section II.

The Scheme of the Solar Universe - The Fall of Man But the Shadow - The Fall of Spirit - Man the Microcosm of Being - His Pre- Existence .....21-23

Supplement To Section II.

Arguments Devised Chiefly From Ancient History In Support of the Philosophy Affirmed in the Preceding Page. With Extracts From the Vedas .....24-30

Section III.

Is There One or Many Gods - Who Can Know the Unknowable - May Not the Known Lead Up No What Has Been Deemed the Unknowable? ...................31-33

Supplement to Section III.

Opinions of Ancient and Modern Philosophers and Spiritualists Concerning the Nature and Individuality of One Supreme Being.....................34-41

Section IV.

The Most Ancient Form of Worship - The Astronomical Religion or the Sunbean System - Solar and Astral Gods ....................................42-53

Supplement to Section IV

Biographies of Chrishna and Buddha Sakia, Showing the Nations of Antiquity That Have Worshipped the Sun-God as an Impersonation ...............54-56

Section V.

Sex Worship - Its Antiquity and Meaning - The Connection of Sex, Solar and Serpent Worship - The Spiritual and Material Ideas of Antique Faiths Illustrated ......................57-64

Supplement To Section V.

Sex Worship Continued - Signs, Symbols and Emblems of the Three Systems - Scriptural Names and Meanings...............................65-70

Section VI.

Subordinate Gods in the Universe - Angels, Spirits, Tutelary Deities, Souls and Elementary Spirits Opinions of the Ancients - Jewish Cabala......70-80

Supplement to Section VI.

The Jewish Caballa - Fragments from this Curious Compendium of Ideality and Truth - Quotations From Classical Authors .........................81-84

Part Second

Section VII.

Man's Earliest Communion With Spirits - Spiritism and Magic - Mundane, Sub-Mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism - The Mystic Ladder ..........85-93

Section VIII.

Man the Microcosm of the Universe - Man the Trinity of the Elements; Soul, Spirit, Matter - Rosicrucianism - The Astral Spirit, Astral Light ....94-107

Section IX.

Ancient Priests and Prophets - Spiritual Gifts - Woman as Priestess and Sybil - Classification of Spiritually Endowed Persons.................108-125

Section X.

Art Magic - General Summary of the Condition And Process of Magical Practices - The Line Between Ancient Theosophy and Occultism...........126-138

Section XI.

Art Magic in India - Brahminical Order - Whence Derived - Forest Anchorities - Foundation of the Priestly Order and Caste.......................138-153

Supplement to Section XI.

Art Magic In India Continued - Illustrations Of Magic In India - Narratives of Distinguished Travelers - Records of Personal Experiences - The Howling Dervishes .........................153-174

Section XII.

Magic Among the Mongolians - The Chinese's Great Devotion to Magic - Spiritism of Two Distinct Kinds - Performances of Extra Mundane Feats....175-182

Section XIII.

Magic in Egypt - Sistrum - Virgin's Symbol - Celestial Mother - Moses Claimed By the Jewish People - Anubis - Egyptian Amulets...............184-195

Supplement to Section XIII.

The Great Pyramid of Egypt - Its Possible Use and Object - Man, the Microcosm of the Universe -Hindoo and Egyptian Theosophy - Tower of Babel ... 196-207

Section XIV.

Spiritism and Magic Among the Jews - Antiquity of the Jews Disputed - Abraham, Moses, the Priests and Prophets - Cabala-Bible - Exekiel's Wheel ...207-219

Supplement to Section XIV.

Idolatry and Ancient Scripture - Some of the Modes of Divination, Both Lawful and Unlawful, Practiced Among the Jews.......................219-224

Section XV.

Magic and Spiritism Amongst the Chaldeans - The Tower of Babel - Quotations From Ennemoser's History of Magic - The Whirling Dervishes ......225-236

Section XVI.

Poetry of Life's Sterner Prose - Magic Among The Greeks and Romans - The Mysteries of Samoth- Race and Eleusis..............................237-252

Part Third

Section XVII.

Medieval Theosophy - Elves or Fairies - Elementary and Planetary Spirits, or the Sub-Mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritism - The Jewish Cabala .....253-269

Section XVIII.

Witchcraft - Spirit of Persecution in Christian Churches - Causes of the Unpopularity of Spiritism - Alchemists - Stone Henge ...........270-279

Supplement to Section XVIII.

Alchemists and Philosophers - History of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - General Uniformity of Their Opinions ...................280-282

Section XIX.

Heptameron, or Magical Elements of Peter D'Abano - Circles and the Composition Thereof - Signs, Sigils, Names of Angels, Etc..................283-299

Section XX.

Cornelius Agrippa's Philosophy - Paracelsus - The Power of the Magnet and Will - Weapon Salve -Witchcraft - The Case of Jane Brooks.........300-310

Section XXI.

Divination - Belomancy - Elisha and the Arrows - Cleomancy - Geomancy - Crystal Seeing - Bath Kol - Chiromancy - The Color Doctor ..........311-326

Supplement to Section XXI.

The Magic Mirror - Its Composition - Communication From an Planetary Spirit - Formulae of Nostradamus ........................................327-334

Section XXII.

History of Magnetism - Psychology - Clairvoyance - Their Connection With Ancient Magic - The Great Modern Triad - Paraclesus...............335-346

Section XXIII.

Spiritualistic Literature - Harmonial Philosophy And its Founder, Andrew Jackson Davis - Modern Spiritualism - Its Universality of Phenomena..346-364

Epilogue to the Drama of Art Magic .............365-366