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