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Communication From a Planetary Spirit - Formulae of Nostradamus - Call and Discharge for Spirits of the Crystal or Mirror.

The following mode of preparing and using a Magic Mirror, is recommended by Alphonse Cahagnet, author of the Celestial Telegraph, and, as the methods prescribed are simple, and the results obtained are generally efficacious, they are submitted to the reader in the words of Cahagnet himself:

MAGIC MIRROR

"I promised not to reserve to myself anything I had learned from spirits; I will keep my word by giving the secret of the magic mirror, revealed to me by the Spirit of Swedenborg, who himself, possessed one, and of which I have already spoken. I made two in the way recommended to me, one of which I presented to my friend, M. Renard, who after several experiments, gave a favorable report of it; mine was equally good. This is how we should go to work: Produce a piece of glass as fine as possible, cut it in the required size, place it over a slow fire, at the same time dissolving some very fine black lead in a small quantity of pure oil to give it the consistence of a liquid pomade, which may easily be spread over the glass when well diluted.

"The glass being hot, incline it on both sides, in order that the mixture may spread of itself all over alike; then, the glass being placed on something quite straight and flat, let the mixture dry without disturbing it; in a few days it will become as hard as pewter, presenting a very fine dark polish; put your glass in a frame, and after well wiping its surface, hang it up on a wall, as you would a looking-glass, but always in a false light. Place the person who desires to see a spirit, or scene before this mirror, station yourself behind him, fixing your eyes steadily on the hinder part of the brain, and summon the spirit in a loud voice in the name of God, in a manner imposing to the individual looking in the mirror.

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Divination - Belomancy - Elisha and the Arrows - Cleomancy - Geomancy - Crystal Seeing - Bath Kol - Chiromancy - The Color Doctor - Music - Spells - Amulets, Etc.

It has been intimated in various parts of this volume that the ancients attached the idea of occult virtue to herbs, plants, flowers, earths, minerals, metals, certain beasts, insects and reptile, colors, tones, words, forms, magical names, invocations, spells, charms, talismans, and fumigations.

Every object that could impress the senses - stimulate them to mantic frenzy, or subdue them into somnambulism, formed some element in ancient magical practice. We have written of the faith which all nations of antiquity cherished in astrological calculations, and unhesitatingly affirmed that the foundations for that faith exist to-day in as much force as in the Chaldaic Era, and that the basic idea of astrological truth is to be found in the fundamental principles which bind up the whole universe in one compendious system of mutual interdependencies.

Divination was also obtained through an immense variety of modes, chief amongst which were those already alluded to in the Section on Jewish Magic. Another was performed amongst the Arabians by the flight of arrows, and called Belomancy. Some allusion to this method is made in the Bible when Elisha the Prophet in his last hours was consulted by King Joash, whom he commanded to take bow and arrows and shoot forth from the window saying, "the arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria," &c., &c.

In the Arabian method it was customary to write on slips of paper, and attach them to the arrows, when, according to the place in which they alighted, or the object which they struck, so was the inscribed sentence accepted as oracular.

At the celebrated Temple of Hercules, in Achaia, the priests were accustomed to obtain oracular replies by the tossing of dice or marked stones; this mode was called Cleomancy.

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