item: #1 of 19 id: 10088 author: Oxonian title: Thaumaturgia; Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous date: None words: 92569 flesch: 56 summary: To rescue the moon from the supposed torture she was in, and to frustrate the charm, it was necessary to prevent her from hearing the magic words, by drowning in noise and hideous outcries, for which purpose the people used to assemble during an eclipse of the moon with _rough_ music, such as frying pans, brazen vessels, old tin kettles, etc. They retired into deep caves, where the darkness and silence resembled the state of death, and there fasted, and lay upon the skins of the beasts they had sacrificed, and then gave for answer the dreams which most affected them; or opened a certain book appointed for that purpose, and gave the first sentence that offered.[10] At other times the priest, or any person who came to consult, took care at his going out of the cave, to listen to the first words he should hear, and these were to be his answer. keywords: account; age; ages; air; amulets; ancients; animal; answer; art; astrology; blood; body; cause; chapter; country; cure; day; days; death; devil; diseases; divination; divine; dreams; earth; effects; eyes; father; fire; following; general; god; gods; good; hand; having; head; history; human; imagination; influence; kind; king; knowledge; length; life; long; magic; man; manner; means; medicine; men; mind; music; nature; number; old; opinion; oracles; order; origin; parts; people; person; physician; place; power; practice; present; priests; reason; serpent; set; sleep; spirits; state; stones; subject; superstition; temple; things; time; truth; use; water; way; words; world; year cache: 10088.txt plain text: 10088.txt item: #2 of 19 id: 12890 author: Spalding, Thomas Alfred title: Elizabethan Demonology An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works date: None words: 42682 flesch: 66 summary: Names of greater devils. Of the twenty devils mentioned by Shakspere, four only belong to the class of greater devils. keywords: account; act; belief; day; devils; evidence; footnote; form; god; gods; good; hamlet; hand; harsnet; iii; influence; king; life; macbeth; man; men; mind; opinion; people; period; play; possession; power; present; question; scot; second; shakspere; sisters; spirits; subject; thought; time; witchcraft; witches; words; work; world cache: 12890.txt plain text: 12890.txt item: #3 of 19 id: 14209 author: Three Initiates title: The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece date: None words: 34359 flesch: 62 summary: As we have explained in previous chapters, the Hermetists hold that the Principle of Rhythm manifests on the Mental Plane as well as on the Physical Plane, and that the bewildering succession of moods, feelings, emotions, and other mental states, are due to the backward and forward swing of the mental pendulum, which carries us from one extreme of feeling to the other. This Hermetic Principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems. keywords: degree; energy; forms; gender; great; hermetic; kybalion; law; life; man; matter; mind; nature; phenomena; plane; principle; teachings; things; truth; universe; vibration cache: 14209.txt plain text: 14209.txt item: #4 of 19 id: 16058 author: Besant, Annie title: Occult Chemistry: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements date: None words: 32549 flesch: 62 summary: We shall understand how this can be so if we remember that koilon seems absolutely homogeneous and solid even when examined by a power of magnification which makes physical atoms appear in size and arrangement like cottages scattered over a lonely moor, and when we further add to this the recollection that the bubbles of which these atoms in turn are composed are themselves what may be not inaptly called fragments of nothingness. Before proceeding to the study of other chemical atoms, as to their general internal arrangements, it is desirable to follow out, in those already shown, the way in which these atoms break up into simpler forms, yielding successively what we have called proto-, meta-, and hyper-compounds. keywords: atoms; bodies; body; chemical; elements; form; funnels; globe; group; hyper; level; matter; meta; number; ovoids; physical; plate; proto; spheres; weight cache: 16058.txt plain text: 16058.txt item: #5 of 19 id: 17009 author: Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna) title: Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky No. 1: Practical Occultism—Occultism versus the Occult Arts—The Blessings of Publicity date: None words: 10461 flesch: 68 summary: For whether we take as an example the holy love of a mother for her child, or that of a husband for his wife, even in these feelings, when analysed to the very bottom, and thoroughly sifted, there is still _selfishness_ in the first, and an _égoisme à deux_ in the second instance. CONTENTS PAGE Practical Occultism 1 From _Lucifer_, April, 1888 Occultism versus the Occult Arts 17 From _ keywords: animal; human; knowledge; life; loma; magic; man; nature; occultism; point; powers; science; self; soul; theosophical; theosophy; universal; wisdom cache: 17009.txt plain text: 17009.txt item: #6 of 19 id: 17182 author: Wagner, Belle M. title: Within the Temple of Isis date: None words: 20710 flesch: 70 summary: Then, Sarthia, our bright and well-beloved Vestal, will henceforth be known as Princess Nu-nah, and will be obliged for a time to live the life and perform the duties of the Princess. Princess Nu-nah will more than compensate you for all the kind attentions you now bestow upon her in the guiding, teaching and leading your soul in the paths to spiritual knowledge and the spiritual life, while still inhabiting the physical form. keywords: body; hand; hermo; hierophant; life; love; mind; nah; nature; night; presence; priestess; princess; rathunor; sarthia; soul; temple; time cache: 17182.txt plain text: 17182.txt item: #7 of 19 id: 22739 author: Atkinson, William Walker title: The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms date: None words: 16302 flesch: 63 summary: Rainbow astral colors. Before proceeding to a consideration of the list of astral colors in the human aura, I wish to call your attention to a slight variation in the case of the prana-aura, of which I have spoken in our last chapter. keywords: aura; auric; blue; body; colors; effect; form; mind; person; physical; plane; prana; red; thought; vibrations cache: 22739.txt plain text: 22739.txt item: #8 of 19 id: 34825 author: Comfort, Will Levington title: She Buildeth Her House date: None words: 98261 flesch: 83 summary: He had seen them all in his twenty years; seen the whole neighborhood change; seen clean boys redden, fatten, and thrive for a time; watched the abyss widen between young married pairs, his own liquors running in the bottom; seen men leave their best with him and take home their beast.... and I'll go with you, added the queer little man, whom Paula knew now to be Vhruebert.... keywords: bellingham; black; body; book; brain; charter; city; cross; day; days; door; eyes; face; father; feel; fontanel; god; good; gray; head; heart; house; human; left; letters; life; linster; look; love; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mountain; new; night; past; paula; pelée; people; peter; pierre; power; quentin; quentin charter; reifferscheid; room; saint; sea; selma; skylark; soul; spirit; stock; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; words; work; world; years; york cache: 34825.txt plain text: 34825.txt item: #9 of 19 id: 35690 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Omens and Superstitions of Southern India date: None words: 96613 flesch: 73 summary: On other days, the omen is a lucky one. Her son sought the assistance of certain men of the Reddika caste in obtaining wood for the pyre, carrying the corpse to the burning-ground, and cremating it. keywords: animal; ant; belief; black; blood; body; brahman; bull; case; cattle; ceremonies; ceremony; child; children; cloth; country; cow; cut; day; days; death; deity; district; earth; evil; eye; family; festival; figure; fire; flowers; following; food; form; gazetteer; god; goddess; gods; good; hair; hand; head; hill; house; human; image; leaf; leaves; left; life; little; madras; malabar; man; marriage; men; milk; neck; night; number; offerings; oil; omen; people; person; piece; place; pot; priest; rice; round; sacrifice; set; shrine; silver; snake; south; stone; tamil; telugu; temple; time; tree; victim; village; vow; water; way; white; woman; worship; years cache: 35690.txt plain text: 35690.txt item: #10 of 19 id: 37047 author: None title: The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; with their future Contingencies of Fortune date: None words: 82235 flesch: 51 summary: All his contrivances could not raise him above three thousand men, with whom he encamped in the Isle of Bute, where he was soon, in a manner besieged by the Earl of Dumbarton, with the king's forces, and several other bodies, commanded by the Duke of Gordon, the Marquis of Athol, the Earl of Arran, and other great men, who came from all parts to quench the fire before it grew to a head. No; men, and great men too, and scholars, and even statesmen, and princes themselves, have been tainted with superstitions, and where they infect the minds of such great personages, they make the deeper impression, according to the stronger and more manly ideas they have of them. keywords: account; art; book; boy; campbell; child; company; country; day; death; devil; dumb; duncan; end; father; fortune; genius; gentleman; good; great; hand; head; house; kind; knowledge; lady; life; magic; man; manner; men; mind; mother; nature; people; persons; place; power; present; reader; reason; second; set; sight; sir; spirits; tell; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; words; world; years; young cache: 37047.txt plain text: 37047.txt item: #11 of 19 id: 37775 author: Lloyd, John Uri title: Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey date: None words: 121508 flesch: 66 summary: You understand also that, although of human form, I am not as other men (for with me matter is subservient to mind), and as you have promised, so you must act, and do my bidding concerning the manuscript. Let those who presume to criticise the intellectual productions of such men be careful; in a few days the dead will face their censors--dead. keywords: air; beneath; bodies; body; book; brain; cavern; chapter; conditions; course; darkness; day; distance; earth; end; energy; etidorhpa; existence; eyes; fact; food; force; form; future; gravitation; guide; hand; head; heat; home; human; humanity; illustration; journey; know; knowledge; lake; life; light; love; man; manuscript; material; matter; men; miles; mind; motion; nature; new; order; past; person; point; present; question; rest; return; room; science; self; sense; soul; space; spirit; stone; study; subject; sun; surface; surface earth; thought; time; unknown; voice; water; words; work; world; years cache: 37775.txt plain text: 37775.txt item: #12 of 19 id: 38448 author: Schele de Vere, M. (Maximilian) title: Modern Magic date: None words: 120828 flesch: 59 summary: In this condition, their soul is for the moment freed from the bondage in which it is held by its earthy companion, and such men become clairvoyants and prophets, or they are enabled actually to affect other men at a distance, in various ways. History records, besides, numerous cases in which the credulity of great men has been played upon for purposes of policy and statecraft. keywords: account; air; body; cases; cause; children; church; course; day; days; death; deep; disease; distance; doubt; dream; effect; events; evil; excitement; eyes; fact; faith; father; fearful; following; form; friends; future; german; god; good; great; hand; holy; home; hour; house; influence; instance; kind; king; lady; left; life; magic; man; manner; means; men; mind; moment; nature; new; night; number; order; patient; peculiar; people; persons; phenomena; place; poor; possessed; possession; power; presence; purpose; room; second; senses; sleep; soul; spirits; state; subject; time; trance; unknown; visions; water; way; white; wife; witches; women; words; work; world; years cache: 38448.txt plain text: 38448.txt item: #13 of 19 id: 39906 author: Boothby, Guy title: 'Farewell, Nikola' date: None words: 71452 flesch: 83 summary: Knowing Nikola so well, I had not the least desire or intention to be drawn into any of the plots or machinations he was so fond of working against other people. I recalled that terrible house in Port Said, and thought of the night on the island when I had rescued my wife from his clutches. keywords: case; day; doctor; don; door; duke; eyes; face; fact; friend; glenbarth; gondola; good; hand; hatteras; hotel; hour; house; left; life; look; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; night; nikola; reason; room; think; thought; time; trevor; venice; way; wife cache: 39906.txt plain text: 39906.txt item: #14 of 19 id: 41071 author: Hume, Fergus title: A Son of Perdition: An Occult Romance date: None words: 107563 flesch: 84 summary: You have not seen Douglas Montrose, nor have I seen Alice Enistor, was the reply. You now know what Alice Enistor has to do with you, said Eberstein in a quiet impressive tone. keywords: alice; barrast; body; dear; doctor; don; douglas; eberstein; enistor; evil; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; god; good; hand; hardwick; heart; house; job; julian; life; love; man; mind; miss; moment; money; montrose; mrs; narvaez; pablo; people; place; power; right; room; sparrow; squire; things; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman cache: 41071.txt plain text: 41071.txt item: #15 of 19 id: 43237 author: Emmons, Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) title: The Spirit Land date: None words: 80672 flesch: 65 summary: A _key_, _nails_, or any piece of _iron_ placed on the table _instantaneously stopped_ the phenomena. But the same sum has been offered to any one who will prove that _spirits_ move tables, chairs, and the like, or that _spirits_ produce the noises and other manifestations ascribed to them. keywords: account; agent; appearance; bed; belief; bible; body; case; chapter; children; come; day; days; death; dreams; earth; effects; electricity; end; evil; eye; facts; family; father; following; god; good; hand; head; house; human; influence; lady; left; man; manner; means; medium; men; mind; mrs; nature; new; night; number; people; persons; phenomena; place; power; present; room; saw; sounds; spirits; state; subject; superstition; table; things; time; way; work; world; years; young cache: 43237.txt plain text: 43237.txt item: #16 of 19 id: 44016 author: Leach, Orville Livingston title: The White Spark A New Book, Giving Out a New Philosophy and the Mysteries of the Universe. The Handbook of the Millennium and the New Dispensation date: None words: 16328 flesch: 68 summary: I have in other publications explained that meat was a second-hand food, in which many life molecules were exploded (gelatine), and that the proteid portions of milk, eggs and vegetable foods contained CARTRIDGES OF LIFE AND POWER, that is, molecules having sulphur or phosphorus centers which under proper conditions formed VACO-CELLS, especially the germ of all seeds which is absent in fine flour usually. I had been in correspondence with Sir William Crookes, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in England, and in connection with a scientific matter he had advised me to evaporate the water of a certain Spring, and it was in following out his directions that I found THE CENTER FORMING MOLECULAR ELEMENTS, which nature uses in forming foods. keywords: air; blood; body; cause; disease; ether; food; force; heat; life; man; matter; meat; nature; new; power; sand; spark; spirit; sugar; universe; use; water; white; work cache: 44016.txt plain text: 44016.txt item: #17 of 19 id: 636 author: Mackay, Charles title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 date: None words: 97738 flesch: 67 summary: The undoubted relics of great men, or great events, will always possess attractions for the thinking and refined. During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. keywords: bank; body; capital; cause; cent; combat; company; country; course; court; credit; day; days; death; directors; duel; duelling; duke; end; england; english; europe; evil; favour; fire; following; france; general; good; government; great; guilty; hair; half; hands; head; henry; honour; house; john; justice; king; law; left; life; livres; london; long; lord; making; man; manner; means; men; millions; money; murder; nation; new; night; order; parliament; people; persons; place; pounds; present; prices; public; regent; royal; sea; second; set; sir; south; state; stock; subject; thought; thugs; time; trade; world; years cache: 636.txt plain text: 636.txt item: #18 of 19 id: 713 author: Mackay, Charles title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 date: None words: 100522 flesch: 65 summary: The boy added, that as soon as supper was ready, many other witches came to partake of it, several of whom he named. Whether the horse-shoe still remains upon the door of the haunted house, to keep away other witches, is uncertain; but there it was, twelve or thirteen years ago. keywords: age; aid; army; body; cause; children; christians; church; city; clergy; country; crime; cross; crusaders; day; days; death; devil; duke; emperor; enemy; england; europe; evidence; france; general; germany; god; good; hand; head; hermit; history; holy; house; james; jerusalem; king; knights; leaders; life; like; lord; louis; man; means; men; mind; new; night; number; order; palestine; parliament; people; persons; peter; place; pope; popular; possession; power; richard; saw; set; sir; sultan; thought; time; trial; turks; war; way; witchcraft; witches; women; work; world; years cache: 713.txt plain text: 713.txt item: #19 of 19 id: 884 author: Mackay, Charles title: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 date: None words: 99964 flesch: 65 summary: They asserted, on the contrary, that the first vow they took on entering the society was a vow of chastity; and that any one among them who transgressed in that particular would immediately lose all the advantages he enjoyed, and be exposed once more to hunger, woe, disease, and death, like other men. This work was published in two volumes, and the authenticity of its details supported by Gorres, Eschenmeyer, and other men of character and reputation in Germany: it is said to have had an immense sale. keywords: age; alchymist; alchymy; animal; art; body; book; cagliostro; city; count; country; cure; day; days; death; dee; effects; elixir; england; europe; experiments; eyes; fluid; following; fortune; france; friend; general; germany; gold; good; hand; house; imagination; influence; iron; king; lead; left; life; madame; magnetic; magnetism; man; manner; master; means; men; metals; mind; money; number; opinion; paris; people; persons; philosopher; physician; place; power; present; science; secret; silver; spirits; state; stone; study; subject; thought; time; water; work; world; years; young cache: 884.txt plain text: 884.txt