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The Vampire, His Kith and Kin: Chapter II
CHAPTER II THE GENERATION OF THE VAMPIRE IT may now be asked how a human being becomes or is transformed into a vampire, and it will be well here to…
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The Vampire, His Kith and Kin: Chapter I
CHAPTER I THE ORIGINS OF THE VAMPIRE THROUGHOUT the whole vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet…
Egyptian Magic
EGYPTIAN MAGIC TO the peoples of antiquity Egypt appeared as the very mother of magic. In the mysterious Nile country they found a magical system much more highly developed than…
The Symbolism of the Tarot: What is the Tarot?
No study of occult philosophy is possible without an acquaintance with symbolism, for if the words occultism and symbolism are correctly used, they mean almost one and the same thing.…
The Tarot: Occult Significance of the Tarot Cards
Before concluding this short treatise, I will say a few words on the occult and Qabalistical signification of these wonderful Tarot Cards. It has been long known that the ordinary…
Legends of the Gods: The Egyptian Texts
INTRODUCTION I. THE LEGEND OF THE GOD NEB-ER-TCHER, AND THE HISTORY OF CREATION. THE text of the remarkable Legend of the Creation which forms the first section of this volume…
Beginnings of Alchemy
PART I HISTORICAL CHAPTER I BEGINNINGS OF ALCHEMY To most of us the word ‘alchemy’ calls up the picture of a medieval and slightly sinister laboratory in which an aged,…
The Five Elements
Occultism dominated the development of thought during the Middle Ages of China not less than in Europe, and here again in the conception of the elements we find traces of…
The Unprinted Literature of Ceremonial Magic
For the purposes of the present, inquiry it will be convenient to consider the Rituals under the three heads of Transcendental, Composite and Black, subject, as regards the first, to…
The Distinction between White and Black Magic
Having considered the possible standpoints from which the Rituals may be regarded, we come now to the distinctions that are made between them, and, first and foremost, to that which…
The Antiquity of Magical Rituals
PART I THE LITERATURE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC CHAPTER I The Antiquity of Magical Rituals The Importance of Ceremonial Magic THE ordinary fields of psychological inquiry, largely in possession of the…