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isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"A consideration of the subject from the standpoint of the ancients, affords us, it will be seen, a very different view from that taken by Professor Tyndall in his famous address. "To super sensual beings", says he, "which, however potent and invisible, were nothing but species of human creatures, perhaps raised from among mankind, and [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"Eliphas Levi expounds with reasonable clearness, in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magi, the law of reciprocal influences between the planets and their combined effect upon the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, as well as upon ourselves. He states that the astral atmosphere is as constantly changing from day to day, and from [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"In the Jewish Kabala, the nature-spirits were known under the general name of Shedim and divided into four classes. The Persians called them all devs; the Greeks, indistinctly designated them as demons; the Egyptians knew them as afrites. The ancient Mexicans, say Kaiser, believed in numerous spirit-abodes, into one of which the shades of innocent [...]