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"Magic is as old as man. It is as impossible to name the time when it sprang into existence as to indicate on what day the first man himself was born.   Whenever a writer has started with the idea of connecting its first foundation in a country with some historical character, further research has [...]

"Into their sacred groves - natural academies built by the hand of the Invisible Architect - the initiates assembled at the still hour of midnight to learn about what man once was and what he will be.   They needed no artificial illumination, nor life-drawing gas, to light up their temples, for the chaste goddess [...]

"In the oldest documents now in our possession - the Vedas and the older laws of Manu - we find many magical rites practiced and permitted by the Brahmans. Tibet, Japan and China teach in the present age that which was taught by the oldest Chaldeans.   The clergy of these respective countries, prove moreover [...]

"Maimonides, the great Jewish theologian and historian, who at one time was almost deified by his countrymen and afterward treated as a heretic, remarks, that the more absurd and void of sense the Talmud seems the more sublime is the secret meaning.   This learned man has successfully demonstrated that the Chaldean Magic, the science [...]