EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS 33 



AzoTH. — The creative principle in Nature ; the universal panacea 

 or spiritual life-giving air. It represents the Astral Light in 

 its aspect as the vehicle of the universal essence of life ; in 

 its lowest aspect the electrifying power of the atmosphere — 

 Ozone, Oxygen, &c. 



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Beryllus. — A magic mirror or crystal in whose Astral aura appa- 

 ritions may be seen by the clairvoyant. Berillistica ars: the 

 art of divining by means of seeing in crystals, magic mirror, 

 flowing water, looking into cups, into stones, &c., all of which 

 methods are calculated to render the mind passive, and thereby 

 to enable it to receive the impressions that the Astral light may 

 make upon the mental sphere of the individual ; by detracting 

 the attention from external and sensual things, the inner man 

 is made conscious and receptive for its subjective impressions. 



Bruta. — Astral force manifested in animals ; second sight in 

 animals ; power of animals to discover instinctively poisonous 

 or curative medicines, &c. 



Caballt, Cabales, Lemures. — The astral bodies of men who died 

 a premature death — that is to say, who were killed or killed 

 themselves before their natural term of life was over. They 

 may be more or less self-conscious and intelligent, according to 

 the circumstances in which they lived and died. They are the 

 earth-bound suffering souls of the dead, wandering in the sphere 

 of the earth's attraction (Kama-loca) until the time arrives 

 when they would have died according to natural law, when the 

 separation of their higher principles from the lower ones takes 

 place. They imagine to perform bodily actions, while in fact 

 they have no physical bodies, but act in their thoughts ; but 

 their bodies appear to them as real as ours appear to us. They 

 may under certain necessary conditions communicate with man 

 through " mediums," or directly through a man's own medium- 

 istic organisation. 



Chaomantia. — Divination by aerial visions ; clairvoyance ; second 

 sight 



Cherio. — "Quint-essence." The essence or fifth principle of a 

 thing ; that which constitutes its essential qualities, freed of 

 all impurities and non-essentials. 



Clissuh. — The hidden specific power contained in all things ; the 

 life-force which in vegetables mounts from the roots into the 

 trunk, leaves, flowers, and seeds, causing the latter to produce a 

 pew or^nism, 



