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Corpus invisibile. — The invisible body; the animal soul (Kama 

 rupa) ; the medium between material forms and the spiritual 

 principle ; a substantial, ethereal, but under ordinary circum- 

 stances invisible thing ; the lower astral form. 



Corpora supercoelestia. — Forms that can only be seen by the 

 highest spiritual perception ; they are not ordinary astral forms, 

 but the refined and intelligent elements of the same. 



D ERSES. — An occult exhalation of the earth, by means of which 



plants are enabled to grow. Carbonic acid gases, &c., are its 



vehicles. 

 Devachan. — An Eastern term. A subjective state of happiness of 



the higher principles of the soul after the death of the body. 



(/See Anyodei.) It corresponds to the idea of Heaven, where 



each individual monad lives in a world which it has created by 



its own thouglits, and where the products of its own spiritual 



ideation appear substantial and objective to it. 

 DiviNATio. — The act of foreseeing future events by means of the 



soul's own light ; prophecy. 

 DiVERTELLUM. — The matrix of the elements, from which the latter 



generated. ^ 

 DuRDALEs. — Substantial but invisible beings, residing in trees 



(Dryad es) ; elemental spirits of nature. 



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Edelphus. — One who divines from the elements of the air, earth, 

 water, or fire. 



Electrum magicum. — A composition of seven metals, compounded 

 according to certain rules and planetary influences ; a prepara- 

 tion of great magic power, of which magic rings, mirrors, and 

 many other things may be made. 



Elementals. — Spirits of Nature. Substantial but (for us) invisible 

 beings of an ethereal nature, living in the elements of air, water, 

 earth, or fire. They have no immortal spirits, but they are made 

 of the substance of the soul, and are of various grades of intelli- 



^ For instance, each metal has its elementary matrix in which it grows. 

 Mines of gold, silver, fee, become exhausted, and after centuries (or 

 millenniums) they may be found to yield again a rich supply ; in the 

 same way the soil of a country, having become infertile from exhaustion, 

 will after a time of rest become fertile again. In both cases a decom- 

 position and a development of lower elements into higher ones takes 

 place, 



