EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS 37 



Ilegh crudum. — The combination of a body out of its three con- 

 stituent principles, represented by salt, sulphur, and mercury, 

 or body, soul, and spirit ; respectively the elements of earth, 

 water, and fire. 



Ileiades. — The element of the air ; the vital principle. 



Iliaster. — The hidden power in Nature, by means of which all 

 things grow and multiply ; primordial matter ; materia prima ; 

 A'kasa. Iliaster primus : life ; the balsam of Nature. II. secun- 

 diLS : the power of life inherent in matter. It. tertius : the astral 

 power of man. U. quartus : perfection ; the power obtained by 

 the mystic process of squaring the circle. 



Imaginatio. — The plastic power of the soul, produced by active 

 consciousness, desire, and will. 



Impressiones. — Effects of a passive imagination, which may give 

 rise to various bodily affections, diseases, malformations, stig- 

 mata, monsters (hare-lips, acephali, &c.), moles, marks, &c. 



Incubus and Succubus. — Male and female parasites growing out of 

 the astral elements of man or woman in consequence of a lewd 

 imagination. 2. Astral forms of dead persons (Elementaries), 

 being consciously or instinctively attracted to such persons, 

 manifesting their presence in tangible if not visible forms, 

 and having carnal intercourse with their victims. 3. The 

 astral bodies of sorcerers and witches visiting men or women 

 for immoral purposes. The Incubus is male, and the Succubus 

 female. 



Kama-Loca. — An Eastern term. Kegionof Desire. The soul- 

 sphere (third and fourth principle) of the earth — not neces- 

 sarily on the earth's surface- where the astral remnants of the 

 deceased putrefy and are decomposed. In this region the souls 

 of the deceased that are not pure live (either consciously or in 

 a state of torpor) until their Kama-rupas (bodies of desire) are 

 laid off by a second death, and they themselves having been 

 disintegrated, the division of the higher principles takes place. 

 The lower principles being disposed of, the spirit, with his 

 purified affections and the powers he may have acquired during 

 his earthly existence, enters again into the state of Devachan. 

 Kama-Loca corresponds to the Hades of the Greeks, and to 

 the purgatory of the Roman Catholic Church — the Limbus. 

 {S*e Elementaries.) 



