MAGIC AND SORCERY i6i 



and it cures them. But this is not done by the powers 

 of symbols or characters made in wax or being written 

 on paper, but by an imagination which perfects the will. 

 All the imagination of man comes from the heart. The 

 heart is the * seed ' of the Microcosm, and from that seed 

 the imagination proceeds into the Macrocosm. Thus the 

 imagination of man is a seed that becomes materialised 

 or corporeal. A thought is an act having an object in 

 view. I need not turn my eye with my hand in the 

 direction in which I desire to see, but my imagination 

 turns it wherever I want it. An imagination coming 

 from a pure and intense desire of the heart acts instinc- 

 tively and without any conscious effort. The power of a 

 strong imagination directed upon another can kill or cure 

 him according to the nature of the desire that impels 

 the force, and which may be good or evil. Therefore 

 a curse will become productive of evil, and a blessing 

 productive of good, if it comes from the heart." ^ 



"The curse of the oppressed poor is nothing but 

 an imagination ; but that imagination is firm, and not 

 a wavering and uncertain thing. It is penetrated by 

 and followed with an earnest desire that the object of 

 their wish shall be accomplished, and that which men 

 desire in cursing enters into their imagination, and from 

 the imagination results the act. The evil elements 

 in the soul of him who acted evil attract unto them- 

 selves the evil will set free by the curse of him who 

 has been injured ; for the soul is like a magnet, attract- 

 ing unconsciously that which corresponds to its nature " 

 {Fragm.). 



" Magic is great hidden wisdom, just as that which 

 is commonly called human wisdom is great folly. To 

 use wisdom, no external ceremonies and conjurations 



^ The weak-minded people of our present civilisation know nothing 

 about an imagination that comes from the heart. They live entirely in 

 their brains, in moonshine and fancy. What Paracelsus calls the imagina- 

 ti(m of the heart, and H. P. Blavatsky the " doctrine of the heart," is the 

 self-conscious will enlipfhtened by intelligence. 



