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know the cause from whence his ideas come, for only he 

 who knows wisdom can write wisely " ^ (Be Fundarmnto 

 Sapientice). 



Occult Phenomena 



Action at a Distance. — The (spiritual) breath of man 

 reaches very far ; for the breath is his spirit, and he may 

 send his spirit many hundred miles away, so that it will 

 accomplish all that the man himself could have accom- 

 plished. Such a breath travels as fast as the wind, or 

 as a ball shot out of a gun, and delivers its message" 

 (Philosoph. Tract., iii.). 



Disappearance of Objects. — " Visible bodies may be made 

 invisible, or covered, in the same way as night covers a 

 man and makes him invisible, or as he would become 

 invisible if he were put behind a wall ; and as Nature 

 can render something visible or invisible by such 

 means, likewise a visible substance may be covered 

 with an invisible substajice, and be made invisible by 

 art"^ {Philosoph. Sag., i.). 



Palingenesis. — '' If a thing loses its material substance, 

 the invisible form still remains in the light of Nature 

 (the astral light) ; and if we can reclothe that form with 

 visible matter, we can make that form visible again. All 

 matter is composed of three elements — sulphur, mercury, 

 and salt. By alchemical means we may create a mag- 

 netic attraction in the astral form, so that it will attract 

 from the elements (the A'kasa) those principles wliich it 



* There are three distinct classes of mediutnship : mechanical medium- 

 ship, in which the physical forces of the medium are used by extraneous 

 influences (obsession, physical manifestations, &c.) ; emotional medium- 

 ship, by which the energies of the soul of the medium are stimulated 

 and his feelings and his thoughts aroused (trance speaking and writing) ; 

 spiritual mediumship, in which wisdom manifests itself through transcen- 

 dentally conscious man (ecstasy, illumination). 



2 It is said that "darkness is absence of light." We may say with equal 

 truth that " light is absence of darkness ; " light and darkness are cer- 

 tain states of the cosmic ether (A'kasa). Light is "spirit," darkness is 

 ** matter." Both have positive qualities (Gen. i. 4). 



