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ator of heaven and of earth, i commenced this holy operation, and i continued it for six moons without omitting the slightest detail, as thou wilt understand later. and the period of the six moons being expired, the lord granted unto me his grace by his mercy; according to the promise made unto our forefathers, since while i was making my prayer unto him he deigned to grant unto me the vision and apparition of his holy angels, together with which i experienced so great joy, consolation and contentment of soul, that i could neither express it nor put it into writing. and during the three days, while i was enjoying this sweet and delightful presence with an indicible contentment, my holy angel, whom god the most merciful had destined from my creation for my guardian, spake unto me with the g

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e are to establish the major premiss of religion: that there exists a conscious intelligence independent of brain and nerve as we know them. if it have also power, so much the better. but we already know of inorganic forces; we have no evidence of inorganic conscious mind. how can the astral plane help us here? it is not enough to prove, as we easily do, the correspondences between invocation and apparition<therion's regular test is to write the name of a force on a card, and conceal it; invoke that force secretly, send his pupil on the astral plane, and make him attribute his vision to some force. the pupil then looks at the card; the force he has named is that written upon it. we must exclude concidence<
ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

, and the frowsty atmosphere of the frowsy "medium" and the squalid s ance "look! but do not speak to them" as virgil warned dante. so let us look. no! let us first congratulate ourselves that this subject of necromancy is so admirably documented. as to the real art, we have not only eliphas l vi, but the sublimely simple account in the old testament of the witch of endor, her conjuring up of the apparition of samuel to king saul. a third classic must not be neglected: i have heard or read the story elsewhere- for the moment i cannot place it. but it is so brilliantly told in i write as i please by walter duranty that nothing could be happier than to quote him verbatim. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 168 "it was the story of a bolshevik who conversed with a cor

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nx 68 wise( ghe will understand that? h) nbyw to be wise mkx emptiness llx to pity sx lulav: a palm branch blwl life myyx 69 a manger, stable; an enclosure swb) myrtle sdh nations; gentiles myywg transgression, error, sin +s 70 hush, be silent hsh wine nyy night lyl the secret (ps. 25:14; see 353) dws adam and eve hwxw md) honest; so, thus, just so, such, so much nk 71 thy terror kmy) nothing; an apparition, image; idol lyl) silence; silent ml) lead, the metal of saturn; a plummet-line, level, water-level kn) vision nwzx a dove, pigeon hnwy a dove hwny plentitude, fulness; to fill )lm 72 the number of triliteral names in the shem ha-mephorasch (72 3= 216; which, by the addition of -yh or -al, give 72 angels chesed: mercy, kindness dsx adonai, as transliterated in the lemegeton, etc (cf. 65

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d shroud in the black concealing darkness and in death! even as i knot about this sigil the triple cord of bondage, so let the magic power of my will and words penetrate unto him, and bind him that he cannot move; but is presently forced by the mastery and the majesty of the rites of power to manifest here before us without this circle of art, in the magical triangle which i have provided for his apparition. and even as i shroud from the light of day this signature of that spirit taphthartharath, so do i render him in his place blind, deaf and dumb. that he may in no wise move his place or call for aid upon his gods; or hear another voice save mine or my companions, or see another path before him than the one unto this place [sigil is placed outside the circle by the assistant magus of art

ifts up the sigil towards heaven, tears off from it the black veil, and cries] creature of kokab, long hast thou dwelt in darkness! quit the night and seek the day [sigil is replaced to west of the triangle; magus holds the sword erect (point upwards) over its centre, and lays her left hand upon it, saying] 184 by all the names, powers and rites already rehearsed, i conjure thee thus unto visible apparition: khabs am pekht. konx om pax. light in extension [saith the magus of art] as the light hidden in darkness can manifest therefrom, so shalt thou become manifest from concealment unto manifestation [the magus of art takes up the sigil, stands at east of altar facing west, and says "the conjuration of the intelligence tiriel" tiriel, angel of god, in the name of iahdonhi i conjure thee sen

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er to consider this abnormal condition of the spirit as a true "grace" as a magic mirror wherein man is invited to see himself at his best; that is to say, as that which he should be, and might be; a kind of angelic excitement; a rehabilitation of the most flattering type. a certain spiritualist school, largely represented in england and america, even considers supernatural phenomena, such as the apparition of phantoms, ghosts &c, as manifestations of the divine will, ever anxious to awaken in the spirit of man the memory of invisible truths. besides this charming and singular state, where all the forces are balanced; where the imagination, though enormously powerful, does not drag after it into perilous adventures the moral sense; when an exquisite sensibility is no longer tortured by sic

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the precision of its mechanical actions. she let her eye fall upon him and wondered. presently he had done digging and set to cut her some flowers, looking at her all the while, already feeling strange and new sensations, sweating in an uncontrolled sukshma-pranayama. alack-a-day, fellows! that was a fine lady for a poor ignorant moujick to behold. she stood, to the end of his days, for a divine apparition. had he know of our lady hecate (blessed be he who murmurs her name with awe! may she gleefully look upon us) he would have considered his vision to be a visit of the great goddess (her name be rapidly uttered in the vault of our beloved brethren the ka d sh knights of water p.a..p.p. water. to cut our tale short, for the time is approaching for our libations, the peasant heard the voic

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tanislas augustus, the last king of poland. so this is not a common simple miracle, you see; but a very wonderful miracle. however, i'm not going to be done; so i've bought a shilling photograph of queen victoria and intend to publish it next march as me when i was cleopatra* as if this was not enough, we find the annals of psychical research publishing in all good faith as a serious account "the apparition of mrs. veal to mrs. bargrave" which was written by daniel defoe as a puff of some ass's meditations on death* 2 we do not blame the editors of these papers for nodding; but we do think they owe us some poetry as good as homer's or some erotic adventures to match jove's* i had almost forgotten dear old mathers. yet it was only last december that a colleague of mine was told by some grea

u omicron chi alpha theta alpha upsilon tau omicron; what is the atman? that the thing which we perceive and experience is not 53 the "thing in itself" is very certain, for it is only what "we see" yet nevertheless we renounce this as being absurd, or not renouncing it, at least do not live up to our assertion; for, we name that which is a reality to a child, and a deceit or illusion to a man, an apparition or a shadow. thus, little by little, we beget a new reality upon the old reality, a new falsehood upon the old falsehood, namely, that the thing we see is "an illusion" and is not "a reality" seldom considering that the true difference between the one and the other is but the difference of name. then after a little do we begin to believe in "the illusion" as firmly and concretely as we

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and edge over towards her mother. it appeared to come in wisps from alex's head and shoulders, gathering colour and substance as it formed a cylindrical co!umn. it hovered inches above the floor, extending to a height of perhaps three feet, but constantly dilating and contracting as ifit were aflame fed by a large gasjet. the room grew hot and mrs morris's skin prickled. there was no sound as the apparition zig-zagged across the hearth, hut when it was only inches away from her, terror overcame her. putting her ands,to her. t oat, she scr7amed 'take it away. it's burrung. i m afraid. she broke into sobs. maxine tried to comfort her, at the same time berating her for having destroyed her chance ofbeing cured. but the swelling decreased and for a few weeks it seemed as though the cure had su

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by the insight of the vision."1(36) but the mystical way is a preparation for the way of knowledge and where the mystic stops in adoration of the vision and in yearning after the beloved, the seeker after true knowledge takes up the task and carries the work forward. dr. bennett of yale says, at the close of his book on mysticism "the mystic at the end of his preparation is simply waiting for an apparition and an event which he is careful not to define too particularly; he is waiting, too, with the full consciousness that his own effort has now carried him as far as it can go and that it needs to be completed by some touch from without."2(37) this thought confines the whole idea within the realm of sensuous perception, but there is something more. there is direct knowledge. there is an un

the teachers and masters of the race work through souls. this cannot be too often reiterated. therefore, the prime duty of every aspirant should be the perfect performance of meditation and service and discipline, and not the making of contact with some great soul. it is less interesting, but preserves him from illusion. if he does this, the higher results will take care of themselves. should an apparition appear to him, therefore, and should such an entity make platitudinous comments, he will use the same judgment as he would in business or ordinary life with a man who came and said to him "a great work lies in your hands, you are doing well. we see and know, etc, etc" he would probably laugh and continue with the activity or duty of the moment. another effect of meditation, and a very p

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ated the golden and the silver age (first and second races; while jupiter created the generations of bronze (an admixture of two elements, of heroes, and the men of the age of iron. after this he sends his fatal present, by pandora, to epimetheus* which present hesiod calls "a fatal gift" or the first woman. it was a punishment, he explains, sent to man "for the theft of divine creative fire" her apparition on earth is the signal of every kind of evil. before her appearance, the human races lived happy, exempt from sickness and suffering- as the same races are made to live under yima's rule, in the mazdean vendidad. two deluges may also be traced in universal tradition by carefully comparing hesiod, the rig veda, the zend-avesta, etc, while no first man is ever mentioned in any of the theo

a substance but the cause of it; not one that is here, there, or elsewhere, not what we see, but that in which all is- space* therefore it is said in the puranas that the view of dhruva (the polar star) at night, and of the celestial porpoise (sisumara, a constellation "expiates whatever sin has been committed during the day" the fact is that the rays of the four stars in the circle of perpetual apparition- the agni, mahendra, kasyapa, and dhruva, placed in the tail of ursa minor (sisumara- focussed in a certain way and on a certain object produce extraordinary results. the astro-magians of india will understand what is meant[[vol. 2, page] 613 who are the maruts? brance of the seven primordial mysteries instituted according to the "seven secret emanations" the "seven sounds" and seven ra

ir divine ages, that suidas shows the ancients counting, in their chronological computations, days for years. dr. sepp in his ingenious plagiarism- exposed elsewhere- of the hindu 432 in thousands and millions of years (the duration of the yugas) which he dwarfed to 4,320 lunar years before the "birth of christ- as "foreordained" in the sidereal (besides the invisible) heavens, and proved "by the apparition of the star of bethlehem- appeals to suidas and his authority. but suidas had no other warrant for it than his own speculations, and he[[vol. 2, page] 620 the secret doctrine. was no initiate. he cites, as a proof, vulcan, in showing him as having, according to chronological claim, reigned 4,477 years, i.e, 4,477 days, as he thinks, or rendered in years, 12 years, 3 months, and 7 days;

he caribs and those of the ancient inhabitants of peru and chili. still, the deluge, whether biblical or atlantean, was denied. but further geological discoveries having made gaudry write conclusively "our forefathers were positively contemporaneous with the rhinoceros tichorrhinus, the hippopotamus major; and add that the soil called diluvial in geology "was formed partially at least after man's apparition on earth- littre pronounced himself finally. he then showed the necessity, before "the resurrection of so many old witnesses" of rehandling all the origins, all the durations, and added that there was an age hitherto unknown to study "either at the dawn of the actual epoch or, as i believe, at the beginning of the epoch which preceded it" the types of the skulls found in europe are of t

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sublimated condition. tycho brahe, who viewed the milky way as an ethereal substance, thought the new star that appeared in cassiopoeia, in 1572, had been formed out of that matter("progymnasmata" p. 795) kepler believed the star of 1606 had been likewise formed out of the ethereal substance that fills the universe("de stella nova in pede serpentarii" p. 115. he attributed to that same ether the apparition of a luminous ring around the moon, during the total eclipse of the sun observed at naples in 1605("hypotheses cosmogoniques" c. wolf) still later, in 1714- the existence of a self-luminous matter was recognised by halley("philosophical transactions. finally, the journal of this name published in 1811 the famous hypothesis on the transformation of the nebulae into stars, by the eminent

hough their spiritual vision is still unopened and the atmospheric dust of terrestrial origin seals their sight and chains it to the limits of physical systems, still they do not fail to perceive the movements and note the behaviour of meteors and comets. they record the periodical advents of those wanderers and "flaming messengers" and prophesy, in consequence, earthquakes, meteoric showers, the apparition of certain stars, comets, etc, etc. are they soothsayers for all that? no, they are learned astronomers. why, then, should occultists and astrologers, as learned, be disbelieved, when they prophesy the return of some cyclic event on the same mathematical principle? why should the claim that they know it be ridiculed? their forefathers and predecessors, having recorded the recurrence of

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e a man, she said, but much larger. it was at least seven feet tall and very broad. the thing that attracted her attention was not its size, but its eyes. it had, she said, large, round, fiercely glowing red eyes that focussed on her with hypnotic effect 'it's a wonder i didn't run off the road and have a wreck' she commented later. 258 children of the matrix "as she slowed, her eyes fixed on the apparition, a pair of wings unfolded from its back. they seemed to have a span of about ten feet. it was definitely not an ordinary bird, but a man-shaped thing, which rose slowly off the ground, straight up like a helicopter, silently. its wings did not flap in flight. it headed straight toward connie's car, its horrible eyes fixed to her face, and then it swooped low over her head as she shoved

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he conqueror in the 11th century and it has a reputation for satanism. the lady whospoke to me was taking her dog for a walk across the land at dusk in the early 1970s whenshe saw a figure in a long red robe. when he lifted his head, she saw that his face was thatof a lizard. she obviously thought she was crazy, but this was no illusion, she said. thelizard was very real and very physical, not an apparition. she is very psychic and shelater began to see people either transform into lizards before her eyes or be overshadowedby them in exactly the way described by the american psychic. if you look in the picturesection you will see an artists impression of what she sees with her psychic sight andmany others have described exactly the same experiences. on july 20th 1988, a numberof people in

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everal friends at a house in rome said to have been haunted for a long time by specters and demons. in the middle of the night, when all of them were assembled in one room, a frightening specter appeared who called to them in a loud voice and threw about the ornaments in the room. one of the friends approached the specter bearing a light, whereupon it disappeared. several times afterward the same apparition reentered through the door. alexander found that the demon had slid underneath the couch he was lying on, and on rising from it, he saw a black arm appear on a table in front of him. by this time several of the company had retired, and the lights were out, but torches were brought in answer to their cries of alarm when the specter opened the door, slid past the advancing domestics, and

r disgraceful career outside, but before she died she repented of her sins and, through the intercession of the virgin, received pardon. however, she was refused christian burial and was interred without the usual prayers and funeral rites. a number of years later, when the monastery was occupied by other nuns, one of their number, a girl of about eighteen years, was aroused from her sleep by the apparition of sister alis. for some time afterward the spirit haunted her wherever she went, continually rapping on the ground near where she stood and even communicating with the other nuns. the spirit who entered the monastery seemed good and devout, but the good sisters, well versed in the wiles of the devil, had their doubts. the bishop of lyons and the narrator, adrien de montalembert, were c

very quickly (see also devil s jelly; falls) sources: clark, jerome. the emergence of a phenomenon: ufos from the beginning through 1959. detroit: omnigraphics, 1992. corliss, william r, ed. handbook of unusual natural phenomena. glen arm, md: sourcebook project, 1977. angels of mons a story by british author arthur machen, first published in the london evening news for september 14, 1915, on the apparition of phantom english bowmen from the field of agincourt during the terrible retreat from mons in world war i. the story quoted the testimony of an officer as follows: on the night of the 27th i was riding along the column with two other officers. as we rode along i became conscious of the fact that in the fields on both sides of the road along which angelseaxisce ealdriht encyclopedia of

owever, the two perfect prophets could not smother the growing discord against their autocratic rule, and soon the whole community dispersed. sources: cuthbert, arthur. the life worldwork of thomas lake harris, written from direct personal knowledge. glasgow, scotland, 1909. schneider, herbert w, and george lawton. a prophet and a pilgrim. new york: columbia university press, 1942. apparitions an apparition, from latin apparere (to appear, is in its literal sense merely an appearance.a sense perception of any kind, but as used in psychical research and parapsychology the word denotes an abnormal or paranormal appearance or perception, which cannot be explained by any mundane objective cause. taken in this sense the word covers all visionary appearances, hallucinations, clairvoyance, and si

rere (to appear, is in its literal sense merely an appearance.a sense perception of any kind, but as used in psychical research and parapsychology the word denotes an abnormal or paranormal appearance or perception, which cannot be explained by any mundane objective cause. taken in this sense the word covers all visionary appearances, hallucinations, clairvoyance, and similar unusual perceptions. apparition and ghost are frequently used as synonymous terms, though the former is, of course, of much wider significance. a ghost is a visual apparition of a deceased human being.the term implies that the ghost is the spirit of the person it represents. apparitions of animals and even inanimate objects are also occasionally reported. all apparitions do not take the form of visual images; auditory

person it represents. apparitions of animals and even inanimate objects are also occasionally reported. all apparitions do not take the form of visual images; auditory and tactile false perceptions, although less common, are not unknown. for example, there is record of a house that was haunted with the perpetual odor of violets. evolution of the belief in apparitions the belief that identifies an apparition with the spirit of the creature it represents.a worldwide belief widely affirmed in all cultures throughout history.has been traced to the ancient doctrine generally called animism, which endowed everything in nature, from human beings to the smallest insect, from the heavenly bodies to an insignificant plant or stone, with a separable soul. it is not difficult to understand how the con

f, or that the soul of the latter had visited the dreamer. by an easy process of reasoning, this theory was extended to include dreams of animals and inanimate things, which also were endowed with souls. telepathy and clairvoyance have been described as appearing in pre-industrial indigenous cultures and have a powerful effect in the development of a belief in apparitions. it is believed that the apparition of a deceased person suggested to some the continuance of the soul s existence beyond the grave; the apparition of a sick person, or one in some other grave crisis could also be regarded as the soul, which at such times was absent from the body. there is a widely diffused opinion that ghosts are of a filmy, unsubstantial nature, a belief also present in the earliest speculations concern

ht take a human form, or the form of a beast, bird, or fish. animal ghosts were common among native americans in both north and south america. certain african tribes believed that the souls of evil-doers became jackals (a scavenger animal) on the death of the body. the tapuya indians of brazil thought the souls of the good entered into birds, and this belief was of rather wide diffusion. when the apparition was in human shape it was generally an exact counterpart of the person it represented, and, like the apparitions reported in more recent times, its dress was that worn by the deceased in its lifetime. it was generally accepted in indigenous cultures that the spirits of the departed mingled with the living, coming and going with no particular object in view or, on occasion, with the spec

n. the ghosts of the zulus and new zealander maoris speak to the magicians in thin, whistling tones. this idea of the semiarticulate nature of ghosts is not confined to anthropological treatises; in his play julius ceasar, william shakespeare spoke of the sheeted dead, who, did squeak and gibber in the streets of rome, and the gibbering ghost appeared in other connections. naturally an articulate apparition would be doubly convincing, since it appealed to two separate senses. nineteenthcentury anthropologist e. b. tylor argued, men who perceive evidently that souls do talk when they present themselves in dream or vision, naturally take for granted at once the objective reality of the ghostly voice, and of the ghostly form from which it proceeds. spirits that are generally invisible may app

neral, wrapped in meditation, thought he perceived something enter his tent; turning towards the door he saw a horrible and monstrous specter standing silently by his side. what art thou, said he boldly. art thou god or man, and what is thy business with me? the specter answered, i am thy evil genius, brutus! thou wilt see me at philippi. to which he calmly replied, i ll meet thee there. when the apparition was gone he called his servants, who told him they had neither heard any voice, nor seen any vision. types of apparitions psychical research divided apparitions broadly into two classes.induced and spontaneous. to the former class belong hypnotic and post-hypnotic hallucinations and visions induced by the use of narcotics and intoxicants, fasts, ascetic practices, incense, narcotic salv

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lar religion of the malay peninsula. london: macmillan, 1900. swettenham, sir frank a. malay sketches. london: john lane, 1895. winstedt, r. the malays: a cultural history. london: routledge, 1950. mallebranche (ca. 1618) seventeenth-century frenchman haunted by his dead wife. mallebranche was a marker of the game of tennis, living in the rue sainte-genevieve, paris, who in 1618 was visited by an apparition of his wife, who had died five years before. she came to advise him to repent and live a better life and to pray for her also. both mallebranche and his wife (for he had married a second time) heard the voice, but the apparition did not become visible. sources: histoire nouvelle et remarquable de l esprit d une femme qui c est apparue au faubourg saint-marcel apres qu elle a demeue cinq

re of them from the sound of their breathing, which i could hear distinctly before they were noticed by the sitters opposite to me. when i turned around i found their faces just about a foot from me, either smiling or looking intently at me. some of these were breathing violently as if after a strenuous run, and in these cases i felt their breath on my face. once i listened to the heartbeat of an apparition. they conducted themselves as callers at a party. the expression of curiosity in their eyes is most appealing. i have seen a similar look only in the eyes of children at the age of the awakening of their intelligence. on one occasion i saw two of them flying high above our heads in the higher room, illuminating each other with the plaques and performing fancy evolutions. it was really a

used. hirkill (an afghan) materialised. accompanying him always was a rapacious beast, the size of a very big dog, of a tawny colour, with slender neck, mouth full of large teeth, eyes which glowed in the darkness like a cat s, and which reminded the company of a maneless lion. it was occasionally wild in its behaviour, especially if persons were afraid of it, and neither the human nor the animal apparition was much welcomed by the sitters. the lion, as we may call him, liked to lick the sitters with a moist and prickly tongue, and gave forth the odour of a great feline, and even after the seance the sitters, and especially the medium, were impregnated with this acrid scent as if they had made a long stay in a menagerie among wild beasts. according to one professor pawlowski s account in t

yugoslavia that has been the site of claimed apparitions of the virgin mary. the case follows a pat- the medium and daybreak encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1016 tern seen also at lourdes, la salette, and fatima, in which teenage visionaries state that the virgin has given them secrets concerning civilization and religion. it is the latest of a series of prominent cases of the apparition of the virgin that began in the early nineteenth century. the visionaries have attracted some attention due to their location. they began to report apparitions in 1981 in yugoslavia, at that time an atheist marxist country. although yugoslavia was independent of the soviet union, the state tolerated religion but hardly encouraged it. the reported apparitions brought many tourists, espec

th strong roman catholic ties. it lasted only a few years, but during that period these croats were responsible for terrible atrocities against their serbian neighbors of the eastern orthodox faith. only a short distance from the site of the modern apparitions, hundreds of serbian women, children, and babies were thrown to their deaths from the top of a high cliff. the first apparitions the first apparition was reported in 1981. there were six visionaries, all teenagers or younger children: four girls, marija pavlovic (16, vicka ivankovic (16, mirjana dragicevic (16, and ivanka ivankovic (15, and two boys, ivan dragicevic (16) and jakov colo (10. on the feast of st. john, june 24, 1981, ivanka, marija, and mirjana went for a walk to the hill of crnica. ivanka suddenly exclaimed there s our

ger children: four girls, marija pavlovic (16, vicka ivankovic (16, mirjana dragicevic (16, and ivanka ivankovic (15, and two boys, ivan dragicevic (16) and jakov colo (10. on the feast of st. john, june 24, 1981, ivanka, marija, and mirjana went for a walk to the hill of crnica. ivanka suddenly exclaimed there s our lady! mirjana felt unable to look, but ivanka was convinced that she had seen an apparition of the virgin mary. the girls returned home, and a few hours later set out again to help a farmer with his sheep. they left a message for their friends to follow them. the apparition again appeared, and was also seen by some of the other children, who had met up with ivanka and mirjana. the apparition was a beautiful smiling mother with child, wearing a starry crown and floating above t

friends to follow them. the apparition again appeared, and was also seen by some of the other children, who had met up with ivanka and mirjana. the apparition was a beautiful smiling mother with child, wearing a starry crown and floating above the ground. the following day, four of the teenagers returned to the same place, followed by friends, and this time, jakov colo and marija pavlovic saw the apparition. similar encounters took place on succeeding days, when the virgin spoke to the children in excellent croatian. she said that she was the blessed virgin mary, sent from god with a gospel message. asked why the message should come through such ordinary children, she replied that it was precisely because they were ordinary and average, neither the best nor worst, that they had been chosen

rgin spoke to the children in excellent croatian. she said that she was the blessed virgin mary, sent from god with a gospel message. asked why the message should come through such ordinary children, she replied that it was precisely because they were ordinary and average, neither the best nor worst, that they had been chosen. thereafter, the children assembled on the hill each day to witness the apparition. when news of the apparition reached the church, the parish priest was temporarily absent. the assistant priest was not impressed and thought that maybe the children were on drugs and hallucinating. but after a few days, as the news spread, thousands of devout followers flocked to the hill, many in tears as they witnessed the children in a state of ecstasy. when father jozo zovko, the p

sionaries. the children fled through the fields and vineyards, followed by the police. there was only one place of sanctuary.the church. in an answer to prayer, the priest heard a voice saying go and protect the children, then i will tell you what to do. he went to the door of the church and found the children pleading to be hidden. he concealed them in a room in the presbytery. that evening, the apparition came to the children again, but this time in the church itself. now each evening the congregation gathered to pray in the church and the apparitions appeared as usual to the children. often in tears, the apparition urged the faithful to confess sins, do penance, and fast once a week on bread and water. the parish priest now supported the apparitions, and indeed also shared the vision in

ns, but was constrained by his theological and political responsibilities. government observers attending a church congregation reported back that a sermon about the need for personal change was really a disguised criticism of socialism. father jozo was arrested by the police and accused of slandering the state system. in october, he was tried and sentenced to three years imprisonment. he saw the apparition in prison. the aftermath of the apparitions meanwhile, in march 1983, bishop zanic appointed a theological commission to investigate and form a judgment on the encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. medjugorje 1017 apparitions. the visionaries reported that the virgin recommended special prayers for the bishop and his heavy responsibility. the religious authorities in rome s

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

liam morrow. aliens and the dead in the view of ufo-abduction investigator david m. jacobs, aliens sometimes take on the form of deceased relatives in the interest of keeping their activities secret. he recounts the experience of a woman to whom he gives the pseudonym lily ma rt i nson. vacationing with her mother in the vi rgin islands in 1987, ma rtinson woke up in her hotel room to observe the apparition of her dead brother watching her from the foot of the bed. the experience comforted her. l a t e r, howe ve r, when jacobs put her under hypnosis, ma rtinson saw the individual she had thought was her brother as, in ja c o b s s w o rds, a person without clothes, small, thin, no hair, and large eyes. he calls such individuals as ma rtinson u n a w a re abductees. un a w a re abductees e

ances she is a physical being like ourselves, yet she is obviously created of substances not of this earth (howard, 1958. howard, who claimed to have visited venus, reported that on october 3, 1957, as she was lecturing at the women s clubhouse in fontana, california, she felt a strange warmth come over her. after the meeting, several audience members rushed up to her to say that they had seen an apparition of a young diane 87 woman transposed over howard s body. one audience member, eleanor warner, described the figure of a beautiful woman, very young, with long golden hair, a very slim body, and small waistline. she seemed to glow in the golden light. another witness, trudy allen, was overcome by the transcendent beauty that was shining forth. in howard s account, diane appeared to her

that the event was real. undoubtedly the most spectacular such case took place in fatima, portugal, in 1917. the incident is extraordinarily complicated. what follows is a highly abbreviated account. around noon on may 13, three children, two girls and a boy, tending sheep, saw a flash of light and observed a brilliantly illuminated figure of a woman standing amid the branches of an oak tree. the apparition announced that she was from heaven and would return six times, on each occasion on the thirteenth of each succeeding month. on the last visitation in october, she would tell them who she was and why she had come. soon word spread, and by june 13 some sixty persons accompa- 162 marian apparitions nied the children. though the bvm appeared, no one but the children saw her, and the communi

was skeptical. diego returned to report his failure to the bvm, who was waiting for him. she instructed him to return the next day. this time the bishop asked for a sign. marian apparitions 163 the vision of our lady of fatima (fortean picture library) that same day, diego s uncle, who was seriously ill, had a vision of the bvm and was cured. meanwhile, diego repeated the bishop s request to the apparition. she told him to pick roses from the hillside (though they should have been out of season. he was instructed to wrap them in his long outer cape (known as a tilma) and to take them to the bishop. when he did so, he unrolled the tilma and was as shocked as the bishop and his associates when the cape turned out to contain a full-color image of the bvm. to this day the tilma is displayed i

ral processes, thus confusing rather than clarifying issues. old hag sleep paralysis may explain at least some abduction and other ostensibly ufo-related bedroom visitations. for example, john a. keel, author of several books on ufos, has written of his own encounters with strange entities, including one in which i woke up in the middle of the night to find myself unable to move, with a huge dark apparition standing over me (keel, 1970. addressing the abduction phenomenon, hufford has said, if the paralysis attacks, as described by abductees, are directly linked to abductions, there is every reason to believe that the abduction phenomenon has great historical depth and is associated in complex ways with other classes of anomalous experience (hufford, 1994. see also: abductions by ufos; kee

FAUST

l, thou art! unveil thyself! ha! how it rends my heart! to unknown feeling all my senses burst forth, reeling! i feel my heart is thine and to the uttermost! thou must! thou must! though my life be the cost! he clutches the book and utters the sign of the spirit in a tone of mystery. a ruddy flame flashes up; the spirit appears in the flames. spirit who calls to me? faust [turning away. appalling apparition! spirit by potent spell hast drawn me here, hast long been tugging at my sphere, and now- faust oh woe! i can not bear thy vision! spirit with panting breath thou hast implored this sight, wouldst hear my voice, my face wouldst see; thy mighty spirit-plea inclineth me! here am i- what a pitiable fright grips thee, thou superman! where is the soul elated? where is the breast that in its

ou now for many hundred years. sirens [on the rocks. see yon cloudlets, how they mingle round the moon, how fair a ring! doves they are, with love a-tingle, white as light is every wing. paphos sent them as her greeting, ardent, radiant, they appear, thus our festival completing, fraught with rapture full and clear! nereus [approaching thales. though night-wanderer make a pother, call yon ring an apparition, still we spirits take another, take the only right position. they are doves that are attending on my daughter s pearly car; taught long since, in times afar, wondrously they re hither wending. thales since it gives a real man pleasure, i too hold that as the best when a sacred, living treasure finds in him a still, warm nest. psylli and marsil [on sea-bulls, sea-calves, and sea-rams. i

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

with fear. w.b.yeats remembered the revd w. a. ayton as 'the most panic-stricken person i have ever known' and discovered that ayton was apprehensive about every aspect of practical occultism:wisdom55ihe] took me aside that he mightsay-'jhope you never invoke spirits-that is a very dangerous thing to do. 1 am told that even the planetaryspirits turn upon us in the end. 1said 'have you everseen an apparition''0,yes, once' he said 'i have my alchernical labora255 toryin a cellar under my house where the bishop cannot see it. one day1 was walking up and down there when 1 heard another footstepwalkingup and downbeside me. 1 turned and sawa girl 1 had been inlovewithwheniwas a youngman, but she died long ago.she wanted me to kiss her. 0 no, 1wouldnotdo that 'why not?'isaid.'0she might have got

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

s of wish. 8aga can be no other than our sage (saw, tale, the' m^ere' of p. 897 personified and deifi^ed. our 13th cent, poets personify' aventiure' making a fyan aoentiure, like the norn, foot it overland to the minstrel's hut, knock and demand admission^ to this day, when people take turns in telling stories, they say' the marlein goes round from house to house' suchenwirth no. xxv describes an apparition of dame aventiure on a blooming ea in the forest; she has travelled through the land to kings and princes as frau ehre's messenger, and now presents her report; putting a gold ring on her finger, she disappears. i have one thing more to mention, that m.nethl. poets make a person of' aventure' in the sense of our mhg. frau sjslde' die aventure wacht' maerl. 2, 14 'dat rat (rota) van aven

otker renders 'manes' by unholdon, so that holdo and unholdo also appear synonymous here. the ohg. hispanst fem (our gespenst n, spectre) meant properly suggestio (from spanan, suggerere; but as the forms of confession dealt much with devilish suggestion and enticement, 1 men came to use it habitually of ghostly delusion and illusion. boner 94, 54 has 'diu gespenst (why not gespanst) for phantom, apparition. the neuter is found in the maere vora schretel und wazzerber 92 quite in the above connexion 'des tiuvels valant und sin gespenste; even earlier, herbort 3500 couples gespenste and getwas. keisersperg (omeiss 39) has des teufels gespenst (praestigium: not till recent centuries did the term become really common, and some spelt it gespengst we also say spujo; it is a lg. word, which firs

d. sog. 2, 346. to haunt is in l. sax. dwetern, on the harz lualteii (harry^s volkss. 2, 46. the regular word in on. is d/rangr, fornm. sog. 3, 200: o^inu is styled' drariga drottinn' yngl. saga cap. 7, and a gravemound draugahus, seem. 169. the word is lost in sweden and denmark, but lives in the norweg. drou, droug (hallager 20. it seems to be of one root with ohg. gltroc, mhg. getroc, delusive apparition, phantom, used of elvish and fiendish beings (p. 464; but our verb triegen, ohgr. triokan troc (fallere) has no corresponding driuga in the northern languages^ the edda uses the analogous svik (fallacia, fraus) likewise in the sense of a ghostly jugglei-y, saem. 166. 167. and that is also the meaning of the terms glsciii and scinlelh quoted p. 482; they can refer to spectres as well as

d the said carpenter was dead. the wild hunter rides a black headless horse, a hunting-whip in one hand and a bugle in the other; his face is set in his neck, and between the blasts he cries 'hoho hoho' before and behind go plenty of women, huntsmen and dogs. at times, they say, he shews himself kind, and comforts the lost wanderer with meat and drink (harrys 2, 6. in central germany this ghostly apparition is simply called the ivild huntsman, or has some other and more modern name' holw, looit [jut' a"w. 3, 144-5. both wod and looit seem to me to refer to wodan, wuotau, as exclamations are apt to contain tlie names of gods. furious host. 929 attached to him. by waurod near schluchtern in hanau country are seen tall basaltic crags standing up like ruins: there in former times was the ivild

of the older hellequin, whose mesnie is mentioned several times in poems of the 13th cent^ as well as by guil. alvernus, and who cannot therefore be the french king charles v. of the latter half of the 14th cent. that in france too they connect charles the great with the furious host, appears from a burgundian poem of the 17th cent, in which charlemagne bestrides his horse at the head of the airy apparition, and roland carries the standard (journ. des savans 1832, p. 496. but what if hellequin were after all the german helle (underworld) or its diminutive hellekin, personified and made masculine^ at tours they say chasse hrujuet (briguet is hound, and le carosse dii roi hugon^ who rides round the city walls at night, and beats or carries off all that encounter him. here also king hugo cape

or on the dry tree breaking into leaf (pp. 955-7. another difficulty put in the way of deliverance is, that the maiden in some disgusting shape, as a snake, dragon, toad oy frog, has to be kissed three times (d. sag. no. 13. moneys anz. 3, 89. 7, 476. already in the poem of lanzelot we have this kissing of the dragon's mouth, who after that turns into a fair lady (7881. 7907-90. now and then the apparition of the white dame basking in the sun, beaming and bathing, melts into the notion of a ivater-holde and nixe (p. 491, a scand. hafs-fru (afzelius2, 150, spirits that likewise need redemption (p. 493. twelve luhite sea-maids come and join in the dancing of men (mone's anz. 5, 93; add the romance legend of melusina. but such mer-women generally assume, wholly or in part, the shape of a fis

load upon, 1142 superstition. hev: by this iuliuman rite they hoped to secure immovable stability or other advantages. danish traditions tell of a iamb being built in under the altar, that the church might stand unshaken; and of a live horse being buried in every churchyard, before any corpse was laid in it (p. 841. both lamb and horse occasionally shew themselves in church or churchyard, and the apparition betokens a death (tliiele 1, 136-7. even under other houses sivine and fowls are buried alive (1, 198, superst. i, 472 says, a long spell of good weather can be brought on by walling-in a code; and 755 a cow^s 'running* be prevented by bricking up a blind dog alive under the stable-door. in time of murrain, the esthonians bury one head of the herd under the stable-door, that death may h

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as so denuded of her native resources, that no other expedient was left her; our mythology will have to remember this, and in stray features here and there recognise [mangled but] still palpitating figures even of the heathen time. when the poet has missed his way in a wooded wild, and beside the mur muring spring comes upon a wailing wife, who imparts advice and information, what is this but the apparition of a wish-wife or valkyr, who meets the hero a-t the forest fount, and makes a covenant with him? and that dwarfs or giants often come between, as servants of these wild women, and conduct to their dwelling by a narrow path, this also seems no invention, but founded on old tradition. out of many examples i will select a few. ms. 2, 136b: ich kam geriten uf ein velt viir einen griienen w

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

end now had confidence in himself, and doing as all good mesmerists shoulddo-subscribetothezoist,he216therosicrucianseerincontestable proof that the whole is a mentaldelusion--zoist,p267426.but furthermore, ifanyonechooses to claim the manifesta255 tion thus hypotheticallyadmitted,-theperception in a room at paris of the personal condition and present thoughts of a person inmexico,-asvirtually an apparition, as something much more to the purpose of a profitable apparition than is often to be had in the market, we know not what objection can be made on the part of those who have brought the question to this point.thesound of a voice is as much an apparition as a face and form seen, and what are externals of any kind to actual communica255 tion of mental impressions?thedifferences, however

y the sea-shore, and behind him there is a black man in a turban holding a beautiful horse richly caparisoned""godin heavenl" cried major felix "nay" the boy resumed "this is an old frank; he has turned round while you are speaking, and by allah he has but one arm" major felix's brother lost his arm in the campaign of ava''itis here evident' says dr collyer 'that he did not see any real spirit or apparition, but merely theembodiedideaof the travellers, who depicted in their minds the imageofshakespear as he isgenerallyrepresented &c &c.drcollyer then proceeds to state that he has proved the 'possibility of mental transfer' beyond the remotest chance of doubt: he relates several experiments in which the recipients exactly described what the spectators wished them to perceive, it being neces

cture. there are twotherosicrucianseeriieveningswiththeindwellers oftheworldofspiritsbeinga paper read at ameetingofthebristol rosicruciancollege[published intherosicrucianandmasonicrecord,new series,no.6,iapril,18n jin presenting the following paper for the consideration of our brethrenofthe r.c, iam,at the riskofseeming tedious, compelled to make some prefatory remarks upon the occasion of this apparition, which occurred unsought and undesired, thatimay render the narrative intelligible, and show, moreover, how earnestly and strenuously the earth-bound spirits among the departed strive to enter into communion with mortals, now that the veil whichofold could only be penetrated by the adept after a long and iaboriouaformule, has, by the widespread practiceofanimal magnetism been effectuall

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

said the frenchman. we parted. three days after that i was at t, and as i was sitting in the dining-room of a restaurant,waiting for my lunch, i happened to pick up a newspaper, and the first lines i read ran thus: vienna, 186. two mysterious deaths. last evening, at 9:45, as p- was about to retire, two of the gentlemen-in-waitingsuddenly exhibited great terror, as though they had seen a dreadful apparition. theyscreamed, staggered, and ran about the room, holding up their hands as if to ward off theblows of an unseen weapon. they paid no attention to the eager questions of the prince andsuite, but presently fell writhing upon the floor, and expired in great agony. their bodiesexhibited no appearance of apoplexy, nor any external marks of wounds, but, wonderful torelate, there were numerou

ts, had previously been smooth as a sheet of glass,became suddenly agitated, as if a powerful gust of wind had swept over its unruffled face. another chant, anda roll of the drum, and the mountain trembled to its foundation with the cannon-like peals which rolledthrough the dark and distant corridors. the shaman's body rose two yards in the air, and nodding andswaying, sat, self-suspended like an apparition. but the transformation which now occurred in the boychilled everyone, as they speechlessly watched the scene. the silvery cloud about the boy now seemed to lifthim, too, into the air; but, unlike the shaman, his feet never left the ground. the child began to grow, asthough the work of years was miraculously accomplished in a few seconds. he became tall and large, and hissenile features

, in solemn voice "in the name of the great master, of him who has all power, answer the truth, and nothing but the truth.restless spirit, hast thou been lost by accident, or foully murdered" the spectre's lips moved, but it was the echo which answered for them in lugubrious shouts "murdered!mur-der-ed! murdered "where? how? by whom" asked the conjuror. nightmare talesthe cave of the echoes58 the apparition pointed a finger at nicolas and, without removing its gaze or lowering its arms, retreatedbackwards slowly towards the lake. at every step it took, the younger izvertzoff, as if compelled by someirresistable fascination, advanced a step towards it, until the phantom reached the lake, and the next momentwas seen gliding on its surface. it was a fearful, ghostly scene! when he had come wi

f agony. the phantom now remained motionless onthe water, and bending his extended finger, slowly beckoned him to come. crouched in abject terror, thewretched man shrieked until the cavern rang again and again "i did not. no, i did not murder you" then came a splash, and now it was the boy who was in the dark water, struggling for his life, in the middleof the lake, with the same motionless stern apparition brooding over him "papa! papa! save me. i am drowning. cried a piteous little voice amid the uproar of the mockingechoes "my boy" shrieked nicolas, in the accents of a maniac, springing to his feet "my boy! save him! oh, savehim. yes i confess. i am the murderer. it is i who killed him" another splash, and the phantom disappeared. with a cry of horror the company rushed towards the plat

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ena are genuine-which is a fact of rarer occurrence than is generally believed-they are produced by the larvae, the eidolons, or kamalokic "ghosts" of the dead personalities (see kamaloka and kamarupa) as kamaloka is on the earth-plane and differs from its degree of materiality only in the degree of its plane of consciousness, for which reason it is concealed from our normal sight, the occasional apparition of such shells is as natural as that of electric balls and other atmospheric phenomena. electricity as a fluid, or atomic matter (for occultists hold with maxwell that it is atomic, is ever, though invisibly, present in the air and manifests under various shapes, but only when certain conditions are present to "materialize" the fluid, when it passes from its own onto our plane and makes

ons is quite another matter. these "astrals" are often mistaken for the apparitions of the dead, since, chameleon-like, our own "elementaries" along with those of the disembodied and cosmic elementals, will often assume the appearance of those images which are strongest in our thoughts. in short, at the so-called "materialization seances" it is those present and the medium who create the peculiar apparition. independent "apparitions" belong to another kind of psychic phenomena. materialist not necessarily only one who believes in neither god nor soul, nor the survival of the latter, but also any person who materializes the purely spiritual; such as believe in an anthropomorphic deity, in a soul capable of burning in hell fire, and a hell and paradise as localities instead of states of cons

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

himself count de glenstrae or count macgregor, with westcott a co-founderof the g.d, presented him to yeats with the words 'he unites us to the great adepts of the past' yeats continued: this old man took me aside that he might say 'i hope you never invoke spirits- that is a very dangerous thing to do. 1am told that even the planetary spirits turn upon us in the end' 1 said 'have you ever seen an apparition 'oh yes, once, he said 'i have my alchemical laboratory in a cellar under my house where the bishop cannot see it. one day 1 was walking up and down there when 1 heard another footstep walking up and down beside me. 1 turned and saw a girl 1 had been in love with when 1was a young man, but she died long ago. she wanted me to kiss her. oh no, 1 would not do that 'why not' 1 said 'oh she

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

- a thing which after all was mercifully averted by the relative isolation of our cottage- my friend suddenly, excitedly, and unnecessarily emptied all six chambers of his revolver into the nocturnal visitor. for that visitor was neither italian nor policeman. looming hideously against the spectral moon was a gigantic misshapen thing not to be imagined save in nightmares- a glassy-eyed, ink-black apparition nearly on all fours, covered with bits of mould, leaves, and vines, foul with caked blood, and having between its glistening teeth a snow-white, terrible, cylindrical object terminating in a tiny hand. iv. the scream of the dead published may 1922 in home brew vol. 1, no. 4, p. 53-58. the scream of a dead man gave to me that acute and added horror of dr. herbert west which harassed the

HP LOVECRAFT THE ALCHEMIST

ing me to the spot whereon i stood. at last the figure spoke in a rumbling voice that chilled me through with its dull hollowness and latent malevolence. the language in which the discourse was clothed was that debased form of latin in use amongst the more learned men of the middle ages, and made familiar to me by my prolonged researches into the works of the old alchemists and demonologists. the apparition spoke of the curse which had hovered over my house, told me of my coming end, dwelt on the wrong perpetrated by my ancestor against old michel mauvais, and gloated over the revenge of charles le sorcier. he told how young charles has escaped into the night, returning in after years to kill godfrey the heir with an arrow just as he approached the age which had been his father's at his as

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y nerves that my arm could not fully obey my will. the attempt, however, was enough to disturb my balance; so that i had to stagger forward several steps to avoid falling. as i did so i became suddenly and agonizingly aware of the nearness of the carrion thing, whose hideous hollow breathing i half fancied i could hear. nearly mad, i found myself yet able to throw out a hand to ward of the foetid apparition which pressed so close; when in one cataclysmic second of cosmic nightmarishness and hellish accident my fingers touched the rotting outstretched paw of the monster beneath the golden arch. i did not shriek, but all the fiendish ghouls that ride the nightwind shrieked for me as in that same second there crashed down upon my mind a single fleeting avalanche of soul-annihilating memory. i

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

s relations from this particular period so full of the marvellous. o'daly in his history of the geraldines relates that during the siege of limerick three portents appeared. the first was a luminous globe, brighter than the moon and little inferior to the sun, which for two leagues and a half shed a vertical light on the city, and then faded into darkness over the enemy's camp; the second was the apparition of the virgin, accompanied by several of the saints; and the third was a lusus natur, of the siamese-twins type: all three of which o'daly interprets to his own satisfaction. the first of these was some form of the northern lights, and is also recorded in the diary of certain puritan officers. that learned, but somewhat p. 101 too credulous english antiquary, john aubrey, relates in his

ppearing to the bishop [heber mcmahon, whom aubrey terms veneras] admonished him not to cross the river first to assault the enemy, but suffer them to do it, whereby he should obtain the victory. that if the irish took the water first to move towards the english they should be put to a total rout, which came to pass. ocahan and. sir henry o'neal, who were both killed there, saw severally the same apparition, and dissuaded the bishop from giving the first onset, but could not prevail upon him" an instance of an irishman suffering from the effects of witchcraft outside ireland is afforded us in a pathetic petition sent up to the english parliament between the years 1649 and 1653. 1 the petitioner, john campbell, stated that twelve years since he lost his sight in co. antrim, where he was bor

utterly unnerved by these unearthly visits, taverner left his house in the mountains and went into the town of belfast, where he sat up all night in the house of a shoemaker named peirce, where were also two or three of lord chichester's servants "about midnight, as they were all by the fireside, they beheld taverner's countenance change and a trembling to fall upon him; who presently espied the apparition in a room opposite him, and took up the candle and went to it, and resolutely ask'd it in the name of god wherefore it haunted him? it replied, because he had not delivered the message; and withal repeated the threat of tearing him in pieces if he did not do so speedily: and so, changing itself into many prodigious shapes, it vanished in white like a ghost" in a very dejected frame of m

do so speedily: and so, changing itself into many prodigious shapes, it vanished in white like a ghost" in a very dejected frame of mind taverner related the incident to some of lord chichester's family, and the chaplain, mr. james south, advised him to go and deliver the message to the widow, which he accordingly did, and thereupon experienced great quietness of mind. two nights p. 140 later the apparition again appeared, and on learning what had been done, charged him to bear the same message to the executors. taverner not unnaturally asked if davis, the step-father, would attempt to do him any harm, to which the spirit gave a very doubtful response, but at length reassured him by threatening davis if he should attempt anything to his injury, and then vanished away in white. the followin

r a bad spirit? where is your abode? what station do you hold? how are you regimented in the other world? what is the reason that you appear for the relief of your son in so small a matter, when so many widows and orphans are oppressed, and none from thence of their relations appear as you do to right them? that night taverner went to lord conway's house. feeling the coming presence p. 141 of the apparition, and being unwilling to create any disturbance within doors, he and his brother went out into the courtyard, where they saw the spirit coming over the wall. he told it what he had done, and it promised not to trouble him any more, but threatened the executors if they did not see the boy righted "here his brother put him in mind to ask the spirit what the bishop bid him, which he did pre

bid him, which he did presently. but it gave him no answer, but crawled on its hands and feet over the wall again, and so vanished in white with a most melodious harmony" the boy's friends then brought an action (apparently in the bishop's court) against the executors and trustees; one of the latter, john costlet, who was also the boy's uncle, tried the effect of bluff, but the threat of what the apparition could and might do to him scared him into a promise of justice. about five years later, when the story was forgotten, costlet began to threaten the boy with an action, but, coming home drunk one night, he fell off his horse and was killed. in the above there is no mention of the fate of davis. p. 142 whatever explanation we may choose to give of the supernatural element in the above, th

t night, and from that on nearly every night for the next nine months "whenever she came he must go with her through the woods at a good round rate; and the poor fellow look'd as if he was bewitch'd and travell'd off his legs" even if be were in bed he had to rise and follow her wherever she went, and because his wife could not restrain him she would rise and follow him till daybreak, although no apparition was visible to her. the only member of the family that took the matter philosophically was hunter's little p. 145 dog, and he became so accustomed to the ghost that he would inevitably bring up the rear of the strange procession--if it be true that the lower classes dispensed with the use of night-garments when in bed, the sight must truly have been a most remarkable one. all this time

l him that he lives a very wicked and dissolute life, and is very unnatural and ungrateful to his brother that nurtured him, and if he does not mend his life god will destroy him" david hunter told her he never knew her "no" says she "i died seven years before you came into this country; but she promised that, if he would carry her message, she would never hurt him. but he deferred doing what the apparition bade him, with the result that she appeared the night after, as he lay in bed, and struck him on the shoulder very hard; at which he cried out, and reminded her that she had promised to do him no hurt. she replied that was if he did her message; if not, she would kill him. he told her he could not go now, because the waters were out. she said that she was content that he should wait unt

s, rel. 26. 142:1 ulster journal of arch ology, vol. iii (for 1855. 143:1 glanvill, op. cit, rel. 27. 148:1 law's memorialls. 149:1 baxter, certainty of the world of spirits. 150:1 william turner, compleat history of most remarkable providences (london, 1697. 154:1 seymour, succession of clergy in cashel and emly. 155:1 o'donoghue, brendaniana, p. 301. see joyce, wonders of ireland, p. 30, for an apparition of a ship in the air in celtic times. see also westropp, brasil (proc. r.i.a; that writer actually sketched an illusionary island in 1872. 157:1 memorialls. 163:1 glanvill, op. cit, rel. 18; baxter, op. cit. 167:1 op. cit; w. p, history of witches and wizards (london, 1700. 170:1 john lindon (or lyndon) became junior puisne judge of the chief place in 1682, was knighted in 1692, and die

diately vanished, nor were they troubled with him again till february 1711. on the 11th of that month, which happened to be a sunday, old mrs. haltridge was reading dr. wedderburn's sermons on the covenant, when, laying the book aside for a little while, nobody being in the room all the time, it was suddenly taken away. she looked for it everywhere, but could not find it. on the following day the apparition already referred to came to the house, and breaking a pane of glass in one of the windows, thrust in his hand with the missing volume in it. he began to talk with one of the servants, margaret spear, and told her that he had taken the book when everybody was down in the kitchen, and that her mistress would never get it again. the girl asked him if he could read it, to which he replied t

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e koran, and between the two heads of the faithful. the two systems are^ the same nature, and are united on the common ground of a one and untjiangeable theory' in italy, in like manner, the king and liberal catholics are in warm sympathy with the unfortunate christians, while the pope and ultramontane faction are believed to be inclining to the mohammedans" the civilized world may yet expect the apparition of the materialised virgin maiy within the walls of the vatican. the so often-repeated 'miracle' of the immaculate visitor in the medieval ages has recently been enacted at lourdes, and why not once more, as a coup de gr&ee to all heretics, schismatics and infidelsp the miraculous wax taper is yet seen at airas, the chief city of artois; and at every new calamity threat- ening her belov

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e existing man, are his still if he retain any glimpse of his original spark of light. justinus kerner, in his scherin von prevorst, most ingeniously anatomises the inner man, and makes him consist of seele, nerven-geist, and geist. the nervengeist, or nervous energy, being of a grosser nature, continues united with the seele on its separation from the body, rendering it visible in the form of an apparition, and enabling it to affect material objects, make noises, move articles, and such-like things perceptible to the living sense in short, to spucken. according to its nature, this composite being takes a longer or shorter time to be dissolved; the geist alone being immortal (the gnostics and their remains, note to p. 46. an ancient homily on trinity sunday has the following: at the deth o

earnest, be-cause them goest mouthing through the world like an ape? be what you wish to be then, and go down into the dust! very probably your fate it may prove to be; though it may be the lot of some others to escape. by humbleness by faith! revelation and supernatural disclosure, quite different to progress and circumstantial natural advance as the nature of nature are to be inferred from the apparition of certain deplorable maladies diseases which puzzle and bewilder as to their true character; which lead us astray, sometimes, as to their likeliest best treatment. the ideas of the rosicrucians as to the real (hidden and unsuspected) origin of these diseases, which seem large as is the catalogue of maladies so contrary to all the physiological, natural groundwork upon which (so to say)

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nd invented from fancy and deceit much guidance that he declared to us as truth. there was more in his embassy than he did tell and if any of what we have known was false, rendered to our senses by some demon's guile, then it was raphael himself and not those memories that i hold from my first sight. all the world is now different to my eyes and i do see what lies beyond apparences. if that dread apparition warned against this fruit it is because he himself does fear our taking it and not because he fears for us. how can i convince of the truth of what i speak? as indeed i was myself persuaded i shall myself persuade you, my mate, by action. behold that i eat of the fruit without harm as did the serpent to my unbelieving sight" so saying did woman bite once more from the precious fruit and

ht herself forsaken, abandoned to mot's embrace. yet at that time, full of despair, sitting before mot's throne she saw as mot did see a bird, a crane of silver that flew fast to throne and descended before the archon, holding in a human hand a pouch, woven of most fine silks and decorated with shining pearls, though in sheol they shone not. now bowing low, the shedim's herald for indeed was this apparition ashmedai, offered to mot the burden and these words "o mot, abysmal king of sheol, most tardy have you been in reply to noble satan's embassy so that he has become impatient with you and has sent me as a second. so that you might be more swift in greeting me with due honour he has seen fit to furnish a gift, 317 worthy of a king so great as you. most desirous of those shades that he dee

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satanism as a growing threat to our society (209) as public concern over satanism grew, acm groups like can and aff (american family foundation) received so many inquiries about satanism and clandestine satanic cults that they developed information packets to sell to callers. composed largely of photocopied newspaper and popular magazine articles, such packets simply repeated popular stereotypes. apparition 9 entering into the arena of public concern about satanism also gave the acm a new forum within which to promote its perspective on cults and mind control. thus, for example, these ideas were incorporated into a can checklist entitled warning signs of occult influence: those who have declared teenage satanism something to be ignored have not made themselves aware, knowledgeable and educ

ther reading: hicks, robert d. the pursuit of satan: the police and the occult. buffalo, ny: prometheus books, 1991. lewis, james r. cults in america. santa barbara, ca: abc-clio, 1998. richardson, james t, joel best, and david g. bromley, eds. the satanism scare. new york: aldine de gruyter, 1991. victor, jeffrey s. satanic panic: the creation of a contemporary legend. chicago: open court, 1993. apparition the term apparition usually refers to immaterial appearances of people, also called ghosts, animals, objects, and spirits. despite much skepticism, reports of apparitions have always had a particular importance in folk belief and in the history of religion. even though there can be religious apparitions (e.g, an apparition of the virgin, they are traditionally associated with the diabol

, and the apparent psychokinetic movement of objects may be included. apparitions move through solid matter, appear and disappear abruptly, can cast shadows and be reflected in mirrors, seem corporeal or luminous and transparent, and can be lifelike or have limited movements. it has been shown that there are few differences between the characteristics of apparitions of the living and of the dead. apparition experiences can be of various types. they can be crisis apparitions, which typically appear to individuals who are emotionally very close to the agent, or apparitions of the dead,which usually occur within a short time after death. sometimes apparitions are collective, occurring simultaneously to multiple witnesses, or can be reciprocal, when both agent and percipient, who are separated

various types. they can be crisis apparitions, which typically appear to individuals who are emotionally very close to the agent, or apparitions of the dead,which usually occur within a short time after death. sometimes apparitions are collective, occurring simultaneously to multiple witnesses, or can be reciprocal, when both agent and percipient, who are separated by distance, experience each 10 apparition other simultaneously. other types of apparitions include the deathbed apparitions, which usually involve images of divine and religious beings as well as dead loved ones, and apparitions suggestive of reincarnation, such as announcing dreams in which the deceased appears in a dream to a member of the family into which he will be born. numerous theories have tried to explain all edward k

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symbolized by aries, his son would consequently be the little ram or lamb. the lambskin apron worn by the freemasons over that part of the body symbolized by typhon or judas represents that purification click to enlarge episodes from the mysteries of the apocalypse. from klauber's historiae biblicae veteris et novi testamenti. in the central foreground, st. john the divine is kneeling before the apparition of the alpha and omega standing in the midst of the seven lights and surrounded by an aureole of flames and smoke. in the heavens above the twenty-four elders with their harps and censers bow before the throne of the ancient one, from whose hand the lamb is taking the book sealed with seven seals. the seven spirit, of god, in the form of cups from which issue tongues of fire, surround t

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ceased person's full names clearly and loudly three times, slowly extending your arms on either side of you in the form of a cross, and opening your eyes. if the operation has been successful, you will gradually perceive a dim form in the triangle before you, seemingly composed of the substance of incense smoke, sometimes illuminated from within by a very faint bluish phosphorescence. whether the apparition is built up on a magnetic and physical or purely psychic basis or a mixture of both depends solely on whether you as a witch function best as a seer or a materializing medium, which are the two ends of the magical spectrum whereon witches function. depending on your various constitutions and the degree of your magical development, you and your companions may differ in what you see befor

operation which comes under the definition of necromancy, and as such was mentioned previously in the chapter on divination. the operation of amatory necromancy is known among witches as the dumb supper. it can, however, be utilized for two purposes; the first being the evocation of the shade of a dead loved one, the second the calling forth of what is known as an eidolon or wraith, the spectral apparition of a future loved one or spouse. whether the operation is of the necromantic or eidolon variety does not change the central ritual, the dumb supper proper. the only difference lies in the thirteen days preparation for the necromantic variant, similar to that of the necromancy of intelligence. in common with all the other amatory operations aforementioned, no boundary circle will be need

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what god giveth according to the custom or course of nature: that you may desire and obtain. all the furniture to be used is to be of the same colour the almadel is of. and the princes of the second chora are named, viz: aphiriza, genon, geron, armon, gereimon. and when you operate kneel before the almadel, with clothes of the same colour, in a closet hung with the same colours also; for the holy apparition will be of the same colours. and when he appeareth, put an earthen vessel under the almadel, with fire or hot ashes and three grains of mastick to perfume as aforesaid. and when the angel smelleth it he turneth his face towards you, asking the exorcist with a low voice why he hath called the princes of this chora or altitude. then you must answer as before: i desire that my requests may

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ysterious entity and its actions. but from the view of the people who were with me that day, something very unusual (unusual, that is, for them) had happened. they had never before been confronted in the middle of the afternoon by a tall gray entity of apparently supernatural origin. they knew nothing about it or the reasons for its presence so they were forced to speculate. why would a ghostlike apparition suddenly appear in their midst? the society was like a second home to me in those days. i had a few friends there. one of them, ralph a government employee with an interest in paranormal phenomena was with me that day. he had been given the task of running the class whilst ivan was away on vacation, and as we talked on into the late afternoon it was difficult to know if we had really se

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me h [yei-aseh. if this is true of the vapor of man fs speech, all the more so is it true of the vapor that issues from the mouth of g-d. in this connection, it is written, gand all the people were seeing the voices h5.they saw that which is normally heard.6 they saw g-d fs speech, as it came and kissed them on their mouths and said, gaccept me upon yourself. h thus, they saw g-d fs speech in the apparition of an angel of sorts. so was it with regard to g-d fs speech when the world was created: every utterance entered the entity [it created] in order to serve as its inner life-force and to make it grow. thus, within the food a person eats, there is both the material component that nourishes the body and the inner life-force that becomes part of the person fs soul. all this allows us to ans

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cle. the human figure reappeared immediately, but i experienced such an intense weakness in all my limbs, and a swooning sensation came so quickly over me, that i made two steps to sit down, whereupon i fell into a profound lethargy, accompanied by dreams, of which i had only a confused recollection when i came again to myself. for several subsequent days my arm remained benumbed and painful. the apparition did not speak to me, but it seemed that the questions i had designed to ask answered themselves in my mind. to that of the lady an interior voice replied death! it was concerning a man about whom she desired information. as for myself, i sought to know whether reconciliation and forgiveness were possible between two persons who occupied my thoughts, and the same inexorable echo within m

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his prayer mentally, covering the face with both hands; then call him thrice with a loud voice; remain kneeling, the eyes closed or covered, for some minutes; then call again thrice upon him in a sweet and affectionate tone, and slowly open the eyes. should nothing result, the same experiment must be renewed in the following year, and if necessary a third time, when it is certain that the desired apparition will be obtained, and the longer it has been delayed the more realistic and striking it will be. evocations of knowledge and intelligence are performed with more solemn ceremonies. if concerned with a celebrated personage, we must meditate for twentyone days upon his life and writings, form an idea of his appearance, converse with him mentally and imagine his answers. we must carry his

rious. the practices of thessalian sorcerers and roman canidias are described by several ancient authors. in the first place, a pit was dug, at the mouth of which they cut the throat of a black sheep; the psyllae and larvae presumed to be present, and swarming round to drink the blood, were driven off with the magic sword; the triple hecate and the infernal gods were evoked, and the phantom whose apparition was desired was called upon three times. in the middle ages, necromancers violated tombs, composing philtres and unguents with the fat and blood of corpses combined with aconite, belladonna and poisonous fungi. they boiled and skimmed these frightful compounds over fires fed with human bones and crucifixes stolen from churches; they added dust of dried toads and ash of consecrated hosts

apes being seized and shut up in a madhouse, he must retire at a slow pace, and count four thousand five hundred steps in a straight line, which means following a broad road or scaling walls. having traversed this space, he lies down necromancy 75 upon the earth, as if in a coffin, and repeats in lugubrious tones: glet the dead rise from their tombs! h finally, he calls thrice on the person whose apparition is desired. no doubt anyone who is mad enough and wicked enough to abandon himself to such operations is predisposed to all chimeras and all phantoms. hence the recipe of the grand grimoire is most efficacious, but we advise none of our readers to test it. 76 chapter xiv transmutations st. augustus speculates, as we have said, whether apuleius could have been changed into an ass and the

, symbol of the solar race of seers, came from the region of africa, resembling a lion and having eagle's wings: the heart of a man was given it. the second beast, emblem of the northern conquerors, who reigned by iron during the second age, was like unto a bear; it had three rows of sharp teeth, images of three great conquering families, and they said unto it: arise, devour much flesh. after the apparition of the fourth beast, there were thrones raised up, and the ancient of days, the christ of seers, the lamb of the first age, was manifested. his garment was of dazzling whiteness, his head radiant; his throne, whence came forth living flames, was borne upon burning wheels; a flame of swift fire shone in his countenance; legions of angels or stars sparkled round him. the tribunal was held

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nature have told me that they have seen at those meetings a double-man, or the shape of the same man in two places; that is, a superterranean and a subterranean inhabitant perfectly resembling one another in all points, whom he [the seer] could easily distinguish one from the other by some secret tokens and operations, and so go [directly to] speak to the [real] man his neighbour, passing by the apparition or resemblance of him. they [the seers] avouch that every element and different state of being, has [in it] animals resembling those of another element [just] as there be fishes sometimes caught at sea, resembling monks of [a] late order, in all their hoods and dresses. so as [a result of this resemblance] the roman [catholic] invention of good and bad daemones and guardian angels [is]

sight of the object. that which is generally seen by them are the species of living creatures and of animate things which are in motion, such as ships and habits upon persons. they never see the species of any person who is already dead. what they foresee fails not to exist in the mode and in that place where it appears to them. they cannot well know what space of time shall intervene between the apparition and the real existence. but some of the hardiest and the longest [in] experience have some rules or conjectures [such] as if they see a man with a shrouding sheet in the apparition [then] they will conjecture at the nearness or worldwide copyright 1990, 1998-2001, rjstewart, all rights and permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_30.htm (8 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:46 am] r

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second. surprise of that macabre journey. a man was passing him on the way to the toilet. he was bearded and wore cheap tinted spectacles, but chamcha recognized him anyway: here, travelling incognito in the economy class of flight a 1--420, was the vanished superstar, the living legend, gibreel farishta himself "sleep okay" he realized the question was addressed to him, and turned away from the apparition of the great movie actor to stare at the equally extraordinary sight sitting next to him, an improbable american in baseball cap, metal--rim spectacles and a neon--green bush--shirt across which there writhed the intertwined and luminous golden forms of a pair of chinese dragons. chamcha had edited this entity out of his field of vision in an attempt to wrap himself in a cocoon of priva

s of gold, past pilgrims who lie unconscious while cutpurses earn their living. he hears the wine--blurred carousing through every golden-gleaming doorway, and feels the song and howling laughter and coin-chinkings hurting him like mortal insults. but he doesn't find what he's looking for, not here, so he moves away from the illuminated revelry of gold and begins to stalk the shadows, hunting the apparition of the lion. and finds, after hours of searching, what he knew would be waiting, in a dark corner of the city's outer walls, the thing of his vision, the red manticore with the triple row of teeth. the manticorc has blue eyes and a mannish face and its voice is half- trumpet and half-flute. it is fast as the wind, its nails are corkscrew talons and its tail hurls poisone& quills. it lov

s the people walk towards it, at the same measured pace as before. then, from within the darkened palace, there rises a hideous sound, beginning as a high, thin, piercing wail, then deepening into a howl, an ululation loud enough to fill every cranny of the city with its rage. then the golden dome of the palace bursts open like an egg, and rising from it, glowing with blackness, is a mythological apparition with vast black wings, her hair streaming loose, as long and black as the imam's is long and white: al--lat, gibreel understands, bursting out of ayesha's shell "kill her" the imam commands. gibreel sets him down on the palace's ceremonial balcony, his arms outstretched to encompass the joy of the people, a sound that drowns even the howls of the goddess and rises up like a song. and th

rock band, glittering in the sunlight below the massifofcho oyu _shangri-la, she momentarily thought; however, this was no green vale of immortality but a metropolis of gigantic ice--needles, thin, sharp and cold. her attention was distracted by sherpa pemba warning her to maintain her concentration, and the city had gone when she looked back. she was still at twenty-seven thousand feet, but the apparition of the impossible city threw her back across space and time to the bayswater study of old dark wooden furniture and heavy velvet curtains in which her father otto cone, the art historian and biographer of picabia, had spoken to her in her fourteenth and his final year of "the most dangerous of all the lies we are fed in our lives, which was, in his opinion, the idea of the continuum "an

quotidian, gibreel farishta saw god. for blake's isaiah, god had simply been an immanence, an incorporeal indignation; but gibreel's vision of the supreme being was not abstract in the least. he saw, sitting on the bed, a man of about the same age as himself, of medium height, fairly heavily built, with salt-and-pepper beard cropped close to the line of the jaw. what struck him most was that the apparition was balding, seemed to suffer from dandruff and wore glasses. this was not the almighty he had expected "who are you" he asked with interest (of no interest to him now was alleluia cone, who had stopped in her tracks on hearing him begin to talk to himself, and who was now observing him with an expression of genuine panic "ooparvala" the apparition answered "the fellow upstairs "how do

es, a wheel coming off one of the bullock carts; two miles a day at best, one hundred and fifty miles to the sea, a journey of approximately eleven weeks. the first death happened on the eighteenth day. khadija, the tactless old lady who had been for half a century the contented and contenting spouse of sarpanch muhammad din, saw an archangel in a dream "gibreel" she whispered "is it you "no" the apparition replied "it's i, azraeel, the one with the lousy job. excuse the disappointment" the next morning she continued with the pilgrimage, saying nothing to her husband about her vision. after two hours they neared the ruin of one of the mughal milepost inns that had, in times long gone, been built at five--mile intervals along the highway. when khadija saw the ruin she knew nothing of its pa

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of my matured manhood. i love it not the less because it has been little understood and superficially judged by the common herd: it was not meant for them. i love it not the more because it has found enthusiastic favorers amongst the few. my affection for my work is rooted in the solemn and pure delight which it gave me to conceive and to perform. if i had graven it on the rocks of a desert, this apparition of my own innermost mind, in its least-clouded moments, would have been to me as dear; and this ought, i believe, to be the sentiment with which he whose art is born of faith in the truth and beauty of the principles he seeks to illustrate, should regard his work. your serener existence, uniform and holy, my lot denies, if my heart covets. but our true nature is in our thoughts, not our

pillar into the lucid sky. motionless on the brink of the precipice, viola looked upon the lovely and living world that stretched below; and the sullen vapour of vesuvius fascinated her eye yet more than the scattered gardens, or the gleaming caprea, smiling amidst the smiles of the sea. she heard not a step that had followed her on her path and started to hear a voice at hand. so sudden was the apparition of the form that stood by her side, emerging from the bushes that clad the crags, and so singularly did it harmonise in its uncouth ugliness with the wild nature of the scene immediately around her, and the wizard traditions of the place, that the colour left her cheek, and a faint cry broke from her lips "tush, pretty trembler! do not be frightened at my face" said the man, with a bitt

d more distinctly to his gaze, a colossal shadow; a shadow that seemed partially borrowed from the human shape, but immeasurably above the human stature; vague, dark, almost formless; and differing, he could not tell where or why, not only from the proportions, but also from the limbs and outline of man. the glare of the volcano, that seemed to shrink and collapse from this gigantic and appalling apparition, nevertheless threw its light, redly and steadily, upon another shape that stood beside, quiet and motionless; and it was, perhaps, the contrast of these two things the being and the shadow that impressed the beholder with the difference between them, the man and the superhuman. it was but for a moment nay, for the tenth part of a moment that this sight was permitted to the wanderer. a

side, a minute after they had parted "what has passed between you and zanoni "mervale, do not ask me to-night! i am in a dream "i do not wonder at it, for even i am in a sleep. let us push on" in the retirement of his chamber, glyndon sought to recollect his thoughts. he sat down on the foot of his bed, and pressed his hands tightly to his throbbing temples. the events of the last few hours; the apparition of the gigantic and shadowy companion of the mystic, amidst the fires and clouds of vesuvius; the strange encounter with zanoni himself, on a spot in which he could never, by ordinary reasoning, have calculated on finding glyndon, filled his mind with emotions, in which terror and awe the least prevailed. a fire, the train of which had been long laid, was lighted at his heart, the asbes

asbestos-fire that, once lit, is never to be quenched. all his early aspirations his young ambition, his longings for the laurel were merged in one passionate yearning to surpass the bounds of the common knowledge of man, and reach that solemn spot, between two worlds, on which the mysterious stranger appeared to have fixed his home. far from recalling with renewed affright the remembrance of the apparition that had so appalled him, the recollection only served to kindle and concentrate his curiosity into a burning focus. he had said aright, love had vanished from his heart; there was no longer a serene space amidst its disordered elements for human affection to move and breathe. the enthusiast was rapt from this earth; and he would have surrendered all that mortal beauty ever promised, th

t of no inconsiderable fear to a feeble and timid court; and the ministers of the indolent government willingly connived at excesses which allured him at least from ambition. the strange visit and yet more strange departure of mejnour filled the breast of the neapolitan with awe and wonder, against which all the haughty arrogance and learned scepticism of his maturer manhood combated in vain. the apparition of mejnour served, indeed, to invest zanoni with a character in which the prince had not hitherto regarded him. he felt a strange alarm at the rival he had braved, at the foe he had provoked. when, a little before his banquet, he had resumed his self-possession, it was with a fell and gloomy resolution that he brooded over the perfidious schemes he had previously formed. he felt as if t

as on him layd. spenser "faerie queene" cant. x. s. 1. it was that grey, indistinct, struggling interval between the night and the dawn, when clarence stood once more in his chamber. the abstruse calculations lying on his table caught his eye, and filled him with a sentiment of weariness and distaste. but "alas, if we could be always young! oh, thou horrid spectre of the old, rheum-eyed man! what apparition can the mystic chamber shadow forth more ugly and more hateful than thou? oh, yes, if we could be always young! but not [thinks the neophyte now] not to labour forever at these crabbed figures and these cold compounds of herbs and drugs. no; but to enjoy, to love, to revel! what should be the companion of youth but pleasure? and the gift of eternal youth may be mine this very hour! what

he eagerness of his desire for the dazzling and imperishable youth he ascribed to zanoni. the prohibition only served to create a spirit of defiance. the reviving day, laughing jocundly through his lattice, dispelled all the fears and superstitions that belong to night. the mystic chamber presented to his imagination nothing to differ from any other apartment in the castle. what foul or malignant apparition could harm him in the light of that blessed sun! it was the peculiar, and on the whole most unhappy, contradiction in glyndon's nature, that while his reasonings led him to doubt, and doubt rendered him in moral conduct irresolute and unsteady; he was physically brave to rashness. nor is this uncommon: scepticism and presumption are often twins. when a man of this character determines u

ed round with a look of unspeakable appeal for succour, for protection, and suddenly, as the clock struck, fell with a shriek to the ground, cold and lifeless. with difficulty, and not until after the most earnest prayers, did she answer the agonised questions of glyndon; at last she owned that at that hour, and that hour alone, wherever she was placed, however occupied, she distinctly beheld the apparition of an old hag, who, after thrice knocking at the door, entered the room, and hobbling up to her with a countenance distorted by hideous rage and menace, laid its icy fingers on her forehead: from that moment she declared that sense forsook her; and when she woke again, it was only to wait, in suspense that froze up her blood, the repetition of the ghastly visitation. the physician who h

ed not till she was before the door indicated by the porter; it stood ajar, she entered, she stood at the threshold, and beheld that face, still so lovely! the sight of so much beauty left her hopeless. and the child, over whom the mother bent! she who had never been a mother! she uttered no sound; the furies were at work within her breast. viola turned, and saw her, and, terrified by the strange apparition, with features that expressed the deadliest hate and scorn and vengeance, uttered a cry, and snatched the child to her bosom. the italian laughed aloud, turned, descended, and, gaining the spot where nicot still conversed with the frightened porter drew him from the house. when they were in the open street, she halted abruptly, and said "avenge me, and name thy price "my price, sweet on

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er of heaven and earth, and i said "blessed art thou, lord god almighty, who hast given to solomon thy servant wisdom, the assessor of the wise, and hast subjected unto me all the power of the devil" 15. and i questioned him, and said "who art thou" the demon replied "i am beelzebub, the exarch of the demons. and all the demons have their chief seats close to me. and i it is who make manifest the apparition of each demon" and he promised to bring to me in bonds all the unclean spirits. and i again glorified the god of heaven and earth, as i do always give thanks to him. 16. i then asked of the demon if there were females among them. and when he told me that there were, i said that i desired to see them. so beelzeboul went off at high speed, and brought unto me onoskelis, that had a very pr

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n 11:33 38) might be taken by those present for the agitation and tremors which were wont to accompany miracles. according to popular belief, divine power in a man was like an epileptic, convulsive force. to continue our hypothesis, jesus wished to see once more the man he had loved, and when the slab had been moved away, lazarus came forth in his grave-clothes, his head bound with a napkin. this apparition was naturally looked upon by everyone as a resurrection. faith accepts whatever is true for it, and knows no other law. renan s exegesis seems excessively naive; but he joins to it an additional comment: everything seems to suggest that the miracle of bethany contributed essentially to hasten the death of jesus.111 the miracle of lazarus 113 renan s perception here is undoubtedly acute

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with the environment was impaired. dr. elisabeth kubler-ross( 1926) has said that the turning point in her work as a medical doctor occurred in a chicago hospital in 1969 when a deceased patient appeared before her in fully materialized form. kubler- ross had been feeling discouraged about her research with the dying because of the opposition that she had encountered among her colleagues, but the apparition of mary schwartz appeared to her to tell her not to abandon her work because life after death was a reality. death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon, kubler-ross has told her lecture audiences in presentations which she had conducted around the world. death is a transition into a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perce

e to raise samuel from the spirit world because he had been dead less than 12 months, and the soul stays close to the body for this period. certain traditional accounts of the incident state that other spirits, including moses, came with samuel because when they saw his spirit arise, they thought that the resurrection of the dead had begun. other scholars are divided in their opinions whether the apparition of samuel was real or fraudulent, some stating that the witch of endor only placed saul into a trance and deceived him into believing that he had seen samuel. the witch of endor has become the prototype for the spirit medium as a necromancer, a magician who raises the spirits of the dead. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 132 mediu

ght comes: a biography of helena petrovna blavatsky. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1975. rudolf steiner (1861 1925) rudolf steiner was born in krajevec austria- hungary (now yugoslavia, on february 27, 1861, the son of a minor railway official. by the age of eight, steiner had experienced the unseen worlds, the invisible reality within the everyday world. once he even perceived the apparition of a deceased relative. because of his tendencies toward the spiritual aspects of life, it was thought for a time that steiner might become a clergyman; but his freethinking father argued that he was a bright boy, and he envisioned him following a more practical and materially rewarding occupation as a railway engineer. when he was 15, steiner met felix kotgutski, an herbalist and metap

of all conventional sciences (1) that they produce controlled and repeatable experiments (2) that they develop a hypothesis comprehensive enough to include all psychic phenomena from telepathy to poltergeists, from water dowsing to spirit contact. the difficulties in fulfilling these requirements can be immediately grasped when one considers how impossible it would be to repeat, for example, the apparition of a man s father as it appeared to him at the moment of his father s death. this sort of crisis apparition occurs only at death, and the man s father is going to die only once. the great majority of psychic phenomena are almost completely spontaneous in nature, and ungovernable elements of mood and emotion obviously play enormously important roles in any type of paranormal experience

dling of such an influx of material, the spr worked out a series of questions that could be applied to each case that came into their offices: 1. is the account firsthand? 2. was it written or told before the corresponding event was known? 3. has the principal witness been corroborated? 4. was the percipient awake at the time? 5. was the percipient an educated person of good character? 6. was the apparition recognized? 7. was it seen out of doors? 8. was the percipient anxious or in a state of expectancy? 9. could relevant details have been read back into the narrative after the event? 10. could the coincidence between the experience and the event be accounted for by chance? later, committee member j. fraser nichol established three points of critique that could be used by the investigator

ions for the end of the world. chicago: contemporary books, 1995. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. new york: thames and hudson, 1991. wheeler, john jr. earth s two-minute warning: today s bible-predicted signs of the end times. north canton, ohio: leader co, 1996. apparitions of holy figures in the twelfth century, st. francis of assisi (1181 1226) was credited with seeing an apparition of jesus christ (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e. st. catherine of siena (1347 1380) reported seeing jesus in the fourteenth century. the catholic devotion to the sacred heart as a symbol of love was begun in the seventeenth century after an apparition of jesus christ had been seen by the french nun st. margaret mary (1647 1690. at the height of his illness in december 1954, pope pius xii (1876 1

g a prophetic pronouncement to one of the three children to whom she appeared six times between may 13 and october 13, 1917, in fatima, portugal. in his book russia will be converted (1950, john haffert detailed a series of apparitions of mary in the 1940s that began eroding communist doctrine and converting thousands to roman catholicism. in one instance, a young girl was said to have beheld the apparition of a beautiful lady who told her to return to the same spot for 15 days. after having received visions on each of these successive days, the girl was presented with the materialization of seven perfect rose petals. it was claimed that the petals did not fade or lose their fragrance. it was also said that a botanist declared that the petals could not have come from an ordinary earth rose

y mother, no one announced receiving any special messages from her. no visionaries ever claimed to have received any warnings of impending disasters or relayed any admonitions from mother mary to repent or to cease sinning. sources: apparitions of virgin mary. http/ www.geocities.com/athens /7084 /stmaridx. htm, 11 october 2001. our lady of zeitoun. http//www.zeitoun.org, 11 october 2001. zeitoun apparition. http//www.science-frontiers.com, 11 october 2001. mother mary appears in egypt ninth century, but right now. matter stated that the interest in apparitions of the holy mother has been building for the past 150 years, with more and more reports of visions of mary in more and more places. in the past few decades, apparitions of mother mary and her attending angels have been seen in place

rain. newsweek, 7 may 2001, pp. 50 57. cranston, ruth. the miracle of lourdes. new york: mcgraw-hill, 1955. delaney, john j, ed. a woman clothed with the sun. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1961. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d religious phenomena 191 vietnamese roman catholic nuns in a commemorative anniversary procession of the virgin mary apparition in vietnam (ap/wide world photos) kirkwood, annie. mary s message of hope. nevada city, calif: blue dolphin publishing, 1995. sparrow, scott g. i am with you always: true stories of encounters with jesus. new york: bantam books, 1995. steiger, brad, and sherry hansen steiger. mother mary speaks to us. new york: dutton, 1996; signet, 1997. armageddon in revelation 16:16, the battlefield

re bernadette t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d religious phenomena 209 soubrious (1844 1879) had the vision of mother mary in 1858. since the time the miracle occurred to the young miller s daughter, pilgrims have journeyed to lourdes to seek healing and salvation from the waters of the natural spring that appeared in the hillside after the apparition of the holy mother appeared to bernadette. consistently, for decades, an average of 200,000 people visited the shrine every year. during the centennial celebration of lourdes in 1958, more than two million people came to the tiny community in southern france seeking a healing. in recent years, annual attendance has risen to over five million. thousands of pilgrims have left their crutch

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ht a candle, and the frightening specter disappeared. he later learned from the villagers that all previous tenants of the country house had terminated their occupancy in short order after a night or two in the haunted house. in the jargon of parapsychology the branch of behavioral science that undertakes to examine such phenomena a ghost is usually a stranger to the one who perceives it while an apparition is well known by the one who sees it t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phantoms 3 psychoanalyst dr. carl jung claimed to have a personal encounter with a ghost. and is instantly recognizable as the image of a parent, sibling, or friend. an apparition usually appears at some time of crisis most often that of physical deat

have a personal encounter with a ghost. and is instantly recognizable as the image of a parent, sibling, or friend. an apparition usually appears at some time of crisis most often that of physical death and usually appears only once. in the records of parapsychology and psychical research there are also accounts of experimental cases in which individuals have deliberately attempted to make their apparition, their ghostly image, appear to a particular witness, as in efforts to project one s spiritual essence during an out-of-body experience. a poltergeist is a projection of psychic energy that finds its energy center in the unconscious mind, most commonly in adolescents, and emanates, therefore, from the living rather than from the dead. a poltergeist is a ghost only in common parlance, wh

pseudoentity to prefer darkness for its violent exercises of tossing furniture, objects, and people about the room. accounts of people reporting having seen spirits of the dead are among the most commonly described ghosts in all the cultures of the world. these post-mortem appearances of the dead, in which a recognized ghostly image is seen or heard long after the actual person represented by the apparition has died, are felt by many observers and researchers to prove survival of the human spirit beyond the grave. ghosts or apparitions that habitually appear in a room, house, or locale are known as phantoms, eerie phenomena that often appear over the years to attain a life force of their own, as if they were some kind of psychic marionettes. although people have been reporting seeing ghost

flooded by personal accounts of spontaneous cases of ghosts and spirits. in order to aid the committee in the handling of such an influx of information, the spr worked out a series of questions that could be applied to each case that came in. among the questions were the following: is the account firsthand? has the principal witness been corroborated? was the percipient awake at the time? was the apparition recognized? was the percipient anxious or in a state of expectancy? could relevant details have been read back into the narrative after the event? today, over 120 years after the british society for psychical research began its earnest efforts to chart and categorize ghosts, 42 percent of the residents of that metropolitan area believe in ghosts and almost half of this number said that

for animal afterlife. fate, march 2001, 20 21. pet souls: evidence that animals survive death. thousand oaks, calif: light source research, 1994. sussman, dalia. see spot go to heaven? the public s not so sure. abcnews/beliefnet poll, 2001 [online] http//www.beliefnet.com/story/78/ story_7888. html. apparitions there is usually agreement among psychical researchers that when someone refers to an apparition, he or she is generally speaking of a ghost that is known to the percipient, rather than some ethereal unknown presence. among the most common and universal of all psychic phenomena is that of the crisis apparition, that ghostly image which is seen, heard, or felt when the individual represented by the image is undergoing a crisis, especially death. a familiar example might be that of a

d her farewell. it was 4:05 a.m. when watson called his wife s parents in wilmington to prove that the experience had been a dream. mrs. parker was surprised to receive the call. she had been up most of the night with her father-in-law and had been waiting for morning before she would let the watsons know that grandad had passed away at 4:00 a.m. watson had been awakened by the fully externalized apparition of her grandfather at approximately 3:30 a.m. indianapolis time. her husband had gotten out of bed and made the telephone call at about 4:05 a.m. grandad t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 8 ghosts and phantoms it is theorized that at the moment of death the soul is freed from the body and is able to soar free of time and space. par

ornelius vanderdecken, must sail until doomsday. the appearance of this supernatural vessel is considered by seafarers to be an omen of ill-fortune. another one that is a forerunner of disaster is the ghost ship of the yangtze river, a medieval chinese pirate junk. the ghost junk has been said to herald wars, famines, and the deaths of thousands. off of the chileo island, in south america, a ship apparition called the caleuche, is claimed to leave broken down boats and drowned men in its wake. on january 5, 1931, the ms tricouleur, with a cargo of chemicals, exploded and sank after leaving calcutta en route to bombay. sailors off ceylon still report seeing her pass them before disappearing into the fog. inhabitants along bay chaleur of new brunswick, canada, sight a fire ship that has been

ng on that earlier occasion. in 1929, an archbishop wrote to sir oliver lodge to tell him of a most peculiar incident which had occurred one evening when he had returned to his home feeling tired. he sat down in a favorite easy chair, and immediately fell asleep. then, he wrote in the letter, he was sharply aroused in about a quarter of an hour (as he perceived by the clock. as he awoke he saw an apparition, luminous, vaporous, wonderfully real of himself, looking interestedly and delightedly at himself. after the archbishop and himself had looked at each other for the space of about five seconds, the ghostly self vanished for a few seconds, and then returned even clearer than before. such weird phenomena are termed autoscopic hallucinations. they appear to serve no dual purpose, such as p

ard in his phantasms of the living, published in 1886. beard began his experiments with astral projection in november of 1881 on a sunday evening after he had been reading about the great power which the human will is capable of exercising. exerting the whole force of his being on the thought that he would be present in spirit on the second floor of a particular house, beard managed to project an apparition of himself that was visible to his fiancee, miss l. s. verity. three days later, when beard went to call upon verity, a very excited young woman told him that she and her 11-year-old sister had nearly been frightened out of their wits by an apparition that had looked just like him. beard felt quite pleased with the success of his experiment. verity s sister confirmed his ghost s appeara

success of his experiment. verity s sister confirmed his ghost s appearance; in fact, the whole matter of a spectral visitation had been brought up without any allusion to the subject on beard s part. verity later told edmund gurney that she distinctly saw beard in her room, about one o clock. i was perfectly awake and was much terrified, she said. i awoke my sister by screaming, and she saw the apparition herself. neither my sister nor i have ever experienced hallucinations of any sort. although beard did not disclose his intentions to verity, he was by no means finished with his experiments. the second time he was seen by a married sister of verity s, whom he t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 12 ghosts and phantoms had met briefly

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spain and drive the moors out of the land. at first the holy man was staggered by the very suggestion, regardless of the source from whence it had come. what remained of gothic spain had fallen into decay, deteriorating into a patchwork of petty princedoms, woefully ineffectual against the powerful moors who had conquered most of the land and established their royal seat in cordova. but when the apparition of mary presented him with a button that she said had been taken from the robe of christ, apollinario knew that he had been given the power to raise a band of holy warriors. he followed her orders to gather an army from the simple countryfolk of spain, even from the bandits who lived in the mountains, and to avoid the corrupt nobles and landed aristocracy. the hermit from the hills abov

n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 248 places of mystery and power community in southern france. in the 1990s, annual attendance rose to more than five million per year. on february 11, 1858, bernadette soubrious and her two sisters were gathering firewood outside lourdes when she fell behind the younger girls. that was the first time that bernadette saw the apparition of a lady dressed in white with a blue sash and a yellow rose on each foot standing in a grotto next to the river. the lady did not speak, but made the sign of the cross before she disappeared. bernadette returned to the grotto a second time, but it was not until the lady fs third appearance that she spoke and asked bernadette if she would like to meet her every day for two weeks. berna

ppeared. bernadette returned to the grotto a second time, but it was not until the lady fs third appearance that she spoke and asked bernadette if she would like to meet her every day for two weeks. bernadette enthusiastically agreed, and word of her visitations soon spread throughout the entire village. crowds gathered to observe the girl and hear what messages she would relay from the lady. the apparition insisted again and again that priests must build a chapel in the grotto and that bernadette was to drink from the spring there. since there was no spring in sight, bernadette began to scrape at the muddy ground until a spring bubbled forth with waters that were immediately believed to contain curative powers. water from that same spring is still piped to a bathing house where pilgrims g

ond-century b.c.e. and later jewish and christian texts that contain prophetic messages pertaining to a great total devastation or destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous. apothacary from the greek apotheke meaning gstorehouse. h a pharmacist or druggist who is licensed to prescribe, prepare and sell drugs and other medicines, or a pharmacy. where drugs and medicines are sold. apparition the unexpected or sudden appearance of something strange, such as a ghost. from the latin apparitus, past participle of apparere, meaning to appear. archaeologist a person who scientifically examines old ruins or artifacts such as the remains of buildings, pottery, graves, tools, and all other relevant material in order to study ancient cultures. archipelago from the greek arkhi, meanin

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me in the highest degree" the sorcerer- for one must call him so- the sorcerer then told him of a series of strange facts, of which two families had been witness, and these facts were precisely identical with the phenomena of mr.home: hands coming out of walls, movements of furniture, phosphorescent apparitions. one day, the rash apprentice-magician had dared to call up astaroth, and had seen the apparition of a gigantic monster having the body of a hog, and the head borrowed from the skeleton of a colossal ox. but he told all that with an accent of truth, a certainty of having seen, which excluded every kind of doubt as to the good faith and the entire conviction of the narrator. eliphas, who is an epicure in magic, was delighted with this find. in the nineteenth century, a real sorcerer

h was impossible, because it would revolt the conscience of the public? ask all that of the "grimoire" of honorius! two incidents in this tragic story bear upon the phenomena produced by mr. home: the noise of the storm heard by the wicked priest in his early evocations, and the difficulty which he found in expressing his real thought in the presence of eliphas levi. one may also comment upon the apparition of the sinister man taking pleasure in the public grief, and uttering an indeed infernal word in the midst of the consternation of the crowd, an apparition only noticed by the ecstatic of la salette, the too celebrated mlle. de la merliere, who has the air after all of a worthy individual, but very excitable, and perhaps capable of acting and speaking without knowing it herself, under t

sland of candia, the phantom of moses appeared to some jews on the sea-side; on his forehead he had luminous horns, in his hand was his blasting rod; and he invited them to follow him, showing them with his finger the horizon in the direction of the holy land. the news of this prodigy spread abroad, and the israelites rushed towards the shore in a mob. all saw, or pretended to see, the marvellous apparition: they were, in number, twenty thousand, according to the chronicler, whom we suspect to be slightly exaggerating in this respect. immediately heads 231 grow hot, and imaginations wild; they believe in a miracle more startling than was of old the passage of the red sea. the jews form in a close column, and run towards the sea; the rear ranks push the front ranks frantically: they think t

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the 1930s. along the road there came a stranger in a land where strangers were rare and suspect. he walked up to the door of a crumbling farmhouse and hammered. after a long moment a light blinked on somewhere in the house and a young woman appeared, drawing a cheap mail-order bathrobe tightly about her. she opened the door a crack and her sleep-swollen face winced with fear as she stared at the apparition on her doorstep. he was over six feet tall and dressed entirely in black. he wore a black suit, black tie, black hat, and black overcoat, with impractical black dress shoes covered with mud. his face, barely visible in the darkness, sported a neatly trimmed mustache and goatee. the flashes of lightning behind him added an eerie effect "may i use your phone" he asked in a deep baritone

med it. the couple retreated murmuring to themselves and the tall stranger faded into the night. beards were a very rare sight in west virginia in 1967. men in formal suits and ties were even rarer in those back hills of the ohio valley. and bearded, black-garbed strangers on foot in the rain had never been seen there before. in the days that followed the young couple told their friends about the apparition. obviously, they concluded, he had been a fearful omen of some sort. perhaps he had been the devil himself! three weeks later these two people were dead, among the victims of the worst tragedy ever to strike that section of west virginia. they were driving across the silver bridge. which spanned the ohio river, when it suddenly collapsed. their friends remembered. they remembered the st

lage which harbors a strange ghost. hans holzer and other ghost-chasers have included the house in their catalogs of haunted places. the phantom has been seen by several people in recent years. it is dressed hi, a long black cape and wears a wide-brimmed slouch hat pulled down over its eyes as it slinks from room to room. self-styled parapsychologists have woven all kinds of fantasies around this apparition. obviously a spy from the revolutionary war was caught and killed in the old house. but wait. this ghost may not be a member of the restless dead at all. there were never any reports of hauntings there until about twenty years ago, after the house was vacated by a writer named walter gibson. he was, and is, an extraordinarily prolific author. for many years he churned out a full-length

novel each month, and many of those novels were written in the house in greenwich village. all of them were centered around the spectacularly successful character gibson created in the 1930s, that nemesis of evil known as the shadow. if you have read any of the shadow novels you know that he was fond of lurking in dark alleys dressed in a cape and broad-brimmed slouch hat. why would a shadow-like apparition suddenly appear in an old house? could it be some kind of residue from walter gibson's very powerful mind? we do know that some people can move objects, even bend spoons and keys, with the power of their minds alone. mental telepathy is now a tested and verified phenomenon. and about 10 percent of the population have the ability to see above and beyond the narrow spectrum of visible lig

figure. it was shaped like a man, she said, but was much larger. it was at least seven feet tall and very broad. the thing that attracted her attention was not its size but its eyes. it had, she said, large, round, fiercely glowing red eyes that focused on her with hypnotic effect "it's a wonder i didn't run off the road and have a wreck" she commented later. as she slowed, her eyes fixed on the apparition, a pair of wings unfolded from its back. they seemed to have a span of about ten feet. it was definitely not an ordinary bird but a man-shaped thing which rose slowly off the ground, straight up like a helicopter, silently. its wings did not flap in flight. it headed straight toward connie's car, its horrible eyes fixed to her face, then it swooped low over her head as she shoved the ac

ng there like some black-suited exorcist, lugging my tattered briefcase, waving the golden cross of science. my life would become intertwined with the lives of the people of the ohio valley. in march 1966, a shapely housewife, whom i will call mrs. kelly because she asked that her name be withheld, was waiting in her car for her children near the point pleasant school when she saw an unbelievable apparition low in the sky. it looked like a glistening metal disk and was hovering directly above the school playground. a doorlike aperture was open at its rim and there was a man standing outside. he was not standing in the doorway, he was standing outside the object in midair! he wore a silvery skin-tight costume and had very long silvery hair. he was looking down into the school yard intently

ts bounced off a man-size birdlike creature standing beside a rock quarry. it turned and scurried into the woods "nobody believes us because we're teen-agers" brenda jones of point lick complained "but it was real scary" an elderly businessman in point pleasant found mothman standing on his front lawn. he stepped outside to see why his dog was barking and confronted a six- or seven-foot-tall gray apparition with flaming eyes. he stood transfixed for several minutes, unaware of the passage of time. suddenly the creature flew off and he staggered back into his house. he was so pale and shaken his wife thought he was having a heart attack. v. while the people of west virginia were being overrun with garudas, the rest of the country was being engulfed in wingless flying objects. a great wave b

abandoning the extraterrestrial theory along the way. in retrospect, flying saucers were partly responsible for the occult explosion. the most confusing feature of the phenomenon is its use of allegorical situations and complicated diversions meant to cover up some more covert activity. hairy monsters are seen carrying dead dogs, so people assume other missing dogs provided dinner for the smelly apparition. actually the dogs may have served some other purpose altogether. a purpose that might turn our hair gray instantly if we knew the full details. in messages passed along to italian contactee eugenio siragusa, the mischievous entities have tried to explain their "volumetric logic" in cosmic double-talk. dr. jacques vallee has called it "metalogic" suggesting that the entities have a logi

g pneumonia. and i walked with it until i dropped. early one morning while i was still quite sick and my system was laden with antibiotics and drugs i woke up and saw a large black form hovering at the foot of my bed. it wasn't a man in a checkered shut but was roughly the shape of a coca-cola bottle "what do you know? i'm having an hallucination" i told myself as i lifted my head and studied the apparition. the blob slowly receded, growing smaller and smaller until it disappeared. the experience was never repeated. ii drasin and estrella returned to new york city in late march while i decided to remain on in point pleasant. dan was convinced that something exceptional was happening in the ohio valley and he planned to collect a camera crew and return. we had seen a number of odd aerial li

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ve powers, which were all united in the true god, though hypostatically divided in the syrian trinity. man was compounded with them, as representing the real image of god, according to the jewish theology. the cherubim on the ark of the covenant, between which god dwelt,2 were also compounded of the same form,3 so that the idea of them must have been present to the prophet s mind, previous to the apparition which furnished him with the description. even those on the ark of the covenant, though made at the express command of god, do not appear to have been original; for a figure exactly answering to the description of them appears among those curious ruins existing at chilminar, in persia, which have been supposed to be those of the palace of persepolis, burnt by alexander; but for what rea

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rtly after his abduction and declared that he would come again at the baptism ceremony of his child-his wife having been pregnant at the time of his supposed death-and that his cousin must cast his dirk over kirk's head, and then kirk would be released from his captivity in fairyland. true to his word, kirk made his reappearance at the baptism, but his cousin was so startled and frightened by the apparition that he forgot to throw the knife, and so kirk remains a prisoner of the fairies to this day.48 fairies were known as the fair family and the good neighbors because the country folk who interacted with them were terrified of them. the flattering names were a way of placating their wrath. they were believed to possess considerable power in the material world, such as the ability to bligh

d put himself into a light trance by staring at the flame of the lamp in his bedroom, although he had no awareness that he was in a trance state. he only knew that the room around him would suddenly "go wrong" first, the gas flame dimmed, and the room filled with a pale-golden brightness. miniature bursts of blue lightning crackled and snapped from the corners of the room. this was followed by an apparition of a grotesque or frightening appearance. on one occasion, he saw a man with a horrifyingly distorted face. at other times, it was a wolf with burning eyes, a lion, a giant serpent, or a bear that reared up on its hind legs. these visions caused the boy to scream at the top of his lungs, but the moment his mother entered his bedroom, the apparition vanished and things "came right" again

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d &c. four dayes (after your book is made, that is to say, written) must you onely call upon those names of god, or on the god of hosts, in those names: and 14 dayes after you shall (in this, or in some convenient place) call the angels by petition, and by the name of god, unto the which they are obedient. the 15 day you shall cloath your selves, in vestures made of linnen, white: and so have the apparition, use, and practice of the creatures. for, it is not a labour of years, nor many dayes. 01 due& faithful relation, p. 184) edward kelley makes the objection "this is somewhat like the old fashion of magick" but ave assures him "nay, they all played at this" meaning that the efforts of magicians past are mere playthings beside the power of the enochian keys. anyone seeking to call the spi

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gone very far, however, when he fell into a pit, where he lay reflecting. it is not such a fortunate day, after all, he meditated; in fact it is just as well that i took this short cut. if things like this can happen in a beautiful setting like this, what might not have befallen me on that nasty highway? to deal with the enemy mulla s mother once instructed her son, if you ever see a ghost, or an apparition in the graveyard, don t be afraid. be brave and attack it immediately! they will run away from you. mulla replied, but what if their mothers gave them the same advice? 292 various other quotes gleaned and compiled by michael scharding how could i conclude the green books without a whole mess of miscellaneous quotes that i ve picked up along the way? perhaps they will inspire you to sear

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ok is contained in the last section 'the stone of the philosophers' here is some fine work" occultism ramsey (william. astrologie restored: being an introduction to the general and chief part of the language of the stars, in four books, folio "fine "portrait by cross. calf, rebacked, fine copy" 1654 "4 4"s" glanvil (joseph. saducismus triumphatus: or full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions; with letter of dr. more on the same subject, and an authentick, but wonderful story of certain swedish witches; done into english by ant. horneck. 8vo "curious frontispiece in six "compartments by faithorne. old calf, rebacked" 1681 "1 5"s" alchemy- suchten (alex. van. of the secrets of antimony; also basil valentine's salt of antimony, with its use, translated out of high dutch by da

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ays of light his locks flow forth, ending in acute points" zoroaster "vedana- pertaining to sensation we may first notice in the beginner's concentrating mind the class of distracting thoughts which refer to the emotions. the taking of pleasure in, or the endurance of pain from, the meditation itself is in particular to be dreaded. of mystic phenomena we may notice the immense class of devotional apparitions. vishnu, christ, jehovah and other deities appear in response to long-continued and passionate love. see "bhagavad gita" chap. xi, the visions of many catholic saints, teresa, gertrude, francis and others, anna kingsford("clothed with the sun" part iii, idra rabba qadisha and so on. the virgin mary is a favourite with many; it is all one phenomenon. observe, though, that many such appa

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nvocation" o thou mighty and powerful spirit taphthartharath, i bind and conjure thee very potently, that thou do appear in visible form before us in the magical triangle without this circle of art. i demand that thou shalt speedily come hither from thy dark abodes and retreats, in the sphere of kokab, and that thou do presently appear before us in pleasing form, not seeking to terrify us by vain apparitions, for we are armed with words of double power, and therefore without fear! and i moreover demand, binding and conjuring thee by the mighty name of elohim tzebaoth, that thou teach us how we may acquire the power to know all things that appertain unto the knowledge of thoth who ruleth the occult wisdom and power. and i am about to invocate thee in the magical hour of tafrac, on this day

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sor of geology at michigan) says "as the movements here contemplated are cyclical, the same conditions would recur again and again; and accordingly the same fauna might return again and again to the same region, with intervals of occupation by another fauna. progressive sedimentation would preserve the records of such faunal alterations; and there would be presented the phenomena of 'colonies 're-apparitions' and other faunal dislocations in the vertical and horizontal distributions of fossil remains. these phenomena are well known to the student of geology("effects of astronomical changes[[vol. 2, page] 326 the secret doctrine. that the periodical sinking and re-appearance of the mighty continents, now called atlantis and lemuria by the modern writers, is no fiction, will be demonstrated

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ohn waring, warned clergy of africans f fervent devotion to "the idolatrous rites and practices of their own country" francis varnod, a missionary with the society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts, wrote to his superiors of the spiritual disposition of slaves in south carolina, observing that "some of our negro-pagans have a notion of god and a devil, and dismal apprehensions of apparitions" other comments by white clergy in the eighteenth century provide an indeterminate picture of black spiritual life, vaguely characterizing african slave practices as "heathenish" and "pagan" with little elaboration or detail. evidence does indicate, however, that despite severe challenges and prohibitions, african slaves in the anglo-american colonies retained their spiritual perspecti

eir otherworldly visions into their understanding of earthly experiences. english protestants often read unusual events as evidence of the divine presence in everyday life, acknowledging the activity of a creator deity who operated through omens and portents within the natural order, or signs and wonders in the heavens, a philosophy known as providentialism "comets, hailstorms, monster births and apparitions" and other disruptions of the ordinary were demonstrations that foretold god's will or signaled his displeasure with humankind. africans f understandings of the universe were also inspired by visible manifestations of spiritual forces within nature. they too viewed thunder, lightning, and other elements as heralds of sacred hierophanies, the awesome presence of numerous divine beings

atural in their lives, africans depicted the universe in myth and beckoned the timeless inhabitants of the spiritual world with ritual. in some cases, images from european folklore wove their way into the cosmologies of africa. the earthly reality of witches, demons, and other purveyors of misfortune underwrote the oral traditions and beliefs of both races. stories passed on of restless souls and apparitions.such as "raw head and bloody bones" a fiendish specter appearing in africanand anglo-american folklore traditions.demonstrate the assimilation of european and african supernatural motifs into a shared complex by whites and blacks.[20] while the two populations f supernatural concepts may have resonated, the traditions of african and anglo-americans themselves obtained vastly different

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ife of adam, who used to visit him in his dreams while he was as yet alone in the garden of eden, and the lord god became so perturbed at these goings-on that he created eve as a counter- attraction. witches were the recipients of similar attentions from the devil. st. theresa of avila records that the godhead itself visited her. the virgin mary received the holy ghost. st. anthony was tempted by apparitions of beautiful female demons. there are many cases on record of whole nunneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exceedingly interesting study of convent life, sister theresa, gives an account of an outbreak of "counterparts" among the younger nuns, in which they formed liaisons with angelic lovers, who were supposed to be the souls of those wh

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g in 1680: a latin version was printed in paris in 1552. rabbi akiba was a great teacher who developed a rabbinical school at jaffu, and his mishnah became the foundation of the religious code. he was involved in the revolt of bar-cochba against hadrian in 132 c.e. and suffered martyrdom by being flayed alive. akita in 1969, akita, japan, was the site of one of the more prominent modern series of apparitions of the virgin mary. while praying, sister agnes sasagawa, a young postulate of the order of the handmaids of the eucharist, a roman catholic order community, received a locution, a clairaudient message, concerning how she should pray. she ascribed this voice to an angel. the content of the prayer, she later discovered, was the same as that given to the three children who had seen the v

e she saw the virgin for the first time. she also heard a series of accompanying messages from the virgin calling for prayer and sacrifice. the words seemed to come from a wooden statue of the virgin located in the chapel. she would see the virgin two more times. the last of the three messages complained of problems of discord and compromise within the church reaching to the highest levels. these apparitions would probably have gone unnoticed had it not been for the accompanying phenomena. during the period when the apparitions were being received, the statue oozed a reddish substance from its right hand. analyzed, it proved to be type ab blood. then the statue was noticed to perspire. again the substance was analyzed and proved to be similar to human sweat. then, several years later, the

pernatural origin. this verdict was confirmed by the vatican in 1984. the events at akita challenge the more common explanations of skeptics concerning weeping statues as the substance coming from the eyes was not water (as would have been the case if it was due to mere condensation. in like measure, explanations generally attributed to bleeding statues do not appear applicable. sources: catholic apparitions of jesus and mary. http/ www.frontier.net/apparitions/akita.num. april 5, 2000. aksakof, alexander n (1832.1903) imperial councillor to the czar and the pioneer of spiritualism in russia, as well as a swedenborg enthusiast. he was born in repiofka, russia, in 1832 and educated for civil duty at the royal lyceum, st. petersburg. he was introduced to modern spiritualism by andrew jackson

ineteenth century. sources: waite, a. e. the occult sciences. 1891. reprint, secaucus, n.j: university books, 1974. alexander ab alexandro (alexandro alessandri (ca. 1461.1523) a neapolitan lawyer, who published a dissertation on the marvelous entitled de rebus admirabilibus, in which he recounts miracles that happened in italy, dreams that were verified, and the circumstances connected with many apparitions and phantoms, which he claims to have witnessed. he followed this dissertation with his celebrated work genialium dierum, which contains many fantastic accounts. for instance, one evening he set out to join a party of several friends at a house in rome said to have been haunted for a long time by specters and demons. in the middle of the night, when all of them were assembled in one ro

newsstand magazine covering ufos, paranormal events, and their links to the native american community. this latter aspect gives the magazine its uniqueness. white buffalo-eagle wing, inc, published the books of alternate perceptions associate editor, dr. greg l. little, that have argued for a connection between such paranormal occurrences as the near-death experience, ufo abductions, and ghostly apparitions on the one hand, and native american spiritualism and ancient rituals on the other. underlying all is a spectral reality. ancient native americans located specific places to hold their rituals that had electromagnetic anomalies. rituals performed at such sacred sites caused a spectrum of mental and visual manifestations. such electromagnetic anomalies hold the answer to recent phenomen

& parapsychology. 5th ed. 34 sources: alternate perceptions. memphis, tenn, n.d. little, greg l. grand illusions: the spectral reality underlying sexual ufo abductions, crashed saucers, afterlife experiences, sacred ancient sites, and other enigmas. memphis, tenn: white eagle books, 1984. people of the web: what indian mounds, ancient rituals and stone circles tell us about modern ufo abductions, apparitions, and the near.death experience. memphis, tenn: white eagle books, 1990. alternative medicine exhibition sponsored in britain july 1985 by the journal here s health and organized by swan house special events, with exhibitors and workshops in a wide range of subjects, including acupressure and acupuncture, alexander technique, aromatherapy, bach flower remedies, biofeedback, herbalism, h

e he has a little man or animal inside, who moves him. the animal inside the animal, the man inside the man, is the soul. and as the activity of an animal or man is explained by the presence of the soul, so the repose of sleep or death is explained by its absence; sleep or trance being the temporary, death being the permanent absence of the soul. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apparitions 63 sometimes the human soul was represented as a bird.an eagle, a dove, a raven.or as an animal of some sort, just as the soul of a river might be in the form of a horse or a serpent, or the soul of a tree in human shape; but among most peoples the belief was that the soul was an exact reproduction of the body resembling it in every feature, even to details of dress. when a person saw

rition of a deceased person suggested to some the continuance of the soul s existence beyond the grave; the apparition of a sick person, or one in some other grave crisis could also be regarded as the soul, which at such times was absent from the body. there is a widely diffused opinion that ghosts are of a filmy, unsubstantial nature, a belief also present in the earliest speculations concerning apparitions. at a very early period (as, for example, in the early chapters of the biblical book of genesis) we find spirit and breath identified with each other.an identification continued in the latin spiritus and the greek pneuma, as well as appearing in other languages. it is possible that the breath, which in some climates readily condenses in cold air to a white mist, might be regarded as th

iritus and the greek pneuma, as well as appearing in other languages. it is possible that the breath, which in some climates readily condenses in cold air to a white mist, might be regarded as the stuff that ghosts are made of. the misty nature of the ghost may also have resulted from an early speculation that the shadow is related to soul. thus animistic ideas of the soul offer an explanation of apparitions. ancient religion also had a belief in a host of spirits that had never taken bodies.true supernatural beings, as distinct from souls, i.e, gods, elementary spirits, and those evil spirits to which were attributed disease, disaster, possession, and bewitchment. the ancient deities may have evolved into the fairies, elves, brownies, bogies, and goblins of popular folklore, of which many

pparitions. ancient religion also had a belief in a host of spirits that had never taken bodies.true supernatural beings, as distinct from souls, i.e, gods, elementary spirits, and those evil spirits to which were attributed disease, disaster, possession, and bewitchment. the ancient deities may have evolved into the fairies, elves, brownies, bogies, and goblins of popular folklore, of which many apparitions are recorded. primitive concepts of apparitions it is only within the last few generations that scientific investigation of apparitions has begun, growing out of the new post- enlightenment scientific mythologies, and resulting from the new level of skepticism towards paranormal occurrences that developed in the nineteenth century. there was an almost universal belief in ghosts, a beli

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hat extended from cappadocia to india, but they were still of so much consideration at a later period as to provoke the jealousy of alexander the great. magia posthuma (of c. f. de schertz) a short treatise on the vampire published at olmutz (now in the czech republic) in 1706 and written by charles ferdinand de schertz. reviewing it, dom antoine augustin calmet stated in his dissertation sur les apparitions, des anges. et sur les revenaus et vampires (1746; trans. the phantom world, 2. vols, 1850) that the author related a story of a woman that died in a certain village, after having received all the sacraments, and was buried with the usual ceremonies in the churchyard. about four days after her death and for several months, the inhabitants of the village were frightened by unusual noise

ey had been running a long and tiresome race. schertz examined the subject in the capacity of a lawyer and was clearly of the opinion that if the suspected person were really the source of these noises, disturbances, and acts of cruelty, the law would justify the burning of the body, as is practiced in the case of other specters that come again and molest the living. he related several stories of apparitions of this sort and the mischief done by them. one was of a herdsman of the village of blow near the town of kadam in bohemia, who appeared for a considerable time and called upon several persons, who all died within eight days. the inhabitants of blow dug up the herdsman s body and fixed it in the ground with a stake driven through it. the man, even in this condition, laughed at the peop

n the most hideous manner and threw its arms and legs about as if it had been alive. upon being again run through with a stake, it gave a loud cry, and a great quantity of fresh, florid blood issued from the wound. at last the body was burnt to ashes, and this execution put a final stop to the specter s appearing and infesting the village. the same method was practiced in other places where these apparitions were seen, and upon taking them out of the ground, their bodies seemed fresh and florid, their limbs pliant and flexible, without any worms or putrefaction, but not without a great stench. the author quoted several other writers, who attested to what he related concerning these specters, which, he stated, still appeared in the mountains of silesia and moravia. they were seen, it seems

re. yet to-day, if a mystifier lack the ingenuity to invent a new and startling stunt, he can safely fall back upon a trick that has been the favorite of press agents the world over in all ages. maskelyne, nevertheless, did not absolutely discredit the paranormal, as revealed by a letter he wrote to the daily telegraph in 1881: it may surprise some of your readers to learn that i am a believer in apparitions. several similar occurrences to those described by many of your correspondents have taken place in my own family, and in the families of near friends and relations. in the pall mall gazette of april 20, 1885, maskelyne acknowledges the phenomenon of table turning as genuine. he declared that faraday s explanation was insufficient and some psychic or nerve force was responsible for the

ial for thought journal concerned with eastern and western teachings regarding the inner search for self. address: far west editions, p.o. box 27901-113, san francisco, ca 94127. online orders are available at http//www.material4thought.com. sources: material for thought. http//www.material4thought.com. march 8, 2000. materialization the claimed manifestation of temporary, more or less organized, apparitions in varying degrees of form, often possessing human physical characteristics and said to be shaped for a temporary existence from a substance called ectoplasm. materializations were attributed by spiritualists and some psychical researchers to spirit agency, although a few postulated that they might arise from some unknown natural force independent of departed spirits, but emanating fro

e human head, and with a hand moving a luminous palm illuminating it clearly. the hand will move around the head as if to show itself more clearly to the onlooker, the eyes looking at one intensely and the face smiling most pleasantly. i have seen a number of such heads, sometimes two at a time, moving through the air like drifting toy balloons from one sitter to another. on several occasions the apparitions appeared just behind my back, and i was aware of them from the sound of their breathing, which i could hear distinctly before they were noticed by the sitters opposite to me. when i turned around i found their faces just about a foot from me, either smiling or looking intently at me. some of these were breathing violently as if after a strenuous run, and in these cases i felt their bre

it was in her head all day. he believed that ideas of forms, actions, and words that would manifest at a seance were placed in the medium s mind days beforehand. animal materializations one place where animals have made a noticeable impact upon the world of paranormal research has been in claims of their manifestation in the seances of materialization mediums. there are abundant accounts of such apparitions, the strangest reports being attributed to three polish mediums: franek kluski, jan guzyk and one burgik. it was claimed that guzyk materialized dogs and other animals, and kluski, a large bird of prey, small beasts, a lion, and an apeman. the year 1919 abounded with apparent animal materializations in the kluski seances. an account in psychic science (april 1926) reads in part: the bi

n they choose; roaming about the room just as they please; and disappearing just when it suits them, and not before; and we have no power to prevent this so long as the affection existing between them and their late owners is so strong as it was in the instances which have come under our notice. in contradiction to this information, ocholowicz made it a point that at the kluski seances the animal apparitions were seen to be in the charge of human apparitions. the only animal that seemed to be able to act independently of a keeper was the pithecanthropus, he said. generally the animal and human apparitions were not active at the same time. when the animal was fully materialized and active, the keeper was passive and kept in the background, and vice versa. the testimony of clairvoyants also

in the charge of human apparitions. the only animal that seemed to be able to act independently of a keeper was the pithecanthropus, he said. generally the animal and human apparitions were not active at the same time. when the animal was fully materialized and active, the keeper was passive and kept in the background, and vice versa. the testimony of clairvoyants also suggested that when animal apparitions were seen the necessary link was furnished by a friend of the sitter. materializations and apports in experiments with medium thomas lynn at the british college of psychic science, objects were photographed while supposedly in the process of materialization. they showed flecks and masses of a luminous material, possessing stringlike roots. these light masses floated over a harp lying u

, 1907. rev. ed. 1926. aksakof, alexander. a case of partial dematerialization of the body of a medium. boston, 1898. berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. bisson, juliette a. les phenomenes dits de materialisations. paris, 1914. bolton, gambier. ghosts in solid form. london, 1914. brackett, e. a. materialized apparitions. boston, 1886. london: william rider, n.d. carrington, hereward. the american seances with eusapia palladino. new york: helix, 1954. the physical phenomena of spiritualism. new york: dodd, mead, 1920. reprint, london: t. werner laurie, n.d. colley, thomas. confessions of a medium. london, 1882. sermons of spiritualism. london, 1907. crookes, william. researches in the phenomena of spir

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ductions by ufos; fairies encountered further reading brodu, jean-louis, 1995. magonia: a re-evaluation. in steve moore, ed. fortean studies: volume 2, 198 215. london: john brown publishing. drake, w. r, 1964. spacemen in the middle ages. flying saucer review10, 3 (may/june: 11 13. vallee, jacques, 1969. passport to magonia: from folklore to flying saucers. chicago: henry regnery company. marian apparitions visions of the blessed virgin mary (bvm) have been reported since at least the third century of the christian era. the first for which there is anything approximating detailed knowledge dates back to 1061 when the bvm provided a vision of christ s residence in nazareth and directed the witness, the lady of the manor in walsingham, norfolk, to see that a precise copy was constructed on

y would re p o rt, the ground around the fig u res remained dry. yet when ma ry be i r n e s mother appro a c h e d to kiss the bv m s feet, she felt nothing. sh e could see the fig u res, but she could not touch them. eve n t u a l l y, the fig u res faded away. all in all, at least fifteen persons saw them. knock is now a major destination for ma r i a n p i l g r i m s. the tradition of marian apparitions has continued unabated into modern times. in 1999, on the eve of the millennium, visionaries were encountering the bvm in germany, new hampshire, illinois, el salvador, ontario, and elsewhere. most prophecies related with these visions asserted that nuclear warfare would erupt before the end of the year. during the conflict for custody of six-year-old cuban refugee elian gonzalez, some

ted with these visions asserted that nuclear warfare would erupt before the end of the year. during the conflict for custody of six-year-old cuban refugee elian gonzalez, some of elian s miami relatives claimed to have seen the bvm, manifesting, they asserted, to show her support for their belief that the boy should be kept in their custody instead of his cuban father s. secular treatments of bvm apparitions range from conventional views for example, that hysteria, hoax, and hallucination underlie the accounts to more expansive theories. the sightings at fatima, for example, figure in some ufo literature, in which they are said to be encounters with an alien being disguised as or mistaken for the bvm. the late d. scott 164 marian apparitions rogo, a writer and researcher interested in a wi

the evidence for visions of the virgin mary. wellingborough, northamptonshire, england: aquarian press. nickell, joe, with john f. fischer, 1988. secrets of the supernatural: investigating the world s occult mys- teries. buffalo, ny: prometheus books. rogo, d. scott, 1982. miracles: a parascientific in- quiry into wondrous phenomena. new york: dial press. van meter, david, 1999. digest of marian apparitions and catholic apocalypticism. http//members. aol.com/uticacw/mar-review.html. mark mark may or may not be among the extraterrestrials with whom george adamski allegedly interacted. he figures in an unusually interesting contact claim made by a woman identified only as joelle and known to british ufologist timothy good, who told her story for the first time in a 1998 book. joelle, a brit

ing the flying saucers. flying saucers (may: 19 43. mann, michael g, 1960. prince or king, he isn t a spaceman! saucer news 7, 1 (march: 5 7. mapes. d. o, 1959. prince neosom, planet: tyton [sic. buffalo, ny: self-published. psychoterrestrials new age psychologist michael grosso uses the term psychoterrestrials to describe a range of anomalous and paranormal entities, including ufo beings, marian apparitions, and men in black. he believes that such entities, though mythic constructs, are able to assume a quasi-physical reality because of the deep resonance they have in humanity s collective psyche. another name for psychoterrestrials is psychic projections. grosso believes that ufos and other exotic phenomena are forces of rebirth that the ultradimensional mind has conjured up to transform

rials 203 an artist s impression of a gray alien, based on witness descriptions, an example of a psychoterrestrial being (debbie lee/fortean picture library) notion of materialized psychisms as impossible, and, in particular, he dismissed the notion that materialized psychisms, even if they could be proved to exist, could be detected by instruments such as radar. see also: imaginal beings; marian apparitions; men in black further reading grosso, michael, 1985. the final choice: pl a y i n g the su rv i val ga m e. walpole, nh: st i l l p o i n t pu b l i s h i n g, 1992. frontiers of the soul: exploring psychic evolution. wheaton, il: quest books, 1989. ufos and the myth of the new age. in dennis stillings, ed. cyberbiological studies of the imaginal component in the ufo contact experience

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ng medical resuscitation. he displayed a marked aversion to the sea, suffered from terrible headaches, and physically showed signs of under-nourishment. he was also subject to particularly vivid and lucid dreams, suffering from nightmares virtually every other night of his life. during his childhood, he was visited in dream by creatures which he called the night gaunts. these faceless, bat-winged apparitions would carry him away to bizarre scenes of towering, pointed mountain tops an archetypal landscape which was to find expression in his fiction as the abominable plateau of leng. and it was during such nocturnal experiences that many of his most powerful images originated often transferred to paper in an manner virtually identical to that of automatic writing, as was the case in the tran

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lso translated as an owl, and as a screeching bird of night. naamah, the female demon, is the mother of many devils, her name means pleasure. she is said to have led astray uzza and azael, two of the beni elohim angels. asimon, the un-named one, is another devil of some repute, and no sex is apparent, in this case.thedevils are also said to have a special home in the moon; for evil spirits, night apparitions, and devils abide there. while on the other planets are the dead souls of the seventy nations, while the souls of the jews gotoparadise.inanother place the seventy princes before mentioned are said to be also the rulers over planets and great stars of the firmament, for every nation and city is relatedtothe prince of some star in the firmament. a further assortment of the race of devil

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imes probably by sacrifices^ distinct from these are such spirits as have not become partakers, or not completely, of blessedness and peace, but hover betwixt heaven and earth, and in some cases even return to their old home. these souls that appear, that come back, that haunt, we call spectres (ghosts. the roman expression for peaceful happy spirits of the dead was manes, for uncanny disquietiug apparitions lemures or larvae; though the terms fluctuate, for' manes' can denote spectral beings too, and' lemures' can have a general meaning (creuzer^s symb. 2, 850 866. larfa betrays its affinity to lar (p. 500, and the good kindly lares were often held to be manes or souls of departed ancestors. so in our german superstition we find instances of souls becoming homesprites or kobolds- and stil

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h him' mrsandbydemurs to, while mr hockley, we presume, supports.thetext, however, furnishes us with no assistance in the work of connecting the premises and the conclusion, and we can find none for ourselves in the full report of the sitting, least of all in theitalicizedpassages. surely the anecdote of thecoup-de-soled,however interesting in itself, in no way elucidates the theory of conversing apparitions. at the same time we are bound to say thatmrsandby appears to narrow his own ground toostrictly,at page421,zoistxxviii, he well states, that when the transference of thought is once established as a truth, the otherpoints,-cana brain which is not inapparentrapportwith the sleeper (a brain which is at acontributionstothezoist213between adele, the clairvoyante, and the mother of m. lucas

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ibus veniatis& rationabiliter de omnibus qu cunque interrogavero, respondeatis vos& veniatis pacifice, visibiles& affabiles: nunc& sine mora manifestantes quod cupimus: conjurati per nomen terni vivi& veri dei helioren& mandata nostra per ficientes, persistentes semper usque ad finem& intentionem meam, visibiles nobis& affabiles, clara voce nobis, intelligibile& sine omni ambiguitate. visions and apparitions. quibus rit peractis, apparebunt infinit visiones& phantasmata pulsantia organa& omnis generis instrumenta musica, idque sit spiritibus, ut terrore compulsi socii abeant circulo, quia nihil adversus migistrum possunt. post h c videbis infinitos sagittarios cum infinita multitudine bestiarum horribilem: qu ita se componunt, ac si vellent devorare socios& tamen nil timeant. tunc sacerdos

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s analytical mood. he granted for the sake of argument that some unnatural monster had really existed, but reminded me that even the most morbid perversion of nature need not be unnamable or scientifically indescribable. i admired his clearness and persistence, and added some further revelations i had collected among the old people. those later spectral legends, i made plain, related to monstrous apparitions more frightful than anything organic could be; apparitions of gigantic bestial forms sometimes visible and sometimes only tangible, which floated about on moonless nights and haunted the old house, the crypt behind it, and the grave where a sapling had sprouted beside an illegible slab. whether or not such apparitions had ever gored or smothered people to death, as told in uncorroborat

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inquiries to various mystics in 1930-31-32 was indeed tenanted by a strange hindoo, but he left shortly before the date of the new orleans conference and has never been seen since. he was said to be dark, expressionless, and bearded, and his landlord thinks the swarthy mask- which was duly exhibited- looked very much like him. he was never, however, suspected of any connection with the nightmare apparitions whispered of by local slavs. the hills behind arkham were searched for the "metal envelope" but nothing of the sort was ever found. however, a clerk in arkham's first national bank does recall a queer turbaned man who cashed an odd bit of gold bullion in october, 1930. de marigny and phillips scarcely know what to make of the business. after all, what was proved? there was a story. the

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f 1447--witchcraft trials in the sixteenth century -statutes dealing with the subject--eye-biters--the enchanted earl of desmond 46 p. vi chapter iv a.d. 1606-1656 a clerical wizard--witchcraft cured by a relic--raising the devil in ireland--how he was cheated by a doctor of divinity--stewart and the fairies--rev. robert blair and the man possessed with a devil--strange occurrences near limerick--apparitions of murdered people at portadown--charmed lives--visions and portents--petition of a bewitched antrim man in england--archbishop ussher's prophecies--mr. browne and the locked chest 77 chapter v a.d. 1661 florence newton, the witch of youghal 105 chapter vi a.d. 1662-1686 132 the devil at damerville--and at ballinagarde--taverner and haddock's ghost--hunter and the ghostly old woman--a

rtents--petition of a bewitched antrim man in england--archbishop ussher's prophecies--mr. browne and the locked chest 77 chapter v a.d. 1661 florence newton, the witch of youghal 105 chapter vi a.d. 1662-1686 132 the devil at damerville--and at ballinagarde--taverner and haddock's ghost--hunter and the ghostly old woman--a witch rescued by the devil--dr. williams and the haunted house in dublin--apparitions seen in the air in co. tipperary--a clergy-man p. vii and his wife bewitched to death-bewitching of mr. moor--the fairy-possessed butler--a ghost instigates a prosecution--supposed witchcraft in co. cork--the devil among the quakers chapter vii a.d. 1688 an irish-american witch 176 chapter viii a.d. 1689-1720 portent on entry of james ii--witchcraft in co. antrim--traditional version o

d seems to have escaped scot- free--at p. 14 least we have not been able to find any instances recorded of witch trials at that time. probably the terribly disturbed state of the country, the tremendous upheaval of the cromwellian confiscations, and the various difficulties and dangers experienced by the new settlers would largely account for this immunity. dr. notestein 1 shows that the tales of apparitions and devils, of knockings and strange noises, with which english popular literature of the period is filled, are indications of a very overwrought public mind; of similar stories in ireland, also indicative of a similar state of tension, some examples are given in chapter iv. though the first half of the seventeenth century is so barren with respect to witchcraft, yet it should be notic

glish popular literature of the period is filled, are indications of a very overwrought public mind; of similar stories in ireland, also indicative of a similar state of tension, some examples are given in chapter iv. though the first half of the seventeenth century is so barren with respect to witchcraft, yet it should be noticed that during that period we come across frequent notices of ghosts, apparitions, devils &c, which forces us to the conclusion that the increase of the belief in such subjects at that time was almost entirely due to the advent of the cromwellian settlers and the scotch colonists in ulster; indeed the beliefs of the latter p. 15 made the northern province a miniature scotland in this respect. we cannot blame them for this; could anything else be expected from men wh

69:1 ulster journal of arch ology, vol. iv (for 1858. 70:1 all the year round (for april 1870. 74:1 lenihan, history of limerick, p. 147. chapter iv a.d. 1606-1656 a clerical wizard--witchcraft cured by a relic--raising the devil in ireland--how he was cheated by a doctor of divinity--stewart and the fairies--rev. robert blair and the man possessed with a devil--strange occurrences near limerick--apparitions of murdered people at portadown--charmed lives-visions and portents--petition of a bewitched antrim man in england--archbishop usher's prophecies--mr. browne and the locked chest an interesting trial of a clergyman for the practice of unhallowed arts took place early in 1606--interesting and valuable, if for no other reason than that it is the first instance of such a case being discov

s poured out upon the table vanished. but some days thereafter he appeared to him at his own house, naming him by his name, and said to him, ye are mine, for i arled you with a sixpence, which yet ye have. then said he, i asked his name, and he answered, they call me nickel downus (i suppose that he repeated evil, that he should have said nihil damus. being thus molested with these and many other apparitions of the devil, he left scotland; but being come to ireland he did often likewise appear to him, and now of late he still commands me to kill and slay; and oftentimes, says he, my whinger hath been drawn and kept under my cloak to obey his commands, but still something holds my hand that i cannot strike. but then i asked him go p. 91 whom he was bidden kill? he answered, any that comes i

witch-trial in ireland in the middle of the seventeenth century. footnotes 129:1 dict. nat. biog. 130:1 cork hist. and arch. journal, vol. x (2nd series. 130:2 ibid, vol. vii (2nd series. chapter vi a.d. 1662-1686 the devil at damerville--and at ballinagarde--taverner and haddock's ghost--hunter and the ghostly old woman--a witch rescued by the devil- dr. williams and the haunted house in dublin--apparitions seen in the air in co. tipperary--a clergyman and his wife bewitched to death--bewitching of mr. moor--the fairy-possessed butler--a ghost instigates a prosecution- supposed witchcraft in co. cork--the devil among the quakers. from the earliest times the devil has made his mark, historically and geographically, in ireland; the nomenclature of many places indicates that they are his exc

e says "i preached from hebrews ii. 18, and contrived to be at prayer at that time when the noise used to be greatest. when i was at prayer the woman, kneeling by me, catched violently at my arm, and afterwards told us that she raw a terrible sight--but it pleased god there was no noise at all. and from that time god graciously freed her from all that disturbance" 1 p. 150 many strange stories of apparitions seen in the air come from all parts of the world, and are recorded by writers both ancient and modern, but there are certainly few of them that can equal the account of that weird series of incidents that was seen in the sky by a goodly crowd of ladies and gentlemen in co. tipperary on 2nd march 1678. 1 "at poinstown in the county of tepperary were seen divers strange and prodigious ap

tes, a schoolmaster. p. 154 mr. larkin. mrs. dunsterville. her daughter-in-law. her maiden daughter. mr. dwine's daughter. mrs. grace, her daughter" the first of the sixteen persons who subscribed to the truth of the above was the rev. peter alley, who had been appointed curate of killenaule union (dio. cashel) in 1672, but was promoted to livings in the same diocese in the autumn of the year the apparitions appeared. 1 there is a townland named poyntstown in the parish of buolick and barony of slievardagh, and another of the same name in the adjoining parish of fennor. it must have been at one or other of these places that the sights were witnessed, as both parishes are only a few miles distant from killenaule. somewhat similar tales, although not so full of marvellous detail, are reporte

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us by the titans and his subsequent resurrection. 405. the mysteries commenced with the consecration of an egg, symbolizing the mundane egg from which all things came. the candidate was crowned with myrtle, clothed in the sacred robes, exhorted to have courage, and then led through dark caverns amid the howling of wild beasts and other fearful noises, while flashes of lightning revealed monstrous apparitions to his sight. after three days and nights of this kind of experience, he was laid on a couch in a solitary cell; there was a sudden crash of waters, typifying the deluge, and the murder of dionysus was enacted, his limbs being scattered on the waters. then, amid lamentations, commenced the search of rhea for the remains of dionysus, and the apartments were filled with shrieks and groan

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.other theories refer to astral or etheric bodies, an amalgam of personality patterns, recording or imprints of vibrations, projections of the human unconscious or will and concentration, true spirits of the dead, and localized phenomena with their own physicality, directed by an intelligence or personality. one of the most elaborate theories is that of ideapatterns contained in g. n. m. tyrell s apparitions (1973, in which apparitions are believed to be hallucinations on the part of a percipient based on information received from the agent. science still has little knowledge about the nature of apparitions, even though there have been systematic studies since the late nineteenth century inaugurated by the society for psychical research. among its most important works are the research abou

paritions (1973, in which apparitions are believed to be hallucinations on the part of a percipient based on information received from the agent. science still has little knowledge about the nature of apparitions, even though there have been systematic studies since the late nineteenth century inaugurated by the society for psychical research. among its most important works are the research about apparitions, the results of which are reported in phantasms of the living (1886, and the 1889 census of hallucinations, about apparitional experiences of either the living or the dead. similar censuses were done in france, germany, and the united states. for further reading: cavendish, richard. the encyclopedia of the unexplained. new york:mcgraw-hill, 1967. green, celia, and charles mccreery. app

mcgraw-hill, 1967. green, celia, and charles mccreery. apparitions. london: hamish hamilton, 1975. gurney, edmund, f.w. h.myers, and frank podmore. phantasms of the living. 1886. london: kegan paul, trench, trubner& co, 1918. myers, frederic w. h.human personality and its survival of bodily death. vols. 1 and 2. 1903.new ed.new york: longman s, green& co, 1954. stevenson, ian. the contribution of apparitions to the evidence for survival. journal of the american society for psychical research 76, no. 4 (october 1982: 341 356. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. 1943. rev. 1953. london: society for psychical research, 1973. appolion appolion (also appolyon and apollyon, means destroyer. he is the angel of hell s bottomless pit. as described in revelation (9:1 11 and 20:1 8, appolion opened the sh

transcend the cycle of death and rebirth to a higher reality. most relapse into the secondary clear light, a lesser ecstasy. the second stage is like an awakening, in which the spirit is presented with hallucinations created by karmic reflexes of actions done while alive. unless enlightened, the spirit is under the illusion that it still has a body like the one that died. there begins a series of apparitions, the coming of the peaceful and wrathful deities, or personifications of human sentiment, which must be faced without flinching. the bardo th dol provides a relevant prayer: when i will have left my dear friends and gone on my own, and when the empty forms of my own projections appear, may the buddhas grant me the strength of their compassion so that the terrors of the bardo will not c

ns in heaven for imaginary acts of martyrdom. macrobius was a fourth century christian writer whose commentary on the dream of scipio became the most influential dream book of medieval europe. compared with his contemporaries, macrobius was negative and superstitious. clearly indebted to the oneirocritica, the dreambook of the great pagan dream interpreter artemidorus, macrobius added material on apparitions and nightmares topics not explicitly covered by artemidorus. macrobius also included a discussion of incubi and succubi, the sexual demons who seduced virtuous men and women in their sleep, and who became highly popular creatures in medieval european demonological lore. although these beings are rooted in earlier jewish folklore, macrobius appears to have been the person to introduce t

isoned and tormented by fire. there are few references to purgatory in shakespeare s works because of his antipapal convictions. shakespeare seems to adopt an uncritical attitude toward religious supernaturalism, although he may simply be drawing elements from folklore and popular superstition to add to the power of his drama. one of the forms of the supernatural adopted by shakespeare is ghostly apparitions, and the frequency with which he introduces them into his works testifies to the widespread belief in their reality at his time. they were seen by the common person as departed spirits who returned to earth for some special reason, such as revenge and warning, while the literate regarded ghosts as devils of the underworld in visible form. shakespeare s ghosts can be actually present an

revenge and warning, while the literate regarded ghosts as devils of the underworld in visible form. shakespeare s ghosts can be actually present and apparent to several people at the same time, like the ghost in hamlet, or can be the product of the mind of the person who sees it, like the ghost of banquo in macbeth and caesar s ghost in julius caesar. also, they can appear in dreams, such as the apparitions to richard iii before the battle of bosworth and to posthumus in cymbeline. shakespeare deals with the supernatural in at least half of his plays, but his deepest attitudes toward this subject at different points in his career are revealed in four dramas: a midsummer night s dream, hamlet, macbeth, and the tempest. in hamlet, which contains much information about popular superstition o

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iving apollonius refused to divulge his secrets to the profane, is there any probability that after death he would disclose them to the curious-minded? levi himself did not dare to assert that the specter which appeared to him was actually the great philosopher, for levi realized only too well the proclivity of elementals to impersonate those who have passed on. the majority of modern mediumistic apparitions are but elemental creatures masquerading through bodies composed of thought substance supplied by the very persons desiring to behold these wraiths of decarnate beings. the theory and practice of black magic some understanding of the intricate theory and practice of ceremonial magic may be derived from a brief consideration of its underlying premises. first. the visible universe has an

, to the mountains of india, and to their quarries or caverns, and take thence our precious stones which dissolve or melt in water, when they are mingled therewith. much indeed might be spoken of these mountains, if it were lawful to publish their mysteries, but one thing i shall not forbear to tell you. they are very dangerous places after night, for they are haunted with fires and other strange apparitions (as a i am told by the magi) by certain spirits, which dabble lasciviously with the sperm of the world and imprint their imaginations in, producing many times fantastic and monstrous generations. the access and pilgrimage to this place, with the difficulties which attend them, are faithfully and magisterially described by the brothers of r.c (set accompanying letter) p. 160 the lunar r

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

une, divination, the favour of princes, to dissolve hostile feeling, and to make friends. the key of solomon page 14 the days and hours of venus are good for forming friendships; for kindness and love; for joyous and pleasant undertakings, and for travelling. the days and hours of mercury are good to operate for eloquence and intelligence; promptitude in business; science and divination; wonders; apparitions: and answers regarding the future. thou canst also operate under this planet for thefts; writings; deceit; and merchandise. the days and hours of the moon are good for embassies; voyages; envoys; messages; navigation; reconciliation; love; and the acquisition of merchandise by water. thou shouldst take care punctually to observe all the instructions contained in this chapter, if thou d

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haunted house ever did (or battlefield for that matter. what s more is that you would expect a high ghost ratio because of how few people who have died on the road, or emergency room, expected to die that day. so there s no shortage of unfinished business either. many are tragic and abrupt, but where s ghost suvs and motorcyclists? where are the ghost hospital and nursing home patients? countless apparitions should be seen wandering aimlessly up and down the halls of a hospital. and why did each of the few people who ever died in a particular building all become ghosts, while thousands die in the hospital (and at the corner of x and y) and none stayed to haunt? clearly, the prevailing theory about ghosts has some unfinished business of its own. magicians have explained the phenomena of hau

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a divine light, which, filling the whole sanctuary, dazzled the eyes and penetrated the soul of the initiate. thus is symbolized the final revelation of the true doctrine as to the nature of deity and of the soul, and of the relations of each to matter. this was preceded by frightful scenes, alternations of fear and joy, of light and darkness; by glittering lightning and the crash of thunder, and apparitions of spectres, or magical illusions, impressing at once the eyes and ears. this claudian describes, in his poem on the rape of proserpine, where he alludes to what passed in her mysteries "the temple is shaken" he cries "fiercely gleams the lightning, by which the deity announces his presence. earth trembles; and a terrible noise is heard in the midst of these terrors. the temple of the

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alone [86]develops itself. she now presides over all practices connected with witchcraft and enchantments, haunts sepulchres, and the point where two roads cross, and lonely spots where murders have been committed. she was supposed to be connected with the appearance of ghosts and spectres, to possess unlimited influence over the powers of the lower world, and to be able to lay to rest unearthly apparitions by her magic spells and incantations. hecate appears as a gigantic woman, bearing a torch and a sword. her feet and hair are formed of snakes, and her passage is accompanied by voices of thunder, weird shrieks and yells, and the deep baying and howling of dogs. her favour was propitiated by offerings and sacrifices, principally consisting of black lambs. her festivals were celebrated a

of shepherds, was identified with the greek pan, and represented in a similar manner. faunus is frequently called inuus or the fertilizer, and lupercus or the one who wards off wolves. like pan, he possessed the gift of prophecy, and was the presiding spirit of the woods and fields; he also shared with his greek prototype the faculty of alarming travellers in solitary places. bad dreams and evil apparitions were attributed to faunus, and he was believed to enter houses stealthily at night for this purpose. fauna was the wife of faunus, and participated in his functions. the satyrs. page 203 the satyrs were a race of woodland spirits, who evidently personified the free, wild, and untrammelled life of the forest. their appearance was both grotesque and repulsive; they had flat broad noses

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that are strewn about the desert, or to identify their country of origin. when the young officer in his turn is examined, the ancient man takes pity on him, and gives him a magical liqueur that puts the wounded man back on his feet. he follows the old man into the pyramid, and discovers a world of magic. there are vast halls and endless galleries, subterranean chambers piled high with treasures, apparitions of blazing lamps, legions of familiar spirits and there, also, is the black pullet. it is a supernatural version of aladdin with an inner meaning of astaroth. the sage himself proves to be the sole heir of the ancient magi and is himself, in quest of an heir for he feels he is about to pass away. in time the french officer, seeing that his protector possesses a talisman that confers im

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ral wealth, hope, gain, fortune, divination, the favour of princes, to dissolve hostile feeling, and to make friends. the days and hours of venus are good for forming friendships; for kindness and love; for joyous and pleasant undertakings, and for traveling. the days and hours of mercury are good to operate for eloquence and intelligence; promptitude in business; science and divination; wonders; apparitions; and answers regarding the future. thou canst also operate under this planet for thefts; writings; deceit; and merchandise. the days and hours of the moon are good for embassies; voyages; envoys; messages; navigation; reconciliation; love, and the acquisition of merchandise by water. for example, should i crave honours and prestige, then jupiter would be the planet ruling such matters

RITUEL ET DOGME DE LA HAUTE MAGIE BY ELIPHAS LEVI PART I

ich paracelsus discourses in his philosophy of intuition philosophia sagax. this sidereal body, being liberated at death, attracts and for a long time preserves, through the sympathy of things homogeneous, the reflections of the past life; if drawn into a special current by a will which is powerfully sympathetic, it manifests naturally, for there is nothing more natural than prodigies. it is thus apparitions are produced. but we shall develop this point more fully in a chapter devoted to necromancy. the fluidic body, subject, like the mass of the astral light, to two contrary movements, attracting on the left and repelling on the right, or reciprocally, between the two sexes, begets various impulses within us, and contributes to solicitudes of conscience; it is influenced frequently by ref

e of p. alphonsus ligouri beside the dying pope, whilst the same personage was simultaneously seen at home, far from rome, in prayer and ecstasy. further, the simultaneous presence of the missionary francis xavier in several places at once has been no less strictly demonstrated. it will be said that these are miracles, but we reply that miracles when they are genuine are simply facts for science. apparitions of persons dear to us coincidently with the moment of their death are phenomena of the same order and attributable to the same cause. we have spoken of the sidereal body, which is intermediary between the soul and the physical envelope. now, this body frequently remains awake while the latter sleeps, and passes in thought through all space which universal magnetism opens before it. it

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spectres reply to questions addressed them, it is always by signs or by interior and imaginary impressions, never with a voice which really strikes the ears; and this is comprehensible enough, for how should a shadow speak? with what instrument could it cause the air to vibrate by impressing it in such a manner as to make distinct sounds? at the same time, electrical contacts are experienced from apparitions and sometimes appear to be produced by the hand of a phantom; but the phenomena is wholly subjective, is occasioned solely by the power of imagination and the local wealth of that occult force which we term the astral light. the proof of this is that spirits, or at least the spectres pretended to be such, may indeed touch us occasionally, but we cannot touch them, and this is one of th

ced by the hand of a phantom; but the phenomena is wholly subjective, is occasioned solely by the power of imagination and the local wealth of that occult force which we term the astral light. the proof of this is that spirits, or at least the spectres pretended to be such, may indeed touch us occasionally, but we cannot touch them, and this is one of the most affrighting characteristics of these apparitions, which are at times so real in appearance that we cannot unmoved feel the hand pass through that which seems a body and yet make contact with nothing. we read in ecclesiastical historians that spiridion, bishop of tremithonte, afterwards invoked as a saint, called up the spirit of his daughter, irene, to ascertain from her the whereabouts of some concealed money which she had taken in

uch a pretext was necessary to minimize the horrible and ridiculous nature of her accusations against this priest, philtres and magnetism 111 whose guilt, moreover, has never been well established, though, consciously or unconsciously, he had certainly inspired an exceedingly shameful passion in the miserable girl. gmlle. ranfaing, having become a widow in 16, h says dom calmet in his treatise on apparitions, gwas sought in marriage by a physician named poirot. failing to obtain a hearing, he thereupon gave her potions to induce love, and these caused extraordinary derangements in the health of the lady, increasing to such a degree that she was believed to be possessed, so that other physicians, baffled by her case, recommended her for the exorcisms of the church. thereupon, by command of

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op stillingfleet. stillingfleet was one of those divines who sought a reconciliation between nonconformist and orthodox religion, even though he held relatively high office in the state church and put his own career at risk by such declared concepts. we know from kirk's own account (cited in sanderson, pages 14-16) that the bishop was skeptical of and opposed to second sight and the appearance of apparitions, but kirk saw such things as proof of spiritual truths rather than as idle superstition or sensationalism. for kirk, the evidence of the secret commonwealth was a way forward to unity, rather than a step backwards into ignorance. this assiduous pursuit of harmonization of viewpoints and beliefs may have partly prompted his copying of his text for the bishop. this brings us to kirk's st

] curious search into these [fairy] abstrusenesses, so [we may use the examples of] histories of an ages [which] give as many plain examples of extraordinary occurrences as [may] make a http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_30.htm (2 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:46 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 30-39) modest inquiry not contemptible. how much is written of pygmies, fairies, nymphs, sirens, apparitions, which though not the tenth part [being] true, yet could not spring [out] of nothing? even english authors relate of barry island in glamorganshire [saying] that [upon] laying your ear unto a cleft of the rock [the] blowing of bellows, striking of hammers, clashing of armour [and] filing of irons will be heard distinctly [this noise has occurred] ever since merlin enchanted those subte

d sense, but realities appearing to a stable man in his wakening senses and [thus] enduring [that is, undergoing] a rational trial of their being. these [beings, through fear, strike him breathless and speechless, but the seer or wizard, defending the lawfulness of his skill, forbids such horror, and comforts his novice [that is, pupil] by telling of zacharias being struck speechless at seeing of apparitions (luke 1:20. then he further maintains his art by vouching elisha to have had the same [vision] and [that he] disclosed it thus to his servant in 2 kings 6:17 when he blinded the syrians, and [also] peter in acts 5:9, foreseeing the death of sapphira, by perceiving, as it were, her http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_30.htm (3 of 8 [10/9/2001 12:34:46 am] robert kirk- walker between wo

9 [10/9/2001 12:34:55 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 40-49) may be taken from this image which appeared [standing] still to the woman above mentioned, and from another mentioned by aristotle in the fourth [book] of his metaphysics, if i remember right, for it is [a] long [time] since i read it. and also from that common opinion that young infants, unsullied with many objects, do see apparitions which are not seen by those of elder years. likewise from this, that several [of those that] did see [with] the second sight when in the highlands or isles, when transported to live in other the secret commonwealth 45 countries, especially in america, they quite lost this quality. this was told me by a gentleman who knew some of them in barbados who did see no vision there, although he

pirits; a part of this poem was pious [but] the rest superstitious, for i have a copy of it. yet no other person was ever heard to repeat it before, nor was the maid capable to compose it of her self. 9. having demonstrated and made evident to sense this extraordinary vision of our tramontaine [highland] seers and what is seen by them, by what is said above; many having seen the same specters and apparitions at once having the visive faculties entire, for non est disputandum de gustibus. it now remains to show that it is not unsuitable to reason, nor to holy scriptures. 9,1: first that it is not repugnant to reason does appear from this: that it is no less strange for immortal sparks and souls to come and be immersed into gross terrestrial elementary bodies, and be so propagated, so nouris

n (page 3) this letter may have part of the curiosity shown towards seership in terms of military intelligence: perhaps the most important general aspect of it is that tarbett began by disbelieving in the sight, but was convinced by so many examples both in his own experience and as reported to him. robert boyle, one of the founders of modern chemistry developing out of alchemy, was interested in apparitions at that time, and is known to have written a paper on encounters experienced by miners while working underground. page 39 many highlanders [and] yet. more islanders were qualified with this second sight. men women and children indistinctly [that is indiscriminately] were subject to it. it is a trouble to most. and they would be rid of it. if they could. here tarbett differs from kirk

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lie at all; or to help chamcha in his time of need. nor had he been at all perturbed by the appearance on saladin's head of a pair of fine new horns, a thing that should surely have occasioned some concern. he had been in some sort of trance, and when he asked the old dame what she thought of it all she smiled weirdly and told him that there was nothing new under the sun, she had seen things, the apparitions of men with horned helmets, in an ancient land like england there was no room for new stories, every blade of turf had already been walked over a hundred thousand times. for long periods of the day her talk became rambling and confused, but at other times she insisted on cooking him huge heavy meals, shepherd's pies, rhubarb crumble with thick custard, thick--gravied hotpots, all manne

and a silver turban on her head drank gin-and-sin from a green glass triangle and told stories of the good old days "i want to dance" she announced suddenly "it's my birthday and i haven't danced once" o o o the exertions of that night on which rosa and gibreel danced until dawn proved too much for the old lady, who collapsed into bed the next day with a low fever that induced ever more delirious apparitions: gibreel saw martin de la cruz and aurora del sol dancing flamenco on the tiled and gabled roof of the diamond house, and peronistas in white suits stood on the boathouse to address a gathering of peons about the future "under per n these lands will be expropriated and distributed among the people. the british railroads also will become the property of the state. let's chuck them out

igo vespucci's account of his voyages "the man was a notorious fantasist, of course" babington smiled "but fantasy can be stronger than fact; after all, he had continents named after him" as she grew weaker she poured more and more of her remaining strength into her own dream of argentina, and gibreel's navel felt as if it had been set on fire. he lay slumped in an armchair at her bedside and the apparitions multiplied by the hour. woodwind music filled the air, and, most wonderful of all, a small white island appeared just off the shore, bobbing on the waves like a raft; it was white as snow, with white sand sloping up to a clump of albino trees, which were white, chalk--white, paper--white, to the very tips of their leaves. after the arrival of the white island gibreel was overcome by a

history in the eye. moonlight streamed into the room. as it struck rosa's face it appeared to pass right through her, and indeed gibreel was beginning to be able to make out the pattern of the lace embroidery on her pillowcase. then he saw don enrique and his friend, the puritanical and disapproving dr. babington, standing on the balcony, as solid as you could wish. it occurred to him that as the apparitions increased in clarity rosa grew fainter and fainter, fading away, exchanging places, one might say, with the ghosts. and because he had also understood that the manifestations depended on him, his stomach--ache, his stone--like weightiness, he began to fear for his own life as well "you wanted me to falsify juan julia's death certificate" dr. babington was saying "i did so out of our ol

ng his trilby down on his head he sat with his fists deep in scarlet--lined gabardine and panicked. the terror of losing his mind to a paradox, of being unmade by what he no longer believed existed, of turning in his madness into the avatar of a chimerical archangel, was so big in him that it was impossible to look at it for long; yet how else was he to account for the miracles, metamorphoses and apparitions of recent days "it's a straight choice" he trembled silently "it's a, i'm off my head, or b, baba, somebody went and changed the rules" now, however, there was the comforting cocoon of this railway compartment in which the miraculous was reassuringly absent, the arm-rests were frayed, the reading light over his shoulder didn't work, the mirror was missing from its frame, and then there

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suggest a philistine disposition. lovecraft, if he tolerated such analyses, can hardly have been impressed by them. assuming that lovecraft was an advocate of satanic amorality, what might have been the content of the ritual observances in innsmouth, r'lyeh, or leng? in his work he only goes as far as an occasional lurid line from some "nameless rite" or "unspeakable orgy" celebrated by grotesque apparitions amidst sulphurous caverns of fluorescent, decaying fungi, or against titanic monoliths of disturbing aspect. perhaps he thought understatement to be more effective in freeing the imaginations of his readers, but clearly, he had been influenced by very real sources. whether his sources of inspiration were consciously recognized and admitted or were a remarkable "psychic" absorption, one

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m, or near him. this is the omega, which has caused so many evil days and restless nights. this is the trifling matter over which so many hundreds of people moaned in vain. notice here the eternal end without beginning, the eternal revolution and circle, in eternal love, willpower and centro, whose principle reveals itself since eternity began. you will see in this the eternal nature in its seven apparitions, revealing itself in the centro of the eternal bottomless depth since eternity began. the centrum of the eternal bottomless depth of light and darkness is in the infinite inexpressible width and depth everywhere. therefore is said: the light inhabits the darkness and the darkness cannot grasp it. an eternal holy fire- an infinite god sent flame- a heavenly secret- the great indescribab

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ting intelligence, because it is the essence of that curtain which is placed close to the order of the disposition, and this is a special dignity given to it that it may be able to stand before the face of the cause of causes. the twelfth path is the intelligence of transparency, because it is that species of magnificence called chazchazit (6) the place whence issues the vision of those seeing in apparitions (that is the prophecies by seers in a vision) the thirteenth path is named the uniting intelligence, and is so called because it is itself the essence of glory. it is the consummation of the truth of individual spiritual things. the fourteenth path is the illuminating intelligence and is so called because it is that chashmal (7) which is the founder of the concealed and fundamental ide

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naturally make upon us. in hawthorne's tales we see with what ease a great imaginative artist can produce a deeper thrill by a far slighter use of the weird and the mysterious. the chief interest of the story for the ordinary reader centres, not in its ghostly characters and improbable machinery, the scenes in mejnour's chamber in the ruined castle among the apennines, the colossal and appalling apparitions on vesuvius, the hideous phantom with its burning eye that haunted glyndon, but in the loves of viola and the mysterious zanoni, the blissful and the fearful scenes through which they pass, and their final destiny, when the hero of the story sacrifices his own "charmed life" to save hers, and the immortal finds the only true immortality in death. among the striking passages in the work

an's heart, and his blood froze. he stood rooted to the spot; and as his eyes strained involuntarily through the vapour, he fancied (for he could not be sure that it was not the trick of his imagination) that he saw dim, spectre-like, but gigantic forms floating through the mist; or was it not rather the mist itself that formed its vapours fantastically into those moving, impalpable, and bodiless apparitions? a great painter of antiquity is said, in a picture of hades, to have represented the monsters that glide through the ghostly river of the dead, so artfully, that the eye perceived at once that the river itself was but a spectre, and the bloodless things that tenanted it had no life, their forms blending with the dead waters till, as the eye continued to gaze, it ceased to discern them

g, than the peopled leaf, than the swarming globule? the microscope shows you the creatures on the leaf; no mechanical tube is yet invented to discover the nobler and more gifted things that hover in the illimitable air. yet between these last and man is a mysterious and terrible affinity. and hence, by tales and legends, not wholly false nor wholly true, have arisen from time to time, beliefs in apparitions and spectres. if more common to the earlier and simpler tribes than to the men of your duller age, it is but that, with the first, the senses are more keen and quick. and as the savage can see or scent miles away the traces of a foe, invisible to the gross sense of the civilised animal, so the barrier itself between him and the creatures of the airy world is less thickened and obscured

iding slowly and with regular evolutions through the cloud. they appeared bloodless; their bodies were transparent, and contracted or expanded like the folds of a serpent. as they moved in majestic order, he heard a low sound the ghost, as it were, of voice which each caught and echoed from the other; a low sound, but musical, which seemed the chant of some unspeakably tranquil joy. none of these apparitions heeded him. his intense longing to accost them, to be of them, to make one of this movement of aerial happiness, for such it seemed to him, made him stretch forth his arms and seek to cry aloud, but only an inarticulate whisper passed his lips; and the movement and the music went on the same as if the mortal were not there. slowly they glided round and aloft, till, in the same majestic

whose vision is still clear and serene, look into the far deeps shut from my gaze, and counsel me, or forewarn! i know that the gifts of the being whose race is so hostile to our own are, to the common seeker, fatal and perfidious as itself. and hence, when, at the outskirts of knowledge, which in earlier ages men called magic, they encountered the things of the hostile tribes, they believed the apparitions to be fiends, and, by fancied compacts, imagined they had signed away their souls; as if man could give for an eternity that over which he has control but while he lives! dark, and shrouded forever from human sight, dwell the demon rebels, in their impenetrable realm; in them is no breath of the divine one. in every human creature the divine one breathes; and he alone can judge his own

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f working magic possessed by a certain jew, which proves that the magical practices of the egyptians had passed eastwards and had found a congenial home among the jews who lived in and about babylon. this man was a native of the village of zurarah in the district of kufa, and he employed his time in working magic. in the mosque at kufa, and in the presence of walid ibn ukbah, he raised up several apparitions, and made a king of huge stature, who was mounted upon a horse, gallop about in the courtyard of the mosque. he then transformed himself into a camel and walked upon a rope; and made the phantom of an ass to pass through his body; and p. 24 finally having slain a man, he cut off the head and removed it from the trunk, and then by passing his sword over the two parts, they united and th

the formula is this 'sachmu. epaema ligotereench: the aeon, the thunderer, thou that hast swallowed the snake and dost exhaust the moon, and dost raise up the orb of the sun in his season, chthetho is thy name; i require, o lords of the gods, seth, chreps, give me the information that i desire" the peculiar ideas which the egyptians held about the composition of man greatly favoured the belief in apparitions and ghosts. according to them a man consisted of a physical body, a shadow, a double, a soul, a heart, a spirit called the khu, a power, a name, and a spiritual body. when the body died the shadow departed from it, and could only be brought back to it by the performance of a mystical ceremony; the double lived in the tomb with the body, and was there visited by the soul whose habitatio

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hrough the intermediate stage between death and rebirth. such a recitation by the priest at the bedside of the deceased might include these words from the tibetan book of the dead: since you [no longer] have a material body of flesh and blood, whatever may come sounds, lights, or rays are, all three, unable to harm you; you are incapable of dying. it is quite sufficient for you to know that these apparitions are your own thoughtforms. recognize this to be the bardo [the intermediate state after death. if there is to be no rebirth for the soul, it appears before yama, the god of the dead, to be judged. in tibetan buddhism, there is a direct link between one s earthly lifetimes and intermediate stages of existence in the various spheres of paradise, extending to the appearance of the soul re

ge of 50 to 60 deathbed patients a total of over 35,000 cases. the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d afterlife mysteries 23 parapsychologists followed up the initial questionnaire with telephone calls, additional questionnaires, and correspondence. a total of 385 respondents reported 1,318 cases wherein deathbed patients claimed to have seen apparitions or phantasms. fifty-two percent of these apparitions represented dead persons who were known to the patients; 28 percent were of living persons; and 20 percent were of religious figures. visions that either gave the dying patient a view of the traditional heaven or depicted scenes of wondrous beauty and brilliant color were reported by 248 respondents to have been observed in 884 insta

t were of religious figures. visions that either gave the dying patient a view of the traditional heaven or depicted scenes of wondrous beauty and brilliant color were reported by 248 respondents to have been observed in 884 instances. mood elevation that is, a shift in the patient s emotions from extreme pain and fear to tranquility was reported by 169 respondents in 753 cases. about half of the apparitions reported by the dying patients seemed to have appeared for the purpose of guiding them through the transition from death to the afterlife. one distinct observation emerging from osis s study was that few patients appeared to die in a state of fear. age and sex showed no correlation with the phenomena of deathbed apparitions, visions, or mood elevations. interestingly enough, the more h

present. a brief overview and description of the plot is given, in addition to the rating and length of the film. sources: near death experiences and the afterlife. http//www.neardeath. com. 15 october 2001. near-death experiences and the afterlife but those with strong beliefs most often identified a biblical or saintly figure. another interesting statistic revealed by the study is that visions, apparitions, and mood elevations are reported more often in cases where the dying patient is fully conscious and appears in complete control of his senses. sedation, high fever, and painkilling drugs seem to decrease, rather than to increase, the ability to experience these phenomena. by the same token, cases of brain damage or brain disease were found unrelated to the kinds of deathbed experience

rugs seem to decrease, rather than to increase, the ability to experience these phenomena. by the same token, cases of brain damage or brain disease were found unrelated to the kinds of deathbed experiences relevant to osis s study. the questionnaire and subsequent followup also uncovered some intriguing areas for additional research. there were cases, for example, in which collective viewings of apparitions were reported by those who had gathered around the patient s deathbed. there were numerous instances of extrasensory interaction between patients and attending physicians and nurses; and many cases wherein observers underwent a change in their own personal philosophy after witnessing the experience of the dying person. among the many patterns disclosed by the study, osis feels that one

nfluence them. the essential characteristic of the shaman is his excitement, his ecstasy and trancelike condition [the elements which constitute this ecstasy are] a form of self-severance from mundane existence, a state of heightened sensibility, and spiritual awareness. the shaman loses outward consciousness and becomes inspired or enraptured. while in this state of enthusiasm, he sees dreamlike apparitions, hears voices, and receives visions of truth. more than that, his soul sometimes leaves his body to go wandering. it is believed that during those times when the souls of shamans go wandering, they project their consciousness to faraway places on earth as well as to the shadow world of spirits. these soul journeys may inform those who seek their shaman s counsel of everything from wher

tates, seeks to advance the understanding of psychic phenomena, with emphasis on scientific research. with its laboratories, offices, library and archive, it offers extensive topics in parapsychology, such as extrasensory perception (esp, telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition (pk, psychokinesis, out of body experiences (obes, near death experiences (nde s, survival after death, reincarnation, and apparitions and poltergeists. there is also an on-line research section where one can fill out a questionnaire to participate in current research linked with the department of psychology at the state university of west georgia. sources: american society for psychical research, inc. http//www.aspr. com. 15 october 2001. spiritualists believe in the reality of the guide as a spiritual entity apart f

ittee which was conducting the census estimated that nearly 10 percent of the population had experienced some kind of visual or auditory hallucination. those people who indicated that they had experienced some paranormal appearance or manifestation were sent forms requesting details. the census of hallucinations enabled the researchers to arrive at a number of basic premises concerning ghosts and apparitions, which were strengthened by subsequent research. the committee was able to conclude, for example, that although apparitions are associated with other events besides death, they are more likely to be linked with death than anything else. visual hallucinations were found to be the most common (1,087. this seemed especially important to note because psychologists have found that auditory

een present. therefore, about one-third of the cases were collective that is, experienced by more than one witness at the same time. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 172 mediums and mystics after the findings of the census of hallucinations were made public, the spr began to be flooded by personal accounts of spontaneous cases of ghosts and apparitions. in order to aid an appointed committee in the handling of such an influx of material, the spr worked out a series of questions that could be applied to each case that came into their offices: 1. is the account firsthand? 2. was it written or told before the corresponding event was known? 3. has the principal witness been corroborated? 4. was the percipient awake at the time? 5. was th

t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mediums and mystics 175 chapter 3 religious phenomena this chapter will explore a number of the phenomena that surround a great variety of religious beliefs, from the veneration of sacred objects to the expectation of miracles, from the power of prayer to heal to the judgment of ecclesiastical tribunals to cause suffering. 177 antichrist apocalypse apparitions of holy figures armaggedon cosmic consciousness demons devil s mark ecstasy exorcism faith healing guardian angels illumination inquisition miracles possession power of prayer the rapture shroud of turin 666 snake handling stigmata virgin of guadalupe visions weeping statues and icons introduction in recent years there has been a tremendous surge of interest in both organized religion

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hapter 10 ghosts and phantoms there is not a single culture on planet earth that does not have its ghost stories. paleolithic cave paintings depicting the human body surviving physical death indicate that this belief is many thousands of years old. in this chapter the universality of accounts of the manifestation of ghostly entities is explored. 1 chapter exploration ghostly beings animal spirits apparitions autoscopy ghosts of the living phantoms poltergeists spirits of the dead spooklights famous haunted houses and places bell witch s cave borley rectory calvados castle epworth rectory general wayne inn the gray man of hinton ampner myrtles plantation the tedworth drummer the whaley house ghosts in the movies spontaneous human combustion (shc) introduction aghost is believed to be a phys

ch hauntings, certain ethereal figures may be reported so often over so many years that they seem almost to have assumed an independent life force that has enabled them to continue to exist within the context of a specific battlefield, the ruins of a burned building, or the shadowed places in a hospital corridor. in this chapter the many categories of ghosts and phantoms will be explored, such as apparitions of the dead, the possibility of animal spirits, the phenomenon of spooklights, and the disrupting energy of the poltergeist, a noisy, rambunctious ghost. in addition, the details of such classic hauntings as the bell witch s cave, the borley rectory, the whaley house, and the myrtle plantation will be examined. a gallup poll conducted in may 2001 revealed that 38 percent of americans s

allenge of psychical research. new york: harper& row, 1970. spooky! we re still haunted by ghosts. sydney morning herald, july 23, 2001 [online] http/ www.smh.com.au/news/0107/23entertainment/ entertain2.html steinour, harold. exploring the unseen world. new york: citadel press, 1959. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul. new york: macmillan publishing, 1989. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. new york: collier books, 1963. ghostly beings there is not a single culture on planet earth that does not have its ghost stories. while individuals around the world may argue politics, religion, and philosophy from the perspective of their own cultural biases, if there is a single unifying factor in the arena of the unknown and the unexplained, it is the manifestation of ghostly entit

on.com/dailyglobe2/ 203/metro/haunted_experiences_draw_skeptical_ socie murphy, gardner. the challenge of psychical research. new york: harper& row, 1970. spooky! we re still haunted by ghosts. sydney morning herald, july 23, 2001 [online] http/ www.smh.com.au/news/0107/23entertainment/ entertain2.html. steinour, harold. exploring the unseen world. new york: citadel press, 1959. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. new york: collier books, 1963. animal spirits just as a large percentage of the population of all cultures believe that the ghosts of the dearly departed members of their human families t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phantoms 5 apoltergeist is a projection of psychic energy. might appear to them, so also do many ind

nfines of the body and is able to soar free of time and space and, in some instances, is able to make a last, fleeting contact with a loved one. these projections at the moment of death betoken that something nonphysical exists within humans that is capable of making mockery of all accepted physical laws and even more importantly, is capable of surviving physical death. documented stories of such apparitions may be found in the literature of all eras and all cultures. images of loved ones who have come to say farewell, to offer comfort and solace before their transition to another plane of existence, appear to rich and poor alike. on the night of june 11, 1923, gladys watson had been asleep for three or four hours when she was awakened by someone calling her name. as she sat up in bed, she

k oberlin (1740 1826, the famous pastor, educator, and philanthropist, literally transformed the whole life of the bande- la-roche valley in the vosges mountains of alsace. shortly after the clergyman s arrival in the district, he expressed his immediate and earnest displeasure regarding the superstitions of the natives. oberlin became especially agitated over the villagers reports concerning the apparitions of dying loved ones. the new pastor resolved to educate the simple folk, and he launched a vociferous pulpit campaign against such superstitious tales. in spite of his orthodox denial of apparitions, the reports of such phenomena continued unabated, and oberlin was honest enough to t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d ghosts and phan

his wife s spirit, talk with her, and make use of her counsel regarding future events. oberlin compiled extensive manuscripts that described in detail a series of manifestations in which his wife appeared to him and dictated information regarding life after death. oberlin became convinced that the inhabitants of the invisible world can appear to the living, and we to them, and that we humans are apparitions to them, as they are to us. the question that may remain is whether the percipients of apparitions actually observe a discarnate entity, which occupies an objective area in time and space, or whether they perceive the result of a successfully implanted telepathic message-image, which had been transmitted at the moment of death by the dying loved one. the witnesses themselves, however

m delving deeper baird, a. t, ed. one hundred cases for survival after death. new york: bernard ackerman, 1944. crookall, robert. intimations of immortality. london: james clarke co, 1968. dingwall, eric j, and john langdon-davies. the unknown is it nearer? new york: new american library, 1968. smith, alson j. immortality: the scientific evidence. new york: prentice hall, 1954. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. new york: collier books, 1963. autoscopy a phenomenon that may be closely related to the projection of the astral self in out-of-body experiences is that of the appearance of one s own double. goethe (1749 1832, a german poet, had the astonishing experience of meeting himself as he rode away from strassburg. the phantom wore a pike grey cloak with gold lace that goethe had never seen

memories may be projected outside the body as real images. m delving deeper black, david. ekstasy: out-of-the-body experiences. new york: bobbs-merrill, 1975. crookall, robert. more astral projections. london: aquarian press, 1964. fodor, nandor. mind over space and time. new york: citadel press, 1962. steinour, harold. exploring the unseen world. new york: citadel press, 1959. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. new york: collier books, 1963. ghosts of the living psychical research has identified the following types of situations in which out-of-body experiences (obes) or astral projections might occur: 1. projections that occur while the subject sleeps. 2. projections that occur while the subject is undergoing surgery, childbirth, tooth extraction, etc. 3. projections that occur at the time

se spontaneous, involuntary experiences, there also seem to be those voluntary and conscious projections during which the subjects deliberately endeavor to free their spirit, their soul, from their physical body. it would appear that certain people have exercised this peculiar function of the transcendent self to the extent that they can project their spiritual essence at will and produce ghosts, apparitions, of the living. early psychical researcher edmund gurney (1847 1888) told of the incredible experiments of a mr. s. h. beard in his phantasms of the living, published in 1886. beard began his experiments with astral projection in november of 1881 on a sunday evening after he had been reading about the great power which the human will is capable of exercising. exerting the whole force o

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all show how vain are the phantasies of our imagination before the fertile realities of movement and of life. we shall also invite the great poets of the future to create once more the divine comedy, no longer according to the dreams of man, but according to the mathematics of god. mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revelations, mysterious illnesses, exceptional faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. who has given us this power? we do not fear to reveal it to our readers. there exists an occult and sacred alphabet which the hebrews attribute to enoch, the egyptians to thoth or to hermes trismegistus, the greeks to cadmus and to palamedes. this alphabet was known to the followers of pythagoras, and is c

instinctive sympathies and antipathies. they thus equilibrate each other, and for this reason hallucinations are often contagious; abnormal projections change the luminous currents; the perturbation caused by a sick person wins over to itself the more sensitive natures; a circle of illusions is established, and a whole crowd of people is easily dragged away thereby. such is the history of strange apparitions and popular prodigies. thus are explained the miracles of the american mediums and the hysterics of table-turners, who reproduce in our own times the ecstasies of whirling dervishes. the sorcerers of lapland with their magic drums, and the conjurer medicine-men of savages arrive at similar results by similar proceedings; their gods or their devils have nothing to do with it. madmen and

nny and of revolt "the hieroglyphic sign of the unclean rite, with which, rightly or wrongly, the templars were reproached; it is the sign of disorder and of eternal despair" such, then, are the first revelations of the hidden science of the magi with regard to these phenomena of supernatural manifestations. now let it be permitted to us to compare with these strange signatures other contemporary apparitions of phenomenal writings, for it is really a brief which science ought to study before taking it to the tribunal of public opinion. one must then despise no research, overlook no clue. in the neighbourhood of caen, at tilly-sur-seulles, a series of inexplicable facts occurred some years ago, under the influence of a medium, or ecstatic, named eugene vintras. 137 certain ridiculous circum

een him "he has no form "i have touched him "he is infinite "he is very nearly of my own height "the prophets say of him that the hem of his vestment, from the east to the west, sweeps the stars of the morning "he had a very clean surcoat, and very white linen "the holy scripture says that one cannot see him and live "he had a kind and jovial face "but how did you proceed in order to obtain these apparitions "why, i did everything that it tells you to do in the "grimoire "what! even the bloody sacrifice "doubtless" 156 "unhappy man! but who, then, was the victim" at this question, the workman had a slight trembling; he paled, and his glance became troubled "master, you know better than i what it is" said he humbly in a low voice "oh, it cost me a great deal to do it; above all, the first t

abitual prayer. to speak well is to live well. a fine style is an aureole of holiness. from these principles, some true, others hypothetical, and from the more or less exaggerated consequences that they draw from them, there resulted for superstitious qabalists and absolute confidence in enchantments, evocations, conjurations and mysterious prayers. now, as faith has always accomplished miracles, apparitions, oracles, mysterious cures, sudden and strange maladies, have never been lacking to it. it is thus that a simple and sublime philosophy has become the secret science of black magic. it is from this point of view above all that the qabalah is still able to excite the curiosity of the majority in our so distrustful and so credulous century. however, as we have just explained, that is not

been neglected, and for that reason divination is no longer believed in. 200 a qabalistic sage may, then, still astonish the crowd and even bewilder the educated: 1 degree- by divining hidden things; 2 degree- by prediction many things to come; 3 degree- by dominating the will of others so as to prevent them doing what they will, and forcing them to do what they do not will; 4 degree- by exciting apparitions and dreams; 5 degree- by curing a large number of illnesses; 6 degree- by restoring life to subjects who display all the symptoms of death; 7 degree- lastly, by demonstrating (if need be, by examples) the reality of the philosophical stone, and the transmutation of metals, according to the secrets of abraham the jew, of flamel, and of raymond lully. all these prodigies are accomplished

y the abnormal projections or sudden absorptions of the light. there follows a sudden atmospheric perturbation, which produces the noise of storms, and the creaking of woodwork- e. l> 220 one touches them as one sees them; half illusion, half magnetic and nervous force. these, it seems to us, are very precise and very clear explanations. let us reason a little with those who support the theory of apparitions from another world: either those hands are real bodies, or they are illusions. if they are bodies, they are, then, not spirits. if they are illusions produced by mirages, either in us, or outside ourselves, you admit my argument. now, one remark! it is that all those who suffer from luminous congestion or contagious somnambulism, perish by a violent or, at least, a sudden death. it is

appearance. to say (for example) that in the magnetic parties of mr. home real and living hands come out of the tables, true hands which some see, others touch, and by which still others feel themselves touched without seeing them, to say that these really corporeal hands are hands of spirits, is to speak like children or madmen; it implies a contradiction in terms. but to deem that such or such apparitions, such or such sensations, are produced, is simply to be sincere, and to mock 223 the mockery of the normal man, even when these normal men are as witty as this or that editor of this or that comic journal. these phenomena of the light which produce apparitions always appear at epochs when humanity is in labour. they are phantoms of the delirium of the world-fever; it is the hysteria of

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amateur investigators tend to concentrate on the very subjective descriptions of the observers, i probed deeper and studied the witnesses themselves. many, i found, suffered certain medical symptoms such as temporary amnesia, severe headaches, muscular spasms, excessive thirst and other effects, all of which have been observed throughout history in religious miracles (the appearances of religious apparitions, demonology, occult phenomena, and contacts with fairies. all of these manifestations clearly share a common source or cause. while chimeras can come in all sizes and shapes, ranging from twenty-foot giants to animated tin cans only a few inches in height, the most fascinating type is one who has appeared in almost every country on earth. in other ages he was regarded as the devil inca

west. the monacan settled to the east, and the erie and conestoga claimed the areas north of west virginia. even the inhospitable deserts of the far west were divided and occupied. there is only one spot on the map labeled "uninhabited: west virginia. why? the west virginia area is fertile, heavily wooded, rich in game. why did the indians avoid it? was it filled with hairy monsters and frightful apparitions way back when? across the river in ohio, industrious indians or someone built the great mounds and left us a rich heritage of indian culture and lore. the absence of an indian tradition in west virginia is troublesome for the researcher. it creates an uncomfortable vacuum. there are strange ancient ruins in the state, circular stone monuments which prove that someone had settled the re

to chase speeding automobiles seemed utterly ridiculous. now if it had been a ten-foot-tall hair-covered monster with a terrible smell i might have taken it seriously. but gray convinced me it was no joke. i looked point pleasant up on the map. it was about eight hundred miles from new york. oiled my fourteen-foot monster traps, got into my car, and headed for the ohio valley] monsters, ufos, and apparitions have an, interesting affinity for garbage dumps and junk yards even the famous miracle at lourdes, france, in 1858, took place at the local garbage dump- 7- the night of the bleeding ear i. gwendoline martino was back in her apartment in cherry hill, new jersey, early in december 1966, packing her things for a trip to europe. her unlisted phone rang. a female voice with a slight foreig

riended more ufo contactees than anyone else. usually their experiences follow certain patterns which they are not even aware of at the time. a long series of seemingly unrelated events occur prior to the first overt contact these events can begin in childhood and span many years. then, too, most contactees have active or latent psychic abilities before contact. people who see ghosts or religious apparitions have the same patterns as the ufo contactees. and, in fact, the apparitions described in religious "miracles" usually share the same physical characteristics as our ufo entities; that is, long fingers, dusky complexions, pointed features. the flying saucer lore of the past twenty-seven years has been built on three main components (1) the sighting reports, usually poorly investigated b

manage to come up with unused numbers (there were more incidents of this type during the october 1973 wave) phantom photographer reports have been rare in england, but in 1973 two leading british ufologists, brinsley le poer trench and j.b. delair, came across an incident involving the bogart family who live in a forest near maresfield, sussex. the bogarts' isolated cottage has been plagued with apparitions, strange sounds, and poltergeist activity. and a large number of low-flying luminous objects have been seen repeatedly in the vicinity "on more than one occasion mrs. bogart alleges that she has been perturbed to find a yellow volkswagen car (having smoked-glass windows) following her discreetly at a distance" delair reports "once this involved the vehicle slowly following her down a w

ut the silent contactee remains uncertain of the reality of it all and keeps quiet. for every publicly known contactee like woodrow derenberger there are thousands of silent ones. some later manage to recall fragments of what happened and then their mind plays tricks and colors what they can remember with false details. confabulations. the terror they felt becomes linked with awesome monsters and apparitions. the operating room becomes a chamber on a spacecraft. like all the other things discussed here, this is not a new phenomenon. black magicians, witch doctors, arid shamans of other ages evolved explanations as fanciful as those of modern ufo buffs. they thought spirits kidnapped humans and somehow dismantled their bodies and reconstructed them, or even created an exact duplicate in som

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man with a horrifyingly distorted face. at other times, it was a wolf with burning eyes, a lion, a giant serpent, or a bear that reared up on its hind legs. these visions caused the boy to scream at the top of his lungs, but the moment his mother entered his bedroom, the apparition vanished and things "came right" again- 107. fox, 19. 108. ibid, 20-1. 92 soul flight the most interesting of these apparitions involved a fairy, which to the eyes of the young fox looked like a garden gnome. he described it as "a funny little fellow dressed in brown" that climbed up on his bed with a reassuring smile and pointed to a nearby screen, in which a bright circle of light appeared. within this circle, the mist cleared to reveal the scene of a farm, in bright colors, with all the animals moving as in

f a wide variety of mechanical devices exhibiting a limited intelligence that are used by the grays in their work. some are mere mobile, articulated machines, whereas others resemble the human form. 8. balls of light: the eighth class of aliens takes the form of floating balls of intense radiance that are difficult to look at directly with the naked eye. they communicate by means of telepathy. 9. apparitions: sometimes aliens appear in a ninth class that is luminous and semi-transparent, and has the ability to walk through doors, walls, and furniture. it is speculated that these are artificial three-dimensional projections rather than living beings. we can make a few general observations about this alien menagerie. the nordics were commonly seen early on in the flying saucer craze, but wer

trek episode "arena" in 1967. giant insects were a mainstay of grade-b horror films in the 1950s and 1960s. the same can be said of intelligent robots. the hybrid species of alien arose from extrapolations of the widespread belief that the grays are cross-breeding with humans. naturally, gray-human babies grow up to be gray-human adults. the dwarfish goblins, the floating balls of light, and the apparitions owe their inspiration to the traditional wellsprings in the human unconscious that have given rise for centuries to tales of fairies, will-o'-the-wisps, and ghosts. the mischievous behavior of the goblin race coupled with their small size cannot help but connect them with the 142 soulflight many creatures of legend that display similar traits-such as the pixies, goblins, dwarfs, browni

order of the disposition, and this is a special dignity given to it that it may be able to stand before the face of the cause of causes" 12. kether to binah hebrew letter: beth tarot trump: i the magician correspondence: mercury "the twelfth path is the intelligence of transparency, because it is that species of magnificence called chazchazit, the place whence issues the vision of those seeing in apparitions (that is the prophecies by seers in a vision" 13. kether to tiphareth hebrew letter: gimel 234 soul flight tarot trump: i1 the high priestess correspondence: moon "the thirteenth path is named the uniting intelligence, and is so called because it is itself the essence of glory. it is the consummation of the truth of individual spiritual things" 14. chokmah to binah hebrew letter: dalet

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event war and promote friendship, harmonious relationships with superiors. venus: assists in matters of the heart, good for partnerships and social affairs, for anything to do with pleasure, the arts, traveling, relationships between younger people and women in general. mercury: aids in acquiring knowledge and intellectual friends, assists in communications, success in commerce, useful for magic, apparitions and divination, for obtaining information or making calculations, secures safety in travel. moon: assists in smoothing domestic problems, growing of plants, insures safe journeys and acquisition of merchandise by water, successful embassies; connected with messages, dreams, cycles. pluto: seeks to change, to shatter old forms, to break completely new ground; aids in eliminating the out

or cap-stone has been shrouded in mystery and written about by many intrigued by its meaning. this pinnacle stone is, according to case, another symbol for christ, the stone rejected by the builders. this capstone is sometimes called the triangle of fire "which is a stone emblem of the eternal flame (case, 1985, p. 83. john michell tells us that the pyramid has often been the scene of mysterious apparitions in the form of a light "which local bedouins see at certain seasons hovering over its peak (michell, 1983, p. 160. this was also witnessed by a mr. william groff and other members of the egyptian institute, who saw a flame rising from the top, but could discover no rational explanation. the pyramid has often been associated in hermetic folklore with revelation of the inner mysteries, a

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