Magic power

Godwin, William. Lives of the necromancers or, an account of the most eminent persons in successive ages, who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical powers. London Mason, 1834. 465p.rhttp //visualiseur, bnf.fr/Visualiseur Destination=Gallica Q=NUMM-614981. pp. 277-283 on transmutation... 

Telepathy is very often the first siddha (magical power) to spontaneously unfold when a practitioner has realized a level of spiritual awareness. Alchemical texts refer to it under such verbal veils as the projection of the Stone and also by the name of the twelfth stage of the Great Work, Multiplication. 

Given the powerful ability of these plants to alter perceptions, it is not surprising that humans have ascribed magical powers to them. The modern interpretation of the effects of these drugs is rooted in their effects on the brain, altering the apparatus through which we construct reality. But... 

Let then your imagination wander to the land where I grew this flower and your heart yearn for new places, and you will see me and love me in my many faces, and know wonders your kind calls magical power, and know riddles that even your Sphinx could not ponder. 

Although the main purpose in naming such a potion was advertising its magical powers, a secondary intent, almost as important in many cases, was to hide the composition of this potion from other would-be practitioners (i.e., sorcerers)... 

In this way, we are perhaps the better disposed to understand or absorb the stories of alchemists magical powers. Did they really turn lead into gold Live much longer than the normal... 

Did he have some sort of magical powers Could he somehow see into the future or into the past No, Sherlock Holmes was no medium or magician. So what was his secret ... 

Gritti leaned forward eagerly. You credit the spy with magical powers ... 

UMBRATILES, or UMBRATILIA CORPORA — Phantasmal Apparitions which appear to men under a changing guise, by means of the hidden stellar potencies. Such are the lemures, etc. Phantoms of this kind are the production of magical power. 

The Romans were great believers in the medicinal powers of amber. They were convinced that it could cure coughs, ear-ache, poor eyesight and fits, or when burned, the fumes could help women in labour. Amber was also thought to have magical powers, such as the ability to make a sleeping wife confess all her evil deeds when a piece was placed on her breast. 

A quasi-cannibalistic ritual, the act of eating the children of the gods unlocked one s power to experience the truly divine. But not all mushrooms enable human beings to enter the realm of divine consciousness. This magic power resides in only those fungi known as "fool s mushrooms", which were considered poisonous and believed to be the spawn of the Devil throughout the late Middle Ages and well into modem times. 

It was believed by Aztec ruler Montezuma that chocolate had magical powers and can act as an aphrodisiac. 

Whether these stories had anything to do with the idea that marijuana had magical power or not, the fact is that despite the progress of Chinese medicine far beyond the age of superstition, the practice of striking beds with stalks made from marijuana stems continued to be followed until the Middle Ages. 

The Chinese believed that artiliciai gold was endowed with great magical powers. The masters of the Orient attempted to prepare alloys resembling gold from cinnabar (the naturally occurring form of mercury(II) sulfide) and other metals. They assumed one should eat regularly only from vessels made of such alloys in order to achieve immortality. 

In the same year that Cezanne died (1906), the Fauve era culminated with Matisse s masterpiece The joy of life. One year later, in 1907, Picasso initiated cubism with his Les Demoiselles d Avignon. It is easy to detect in the works of Picasso, Miro, Klee and others that in this transition stage of modern art the revolutionary artists were fascinated by the magical power of prehistoric art and the peculiar spirit of primitive art. 

In Antiquity, the Belief in the magic Powers of the god-given Names and nomina sacra were widespread. In those days, the "NAME" of a thing or a being had a much deeper and livelier significance than today. It was, in a manner of speaking, the character of a person or object itself, in a way, their mysterious representative or Doppelganger (Double). 

And lead us not into temptation. This means that GOD may protect us from prematurely testing the magic powers which have awakened within. Therefore, this is a directive which requests that we resist the demon and draw nearer to GOD. 

Finally, the Stone of the third Order tinges physically. Therefore, material projection can be done, such as transmutations of the elements, refinement of the metals, transmutation of substances, healing of physical ailments, rejuvenation and transmutation of the body, up to transfiguration. The Stone of the third Order has the form of a powder (Aphar), with which the projection of the physical Alchemy can be realised. Only fully developed Alchemists and Rosicrucians are in possession of the Lapis of the third Order, which lends magical power even over external Nature. 

L.A. Yes. Latin is a sacred language, as is Hebrew or Sanskrit. The mass has its fullest magic power in Latin. When the Mass is celebrated in a national language it is only a lecture not a magic ritual. 

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