Excerpts on Magic
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- Akkadian Conception of the Supernatural
- The Alchemical Way of Change
- Alchemists Want to Change the World
- Alchemy Had an Unscientific Method
- Alchemy Means Constantly Transmuting Yourself
- Alchemy is a Very Broad ‘Church’
- Ancient Asiatic Spiritual Traditions
- Ancient People Were Deeply Religious
- Ancient State of Consciousness – New
- The Ancients’ Experience of the World – New
- The Appeal of Magic – New
- An Arsenal of Magic Implements
- Astrolabe: Gift Of The Arabs
- Attention as Psychic Energy – New
- Babylonian Divination
- The Basic Logic of Alchemy is Relationship
- Beginning of Science
- Birth of the Alphabet
- Concept of a Manifest Deity
- Contrasting Demonologies in the Ancient World
- Control of Attention is the First Skill of a Magician – New
- Cult of the Hero
- Demons Fight in Vain Against the Order of Nature
- Distinction Between Shamans, Magicians, and Priests
- Earth and the Heavens
- Exorcism in Babylonia and Assyria
- Experienced the Sacred in Catastrophe
- Find Trickster At The Boundaries
- Fire, the First Enshrined Divinity
- Forgetful Gods
- The Gods Are Not Ends in Themselves
- Gods from the Bicameral Mind
- Greek Gods’ Relations With Man
- Greek View of the Cosmos
- Holiness in the Ancient Middle East
- Magic Armor in the Iliad
- Magic Is More Tolerant of Failure
- Magic and Religion Enjoyed a Symbiotic Relationship
- Magic at the Inbetween Places
- Magic is Not Supernatural
- Magic of Metallurgy
- Magicians as Intellectuals
- Maintaining the Diversity Within the Divine
- Mystical Explanations Are Not Necessary – New
- Mystics and Magicians
- The Mythological Realm We Carry Within – New
- Nature Takes Life As Well As Gives It – New
- Not Superior To Man
- On Man’s Side
- Oracles Work
- Performing Miracles
- Perilous Journeys into the Mind
- The Perilous Journeys of the Shaman
- Practices of Divination
- Prophecy Concerns Eternal Truths
- Prophylactic Magic – New
- Public Versus Private Sorcery
- Purpose and Goal of Initiation is Gnosis
- Ritual Sacrifice: Establishing Beneficial Relations With Blood
- Sacred Power Spots
- Seeing the Gods
- Shamanic Initiation is a Journey Into Chaos
- Shamanic Paraphernalia
- Shamans and Their Inner Journeys
- The Spiritual Hunt and Spiritual Warfare
- The Spiritual and the Material Are Two Different Aspects of the Same World
- Stay Awake to Death
- The Subtle Body Has a Location
- Supernatural Tactics of the Mongols
- There Is a Disruptive Element in Shamanism
- Too Dangerous To Depict in Art – New
- Trickery is Part of the Shaman’s Craft
- Trickster Stories As Parodies of Shamanism
- Vulnerability of Demigods
- Written On My Heart
