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[Bleicher H. <sno...@yl...>]

T for the same on scientific and rational grounds. A little
understanding of fundamental occult and psychic principles, as given in
these lessons, will show the "why and wherefore" of these strange and
wonderful manifestations. In this connection you must remember that the
combined thought of the thousands of persons composing this cult or
organization undoubtedly gives additional psychic force to the mental
affirmations and denials of the individual member thereof. In past and
present, and probably in future time, there have been many instances of
magical procedures tending to bring about the results that we have
herein seen to come about by reason of psychic influence, in some of its
many phases. These magic procedures have usually been accompanied by
incantations, ceremonies, strange rites, evocations, etc., which were
supposed to have great virtue in bringing about desired results. But the
true occultists now know that these ceremonies and rites were merely
hopes to the imagination and aids to faith, and thus tended to bring
about the psychic phenomena. There was no virtue in these ceremonies
themselves, and the same results may be secured by simply following the
procedure outlined in this book. The wonders of ancient magic have been
reproduced by the modern occultists, without all the mumbo-jumbo of the
past rites and ceremonies. A gifted English writer upon the subject of
the relation of mysticism and magic, sums up the gist of the principles
of Magic as follows: "The central doctrine of Magic may now be summed up
thus: "(1) That a supersensible and real cosmic medium exists, which
interpenetrates, influences, and supports the tangible and apparent
world, and is amenable to the categories both of meta-physics and of
physics." [This of course is the astral plane, wh