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Magic, White and Black; Or, the Science of Finite and Infinite Life MAGIC WHITE AND BLACK OR ‘@112 §ri2uce of gfiinite rmh ifttfinits ifllifc « CONTAINING PRACTICAL HINTS FOR STUDENTS OF OCCULTISM B‘) FRANZ HARTMANN, M.D. “ For in our searching are fulfilledall our desires, and we obtain the victory over all worlds."—KI1and. Ugfizutisluzd. THIRD EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED LONDON GEORGE REDWAY YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN 1888 Hosted by ..~..,.......,._._._._......~.., M. ,4’. BF léall .H33 I8%‘8 MAGIC. “Everything that exists upon the Earth has its ethereal counterpart above the Earth, and there is nothing, however insignificant it may appear in the world, which is not depending on somethinghigher ; so thatif the lower part acts, its presiding higher part reacts upon it.” Sohwr Wajecae, Fol. 156, 6. TI-IE CREED OF SANITY. UNITY is the property of the Infinite, the Absolute, the Eternal. Dividedness is the property of the finite, the phenomen.-il, the transitory. Every attempt: either to eternalize phenomenaldistinctions, or to phenoinenalizeEternal Unity is .‘..;-r...’ contrary to the true nature of man ; and tends towards the destruction of mental health. The great All is a jealous God, and will not suffer His honour to he given to any partial manifestation of good. Every finite or phenoinenal good which man invests with attributes belonging only to the Infinite, avenges the V majesty of the Unseen Unity hy injuring the brain of man. VVhat force or creative energy is, in its own nature, we do not know; but we know that every mode of it with which we are acquainted works by a pulsation - of contrary motions. All forms are evolved by pulsating Force, yet itself is v-- necessarily formless. » Man is the child of this pulsating or alternating Creator ; not His mere handy- work, made arbitrarily,unlike Himself; but the outcome of His very thought- processes ; and sanity, for us, means thinking as He thinks, so far as we thinkat all. And He thinks,or, at least, works in an incessant rhytlnnic pulsation of alternate and Man should imitate this ,§§¢(";1fli~<s5‘§ht:,:c;.e..A constructing sweeping away. pulsating activity within his own mind. His studies should alternate the formation of .,,(‘....r defined and contrasted conceptions with the unifying of those conceptions; and his religious exercises should suspend all concrete conceptions in adoration of the inconceivable Unity. If we thus embody the principle of pulsation in our ..¢.,,..,,,,..,,§. ~tl1ought~life, it becomes a source of constant power like the movement of our lungs; if we forget it, we waste force at each effort. False religions tend to arrest the natural fading away of things that have served their purpose, whether those things be visible forms or mental conceptions. But the token of the covenant made by Infinite Knowledge with man, is the Rainbow, which no man can capture, or emhalm, or enshrine: which is made by the breaking up of the one light into many colours, to fade, before long, into the unity of white light’ " again ; and which, when it fades, leaves nowhere in the world a trace of its ever existed, except on man’s heart an impression of spiritual beauty,and in Qiaving.us_ mind a knowledge of the laws of light. is vain that we haste to rise early and late take rest, and devour many illycompiledtext-books ; to thosewho love the Invisible, formless, alternate. g Unity,the knowledge which is power comes even during sleep. .__._._e's\____.._.. PRAYER OF THE FREE-WORKERS. 'ainbow~Maker 1 Thou art our Father ! Make us free of Thy kingdom of Oh, Creator! we are Thy heirs of Thy life, and co-heirs of ' tie genius. We conv v~ cl~"\1ren;?l'IXl ; nor accept our of skill birthrightii i. ‘-' nv rir' us \ ‘ant a share of Thine own p6We‘i*,\?v9. -— Cyooglc . DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE. the foot of the picture is a sleeping Sphinx, AT whose upper part (representing the higher prin- ciples) is human; while the lower parts (symbolising the lower principles) are of an animal nature. She is dreaming of the solution of the great problem of the construction of the Universe and of the nature and des- tiny of Man, and her dream takes the shape of the figure above her, representing the Macrocosm and the Micro- cosm and their mutual interaction. "79" Above, around, and within all, without beginning and without an end, penetrating and pervading all, from the 1,m'.'l~. endless and unimaginableperiphery to the invisible and centre is Parabrahm 3 incomprehensible (in Man) (Adi- Budha or God), the unmanifested Absolute, the supreme /5*_, source of every power that ever manifested or may in , the future manifest itself as a “thing,”and by whose 5; activity the world was thrown into existence, being pro- jected by the power of His own will and imagination. The Omega (and the Alpha in the centre) represent the “Son,” the Absolute having become manifest as the Universal Logos or The Christ, also called Param-Atma, Baddhi, or the sixthprinciple, the cause of the beginning and the end of every created thing. It is One with the “father,” being manifested as at Trinity in a Unity, the cause of what We call Space, Motion, and Substance. Its highest manifestationis Self-consciousness and Supreme Wisdom, by which it may come to the comprehension 6 DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE. of Man. The “ regenerated” spiritual man, whose nzutriw is his own physical body, draws his nutriment from this universal spiritual principle as the physical foetus is nourished by means of the womb of the mother, his soul being formed from the astral influences or the soul qf the world. Out of the Universal Logos proceeds the “invisible Light” of the Spirit, the Truth, the Law, and the Life, embracing and penetrating the Cosmos and becoming manifest in the illuminatedsoul of Man, while thevisible light of Nature is only its most material aspect or mode of manifestation, in the same sense as the visible sun is the reflex of its divine prototype, the invisible centre of power or the great spiritual Sun. The circle with the twelve signs of the Zodiac, en« closing the space in which the planets belonging to our solar system are represented, symbolizes the Cosmos, filled with the planetary influences pervading the Astral Light, and which are caused by the interaction of the astral emanations of the cosmic bodies and their inha- bitants. Here is the store—house of Life, the Iliaster of Paracelsus, in which the Mysterium magnum (the Spirit) is active. The activity in the Cosmos is represented by the interlaced triangle. The two outer ones represent the great powers of creation, preservation, and destruction, or Brahama, Vishnu, and Siva, acting upon the elements of Fire, Water, and Earth——that is to say, upon the original principles out of which ethereal, fluid and solid material substances and forms are produced. The two inner interlaced triangles refer more espe- cially to the development of Man. B, 0, and D represent Knowledge, the Knower, and the Known, which trinity constitutes Mind or Consciousness. E, F, and G repre- sent the Physical man (Stoola—Sharira), the, ‘Ethereal or Inner Man (Sukshma-Sharira), sidereal body of Para DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE. 7 celsus, astral body, Kama. rupa, &c., and the Spiritual Man (Karena-Sharim, the divine Archeeus, the spiritual Soul). The centre represents the divine Atma, the per- sonal Christ, being identical with the Universal Logos. It is, like the latter, 3. Trinity in 2). Unity,* receiving its light from the Pamm-Alma and radiating it again from the centre. It is the spiritual seed implanted in the soul of men, through whose growth immortal life is attained. Its light is the Rose of the Cross that is formed by Wisdom amd Power, being joined together into one and sending its influence through the world. But below all is the realm of Illusion, of the most gross and heavy materialised thoughts, sinking into Darkness and Death (the Eighth Sphere or Chaos), where they decompose and putrefy, and are resolved again into the elements out of which the Universe came into existence. * Of the three interlaced A’s only one is distinctly drawn in the figure. Hosted b; [C PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. HE favour with which “Magic” has been received by those who are interested in the study of the hidden mysteries of Nature, made it expedient to publish a third edition of this book. From an insignificant pamphlet, written originally for the purpose of demonstrating to a few inexperienced inquirers, that the study of the occult side of nature was not identical with the vile practices of sorcery, “Magic” grew into a hook of respectable dimen- sions, and now this new edition is to be still more enlarged, and I hope will also become still more useful. The most serious objection which has been made against this book has been on account of its title; but the causes which induced me to select such a title were suggested by the purpose for which the book was intended ; nor would I at present be able to find one more appropriate for it, for “Magic "-——in my opinion— means that divine art or exercise of spiritual power by which the awakened spirit iI1 man may control the invisible living elements in the soul—substance of the universe ; but above all those in his own soul, which are the ones nearest to him ; for a person who cannot control the elements within his own sphere or organism, will not be able to control these identical forces existing beyond his own sphere in the organism of the universal soul, or in the souls of others.
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