Histoire de la magie avec une exposition claire et précise de ses procédés, de ses rites et de ses mystères (1860) - Page 10

Mythological data on the instinct of animals . . . . . 167
Passage from Euripides . . . . . 168
Reason for Pythagorean abstinences . . . . . 168
Singular passage from Homer . . . . . 169
Roman superstitions . . . . . 169
Enchantments . . . . . 171
Magical vortexes . . . . . 172
CHAPTER VII. — Magical Monuments. . . . . . 173
The seven wonders of the world representing the seven magical planets. 173
Philosophical summary of the ancients . . . . . 175

BOOK III. — Synthesis and Divine Realization of Magism through Christian Revelation.

CHAPTER I. — Christ Accused of Magic. . . . . . 177
Profound meaning of the beginning of the Gospel according to Saint John . . . . . 177
Ezekiel as a Kabbalist . . . . . 177
Special character of Christianity . . . . . 178
Accusations of the Jews against the Savior . . . . . 179
A beautiful legend from the apocryphal gospels . . . . . 180
The Joannites . . . . . 181
Magical books burned at Ephesus . . . . . 181
The great Pan is dead! . . . . . 181
CHAPTER II. — Truth of Christianity through Magic. . . . . . 182
Absolute existence of religion . . . . . 182
Essential distinction between science and faith . . . . . 183
Absurd objections . . . . . 184
Reality of Christianity demonstrated by charity . . . . . 185
Simon the Magician, 187. — His history, 188. — His doctrine, 190. — His conference with Saint Peter and Saint Paul, 192. — His fall, 193. — His sect continued by Menander . . . . . 194
CHAPTER III. — Of the Devil. . . . . . 194
Satan and Lucifer . . . . . 194
Wisdom of the Church . . . . . 196
What the devil is according to those initiated into the occult sciences . . . . 196
Opinions of Torreblanca . . . . . 198
Astral perversities . . . . . 199
Demons as personified vices . . . . . 200
CHAPTER IV. — The Last Pagans. . . . . . 201
The eternal miracle of God . . . . . 201
Civilizing action of Christianity . . . . . 201
Apollonius and Julian. Allegorical legend of Apollonius, 202. — Continuation of this legend, 205. — Judgment on Julian and on Apollonius . . 206
CHAPTER V. — Legends. . . . . . 207
Justina and Cyprian, 208. — Magical prayer of Saint Cyprian . . . . . 211
The Golden Legend . . . . . 212
Why Christians were accused of worshiping a donkey’s head . . . . . 213
The Golden Ass of Apuleius . . . . . 215
Subtlety of Saint Augustine . . . . . 215
CHAPTER VI. — Kabbalistic Paintings. . . . . . 216
Emblems of the catacombs . . . . . 216
True and false Gnostics . . . . . 217

The heresiarch Marcus . . . . . 218
Intrusion of women into the priesthood . . . . . 218
Diabolical miracles . . . . . 220
The Manicheans . . . . . 220
Danger of evocations . . . . . 221
Loss of the Kabbalistic keys . . . . . 222
CHAPTER VII. — School of Alexandria. . . . . . 223
Ammonius Saccas, Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Hypatia . . . . . 223
Imprudent admissions of Synesius, 224. — Writings of this initiate . . . . . 225
His treatise on dreams is commented on by Jerome Cardan . . . . . 225
Books of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite attributed to Synesius . . . . . 227

BOOK IV. — Magic and Civilization.

CHAPTER I. — Magic among the Barbarians. . . . . . 228
History of Philinnium and Machates . . . . . 232
Mythology of the Germans and the Druids . . . . . 234
Magic of the Eubages an order of Druidic priests focused on natural philosophy . . . . . 236
CHAPTER II. — Influence of Women. . . . . . 238
Veleda slandered by Chateaubriand . . . . . 239
Who Bertha of the Big Foot was . . . . . 239
Melusine, 240. — Saint Clotilde, 241. — Fredegund, 241. — Legend or history of Klodswinthe, 242. — Fredegund saves a woman out of wickedness . . . . . 244
CHAPTER III. — Salic Laws against Sorcerers. . . . . . 244
Salic laws . . . . . 245
Singular passage from the Talmud explained to Queen Blanche by Rabbi Jechiel . . . . . 246
Devotees of the devil condemned by the Church . . . . . 248
Charles Martel, 249. — The Kabbalist Zedekiah and the elementary spirits . . . . . 250
CHAPTER IV. — Legends of Charlemagne. . . . . . 254
Charlemagne and Roland . . . . . 254
The Enchiridion Handbook of Leo III . . . . . 257
The francs-juges Vehmic courts or secret vigilante tribunals, 261. — The Illuminati, 262. — Knight-errantry . . . . . 263
CHAPTER IV. Note: The original text repeats Chapter IV here instead of Chapter V — Magicians. . . . . . 264
The pope and the emperor, 264. — Excommunications, 265. — Diabolical legends, 263. — Rabbi Jechiel and Saint Louis, 266. — Albertus Magnus and his android . . . . . 267
Saint Thomas Aquinas . . . . . 270
What the quintessence the fifth element or essential spirit is . . . . . 271
CHAPTER VI. — Famous Trials. . . . . . 272
Power of the religious orders . . . . . 273
The Templars, 275. — Profane legend of the Joannites on the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 275. — Secret doctrine of the Templars, 278. — Their trial, 279. — Their apparent destruction . . . . . 280
The holy and valiant Joan of Arc . . . . . 280
Gilles de Laval, Lord of Rais, the prototype of Bluebeard . . . . . 290
CHAPTER VII. — Superstitions relative to the devil. . . . . . 290