A Manual of Occultism E-Book

Sepharial

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• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Part I The Occult Sciences INTRODUCTION SECTION 1 ASTROLOGY CHAPTER I THE ALPHABET CHAPTER II THE ASPECTS CHAPTER III THE SIGNS CHAPTER IV THE HOUSES SECTION 2 CHAPTER I MAKING A HOROSCOPE CHAPTER II FOREIGN HOROSCOPES SECTION 3 READING THE HOROSCOPE CHAPTER I PERSONAL APPEARANCE CHAPTER II THE CONSTITUTION CHAPTER III HEALTH CHAPTER IV THE CHARACTER CHAPTER V ACCIDENTS CHAPTER VI THE FORTUNES CHAPTER VII THE POSITION CHAPTER VIII THE OCCUPATION CHAPTER IX MARRIAGE CHAPTER X PROGENY CHAPTER XI TRAVELLING CHAPTER XII FRIENDS AND ENEMIES CHAPTER XIII THE KIND OF DEATH SECTION 4 THE MEASURE OF TIME CHAPTER I ON DIRECTIONS CHAPTER II EXAMPLE OF DIRECTIONS CHAPTER III SECONDARY DIRECTIONS CHAPTER IV TRANSITS AND ECLIPSES CHAPTER V MUNDANE ASTROLOGY CHAPTER VI OTHER METHODS SECTION 5 PALMISTRY CHAPTER I TYPES OF HANDS CHAPTER II THE MOUNTS OR CUSHIONS CHAPTER III THE PHALANGES, ETC. CHAPTER IV THE LINES CHAPTER VCHAPTER VI INCIDENTAL MARKS SECTION 6 THE THAUMATURGIC ART CHAPTER I THE KABALA CHAPTER II THE CALCULATORY ART CHAPTER III OF EVIL SPIRITS CHAPTER IV MAN'S SPIRITUAL FREEDOM CHAPTER V ON TALISMANS CHAPTER VI NUMEROLOGY CHAPTER VII HYPNOTISM AND MESMERISM Part II The Occult Arts CHAPTER I DIVINATION CHAPTER II THE TAROT CHAPTER III CARTOMANCY CHAPTER IV VARIOUS METHODS 1. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE 2. THE STAR 3. THE TABLET CHAPTER V CRYSTAL-GAZING THE PRINCIPAL LINES CHAPTER VI PRELIMINARIES AND PRACTICE CHAPTER VII VISIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS CHAPTER VIII SOME EXPERIENCES CHAPTER IX GEOMANCY Probable Chinese Origin. THE SYMBOLS CHAPTER X CASTING THE FIGURE JUDGING THE FIGURE CHAPTER XI SYMBOLS IN THE TWELVE HOUSES CHAPTER XII PSYCHOMETRY DOWSING CHAPTER XIII DREAMS CHAPTER XIV SORTILEGES ALCHEMY

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Table of Contents

Part I The Occult Sciences

INTRODUCTION

SECTION 1 ASTROLOGY

CHAPTER I THE ALPHABET

CHAPTER II THE ASPECTS

CHAPTER III THE SIGNS

CHAPTER IV THE HOUSES

SECTION II

CHAPTER I MAKING A HOROSCOPE

CHAPTER II FOREIGN HOROSCOPES

SECTION III READING THE HOROSCOPE

CHAPTER I PERSONAL APPEARANCE

CHAPTER II THE CONSTITUTION

CHAPTER III HEALTH

CHAPTER IV THE CHARACTER

CHAPTER V ACCIDENTS

CHAPTER VI THE FORTUNES

CHAPTER VII THE POSITION

CHAPTER VIII THE OCCUPATION

CHAPTER IX MARRIAGE

CHAPTER X PROGENY

CHAPTER XI TRAVELLING

CHAPTER XII FRIENDS AND ENEMIES

CHAPTER XIII THE KIND OF DEATH

SECTION IV THE MEASURE OF TIME

CHAPTER I ON DIRECTIONS

CHAPTER II EXAMPLE OF DIRECTIONS

CHAPTER III SECONDARY DIRECTIONS

CHAPTER IV TRANSITS AND ECLIPSES

CHAPTER V MUNDANE ASTROLOGY

CHAPTER VI OTHER METHODS

SECTION V PALMISTRY

CHAPTER I TYPES OF HANDS

CHAPTER II THE MOUNTS OR CUSHIONS

CHAPTER III THE PHALANGES, ETC.

CHAPTER IV THE LINES

CHAPTER V THE PRINCIPAL LINES

CHAPTER VI INCIDENTAL MARKS

SECTION VI THE THAUMATURGIC ART

CHAPTER I THE KABALA

CHAPTER II THE CALCULATORY ART

CHAPTER III OF EVIL SPIRITS

CHAPTER IV MAN’S SPIRITUAL FREEDOM

CHAPTER V ON TALISMANS

CHAPTER VI NUMEROLOGY

CHAPTER VII HYPNOTISM AND MESMERISM

Part II The Occult Arts

CHAPTER I DIVINATION

CHAPTER II THE TAROT

CHAPTER III CARTOMANCY

CHAPTER IV VARIOUS METHODS

1. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE

2. THE STAR

3. THE TABLET

CHAPTER V CRYSTAL-GAZING

CHAPTER VI PRELIMINARIES AND PRACTICE

CHAPTER VII VISIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS

CHAPTER VIII SOME EXPERIENCES

CHAPTER IX GEOMANCY

Probable Chinese Origin.

THE SYMBOLS

CHAPTER X CASTING THE FIGURE

JUDGING THE FIGURE

CHAPTER XI SYMBOLS IN THE TWELVE HOUSES

CHAPTER XII PSYCHOMETRY

DOWSING

CHAPTER XIII DREAMS

CHAPTER XIV SORTILEGES

ALCHEMY

A Manual of Occultism

by

Sepharial

© David De Angelis 2017 [all rights reserved]

Part IThe Occult Sciences

The Volitional Faculty - The Will and Imagination - Adeptship - Astrology - Kabalism - Talismans - Numerology - Palmistry - Hypnotism, Etc., Etc.

"Sorcery has been called Magic: but Magic is Wisdom, and there is no wisdom in Sorcery" PARACELSUS.

INTRODUCTION

IT is not my intention in these pages to attempt an exposition of the deeper arcana in connection with the various subjects treated of; but rather to place before the lay reader a number of methods by means of which he will be able to demonstrate to his own satisfaction, and that of others, that there is a deep substratum of truth in what is usually called "Occultism," and that the occult arts are sure and definite means of exploring them.

The ancient Hermetic philosophers were well aware of a certain subtile correspondence or analogy existing between the superior and inferior worlds, the world of causation and that of effects. They traced a connection between the noumenal and the phenomenal, between the mind of man and his bodily condition, between the spiritual and the natural. They affirmed all this in a trite axiom: As above, so below. This philosophy extended to concrete observations, and became a science which they embodied in the Doctrine of Correspondences. The hieroglyphic writings of the Chinese, Egyptians and Assyrians are the outcome of this science, portions of which are current in our own thought and language. Thus when we speak of commerce, the merchant and the market, we are going back to traditional knowledge which associated the "winged messenger" of the gods with the ship in full sail; the word merx (trade) being at the root of the name Mercury, and the symbol the hieroglyph for all that the name imports. We call the Sun "he" and the Moon "she," tracing unconsciously a subtile correspondence between the day and the active male function in nature, and between the night and the passive female function. We speak of jovial men and infer their connection with the planet Jupiter; and all our destructive and hurtful ideas are embodied in such words as "to mar," "martial," "murder," etc., linking them to their source in the root marna (to strike), because the destructive element in nature is represented in our system by the planet Mars.

This Doctrine of Correspondences is at the root of all occult interpretation. It is our human presentation of the Universal Law which binds the Microcosm to the Macrocosm as an effect to its antecedent cause. The mystic, the poet and the creative artist are all unconscious interpreters of this universal law. They have in some degree the universal sense by which their souls are rendered responsive to the pulsations of Nature’s own heartbeat. The sybil, the diviner and the seer are in even closer touch with the Great Life, while they have less conscious enjoyment of that intimacy. Others there are who reach to the heart of things by a clear and conscious intellection, understanding what they see, analyzing and interpreting what they feel. These are the Occultists, the true masters of the secret knowledge. Here it is perhaps necessary to mark the distinction which exists between occultism and mediumism, between the voluntary conscious effort of the trained intellect and the automatic functioning of the natural "sensitive," in their respective relations to the occult world.

The Occultist is one who intelligently and continuously applies himself to the understanding of the hidden forces in nature and to the laws of the interior world, to the end that he may consciously cooperate with nature and the spiritual intelligences in the production of effects of service to himself and to his fellow-beings. This entails upon him a close study of the mystery and power of sound, number, colour, form; the psychological laws underlying all expression of faculty; the laws of sympathy and antipathy; the law of vibration; of spiritual and natural affinity; the law of periodicity, of cosmic energy, planetary action; occult correspondences, etc. To these labours he must bring a natural gift of understanding, an unusual degree of patience and devotion, and a keen perception of natural facts. The Medium, or natural sensitive, is one who holds himself in negative relations to the interior worlds, and submits himself to the operation of influences proceeding from things and persons, as well as to that of discarnate intelligences. The medium cultivates an unusual degree of responsiveness to environment and to the emanations (atomic, magnetic or psychic) and suggestions of other persons. The phenomena developed by this process of mediumism include automatism (temporary loss of control over the motor nerves), as in the phenomena of involuntary speech and automatic writing; hypercesthesia, as in the function of clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychometry, etc.; trance, with its attendant phenomena of unconscious cerebration, obsession, and a variety of physical effects of a supernormal character. In its highest manifestation, following upon the "crucifying of the flesh," the subjugation of the passions, and a process of intense religious aspiration, mediumism is frequently followed by spiritual revelation and spontaneous prophecy. "But this sort cometh not but by fasting and prayer."

The various forms of divination to which recourse is had in so-called occult circles rest largely upon the exercise of a faculty which is compounded of occultism and mediumism. They are seen to employ the automatic faculty in conjunction with an empirical knowledge of certain occult methods of interpretation.

The following pages are intended to place the lay reader in possession of some of the principal methods of the occultists and mediums; and although nothing of a purely esoteric nature is divulged, it will nevertheless be found that everything necessary to an initial understanding and practice of the various occult arts is included in this work. It is within the author’s purpose to place so much information at the disposal of the student as will effectually debar him from any excuse of ignorance concerning the psychic powers latent in man and the verity of the occult sciences. it is within the power of everybody to be convinced, and to convince others, while he who perseveres to the point of perfection in the exercise of his faculty may justly be dignified by the name of Adept. The Magi of ancient times were astrologers, diviners and prophets all, and he who would aspire to their high degree must pursue their methods and live their life. They have committed to us the following maxims, which are still preserved in the schools—

KNOW - WILL - DARE - KEEP SILENT;

and to the rule of life they enjoin -

RIGHT THOUGHT - RIGHT FEELING

RIGHT SPEECH - RIGHT ACTION RIGHT LIVING.

SECTION 1 ASTROLOGY

THE astrologic art is held to be the key to all the occult sciences. Certainly it is the most ancient, and that which most readily lends itself to scientific demonstration.

Much that is contained in this and the following chapters is traditional knowledge but some portion of it is the result of modern discovery and experiment. Thus the nature and - significations of the signs of the zodiac and the planets, the aspects and some other parts of the groundwork of astrology, have come down to us from times immemorial; but the methods of computing the periods, the exact tunes of events, together with some methods of interpretation, are of modem or comparatively recent Origin. Of course, all that is known of Neptune and Uranusis the result of modern discovery.

The subject before us can be divided into three parts :-

The alphabet.

The reading.

Time measures.

I will deal in this chapter with

CHAPTER ITHE ALPHABET

This includes the symbols and names of the planets and the signs, their groupings and dominions. The PLANETS (including, for convenience of phrasing, the Sun and Moon) are nine in number. Stated in the order of their distances from the earth they are as follows :-

The Moon, which returns to the same place in the zodiac in about 27 days, and to its conjunction with the Sun in about 29 days. Every 19 years the New Moons fall in the same part of the zodiac. The Moon’s characteristic is change or mobility.

Venus, which returns to the same part of the zodiac about the same date in 8 years. It is at its nearest to the earth when in inferior conjunction with the Sun. Its characteristic is placidity or peace. It is called by the Greeks Aphrodite.

Mercury, when in inferior conjunction with the Sun, is next in distance from the earth. It returns to the same longitude on the same date in 79 years. Its characteristic is activity.

The Sun is the chronocrater of our system, and all time is measured by its apparent movements. It has an apparent motion round the earth in hours and 4 minutes, and an annual motion through the zodiac in 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 49 seconds. The earth is nearer the sun than it used. to be, the day is shorter, and the precession of the equinoxes is greater The equinoxes pass through each sign in about 2,160 years The vernal equinox is now m the constellation Pisces, and in about 700 years will be m Aquarius The characteristic of the Sun is vitality.

Mars returns to the same part of the zodiac about the same time at the end of 79 years Consequently it forms its conjunction with ~ in the same part of the zodiac at the end of that period. Its characteristic is energy.

Jupiter returns to the same longitude about the same ‘date every 83 years It is called the Greater

Fortune Its characteristic is expansion

Saturn has a period of 59 years, after which it comes to the same longitude about the same date. It is called the Greater Infortune. Its characteristic is privation.

Uranus has a synodic period of 84 years. Its characteristic is disruption.

Neptune has a period of about 165 years and its characteristic is chaos.

The periods of the planets according to the Chaldeans are -

4 years, 10 years, 8 years, 19 years, 15 years, 12 years, and        30 years. Thus the rules the life from birth to 4 years of age and is succeeded by up to 14, then to the age of 22,

followed by the Sun from 22 to 41, to which succeeds until 56, and is followed by       , who rules the life up to the age of 68, the last 30 years, up to the age of 98, being dominated by        Saturn.

These are the periods recited by Shakespeare in his famous passage in As You Like It, beginning "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Thus the        is the babe, "mewling and puking in its nurse’s arms." is the scholar, the lover, the soldier,        the judge "with good capon lined," and , the "lean and slippered pantaloon." The last stage of all is that of (disruption), the paralytic senility of which condition is so aptly described by the Bard.

Planetary Colours.

Neptune. - Mauve, lilac, heliotrope (admixtures of pale blue and scarlet).

Uranus. - Grey, black and white mixed, in checks or stripes.

Saturn. - Dark brown, black.

Jupiter. - Violet, purple.

Mars. - Scarlet, crimson.

Sun. - Orange, gold.

Venus. - Pale blue, turquoise.

Mercury. - Indigo, dark blue.

Moon. - Opal, iridescent sheens, yellow, and in watery signs ( ) sea green.

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Planetary Numbers.

The following numbers transmitted by John Heydon in the sixteenth century have been proved correct:-

       8,        3,        9, 6, 5;

(negative) 4, (positive) 1.

"      2,      "      7.

Planetary Metals.

(unknown);

iron;

uranium;

copper;

lead;

quicksilver;

tin;

silver;

gold.

The atomic weights of the ancient metals are not presumed to have been known to the ancient astrologers, yet we find they named the planets and ascribed their dominions in the mineral world in exact accordance with the facts of modern science. The atomic weights of the various pure metals known to them are contained in the following glyph :-

This seven-pointed star is read from the ray marked towards the left. The result is -

iron,      atomic weight 56;

copper " 63; silver " 108;

tin      "      118;

gold       "      196;

quicksilver       "      200;

lead       "      207.

Read alternately in the reverse order we have

ruling Sunday,

"      Monday,

      "      Tuesday,

"      Wednesday,

"      Thursday,

"      Friday,

"      Saturday.

If we read from point to point so as to make a heptagram or seven-pointed star, or a star of seven angles, we have the order of the planets according to the Chaldean system:

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Sympathies.

The following glyph (see page 9) exhibits at a glance the sympathies and antipathies of the planetsThus Saturn is opposed to the Sun and Moon, Jupiter to Mercury, and Venus to Mars. This is exhibited in detail by reference to the

Dominions

of the planets, which are set forth in the following schedule -

governs and opposed to

governing and

governing

governs and opposed to

governing and

governs and

opposed to

       governing        and

The "Dominions" are sometimes called "Houses" from domus, a house, but as other divisions of the heavens are so called, I prefer to use the term "dominions" to describe the signs of the zodiac ruled over by the planets.

In a general sense, and having regard to the specific nature of each planet, Saturn is in sympathy with Mars, Mars with the Sun, Jupiter with the Moon and Venus; while Mercury is variable, taking its radical tincture from that planet to which it is in closest aspect at birth.

The following figure shows at a glance the signs owned or ruled by the planets and the luminaries :-

It will be observed that each planet has two signs, the Sun and Moon one each. Neptune is found to have affinity with the sign , Pisces, and Uranus with , Aquarius; but these are modern empiricisms and for some time must be received with caution.

CHAPTER IITHE ASPECTS

THE ancients have handed down a tradition which informs us that the triangle is a symbol of the spirit and is efficacious for good, while the cross which is formed on the square is a symbol of matter and is of evil import.