Linga Sharira

◆Tertium Organum (P.D. Ouspensky) | Chapter V (part 1)

“p. 52 CHAPTER V Four-dimensional space. "Temporal body"— Linga Sharîra . The form of a human body from birth to death. Incommensurability of three-dimensional and four-dimensional bodies. Newton's fluents. The unreality of constant qu…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 3. The Triangle Of Solomonc

“These shells, envelopes petrified or carnified, were such an expression possible, are the source of errors or of evil, which connects with the heaviness and hardness of animal envelopes. In the book Zohar , and in that of the Revolution of…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 4. The Tetragramd

“Being and nothingness are two absolutely irreconcilable ideas, with this difference, that the idea of nothingness, which is altogether negative, issues from the very idea of being, whence even nothingness cannot be understood as an absolute…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 5. The Pentagramc

“The secret of this Great Work does not remain for discovery; it has been known and practised by a great number of initiates, above all by the celebrated Apollonius of Tyana, who has left a theory concerning it, as we shall see in the “Ritua…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 8. Realizationb

“The revealers have therefore done scarcely more than divine, by the accuracy of their calculations, the appropriate moment for moral reactions. The law of realization produces what we call magnetic breathing; places and objects become impr…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 8. Realizationc

“The Astral Body is not always of the same sex as the terrestrial, that is, the proportions of the two forces, varying from right to left, seem frequently to belie the visible organization, producing seeming aberrations of human passion and…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 13. Necromancya

“EX IPSIS MORS We HAVE said that the images of persons and things are preserved in the Astral Light. Therein also can be evoked the forms of those who are in our world no longer, and by this means are accomplished those mysteries of Necroma…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 13. Necromancye

“There are evocations of intelligence, evocations of love and evocations of hate; but, once more, there is no proof whatsoever that spirits leave the higher spheres to communicate with us: the opposite, as a fact is more probable. We evoke…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 14. Transmutationsa

“SPHERA LUNAE SEMPITERNUM AUXILIUM St. AUGUSTINE questioned seriously whether Apuleius could have been changed into an ass by a Thessalian sorceress, and theologians have long debated about the transformation of Nebuchadnezzar into a wild b…”

◆Transcendental Magic I: The Doctrine (Éliphas Lévi) | 14. Transmutationsc

“She accused him when he wished to withdraw from her, and the conversion of this young woman was a revenge, for there is nothing more cruel than depraved passions. An influential society, which intervened in the trial of Grandier for the de…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 6. The Medium And Mediatorc

“Many persons will say that it is difficult and even impossible to attain such resolution, that strength in volition and energy in character are natural gifts. I do not dispute it, but I would point out also that habit can reform nature; vo…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 13. Necromancyc

“There are two kinds of Necromancy, that of light and that of darkness - the evocation by Prayer, Pantacle and Perfumes, and the evocation by blood, imprecations and sacrilege. We have practised only the first, and advise no one to devote t…”

◆Transcendental Magic II: The Ritual (Éliphas Lévi) | 14. Transmutationsb

“The life of beings is a progressive transformation, and its forms can be deter-mined, renewed, prolonged further, or destroyed sooner. If the doctrine of metempsychosis were true, might one not say that the debauch represented by Circe rea…”