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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric

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  • Svāmihaṃsasvarūpakr̥tam Ṣaṭcakranirūpaṇacitram : bhāṣyasamalaṃkr̥taṃ bhāṣāṭīkopetañ ca = Shatchakra niroopana chittra with bhashya and bhasha containing the pictures of the different nerves and plexuses of the human body with their full description showing the easiest method how to practise pranayam by the mental suspension of breath through meditation only ; by Shri Swami Hansa Swaroop.
  • Two children wait nervously while an alchemist secretively concocts a mixture at his stove. Pen and wash drawing by G. Robinson.
  • From magic to science : essays on the scientific twilight / Charles Singer.
  • Svāmihaṃsasvarūpakr̥tam Ṣaṭcakranirūpaṇacitram : bhāṣyasamalaṃkr̥taṃ bhāṣāṭīkopetañ ca = Shatchakra niroopana chittra with bhashya and bhasha containing the pictures of the different nerves and plexuses of the human body with their full description showing the easiest method how to practise pranayam by the mental suspension of breath through meditation only ; by Shri Swami Hansa Swaroop.
  • Svāmihaṃsasvarūpakr̥tam Ṣaṭcakranirūpaṇacitram : bhāṣyasamalaṃkr̥taṃ bhāṣāṭīkopetañ ca = Shatchakra niroopana chittra with bhashya and bhasha containing the pictures of the different nerves and plexuses of the human body with their full description showing the easiest method how to practise pranayam by the mental suspension of breath through meditation only ; by Shri Swami Hansa Swaroop.
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Catalogue

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    The book of secrets of Albertus Magnus of the virtues of herbs, stones, and certain beasts ; also A book of the marvels of the world / edited by Michael R. Best and Frank H. Brightman.

    | Date: 1999
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    Rasapradīpaḥ / Verīgrāmanivāsi-ŚivasahāyaputraRavidattaŚāstrikr̥tabhāṣāṭīkāsahitaḥ.

    Ravidatta, Son of Śivasahāya. | Date: 1909
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    Medicina diastatica, or, Sympatheticall mumie : containing many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick, by the [brace] construction, extraction, transplantation and application [brace] of microcosmical & spiritual mumie : teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. / abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... ; translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.

    Paracelsus, 1493-1541 | Date: 1653
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    Flore magique et astrologique de l'antiquité / Guy Ducourthial ; préface de Danielle Gourevitch.

    Ducourthial, Guy. | Date: 2003
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    Women's secrets : a translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's De secretis mulierum with commentaries / Helen Rodnite Lemay.

    | Date: [1992], ©1992
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