Volume 1
The history of magic / [J. Ennemoser] ; translated from the German by William Howitt. To which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of apparitions, dreams, second sight, somnambulism, predictions, divination, witchcraft, vampires, fairies, table-turning, and spirit-rapping selected by Mary Howitt.
- Joseph Ennemoser
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of magic / [J. Ennemoser] ; translated from the German by William Howitt. To which is added an appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated stories of apparitions, dreams, second sight, somnambulism, predictions, divination, witchcraft, vampires, fairies, table-turning, and spirit-rapping selected by Mary Howitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I lAMBLICnUS ON THE FORCE OF PRAYER. 457 { lirayer, or only to employ a little of it, and to throw away i ’.he rest. No, wholly must we use it; and above all things I must they practise it who desire to miite themselves sin- : merely with God.” (Sect. v. c. 26.) : These new-Platonic doctrines, of which I have quoted I i'lere as much as concerns our topic, have, through all ages, •bund defenders and followers: amongst the later ones, [Gale, Cudworth, and especially Henry More, being the most •celebrated. Akin to this school, and drawing from the same well, are she Theosophists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ( These practised chemistry, by which they asserted that they could explore the profouudest secrets of nature. As they 'Strove, above all earthly knowledge, after the divine, and Hiought the divine light and fire, through which all men can acquire the true wisdom, they were called the Pire Philoso- phers (philosophi per ignem). The most distinguished of whose are Theophrastus, Paracelsus, Adam von Boden, I ])swald Croll; and later, Valentine Weigel, Bobert Pludd, 'facob Bohmen, Peter Poiret, etc. In the next chapter I shall ; mm back to notice several things, that 1 may not pass over iwhat is most remarkable and instructive in magnetism.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24871667_0001_0491.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
