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Title: Art magic, or, Mudane, sub-mundane and super-mundane spiritism (microform) a treatise in three parts and twenty-three sections, descriptive of art magic, spiritism, the different orders of spirits in the universe known to be related to, or in communication with man; together with directions for invoking, controlling, and discharging spirits, and the uses and abuses, dangers and possibilities of magical art
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Britten, William, fl. 1876 Britten, Emma Hardinge, d. 1899
Subjects: Spiritualism Magic
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Progressive Thinker Pub. House
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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atseam by its excess. He expected to reduce it by manipulations.Wondering to hear this man use Hindoo phrases and speak theTamul language with great purity, the inquirers found he hadbeen born a Hindoo, graduated as a Fakeer, and finally embracedthe doctrines of Buddha. It was doubtful whether he had beena Lama at all, but such was his performance. We shall, according to promise, supplement this narrativewith another on the same subject, published in a work entitled:Souvenirs Dun Voyage dans La Tartarie, et la Chine, par M.Hue Pretre Missionaire. Published at Paris, 1850. For thetranslation of this narrative we are indebted to an excellent peri-odical, published by Mr. Jas. Burns, of London, in 1873, entitledHuman Nature. The date of the narrative is some twenty-fiveyears earlier. M. Hue says: The fifteenth day of the new moon we encountered severalcaravans, following, as we did, the direction from east to west.The road was filled with men, women and children, mounted on (/•I lit5 \
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ART MAGIC. 159 camels or oxen. They told us they were all going to the lamaseryof Rache-Tchurin. When they asked us if our object was thesame as theirs, they appeared astonished at our negative response.Their surprise roused our curiosity. At a turning of the road weovertook an old lama who appeared to walk with difficulty, as hehad a heavy package on his back. Brother/ we said, thou artold, thy white hairs are more numerous than the black; thou mustbe fatigued; place thy burden on the back of one of our camels.After the pilgrim was relieved of his load, when his walk had be-come more elastic and his countenance brighter, we asked himwhy all these pilgrims were pacing the desert? We are all goingto Rache-Tchurin/ they said, with accents full of devotion.Without doubt some great solemnity calls you to the lamasery?Yes, to-morrow ought to be a grand day; a lama bokt will mani-fest his power; he will kill himself, but will not die. We at once understood the kind of solemnity which had pu

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