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Title: Oriental Magic
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Item Number: 9780140194647
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Product Description: Oriental Magic
Universal Product Code (UPC): 9780140194647
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Rating: 3.5/5 based on 2 Reviews
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Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross
Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross
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Brad Davis
reviewed Oriental Magic on November 17, 2019"There is, of course, a scientific explanation for this happening, but the occultist would claim that the origin of a phenomenon need not be supernatural to make it valid..."
Spicy title, but held my attention for only 4 segments : Babylonian, Egyptian, Indian, and some of the Chinese. Perhaps the original river civilizations collected more data on magic than others ?
"THE OCCULT IN BABYLONIA":
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"The pure Akkadian-Mongoloid forms of magic are still preserved in the bilingual tablets of such collections as Asurbanipal's library..."
"The raising of the hand was the Babylonian's sign of the commencement of a magical or religious rite."
"Although Asurbanipal's tablets were not collected until the 7th century BC, they date back almost to the earliest days of the terrainian Mongoloid arrival in the eastern Mediterranean. The tablets are a treasure of magical lore for the king seems to have a mania for book collecting. Everything that was ever written mostly magic and books on occult matters had to be copied and brought to him... from every quarter of the kingdom."
"Each victory over an enemy was recorded, together with the spirit god with whose help it been achieved."
"The center of the earth was believed to be the place of the dead... a sort of hell where all humanity went, whether good or evil... There was little belief in reincarnation, for the name of the place was Maatalataari, the 'place of no return'. The dead lived in utter darkness, eating dust, and to this destination everyone went; there was neither reward nor punishment for deeds..."
"When a man asked Jesus to cast the evil out of a possessed person into a herd of swine, he was asking for the repetition of one of the standard methods of Semitic exorcism. The 19th formula from one of Asurbanipal's protection rites, now in the British Museum in fragment form, gives the words of this..."
"As with most occult writings, the originals in the then-dead Akkadian language, were believed to be the most potent. The actual spells and hymns are evidently recited in Akkadian, for each is accompanied by a translation in Assyrian, which was the living tongue at the time of their copy."
"...The actual words of power, the abracadabra, were the phrases Spirits of the heavens conjure, spirit of the earth conjure, which were always added, as was the word amanu - amen - translated from the Akkadian kakama, which had the same meaning of 'truth' or 'so it be' . "
EGYPTIAN MAGIC :
"...The Semites, like the Greeks. Romans. and others of the ancient world, were firmly convinced of the superiority of Egyptian magic over the thaumaturgy of other lands."
"Moses, as we learn from the Bible and the Quran, was one of Egypt's greatest foreign disciples in the practice of the art. Like the Egyptians, he used a magical staff or wand. Like them, he causes the waters to be divided. He even used some of the mystic words of power of the pharonic priesthood."
"... The Westcar Papyrus tells us the miracle identical with the reputed parting of the waters by Moses was performed by the chief priest of the day."
"Just as the Semitic word inga produced the English term magic, so one of the oldest names of the word Egypt, Kempt - dark or black - came to be translated 'black' in place of 'Egyptian' magic. Egypt of course was called 'the black' not because of the diabolicism of its magic, but from the color of its earth when flooded by Nile water."
"Illicit magic was a crime punishable by death through obligatory suicide."
"Garbled versions of rituals performed in the Valley of the Kings were taken back to the desert by Arabian Bedouins and embroidered upon until all over the Near East, Egypt was implicitly believed to be peopled by a race of sorcerers."
"Modern Egyptologists claim that the ritual magic practices of Egypt must date back to predynastic or even prehistoric times. Elliot Smith, studying this question, as an anatomist, concurs with other authorities that there was a continual ethnic drift from inner Africa to ancient Egypt."
"While it is known that the body would resurrect in another world... there are also clear indications that some of the rites were designed to revive the corpse."
"Khufu is seems was one day discussing miracles with his son... He then promised to show his father a man who could in fact perform the miracle of revivication of those who were not only dead, but... beheaded. This magician was Teta, reputed to be 110 years old. He was versed in secrets from the famed Santuary of Toth."
"... The belief in the mystic word of power was highly developed, just as magic itself was considered an art so ancient as to have no known source other than revelation by the gods."
"In the El Mamaan chain near the Red Sea is the Gebel Nakus, 'mountain of the bell.' Its rocks and pinnacles are so placed that when the wind blows from a certain direction loud whispers are heard proceeding from the rocks."
HINDUS :
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"Those who ---, such as the sadhus....prepare themselves by one of the strictest and most austere disciplines recorded in human history."
"...Miracles, which I have myself seen and -- test scientifically,
"So startling are the results obtained by these sadhus that I am almost driven to the conclusion that there may be one natural law that is as yet undiscovered in the West, which enables seeming miracles to be performed by those who have tuned their minds to it."
"...I asked him if he would make a chair rise from the ground and hover in space. Knitting his eyes in concentration he extended both arms toward the largest chair on the veranda. In 10 seconds, timed with a stop-watch, the chair seemed to rise into the air, and turning slightly, actually hover in space about 5 feet up.... I approached it and pulled on the legs. It descended to the floor, but as soon as I let it go, it sailed upwards again. I asked the man if I myself could be carried upward with the chair... I sat on the seat and rose into on it... I got him to make all the furniture in the place rise... I asked him to bring flowers from a nearby garden... which all appeared."
"I asked the Hindu to describe to me the contents of the next two letters which I should receive, and he did so correctly. Next I asked him to bring to me immediately a rifle what I knew belonged to a neighbor... In the next house 5 miles away, and the gun appeared. The following morning came the owner of the rifle. He claimed that he had dreamed the previous night that I had borrowed it."
"The magician never asked for any payment or reward. I never gave him any. He came, as he said, to demonstrate the powers that come to a man who genuinely follows the path of virtue."
"The Atharva Veda is divided into 2 parts : the holy, or legitimate, as acknowledged by the Brahmins, and sorcery... The orthodox Brahmin, or high-caste priesthood, is required to know and practice its rites."
THE OCCULT ART IN CHINA :
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"Confucius appeared on the scene when the people of China were feeling that this form of religion - animism - was somehow in need of readjustment. His tenets were almost entirely speculative and philosophical, and he was Lao-Tse's contemporary, though his senior in age. Lao Tse, on the other hand, worked for the reconstruction of Chinese philosophy through mysticism rather than logic. As an imperial librarian, he had access to books of ancient philosophy..."
"In the case of Hindu magic... few links with European sorcery can be found, yet a Chinese wizard of the Middle Ages and his western counterpart might well have understood each other's motives and even certain rituals : willow wands and water divining spells cast through wax images, superstitions connected with builders... There may be some Semitic connection here. for most of the European magical rites are derived from such books as the Key of Solomon, the Sword of Moses, or the Two Alberts, well-known to be rooted in the Jewish Assyrian Chaldean systems. "
"...Early contact of the Arabs with China is well known. Even today, certain superstitions about not destroying paper - an item brought to Europe by the Arabs - are shared by Chinese and Arabs alike, but by no other peoples."
"...The Sui dynasty published a rare booklet in which the virtues and importance of the magic mirror are exhaustively described...Any mirror which is sufficently antique... and large enough when hung in a house is capable of detecting spirits. It should be kept covered until needed and not used for any other purpose."
"Charms are written is a strange sort of script called celestial calligraphy. While many of the characters resemble conventional Chinese ones, some of it cannot be uinterpreted by the usual methods and may be meaningless. It is interesting to note here that the Chinese method of indicating the stars and planets... are found in a number of the books of sorcerers published in Europe during the Middle Ages."
"Bells are regarded as a powerful charm... This belief in the power of bells is thought to have come from India. Certainly it was widespread in Arabia when Muhammed prohibited the superstitious ringing... which had been imported into the Hejaz from Byzantium and is still known among the Yazidi devil worshippers of Kurdistan."
"It is believed that the crowding together of many people produces a certain power of its own. This concentrated power is stronger than that of... single people..."
"Tens of thousands of charms are in active use by the Chinese."
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