No; I see no confusion, for I do not include the higher adepts in either class, sinoe they have the wisdom to make use of the learning and of the methods of both.
But as for the Asiatic mind--you seem to deny to it the use of the ealculus of thought, and yet you denned adepts as attempting to acquire specific knowledge by general and transcendental methods.
I believe, from what I have learned of Ram Lal, that the ultimate object of the adepts is happiness, only to be attained by wisdom, and I apprehend that by wisdom they mean a knowledge of the world in the broadest sense of the word.
He divided mankind into three classes: Adepts or Sages; true Gentlemen; and the common run.
Perhaps it was in Ireland that the White Adepts of the Fifth made their first stand against the Atlanteans?
We thereby see that the judges were adepts in the art of adding moral to physical tortures.
Here there was a good deal of hard fighting, the Carduchi being adepts in hill warfare, and particularly expert archers.
Their first adeptsare a species of mendicant monks.
One of the best known of these new adepts was Stephanus or Stephen, who before his conversion was probably only a simple proselyte.
She absorbed Hindu wisdom from the adeptsof India; she sat at the feet of a thaumaturgist at Cairo; she journeyed to Canada to meet the medicine man of the Red Indians, and to New Orleans to observe the practices of Voodoo among the negroes.
If the Great Sorceress and the famous Wizard and the three talented Adepts at Magic were unable as yet to solve the important problem of the sunken isle, there was little chance for a patched girl stuffed with cotton to succeed.
Glinda, the Wizard and the Adepts followed Ozma and Dorothy into the palace, and they asked Lady Aurex and Ervic to join them.
The threeAdepts assured the excited Flatheads that they had nothing to fear.
While the Adepts were being entertained by Coo-ee-oh at a banquet in her palace, she cruelly betrayed them and after transforming them into fishes cast them into the lake.
Moreover, from all reports these Adepts practiced only good witchcraft, such as would be helpful to their people, while Coo-ee-oh performed only evil.
At that time the Flatheads were ruled by three Adepts in Sorcery, beautiful girls who were not Flatheads, but had wandered to the Flat Mountain and made their home there.
After this easy conquest of the Su-dic, Glinda told the Adepts of her plan, which had already been approved by Ozma of Oz, and they joyfully agreed to it.
Also make usAdepts at Magic," added the bronzefish.
Chapter Twenty-One The Three Adepts The Sorceress looked up from her work as the three maidens entered, and something in their appearance and manner led her to rise and bow to them in her most dignified manner.
The Su-dic had watched the approach of the party from the edge of the mountain and was frightened when he saw that the three Adepts had recovered their natural forms and were coming back to their former home.
These three Adepts used their magic only for good, and the mountain people gladly made them their rulers.
But although they feared the Supreme Dictator, who had threatened to punish them if they did not obey his commands, as soon as they saw the three Adepts they threw down their arms and begged their former rulers to protect them.
She stole the knowledge and the magic tools, but she has used them as the three Adepts never would have done.
Also they had another reason for wanting to catch the fish--they feared that in some way the three Adepts might regain their proper forms and then they would be sure to return to the mountain and punish Rora and the Su-dic.
They would not consent to be my slaves--especially if they were Adeptsat Magic--and so they would command me to obey them.
The three Adepts also approved the trial but the brown-haired one said: "We must be careful not to use the wrong word, and send the bridge out under water.
The Adepts were greatly astonished at the extraordinary personages presented to them, and marveled that Jack Pumpkinhead and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and Tik-Tok could really live and think and talk just like other people.
These things being accomplished in a satisfactory manner, Princess Ozma and her people bade farewell to the three Adepts and departed for the Emerald City, well pleased with their interesting adventures.
Then you are the three Adepts at Magic, restored to your proper forms?
The three Adepts could not avoid laughing merrily, for not only were they amused by the queer form of the Patchwork Girl, but Trot's enthusiastic speech struck them as really funny.
Glinda, the Wizard, Ervic and the Adepts got into the boat, taking with them a coil of strong rope, and at the command of the Sorceress the craft cleaved its way through the water toward the part of the Dome which was now visible.
As to bell-ringing, the adepts insist upon it that this is a science; and they give it the name of campanology.
The prison doctor could only exchange conversation in Latin with her husband, and neither of them appear to have been adepts in that language; moreover, his hurried visit was obliged to take place in the presence of an officer.
In a sketch of the state of astrology in his day, the adepts whose characters he has drawn were the lowest miscreants of the town.
My Journey Towards the End of Earth Begins--The Adepts Brotherhood, 74 XI.
These adepts are scientific men, and may not even be recognized as members of our organization; indeed it is often necessary, for obvious reasons, that they should not be known as such.
For this set of gentry are adeptsin all the arts of knavery and tricking.
The lawyer, like all adepts in such matters, was only too willing to catch at the idea; the board was brought.
Des Hermies, who is well acquainted with the underworld of science, maintains that more than forty alchemic furnaces are now alight in France, and that in Hanover and Bavaria the adepts are more numerous yet.
At the end of their resources, these hermetists disappeared, and there ensued at Tiffauges an incredible coming-and-going of adepts and their helpers.
In the case we are considering--the founding of the Fourth Root Race--it was one of the Adepts from Venus who undertook the duties of the Manu.
Symbols eloquent to Adepts are meaningless to the mass of Initiates, 819-m.
It is for the Adepts to understand the meaning of the Symbols.
This agent, partially revealed by the blind guesses of the disciples of Mesmer, is precisely what the Adepts of the middle ages called the elementary matter of the great work.
One of the degrees of initiation was the state of inspiration to which the adepts were claimed to attain.
Rose Croix Adeptsunited with Templars and founded a Mystic Sect, 821-m.
Templars united with Rose Croix Adepts and formed a Mystic Sect, 821-m.
For the Johannism of the Adepts was the Kabalah of the earlier Gnostics, degenerating afterward into those heretical forms which Gnosticism developed, so that even Manes had his followers among them.
The disciples of Hermes, before promising their adepts the elixir of long life or the powder of projection, advised them to seek for the Philosophal Stone.
In the centre of this cross blooms a rose, and we see the symbol of the Adepts of the Rose-Croix for the first time publicly expounded and almost categorically explained.
What the Chiefs of the Order really believed and taught, is indicated to the Adeptsby the hints contained in the high Degrees of Free-Masonry, and by the symbols which only the Adepts understand.
The foregoing instance of the systematized instruction of young delinquents by old adepts in the art of pilfering, affords, I think, a satisfactory answer the interrogatory.
Its adepts called themselves "mathematicians," and thus seemed to borrow from the exact sciences something of their solidity.
To put the finishing touch on this anarchy, a sect which likewise derived from Christianity--Manicheeism--began to have numerous adepts in Africa.
They formed an occult Church, strongly organized, and its adepts had relations with all classes of Roman society.
The adepts are reluctant to speak of elementals for two reasons.
Some of their negro slaves had been born in Africa, the others had come from the Lower Mississippi or the West Indies; they practised the strange rites of voudooism, and a few were adepts in the art of poisoning.
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