A European, in fact, is to the rustic a strange inscrutable personage, gifted with manyoccult powers both for good and evil, and there are numerous extraordinary legends current about him.
A witch is one who professes to work marvels, not through the aid or counsel of the supernatural beings in whom he believes as much as the rest, but by certain occult faculties which he conceives himself to possess.
Witches have a special power of casting evil glances on children, and after a child is buried, they are believed to exhume the corpse, anoint it with oil, and bring it to life to serve some occult purpose of their own.
Eliphas Levi drew a picture of the Baphomet or Sabbatic goat to accompany one of his occult works, and strangely enough the symbols that he adorns it with are peculiarly Oriental--moreover the sun-disc figures in the drawing.
But this view might be solved by theoccult theory of the 'precipitation of matter'!
As a god of the abyss he appears to have been also a deity of wisdom and occult power, thus allegorically associated with the idea of depth or profundity.
What folly, what mockery, to be searching into the motions of the stars, and the occult forces of matter, and the other beautiful mysteries of science!
It were absurd to expect the protest of a martyr from a man whose religion you cannot contradict; who will see a God wherever you ask him; and whose worship asserts nothing but that, a phenomenon being there, anoccult power is behind it.
I don't deny that the Orientals have gone farther along certain paths of psychology than we have, but as to their possessing any occult power, it is, in my opinion, all bosh.
Mr. Brook Pulham concentrated his attention on the writings of George Wither, Mr. Bragge on works illustrative of Smokers and Tobacco, and Major Irwin on the occult and supernatural.
Dreams haunt all the region of our intellectual twilight,--the borderland of mystery, where rise the sources of the occult and the mystical which environ our lives.
Staniland Wake, [231] supposes the Serpent in India to have been there also the symbol of praeternatural and occult knowledge.
But the successors of Odin did not preserve hisoccult power.
Add to all this, that the woman is his beloved mistress, whom he ardently wishes to trust, and that often before she had told him she was gifted with occult powers.
Wilhelmine had studied many books of magic and innumerable accounts of occult manifestations.
In fact, this bed, whether from its appearance or some occult influence inherent in it, had a fascination for me.
To illustrate the odd way in which our images get tumbled together through the action of occult association forces, I will record a dream of my own.
Maverick, with all your knowledge of brains and nerves, of occult causes and mysterious effects!
He did not take in any of the occult meanings: to him she was simply a pretty girl whom he could dress in silk instead of lawn.
Occasionally we see a man wrecked by this steady, persistent, overwhelming love for an inferior object, caught perhaps by some occult fascination that flashes all laws out of sight.
The old-fashioned element in the place held crime as the result of sin instead of occult disease,--a thing to be punished, rather than petted.
Had this man, in truth, some occult power of which none else had the secret; or was it but an idle boast, uttered with the view of terrifying one who was but a boy in years?
But no doubt some few still dabble in theseoccult things.
Religion, or God's occultintercourse with the spirit of man, which they imagined to have been transmitted from Adam through the Cabbalists to themselves.
The Fratres investigate the occult sciences; but I am not aware that any of them now practice asceticism, or expect to prolong life on earth indefinitely.
Philosophy of nature, oroccult knowledge of the works of God; 2.
In three parts, spiritual, celestial and elemental; containing the occult powers of the Angels of Astromancy.
Theology, or theoccult knowledge of God himself; 3.
But if they never taught you any thing, and never made you happier as you passed beneath them, do not think they have any mysterious goodness of occult sublimity.
The student of occult science either knows a thing or suspends his judgment about it; there is no place in his scheme for blind faith.
For occult development vagueness and nebulosity will not do.
Occult investigation shows this to be the correct view, and in that way explains what Oriental sacred books mean when they say that matter is an illusion.
Sinnett began his book, The Occult World, the first popular exposition of Theosophy, published thirty years ago.
Its investigators have dealt also to a certain extent with subjects more in the range of ordinary science, as may be seen by those who read the book on Occult Chemistry.
This has been described in Occult Chemistry under the name of koilon.
They often effect cures by the occult use of medicines, or by entering the body and expelling evil humours.
Dentists will be surprised to learn that in bygone days none but those acquainted with occultscience were supposed capable of extracting teeth without pain.
The Hebrew witches were supposed to possess the power of doing mischief to man and beast by their occult science, and of changing the form of things.
A general belief prevailed among Christians that the Jewish rabbins were acquainted with the occult sciences, and particularly with the cabalistical art.
We have not learned how the travellers succeeded, but this we know, that members of the Willox family have been supposed for generations to profess knowledge of the occult science.
Secondly, demons produce effects by the occult application of natural causes, and by accelerating their actions, for their knowledge is incredible.
But as it is not our province to instruct any one in occult science, we shall not further explain the method of procuring answers to the questions propounded.
But the misletoe was only one of many articles they had possessing occult virtue.
He was a native of Fife, and in early life became versant in occult science.
These peculiarities are due to an occult influence which weighs on the mind of William II, an influence which, while it points the way to action, blinds him to its consequences.
At the period of which we write the occult sciences were studied with an ardor that may surprise the incredulous minds of our own age, which is supremely analytical.
In the nativity drawn by Basilio and Ruggiero the elder, the principal events of Catherine's life were foretold with a correctness which is quite disheartening for those who deny the power of occult science.
The precautions taken against us by the king have made us think during the time we have spent in your charming jail that the occult sciences have been traduced to him.
Superstitious and fatalistic, like so many superior men, she had no sincere belief except in occult sciences.
This has since been known as "Thor's salvation," and occultpowers have been attributed to it.
This people, who lived in the frozen regions of the pole, besides being able to call up the cold storms which swept down from the North, bringing much ice and snow in their train, were supposed to have great occult powers.
The Moses of the spirit-wilderness struck the rock of his material life, and occult dynamics came welling forth from the undiscovered springs of consciousness.
