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... complete system of knowledge that had been cultivated in secret , and handed down to initiates for ages , before its professors performed experi- ments in public to impress the popular mind in Egypt and Greece . Adepts of occultism in ...
... complete system of knowledge that had been cultivated in secret , and handed down to initiates for ages , before its professors performed experi- ments in public to impress the popular mind in Egypt and Greece . Adepts of occultism in ...
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... complete if external students of the subject are enabled to learn as much about the mysteries as I shall have to tell . Manifestly , there is a great deal more behind , but , at all events , a great deal is to be learned by inquirers ...
... complete if external students of the subject are enabled to learn as much about the mysteries as I shall have to tell . Manifestly , there is a great deal more behind , but , at all events , a great deal is to be learned by inquirers ...
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... complete ignorance , and an explicit denial of any knowledge as to what I meant at all . It was not till the second time I saw him in private , at my own house , that by degrees it grew upon him that I was in earnest , and knew ...
... complete ignorance , and an explicit denial of any knowledge as to what I meant at all . It was not till the second time I saw him in private , at my own house , that by degrees it grew upon him that I was in earnest , and knew ...
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... complete that they amount to a species of omniscience as regards mundane affairs . The body is the prison of the soul for ordinary mortals . We can see merely what comes before its windows ; we can take cognisance only of what is ...
... complete that they amount to a species of omniscience as regards mundane affairs . The body is the prison of the soul for ordinary mortals . We can see merely what comes before its windows ; we can take cognisance only of what is ...
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... complete nation , for one thing , of men and women all equally handling the powers , even from childhood , which -or some of which among others not described - the adepts have conquered . This is a mere fairy - tale OCCULTISM AND ITS ...
... complete nation , for one thing , of men and women all equally handling the powers , even from childhood , which -or some of which among others not described - the adepts have conquered . This is a mere fairy - tale OCCULTISM AND ITS ...
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