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Title: The Sixth and seventh books of Moses; or, Moses' magical spirit
art, known as the wonderful arts of the old wise Hebrews, taken
from the Mosaic books of the Cabala and the Talmud, for the good
of mankind. Translated from the German, word for word, according
to old writings
Publisher: New York, 1880.
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THE MAGIC OF THE ISRAELITES.
Elias, yea, even Christ himself, may become visible to him, when,
living amid thought, he reqnires books no longer. In short, man can
attain to such a degree of perfection, even in this life, that death will
have nothing more to do than to disrobe him of his coarse covering
in order to reveal his spiritual temple, because he then lives and
moves within the eternal. Only when he arrives at the end of this
vale of darkness, will he receive, at each stage of his journey, more
extended life, greater inward power, purer air, and a wider range
of vision. His spiritual being will taste nobler fruits, and at the end
of his race nothing can separate him from the exalted harmonies
of those spheres, of which mortal sense can draw but a faint picture.
Without distinction of sex, he will begin to live the life of angels,
and will possess all their powers, of which he had but a faint sign
here; he will then again enjoy the incense of the eternal temple, the
source of all power, from which he was exiled, and Christ will be his
great High Priest (Hebrews 7, 17, 24, 25). Man will not only enjoy
his own gifts, but he will have a part in the gifts of the elect, who
constitute the council of the wise ; that holy sovereign will be more
exalted there than he could be here ; there will be no rising or set.
ting of the light of the stars; no changes of day and night, and no
multiplicity of languages; every being will in that moment be
enabled to read the name of that holy book, out of which flows life
for every creature (Hebrews 12, 22, 23), And here, too, the views
of Zoroaster are in accord with the foregoing, for he also speaks of a
heavenly meeting, and the participation of every follower of Ormuzd
in the sacrifices and prayers of all, etc.
In placing this prominent treatise so plainly before the reader I
felt no hesitation, because it was so clear and true, and because it
seemed so proper for this work here, and to show why only pure and
truly Christian men can perform great wonders aud see visions of
which the worldly-minded bare not even a conception. I will now
relate a few instances of magnetic appearances and occurrences,
many of which are recorded in the Bible.
The first and most striking one we find in connection with Adam.
Moses writes (Genesis 2, 21) as follows: “And the Lord caused a
deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept." And now, the ques-
tion arises, What kind of a sleep was this? The answer is, it was a
deep sleep. It was either the sleep of death, or a state of lethargy,
or a trance (raptus divinus), or, was it merely an ordinary sleep? The
first appears improbable, and had this been the case, we know, that
in the release of the body from its earthly bonds, and shortly before
death, the clearest instances of second sight have occurred; but the
question is not of a mortal illness, but of a deep sleep. If it was a
trance, then that inward second-sight may be regarded the more prob-
able. The seventy-two translators of the Bible actually regard this
sleep as a trance, and Tertullian says, in direct reference to it, “The
power of the prophecies of the Holy Ghost fell upon him." (Accidit
super illum spiritus sancti vis operatrix prophetiæ.”)
Another remarkable vision is that which Noah bad of the ark long
before the deluge occurred. Again, the call of Abraham, in which
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