Nor will this relation surprise us, when we consider the rooted malignity entertained by the Jews to the christian religion, and this writer's attempt to appreciate the miracles of our Saviour, by ascribing them to magical influence, and by representing them as easy of accomplishment to all acquainted with the occult sciences.

The Mecaschephim, or magicians, properly so called, who were conversant with the occult powers of nature, and the supernatural world; and the chasdim, or astrologers, who constituted by far the most numerous and respectable class.

Occult teachings regarding Astral-Body traveling.

" "I have," I answered, "an intense interest in all occult phenomena; believing in regard to alleged magic, as the scientists say of practical science, that every one branch of such knowledge throws light on others; and if there be nothing in your story which it is personally painful to relate, you need not be silenced by any apprehension of discourteous criticism on my part.

" This enquiry produced the following reply: A subject like that of the occult influences of the planets (using the word occult in no bad sense but simply as meaning not thoroughly traced) can be approached in two wayseither by the à priori probability of the existence of such influences, or by the à posteriori evidence of their effects.

For some occult reason, Mr. Oakhurst could not bring himself to disclose Uncle Billy's rascality, and so offered the hypothesis that he had wandered from the camp and had accidentally stampeded the animals.

Going forward to the age of the Reformation, the book then gives us a spirited glimpse of John Bokelson and the Munster Anabaptists, of Carlstadt and the Zurichian prophets, and then dwells at some length on the attempt of that day to combine physical and spiritual science in occult philosophy.

Seeing into the depths of the earth, and the occult explanation thereof.

The riches of this man, who was known as Arbaces, the Egyptian, enabled him to gratify to the utmost the passions which governed himthe passion of sensual indulgence and the blind force which impelled him to seek relief from physical satiety in the pursuit of that occult knowledge which he regarded as the heritage of his race.

She wondered how long the two men were going to prose about mines and shares, in those subdued half-mysterious voices, telling each other occult facts in half-expressed phrases, utterly dark to the outside world; but, while she was languidly wondering, a change in her lover's manner startled her into keenest curiosity.

Mr. Laudersdale and Mr. Manton sauntered in, their heads together, and muttering occult matters of business, whose tally was kept with forefinger on palm.

Both were silent for some time, for never could we refer to that Visionwhether an objective fact, or an impression communicated from one spirit to the other by the occult force of intense sympathysave by such allusion; and the remembrance never failed to affect us both with a feeling too deep for words.

Perhaps you will smile at me, Sir, and think me superstitious,but I could not but think that the animal was brought there by occult sympathy.

Thus, for instance, the poetic fable abounds in this, that we must not rest satisfied with the apparent meaning, but pass on to the occult truth.

Nor even when she got into bed again, and tried to hide her head with the bed-clothes, did her terror diminish, or her lips become more obedient to the feeling within; so that Thomas knew not what to think, except it was that she had seen a ghostnot an unnatural supposition at a time when occult causes and spiritual appearances were as undoubted as the phenomena of the electric telegraph are in our day.

A tremendous revolution in opinion had to be effected before Newton could calmly promulgate his great principle, "Abandon substantial forms and occult qualities and reduce natural phenomena to mathematical laws," before he could crown the discoveries of Galileo and Kepler with his own.

That thought in some occult way came to her with comforting power from the spirit which dwelt in this home.

Occult principles of health & healing.

His companion raised three of his fingers, with an occult meaning, towards the palace of the doges.

Then cold doubt crept in; something of the monstrosity of the proceeding chilled his enthusiasm for occult research.

And he called thither also Rama the "Gondhali," master of occult ceremonies, Vishram, his disciple, and Krishna the "Bhagat" or medium, who is beloved of the ghosts of the departed and often bears their messages unto the living.

The ritual of living; an occult manual.

Or is there some occult relation between spheres and hoops?

Themis Aurea, The Daws of the Fraternity of the Rosie Cross; in which the occult secrets of their Philosophical Notions are brought to light: written by Count Mayerus, and now Englisht by T.H. 82.

Thus one generation of malefactors is commonly cut off, and their successors are frighted into new expedients; the art of thievery is augmented with greater variety of fraud, and subtilized to higher degrees of dexterity, and more occult methods of conveyance.