" "I find," I replied, "in my own world that every religion and every form of occult mysticism, nay, every science, in its own way and within its own range, attaches great importance to symbols in themselves apparently arbitrary.

But no marvel of the Mystic Schools, no spectral scene, objective or subjective, ever evoked by the rarest of occult powers, so startled, so impressed me as what I now saw, or thought I saw.

I asked, as I read out a formula more studiously occult than those of the Pharmacopoeia.

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.

For all number may be considered as subsisting occultly in the monad, and the circle in the centre; this occult being the same in each with causal subsistence.

Scholia on the Cratylus, "Not every genus of the gods has an appellation; for with respect to the first Deity, who is beyond all things, Parmenides teaches us that he is ineffable; and the first genera of the intelligible gods, who are united to the one, and are called occult, have much of the unknown and ineffable.

But, the natures prior to this being silent and occult, are only known by intelligence.

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.

So that the poetic fable abounds, in consequence of asserting such things as do not suffer us to stop at the apparent, but lead us to explore the occult truth.

Such parts too, when they proceed from their occult causal subsistence, and have a distinct being of their own, are nevertheless comprehended, though in a different manner, in their producing whole.

From this principle of principles, in which all things casually subsist absorbed in superessential light and involved in unfathomable depths, we view a beauteous progeny of principles, all largely partaking of the ineffable, all stamped with the occult characters of deity, all possessing an over-flowing fullness of good.

A geomancer proclaimed that a bamboo grove behind the town formed an angle most correct, germane, and pleasant to the Azure Dragon and the White Tiger, whose occult currents, male and female, run throughout Nature.

Supplying the energy of Sense where Sense cannot reach, it brings into distinctness the facts, obscure or occult, which are grouped round an object or an idea, but which are not actually present to Sense.

He had then betaken himself to the study of astrology and of the occult sciences.

made in the days of Materia Prima and Occult Qualities: and there are, doubtless, still good discourses now, under the reign of Atoms.

If you asked her, she called it Fate, the foreordained workings of occult forces charged with dominion over human affairs.

And what had this consultation of the occult to do with the man's mind concerning herself?

It was soon found out that they were much less versed in divination and in the occult sciences than in the arts of plundering, roguery, and cheating.

Ladies were not admitted to the meetings of the Society, there being a sort of implication that masonries of learning, occult sciences of the brain, were practised at their meetings,matters which never came out in the "Transactions.

And whence comes Life,that occult Force, So rich in its prolific range, So frail and swift to run its course, Yet deathless in protean change?

The occult quality in the air did not depart with the coming of night, though the winds no longer alternated, the warm blasts ceasing to blow, while the cold came steadily and with increasing fierceness.

The occult quality in the air deepened, and now his nerves began to tingle.

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.

" "Yes, but it's only a very delicate and occult way of exhibiting his acuteness," I said.

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