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^Morienus. Entretiens, BPC, 2:110.

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^De signarura. 3, §§19, 20.[ "Das We.sen gehet alles aus dem Tod durch Srerben, welches geschieht in der grofen Angsc dcs Impressions, welches das merkurialische Leben ist. allda geschkhet der salnkrische Schrack als ein ausfahrender Blitz, dann die Freihek scheidet sjch allda in sich sdber und ist doch das ingezogene Wbvn a us der Lust der Freihek. nut im Begrilf des Inziehens in der her ben, strengen, finszeren Angst blieben."—Trans.]

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^Livre de Synesius. BPC, 2:186.

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^CMA, 3:74.

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^According to Hindu tradition, mantras are formulas which when pronounced under definite and supernatural spiritual conditions, have the power to evoke and actuate super sensual forces. Cf, Evola, The Yoga of Power. 108ff.

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^lfi CMA. 3d02.

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^ BCC, 1 :458.

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^ Livre du feu de fa pierre, CAM, 3:216.

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^Cf., tor example, Pernety, Diction naire. 360, Ltvrc de El Habir, CMA, 3:103; Paracelsus, Thesaurus, in Poisson, Cinq crakes, H6; Turba phtlosophnrum, BPC, 2 22; Dialogue de Marie er Arcs, BPC, 1:80; Geber, Sumroa, BCC, 1:521; Filet d Ariadne. 84; Sendivogius, De sulphure, 157 In the words of Geber (Livre de la clemence. CMA. 3:136). "1 recommend you to act slowly and with precaution, not to hurry, but to follow' the example of Nature.’’ Such an example can also be interpreted as attention to those processes in which the separation is produced in natural ways (sleep, etc.; see below).

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^De pharmacn cacbolico, 1, §8; farther on (12, §2) they speak of the Soul and Cosmic Spirit locked up in the Gold as a center in its circle © and say: "The magical Elements open the solid body of the Sun, and make possible the extraction of the Soul and Clarified Body."

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■ I dare say, there is no reader who has never experienced those abrupt jerks at the moment of falling asleep, exactly as if the ground under him suddenly gave way. A reaction of this kind at the beginning of the separation is spontaneously produced every night in sleep.

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^ This clarifies to some extent what is meant when in the literature we read about receptacles in which

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are deposited "iron filings." The various quantities of the substances, with their dosages, etc. refer in general ro the inner science of the combination of spiritual states represented by metals or other substances.

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