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His face was impassive, but suddenly I remembered his boyhood gift, how he had imitated the monkeys, and I began to shake with inward laughter. There was an uncomfortable silence. "Peste, c'est la magie!" said an old man at last, searching with an uncertain hand for his snuff. "Monsieur," cried Nick to the auctioneer, "I will make a bid.
His face was impassive, but suddenly I remembered his boyhood gift, how he had imitated the monkeys, and I began to shake with inward laughter. There was an uncomfortable silence. "Peste, c'est la magie!" said an old man at last, searching with an uncertain hand for his snuff. "Monsieur," cried Nick to the auctioneer, "I will make a bid.
However, L. Ideler held that even before the time of Mohammed the Arab year was lunar and vague, and that intercalation was only employed in order to fix the pilgrimage month in autumn, which, on account of the milder weather and the abundance of food, is the best time for pilgrims to go to Mecca. E. Doutté, Magie et Religion dans l'Afrique du Nord, pp. 496, 509, 532, 543, 569.
The more considerable and essential portion of that document, so far from being referable to the supposed founder of the Rite, namely, Count Cagliostro, is a series of mutilated passages taken from Éliphas Lévi's Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, and pieced clumsily together.
On this subject the reader should consult M. Fr. LENORMANT'S La Magie chez les Chaldéens et les Origines Accadiennes, Paris: 1874, 8vo. Both are, in fact, new editions, with fresh information.
There is no serious discomfort excepting the somewhat irksome necessity of remaining absolutely still. Another method of seeing the denser tissues of the body is by direct observation. A means of seeing through the thinner parts of the body, such as the fingers or the toes, has been devised simultaneously by Salvioni of Italy, and Professor Magie of Princeton.
It is a saying of a zealous Catholic in the sixteenth century, quoted by Maury in his excellent work, “De la Magie”—“Crescit cum magia hæresis, cum hæresi magia.” Even those who doubted were terrified at their doubts, for trust is more easily undermined than terror.
Each reacted on the other, but the two factors were at all times closely united in perfect harmony, a harmony so perfect, indeed, as to be impressive despite its naïveté. The Greek name for the letters of the alphabet symbolon, i.e., a "likeness" illustrates the same view of the pictorial origin of writing. For illustrations, see Lenomant, Magie und Wahrsagekunst der Chaldaer, pp. 520-523.
The position of even enlightened men of the world in that age might be called semi-sceptical. La Bruyere, no doubt, expresses the average of opinion: "Que penser de la magie et du sortilege?
He made his bow in Paris in 1783, and is said to have created quite a sensation by his unusual performance. I am indebted to Martin's Naturliche Magie, 1792, for a very complete description of the work of this artist.
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