Eight hours later

[undercrypt]

Finished Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling (1891). I highly recommend the entirety of Chapter XI as it relates to the Knowledge & Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel and sets the stage for the practices in Book Four.

When we think of what we might be if we could master ourselves, and call on the vast sea of knowledge which is in the brain of

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[cor_cordivm]

Sometimes they hit upon some form of hypnotism or mesmerism, opiates or forced swoons and convulsions, and so extorted from the nerves and dream-power some of their secrets which were all duly attributed to the "spirits." But in the whole range of occult literature from HERMES TRISMEGISTUS down to Madame BLAVATSKY there is not a shade of a suspicion that all the absolutely authentic marvels of magic began and ended with man himself.

The idea that humans have more than one soul bridges the two perspectives pretty well.

[meddevi]

I have this unexplainable fondness for Leland that's beyond normal reason. Could have to do with him also being a native Philadelphian ;)