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MAGIC, OR MAGICAL POWERS
A symbol of the inner and unobserved processes
within the soul by which lower qualities are raised and transmuted
into higher. These processes are the workings of Buddhi through the
higher mind, in response to the aspirations of the personality.
"Those remained for ever with the Sun (Ra) who possessed the most
minute information as to the next world and who were best versed in
magic. Thus the whole doctrine (of immortality) is based upon a
belief in the power of magic: by magic only could demons be worsted
and everlasting bliss be won."
"Thoth was the god of writing, the scribe of the gods, and the god
of letters—especially of religious literature. He was supposed to
have written the most sacred books and formulas with his own hand,
and therein to have set down his knowledge of magic, in which art
Isis only was his rival." - WIEDEMANN, Rel. of Anc. Egyptians, pp.
95, 227.
"In the religious texts and works we see how magic is made to be the
handmaiden of religion, and how it appears in certain passages side
by side with the most exalted spiritual conceptions; and there can
be no doubt that the chief object of magical books and ceremonies
was to benefit those who had by some means obtained sufficient
knowledge to make use of them." - BUDGE, Egyptian Magic, p. 3.
The power of magic is the efficacy of the buddhic function whereby
the lower qualities are transmuted and the soul enabled to overcome
the desires (demons) and rise to the planes of immortality.
Through the higher mind (Thoth) have come the revelations of the
unseen contained in the symbolism of the sacred scriptures of the
whole world. In the higher mind are to be found the meanings
attached to the symbols of the ideas which have proceeded from the
Holy Spirit or buddhic principle (Isis).
As the buddhic functioning (magic) is the means of the soul's
redemption, its recognition is an exalted spiritual conception, and
aspiration for its benefits is the essence of true religion.
The popular mistaken view of magic is referred to by Plutarch, who
correctly gives the meaning of Isis.
"Isis,—Justice, Wisdom—shows the divine mysteries to be carriers of
sacred things, and wearers of sacred robes: these are they that
carry in the soul, as it were in a copper (bowl), the sacred story
respecting the Gods, that cleanses the recipient from all
superstition and magical follies." - PLUTARCH, Isis and Osiris, § 3.
The Wisdom (Isis) from above explains the Divine scriptures as
containing secret things of the Spirit and hidden wisdom of the
soul. These scriptures, venerated as a vehicle of Divine truth, are
the means of opening the revering mind to intuitions of truth
symbolised in the miraculous stories and nonsensical statements of
the holy books and myths, and so cleansing the soul from
superstition and sorcery, the products of ignorance, greed, and
hate.
"The human soul is made to turn, by the subtle chemistry of its
digestive experience, truth into goodness." - PHILIPS BROOKS, Serm.,
Young and Old Christian.
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