Histoire de la magie avec une exposition claire et précise de ses procédés, de ses rites et de ses mystères

How the devil appears, 291. , Terrible hallucinations, 293. , The reason for apparitions, 295. , What the turning tables say . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

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BOOK V. — The Adepts and the Priesthood.

CHAPTER I. — Priests and Popes Accused of Magic. . . . . . 298

Inviolable holiness of the priesthood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Accusations by false adepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Sylvester II falsely accused. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Levity of Platina Bartolomeo Platina was a 15th century historian of the popes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Absurd story of Pope Joan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Opinion of Naudé on Sylvester II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
The grimoire of Honorius, 305. , Its presumed author. . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Curious and entirely new analysis of this grimoire . . . . . . . . . . 314

CHAPTER II. — Appearance of the Nomadic Gypsies. . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Extract from an ancient chronicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Citation from the True History of the True Gypsies, by Mr. Vaillant. . . . . 327
Opinion of the author on the Gypsies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

CHAPTER III. — Legend and History of Raymond Lully. . . . . . . . . . 341

CHAPTER IV. — Alchemists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Flamel and the book of Abraham the Jew, 342. , Mysterious figures from this book, 343. , Tradition regarding Flamel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Bernard of Treves. Basil Valentine and Trithemius. Cornelius Agrippa, 345. , The pantacle of Trithemius. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Guillaume Postel. His doctrine, 348. , Mother Joan, 349. , Postel the Resurrected, 350. , Father Desbillons justifies Postel. . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Paracelsus, 353. , Occult medicine, 354. , Story told by Tavernier, 355. , The secrets of Paracelsus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

CHAPTER V. — Famous Sorcerers and Magicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Kabbalistic analysis of the poem of Dante. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
The Romance of the Rose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Disputes between the devil and Luther. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Luther's regrets over having married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
The sorcerers under Henry III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
The visions of Jacques Clément. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Origin of the Rosicrucians, 364. , Heinrich Khunrath, 366. , Oswald Crollius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Famous alchemists of the beginning of the 17th century. . . . . . . . . 371
Manifesto of the Rosicrucians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

CHAPTER VI. — Magic Trials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Real crimes of the sorcerers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Deplorable condemnations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Trial of Louis Gaufridi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Trial of Urbain Grandier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
The author's judgment on this trial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Trial for the nuns of Louviers, 387. , Trial of Father Girard, 388. , Reasons for certain wonders, 389. , A story of an apparition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

CHAPTER VII. — Magical Origins of Masonry. . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

What Freemasonry is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Legend of Hiram, 402. , Its explanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

BOOK VI. — Magic and the Revolution.

CHAPTER I. — Remarkable Authors of the 18th Century. . 408

Discoveries in China. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
The I Ching Book of Changes and the trigrams of Fu Xi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Opinion of Leibniz on the I Ching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Swedenborg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Mesmer, 414. , Discovery of magnetism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

CHAPTER II. — Marvelous Figures of the 18th Century. . . . . . 418

The Count of Saint-Germain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Secret society of the Saint-Jakin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
The alchemist Lascaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
The Count of Cagliostro, 427. , Explanation of his seal and his kabbalistic name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Secret of physical regeneration according to Cagliostro. . . . . . . . . . . 431

CHAPTER III. — Prophecies of Cazotte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

School of the Martinists, 435. , The supper of Cazotte, 436. , Mysteries of the Enamored Devil original title: "Le Diable amoureux" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Lilith and Nahemah, 438. , Death of Cazotte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

CHAPTER IV. — The French Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Misfortunes caused by the hallucinations of Rousseau. . . . . . . . . 441
The lodge of the Rue Plâtrière. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
Louis XVI delivered to the vengeance of the Templars. . . . . . . . . . . . 443
The Joannites and the Jacqueries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
Strange predictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

CHAPTER V. — Phenomena of Medium-mania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Birth of a sect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Dom Gerle and Catherine Théot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Nightly visit of Robespierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
The saviors of Louis XVII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Naundorf, Vintras, and Mr. Madrolle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

CHAPTER VI. — The Illuminati of Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

The magic of Eckartshausen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Evocations of Lavater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
Revelations of the spirit Gablidone, 457. , It predicts the coming of a mage named Osphal, Alphos, Maffon, or Eliphisma. . . . . . . . . . . . 458
Stabs and Napoleon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
The Mopses and their mysteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
The dramatic epic of Faust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

CHAPTER VII. — The Empire and the Restoration . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Predictions relative to Napoleon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Mademoiselle Lenormand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Madame Bouche and Madame de Krudener near the Emperor Alexander . . 467
The peasant Martin sees an angel dressed as a footman and has himself presented to King Louis XVIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468