Identifier: astrologerofnine00raph (find matches)
Title: The astrologer of the nineteenth century
Year: 1825 (1820s)
Authors: Raphael, pseud., 1795-1832 Anglicus, Merlinus, junior, Gent
Subjects: Astrology Occultism
Publisher: London : Knight & Lacey
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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o intricate and diversified in itself, that toattempt an ample demonstration of the matter would require deeperspeculation than the subject deserves, or than we are masters of, par-ticularly as the inhabitants of these spiritual kingdoms are never inone regular stay, continuance; or property, but, from one hour toanother, are continually floating and changing. Like the swiftness ofthe winds, or the gliding along of running waters, which pass awayas a thought, and are no more remembered ; so, also, it is with thedevils and infernal spirits, in that lachrymable state of darkness, wheretheir existence is a continual anguish and torment, shifting from thepangs of one sorrow to the bitterness of another, to all eternity ! The most remarkable instance of necromancy in former times isthat related by Weaver, in his Funeral Monuments. * It is not accounted sinful to invoke spirits, unless a coinpaet be formed withthem. Vide p. 112, the ghost of Marshal Saxe raised by Schrepfer. & uxmnxmr*.
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