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Seven thousand years of fascinating lore from around the world is reviewed in this illustrated, folio-sized volume. The table of contents includes: -- The Ladder of Souls -- Studies the mystery of the descent of the spiritual man into the body, further enhanced with the diagrams of Robert Fludd, an English Alchemist and Hermetic philosopher-- Bodhidharma, Patriarch of Zen-- When the Dead Come Back -- Discusses out of body experiences-- Albert Pike, The Plato of Freemasonry-- The Sorcery of Asia -- The strange stories of Sky-walking Adepts, snake charmers, devil dancers, and more-- Concentration & Retrospection -- Safe and sane disciplines-- The Comte de St. Germain -- Greatest of the European Adepts-- The Cycle of Transmigration -- According to the teachings of those learned lamas who are the custodians of the secret traditions in Buddhism-- The Tenth Avatar -- Mahatma Gandhi-- The Wheel of Pythagoras -- Invaluable to numerology students-- The Practice of Meditation-- H.P.B., The Russian Sphinx -- Tells of Madame Blavatsky and includes two, full-page portraits of Mahatmas M. and K.H.. painted under her supervision-- The Universe in Stone -- The Buddhist remains of Boro Budur-- Kismet -- A delightful story of a Caliph and an astrologer-- Holy Men -- Those sanctified to high purpose-- Apollonius "The Antichrist"-- Cagliostro & the Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry-- The Great PyramidHall, Manly P. is the author of 'Phoenix - Manly Palmer Hall' with ISBN 9780893145170 and ISBN 0893145173.
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