Journal Entry #10

5 Things that I understand
1. Magnetism revealed to Baron Du Poet the science of magic and he concealed what he found even though he felt as though he should reveal it.
2. This excentric power of attraction or projection supposes invariably a diseased condition in the person who is subject thereof.
3. Genius is judged by the tribunal of mediocricty, and this judgement is without appeal, because, being the light of the world, genius is accounted as a thing that is null.
4. The universal law of the onstruments of eternal justice, the seal of Solomon, is keys and his rings are a token of supreme of royalty.
5.Faith is the confidence which is imparted by religion- to say that, by common belief.

4 questions
Why was there an additional verticl branch added to Saint Andrew's cross?
Why was Erdan inquiring what would become of her son at his marriage?
What is the relationship between vampires and magicians?
Why did sorcerers have multiple relationships ith holy powers?

3 words that I do not know
1. Pg 343 Thaumaturgist-a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
2. Pg 344 Follies-the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense.
3. Pg 348 Fakir-a Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic or mendicant monk commonly considered a wonder-worker

2 literary elements
1."It mounts the crupper and gallops behind us like remorse" Pg 342- Simile
2."Science has conquered the lightning and converted it to torches" Pg 342- personification

1 summary sentence
The most intemperate and absurd o all faiths is to believe that there is no universal and absolute intelligent principle.

Journal entry #9

5 things that I understand
1. The prophecy of Catherine Theot was fulfilled by the inauguration of the worship of the Supreme Being an dthe swift reaction of Thermidor.
2. Germany is the land of metaphysical mysticism and phantoms.
3. A magical chain was formed; a species of imbecile served as the spirit's interpreter and wrote under his control.
4. Cartomancy, as restored in France by Etteilla, is literally the questioning of fate by signs agreed on beforehand.
5. As an erudite Kabalistic book, all combinations of which reveal the harmonies pre-existing between signs, letters and numbers, the practical value of the Tarot is truly above all marvellous.

4 questions
Did Madame Boche have access to the Emporer?
When did Valerie appear in Europe?
How was the rupture connected with the relationship between Arson and Wronski?
Why was Vinstras arrested?

3 words that i do not know
1.Pg 318 Inveterate- settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like
2. Pg 326 Immutable- not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
3. Pg 336 Pontiff- any high or chief priest.

2 literary elements
1."scepticism in the face of eternal mathematics" Pg 326- Personification
2."wine fell the stains like blood" Pg 334- Simile

1 sentene summary
There is only one true misfortune o drea which is madness.

Journal Enrty #8

5 things that i Understand
1. In the Masonic Legend, poeple are distinguished by names which vary in the different Rites.
2. The Rites of Masonry are designed to transmit a memorial of the legends of initiation and to perserve them among the Brethren.
3.Masonry is the Gnosis and the false Gnostics caused the condemnation of the true.
4. Mesmer, physician, postulated two modes in natural being called the substance and the life.
5. The sect of Saint-Jakin was an order of Gnostics steeped in the illusions of the Magic of Fascination.

4 Questions
How mnay chapters does the Y-Kim consist of?
What is the key that unlocks the Chinese puzzle?
What did the writer of Abbe de Villars certify?
How was the testimony extracted from his wife?

3 words I do not know
1. Pg 285 Indicible- Unspeakable
2. Pg 286 Regicides- To kill a king
3. Pg 286 Variant- tending to change or alter; exhibiting variety or diversity

2 literary elements
1."the Y-Kim is like that of the Pentateuch of Mysteries" pg 289- Simile
2."Nature in her wrath armed him" pg 309- Personification

1 sentence summary
The strange chronicles of futurity was an imitation of the succession of worlds.

Journal Entry #7



5 things that I understand
1. Trithemius is in Magic the master of masters, and he was proclaimed as the most wise and learned of adepts.
2. Important manifestations of occultism concide with the fall of the Templars.
3. When the League of magicians failed, they vowed to recourse to witchcraft and Black Magic.
4. The cheif of intiates was a devoted researcher of Transcendental Magic but he concealed most of the veil Hermetric experiments.
5. The beginning of apparition occured at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and accounted for the authenticity of Magic.

4 questions
Who were the top 10 magicians?
Why was the devil the most influencial person to sorcerer?
What was god's role in the downfall of the devil's influence?
Why did most magicians turn evil?

3 words that i do not know
pg 244 Consternation- amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion
pg 245 Pauper- a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity
pg 274 Vindicate- to free from allegation or blame

2 literary elements
1."this light of his heart will drive the hideous spectra"-pg 254- Personification
2."he ascended to the light like a monstrous ladder"-pg 260- Simile

1 summary sentence
The magicians would come from different sexualities and cutoms that were influenced by either the devil or god.

Journal Entry #6



1. The cime of Magic did not entail death save for those of exahlted positions.

2. Black Magic, which ever apes the Magic of Light, ws used as an instrument of passion and an oracle of hell.

3.The greatest magical prosecution to be found in history, after that of the temple was the trail of a maid, who was almost a saint.

4. Black Magic may be not only a real crime but the gravest of all offences.

5. The soul of the world is a force which tends automatically to equillembrum; either will must predominate over it or it conquers the will.

4 questions
Why was excommunication at teh time a penalty?
Why does the mystery of human continually absorb seekers?
Why did magicians seek the mandragore?
Why did Gilles de Laval share the same fate as the servants?

3 words i do not know
1. Pg 196 Alga-plants that lack true roots, stems, leaves, and embryos.
2. Pg 197 Pantacle-a figure of a 5-pointed star usually made with alternate points connected by a continuous line and used as a magic or occult symbol
3. Pg 204 Vie- to exchange in rivalry

2 literary Elements
1."His reign is like a solemn and brilliant pause" pg 195- Simile
2."the heavy and fetid atmosphere compelled the young women to retreat" pg 214- Personification

1 sentence summary
Sorcerers would have to drop there regular lives and become insane in order to do magic.

Journal Entry #5

5 things I understand
1. The sophisticated doctrine of the later and materialistic Magi of Persia; it was they who represented the two poles of the intellectual world as deities.
2. The sociteies in question were the depositaries of a tradition of errors and truths admixed; but they transmitted, under the seal of terrific pledges, the Great Arcanum of ancient omnitoptence, together with the ever frustrated hopes of extinct worships and fallen priesthoods.
3.The great masters of Christianity either failed of refused to understand the mysticism of the Golden Ass.
4. The little work that is condemned in the church relates to the domiain of Black Magic.
5.Black Magic retreated before the light of Christianity and prodgidies were took in the refuge of a dark circle.

4 questions
Was the assertion of misguided mothers an inference of a fact?
Why did the Antique Mysteries ridecule the asses of Bethleham?
What is theEpitome Delictorum?
Why was Fredegonde so evil?

3 words i do not know
1. Pg 159 Sanguinary-full of or characterized by bloodshed
2. Pg 163 Porousness-permeable by water, air, etc.
3. Pg 173 Diaconate-the office or dignity of a deacon

2 literary Elements
1."its ceaseless currents have a wearing effect like water" Pg 160- Simile
2."The churh could do no lessnthan condemn them energetically" Pg 171- personification

1 sentece sentence
The devil was one of the orignal introducers of the perception of Black Magic.

Journal Entry #4

5 Things I understand
1. The doctrine of Pluto was an epoch-making in the history of human geneis and its' creator was forced to consult with the priest of Memphis in order to obtain initiation to its mysteries.
2. The orgies of Bacchus were mystical tumults; the apostles of mania have always had recourse to disordered movements, frenetic agitations and horrible convulsions.
3. Anarchy being the point of departure and the palmary characteristic of dissident mysticism, religious concord is impossible between sectarians.
4. Barbarians words and signs unknown, or even utterly unmeaning, are the best in Black Magic.
5. Those who slandered the Magi commited themselves to enormities of which they accused them and were abandoned to all excesses of shameless sorcery.

4 Questions
What is Earth considered in the planetary system based on the beliefs of Zohar?
How many envelopes does a soul shed?
What is the relationship between the earth and evil?
What is the formula for phantoms?

3 words I do not know
pg 109 Wantoness- A licentious act by one man towards the person of another without regard to his rights; as, for example, if a man should attempt to pull off another's hat against his will in order to expose him to ridicule, the offence would be an assault, and if he touched him it would amount to a battery
pg 113 Agglomeration- a jumbled cluster or mass of varied parts
pg 115 Gnostics- Of, relating to, or possessing intellectual or spiritual knowledge

2 literary elements
1. "The state of permanent hallucination is death."Pg 119- Metaphor
2. "Intoxicating gases, like the Grotto of the Dog near Naples" pg 125-Simile

One sentence Summary
Mystics did not care for the humans and wouldbuse them as sacrifices because of their veiws toward mystics.

Journal Entry #3

5 things that I understand
1. The religions of ancient Palestine, the horrible rites of Black Maigic, the black god of India and the monstrous priapic Rutrem reign under the name of Belphegor.
2.It is the same for the science of Magi and the transcendental Magic, as eah is needed for the primeval priestly of art.
3.Anarchic Magic is the cultus of death. the sorceror must devote himself to fatality and must sacrifice children in order to remian immmortal.
4.Initiation is the necessar conseuence of the hierarchic principle which is the basis of realisation in Magic.
5.Pantheism can never for a synthesis but is degenerated by the sciences.

4 questions
At what ime period did barbrians began to use Black Magic?
Why did socerors have to sacrifice children in order to maintain youth?
Why must you go threw a cruel initiation in order to be accepted into the realms of magis?
Are there counter spells for these types of activities?

3 words that i do not know
1.Insensate Pg 119- lacking sense or understanding
2.Catalepsy Pg 124- a trancelike state marked by loss of voluntary motion in which the limbs remain in whatever position they are placed
3.Posthumous Pg 128- born after the death of the father

2 literary elements
1."This universal light has had its uncertain relfelections and its shadows, but ever after the dark night of error we behold it emerge, one and pure like the sun." pg 129 Simile
2."Truth is born into the world the star of science" Pg 129 Personification

Summary Sentence
Magic is worshipped in different ways and with each specific principle applied to ach way, a conseuence is being created.

Journal entry #2



5 thing that I understand

1. In Egypt, magic began to reach a point where it was beginning to attain completion as a universal science. The Emerald Tablet contains all the Magic in a single jewel and is said to be put in Greece by Hermes.
2.During the time in which magic began to expand in Greece, the exact sciences of Magic assume their natural form which is the form of beauty. In Greece the Golden Fleece was supposedly created and connets to the Hermetic Magic with Greek institutions.
3.The Tarchon was known to be an intiated Numa whose proficiency in Magic has allowed im to be caled a Chalden named Tages.
4.The holy kabalah was known as a tradition where the children of Seth were taken and ingarnered by Moses and concealed with symbols in the Bible. the y were used for the time of the Apocalypse.
5.The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic was used to identify seventy two explicatory names.

4 questions
Why did they believe that human struggles belonged to the birth of the Magic empires?
Why were the children of Seth chosen specificlly?
Where did the Doctrine descend from and how was it used in the future?
What happened to the populr tradition of the Magic affirm?

3 Words i do not know
1.Archipelgo pg 86- a chain or cluster of islands that is formed tectonically.
2.Palingenesis pg 89- The repetition by a single organism of various stages in the evolution of its species during embryonic development
3.Somnambulists pg 96- an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (as walking) are performed

2 literary elements
1."The primal truth of science which fertilies science and restores it to unity." Pg 99 Personification
2."They are children who injure themselves recklessly." Pg 102 Metaphor

Summary Sentence
Different objects that pertain to magic are bestoyed pon humans as a way of evolving and craeting new ways to evolv nature itslef.