The Collected Works
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William Wynn Westcott. The Collected Works
The Collected Works
Table of Contents
Hermetic Arcanum
Preface to the “Collectanea Hermetica”
Preface to the “Arcanum.”
The Hermetic Arcanum
The Practice of the Sulphur
The Times of the Stone
The Divine Pymander
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS. His First Book
The Second Book called “Poemander"
The Third Book called "The Holy Sermon”
The Fourth Book called "The Key”
The Fifth Book. Called "That God is not Manifest and yet most Manifest”
The Sixth Book. Called "That in God alone is Good”
The Seventh Book. His Secret Sermon in the Mount Of Regeneration, and the Profession of Silence
To His Son Tat
The Eighth Book. That The Greatest Evil In Man, Is The Not Knowing God
The Ninth Book. A Universal Sermon to Asclepius
The Tenth Book. The Mind to Hermes
The Eleventh Book. Of the Common Mind to Tat
The Twelfth Book. His Crater or Monas
The Thirteenth Book. Of Sense and Understanding
The Fourteenth Book. Of Operation and Sense
The Fifteenth Book. Of Truth to His Son Tat
The Sixteenth Book. That None of the Things that are, can Perish
The Seventeenth Book. To Asclepius, to be Truly Wise
The Hermetic Art
Aesch Mezareph
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
Somnium Scipionis
The Chaldaean Oracles
Introduction
CHALDÆAN SCHEME
KABALISTIC SCHEME
CHALDÆAN SCHEME OF BEINGS
Footnotes
The Oracles of Zoroaster
Footnotes
Ideas
INTELLIGIBLES, INTELLECTUALS, IYNGES, SYNOCHES, TELETARCHÆ, FOUNTAINS, PRINCIPLES, HECATE AND DÆMONS
Particular Souls
SOUL, LIFE, MAN
Matter
THE WORLD--AND NATURE
Magical and Philosophical Precepts
Oracles From Porphyry
Euphrates
Egyptian Magic
Introduction
The Book of Songs Powerful Against the Inhabitants of the Waters
I. Hymn to Shu
II
III. Hymn to Shu
IV. Adjuration to the Crocodile
Litany to Shu
V
VI
VII
Adjuration against Lions, Crocodiles and Reptiles
The Legend of Ra and Isis
Date XXth Dynasty
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXVI
Chapter LXXXIX
Chapter XCI
Chapter XCII
Chapter XLVI
Hymn to Phtha-Tanen
The Gnostic Magic of Egypt
Extracts From the Gnostic Papyrus
The Book of the Grand Words of Each Mystery
Sepher Yetzirah 'The Book of Formation'
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
Supplement to Chapter IV
CHAPTER V
Supplement to Chapter V
CHAPTER VI
Numbers. THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES
PART I. Pythagoras, His Tenets and His Followers
PART II. Pythagorean Views on Numbers
PART III. The Kabalah on Numbers
PART IV. The Individual Numerals
The Monad. 1
The Dyad. 2
The Triad. 3
Three and a Half. 3½
The Tetrad. 4
The Pentad. 5
The Hexad. 6
The Heptad. 7
The Ogdoad. 8
The Ennead. 9
The Decad. 10
Eleven. 11
Twelve. 12
Thirteen. 13
Some Hindoo Uses of Numbers
Other Higher Numbers
The Apocalyptic Numbers
The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum
I. The Magician—Le Bateleur
Notes
II. The Priestess—La Papesse
Notes
III. The Empress—L'imperatrice
Notes
IV. The Emperor—L'empereur
Exorcism of Water
Notes
V. The Pope, or Hierophant—Le Pape
Notes
VI. The Lovers — L'amoureux
Notes
VII. The Chariot of Hermes—Le Chariot
Formation and Consecration of a Magical Sword
Formation and Consecration of the Magic Wand
Notes
VIII. Justice—La Justice
Notes
IX. The Hermit—L'ermite
Notes
X. The Wheel of Fortune — La Roue De Fortune
Notes
XI. Fortitude—strength—La Force
Notes
XII. The Hanged Man—Le Pendu
Notes
XIII. Death—La Mort
Notes
XIV. Temperance—La Temperance
Notes
XV. Satan — the Devil—Le Diable
Notes
XVI. The Tower—La Maison De Dieu
Notes
XVII. The Star—L'etoile
Notes
XVIII. The Moon—La Lune
Notes
XIX. The Sun—Le Soleil
Notes
XX. The Last Judgment—Le Jugement
Notes
XXI. The Unwise Man—Le Mat
Notes
XXII. The Universe—Le Monde
Appendix:
The Kabalistic Prayer
Latin Invocation
Planetary Conjuration
Notes
Note by the Editor
The Conclusion. by Eliphaz Levi
Occult and Religious Maxims. From the MSS. Of Eliphaz Levi
Suicide
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter II. The History of Suicide
Chapter III. Notable Suicides
I.─Mentioned in the Bible
II.─Classical
III.─Middle Ages and Modern Times
Chapter IV. Literature
Foreign Literature
Chapter V. Criminal Jurisprudence
Chapter VI. Civil Jurisprudence
Chapter VII. Present Suicide Rate and Increase
Chapter VIII. The Causation of Suicide
Chapter IX. Race, Geographical Influences, and Climate
Climate and Geographical Data
Chapter X. Education, Religion, and Morals
The Influence of Religion
Morality
Chapter XI. Urban and Rural Life; Employment; Army, Navy, and Prison Life
Employment
Military and Naval Life
Prison Life
Chapter XII. Seasons and Times
Chapter XIII. Sex, Age, and Social State
Age
Suicide in Childhood
Marriage, Celibacy, Widowhood
Chapter XIV. Insanity in Relation to Suicide
The Forms of Lunacy
Chapter XV. Epidemic Suicide; Suicide From Imitation, and Desire for Notoriety
Chapter XVI. Bodily Diseases; Insomnia, Spiritualism, Heredity, and Alcoholism
Insomnia
Alcohol
Heredity
Spiritualism
Chapter XVII. Tædium-vitæ, The Passions, Misery and Despair
Chapter XVIII. The Means of Suicide
Chapter XIX. Suicide and Crime Compared; And Attempted Suicide
Attempted Suicide
The Law of Suicidal Attempts
Chapter XX. Suicide in British India
Revenge or Accusation
Religion
Physical Suffering
Grief, Shame, and Jealousy
Chapter XXI. The Prevention of Suicide, and the Treatment of the Suicidal Tendency in the Insane
Suicide of the Insane
Suicide of Sane Persons
Chapter XXII. Suicide of Animals
Appendix. The Attitude of Assurance Companies to the Suicide
The Isiac Tablet of Cardinal Bembo
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94. Philosophers have observed a three-fold Fire in the matter of their work, Natural, Unnatural, and Contra-Natural. The Natural they call the Fiery Celestial Spirit Innate, kept in the profundity of matter, and most strictly bound unto it, which by the sluggish strength of metal grows dull, until being stirred up and freed by the Philosophers' discretion and external heat, it shall have obtained a faculty of moving its body dissolved, and so it may inform its humid matter, by Un-folding Penetration, Dilatation and Congelation. In every mixed body Natural Fire is the Principle of Heat and Motion. Unnatural Fire they name that which being procured and coming from without is introduced into the matter artificially; that it may increase and multiply the strength of the natural heat. The Fire Contrary to Nature they call that which putrefieth the Compositum, and corrupteth the temperament of Nature. It is imperfect, because being too weak for generation, it is not carried beyond the bounds of corruption: such is the Fire or heat of the menstruum: yet it hath the name improperly of Fire against Nature, because in a manner it is according to Nature, for although it destroys the specific form, and corrupteth the matter, yet it disposeth it for reproduction.
95. It is more credible nevertheless that the corrupting Fire, called Fire against Nature, is not different from the Innate, but the first degree of it, for the order of nature requireth, that Corruption should precede Generation: the fire therefore that is innate, agreeable to the Law of Nature, performeth both, by exciting both successively in the matter: the first of corruption more gentle stirred up by feeble heat to mollify and prepare the body: the other of generation more forcible, moved by a more vehement heat, to animate and fully inform the Elementary body disposed of by the former. A double Motion doth therefore proceed from a double degree of heat of the same fire; neither is it to be accounted a double Fire, for far better may the name of "Fire contrary to Nature" be given to violent and destructive fire.
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