Albert Sidney Raleigh - Magic, 1928

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107 aid oDiyw rahip Oeniu, aDd her enlu 1IDCloub IT cme of the ~ Her eatire )'Stem of my • Udao Ia not Chriltian in any eeue ot tho word; It ia Mt Orimatal; it il rully polytheiltic aDd U., eonsequently, the open door to Theurn. Had abe been a wDnder worker had .the ~ed the positive Ioree to do magical ork, lh would really ha been a Theurgisl lnatead of this. however. 8he wu a seeress, and abe wu realJy the aeereA of thi! gods. Her 8}"8lmn is brought out an Tlal! P rf«< Wo* and in lolA d ccitl the " •illeh really the religi n .f the g m what ha l1een .tatoo the student will path neeeuary tA> tra\Oc I if' he would be a Tb W'gi will al10 prold.bly realize that Th~urgr is the mo prou and the mo t infamou of aU tM types of l.agic. houp requirin th • hi he t racwr of 11, th gl'l pi ty, y tit l Ut wor or all forms· and ! It the wo hip of the g 10 ar :m~ wlr r apin th AlJtJtority of .J bO\'Ilh. It is 000 ue.ntJy a piag o\·er to tlt "'·or: hip or tb en~ 4)! J •11 'ab and A bold, bar fn~ d Jinne of t} Jint COIIWlAlldnu•nt t)( the Deealogu( : "Th u lu.•lt hs.ve no ut.lr r gcH]s hetore me•., lt il the wonhip or other godR Uum Jchl.J\"fth nu J II. hence, tor lb Chri tinn. tll totnl nb.llndonm •ut of fh nhlp of Ood and th going oft' f r the wo l•ip r • Th T for it a nt>O\' \'errthin e to . .-ad by tho IIDln who hn on~ tAro for bi souJ•s J. n. It is tn:>.aJUln against tb God tit flf.'&\' u, th ac tan of falM god~ ond muHt bring upon ll1 on wlw prulice11 it swift desbuctioo, although to orw who wUI follow thia lite, JH>WerH closely rosemhli.ft8' tho mirnnJea performed by tliE Dol)· OhQ.<tl or quif pos:l\ib!~.

Di'IIM YaJio l that bran~h of Magic whi i 1 T· formed through the agency of the llJ)irit ot God. Tbe priDc:i invoJ ed are prot mueh the eam aa in nil tho oth•r of magie th dift' bein in U t that l emplo h praeti f Dirin .Magi w do not mnk ol ElUDentahl or Thought Foi'ID8 in tb ns in hich w clo in ll 11ta1 Magie, nol' of umi.a. or any of th other ace maployoo ln tb*) various branab . of M ·c. 'h 8pirit of God iltlul r employ , I nt lh 1a gov mba~ ueralmag~ applieable to th p U of Dhin