'There are two courses of Nature-the ordinary and the extraordinary.'

BUTLER'S Analogy.

'Thou canst not call that madness of which thou art proved to know nothing.'

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME THE

TERTULLIAN, Apology I.

SECOND.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.

1863.

The right of translation is reserved.

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CONTENTS

OF

Irresistible-Its
the Good or

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

MAGIC IN ITS RELATION TO THE SUPERNATURAL.

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Magic in general-Found in the most ancient Nations - Chaldeans, Chinese,

Indians, Phoenicians - Magic of the Greeks and Romans- Of the Scythians,

Germans, Sclaves, Celts, Gauls-Dualism-Magic of the Hebrews -- The

Cabbalah-Its elementary Spirits - Magic amongst the Natives of America,

Greenland, Kamtschatka, Siberia, Africa, California, &c.-Query as to who

was the original Inventor of it-The two Kinds of Magic, Black and White

- Magic as it existed in Egypt-Mode of exorcising-Formulas of Invoca-

tion-Black Magic-Forms of Conjuration - Professors of Magic; Albertus

Magnus, Paracelsus, Agrippa-Learned Authorities on the Art

CHAPTER II.

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THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE GREEK AND OTHER EASTERN CHURCHES.

The Historians of the Church for the first six Centuries, all Greek or Syrian-
Eusebius, Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, and Evagrius- The Doctrines of the
Greek, Syrian, and Roman Churches during that time Identical-Faith in the
Supernatural in the Syrian Church shown by their Liturgies—Prayers for
Protection against evil Spirits — The Spiritualism of the ancient Syrian
Saints and Fathers-This Faith still retained by the Greek and Russian
Churches-Miraculous Greek and Russian Pictures-Notice of one by Miss
Bremer in Greece

Exorcism as practised in Palestine, seen by Dr.

Th

Kad

over

ctice called Dousch-Form of Invocation used by Abdel

- Universal Prevalence of Magic in the East-Belief

that Jins wo

nidden treasure- -Destruction of Aleppo predicted by

M. Lustenau, and witnessed by Dr. Wolff-Predicted Death of Ezra de

Piccitto-Silence of Church of England Writers on the East on this Subject—

Dr. Stanley, Etheridge, Appleyard-Circumstances in the Life of the Russian

Patriarch, Nicon-Instances of the Miraculous in the Russian Histories of

the Church-Platon and Mouravieff-The Rev. R. W. Blackmore confirmatory

of Mouravieff-The holy Icons-Warnings and miraculous Cures PAGE 21

CHAPTER III.

SUPERNATURAL IN THE WALDENSIAN CHURCH.

Separated from the Roman Church in the fourth Century-Protested against

Romish Corruptions--So called from their Valleys-Waldenses the earliest

Protestants-Their Persecutions by the Princes of Savoy-MSS. of their

History brought to England by Sir Samuel Morland-Historians of the

Waldenses, Morland, Perrin, Brez, Leger, and Arnaud-Peter Waldo of

Lyons conveys the Faith to France-Continued Persecutions by the Popes

and the Savoyard and French Princes-Cromwell's Intervention-Marvellous

Events in their Wars against their Oppressors-March of Henry Arnaud --

Waldensian Colonies settle in Germany-Annual Allowance to them by

William III. of England - Wonderful Deliverances - Opinion of Bernard of

Clairvaux of the Waldenses-The Nobla Leyçon'-Account of them by the

Rev. W. S. Gilly

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CHAPTER IV.

THE SUPERNATURAL AMONGST THE SO-CALLED HERETICS AND MYSTICS

OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

The so-called Heretics of all Ages, Manichæans, Pelagians, Montanists,
Flagellants, Anabaptists, &c., all had Faith in the Miraculous-Instances of
Fools predicting-Basilicus-Claus at Weimar-Bodin Angevin's Account
of a Priest announcing a distant Battle in his Sermon at Perouse - Similar
Occurrence to Apollonius at Ephesus during a Lecture-Prophetic Woman
during the Persecution of A.D. 260— The Shepherdess of Cret—Account by
Fernelius of a young Nobleman during Convulsions speaking Greek, though he
had never learned it-Mode of accounting for such Phenomena by Magnetism,
Hallucination, and Illusion- These Reasoners recommended to try Hallucina-
tion and Illusion for the teaching of Greek-Cures and Prescience result-
ing from apparently inadequate Causes, as the Cure of Mademoiselle Perrier,
and Aspasia in ancient Greece-Singular Facts from Cotton Mather and Olaus
Magnus-- The real operative Principle to be sought deeper―This Principle