I have not burdened the articles with references, but have supplied a bibliographical Graham, greatly smoothed my path by throwing light Murdoch has rendered me the greatest assistance with difficult biographical material. ■ William Begg collected much Theosophical matter and Mr. , late President of the Gypsy Lore Society, I owe thanks for the article " Gypsies." The extensive literature relative to psychic science. Nixey, have placed me under aĭeep debt of obligation by their careful collection, arrangement and independent work upon My assistants, Miss Mavie Jack and Miss K. To thank the many kind friends who have assisted me actively and by advice in the compilation I have relegated the subject of methods and theories to the introduction. Would still retain its marvellous powers of attraction, no estimate of which can be too high. Native force have defeated such an intention, and, even if arrayed in the poorest of verbiage, Tions- however worthy of statement - the romance inherent in it would, by reason of its very
Way attempted to subvert this innate quality of the occult to purely scientific considera. Not, however, permitted scientific considerations to blind me to the marvellous and romanticĬharacter of the material in which I have laboured. To the origins of magic, and in writing this volume I have freely applied its principles. The science of Anthropology has of late years done much to elucidate questions relating But I have made aīeginning, and this volume may inspire a more worthy hand to the compilation of a more That I have been entirely successful is too much to hope. Not hitherto have been reduced to presentation in reference form struck me as singular Īnd I resolved to do what I could to supply what seemed to me a very real literary and scientific ThatĪ department of human thought so pregnant with interest and so abounding in vitality should Ing definitions there did not appear to be any substantial agreement, and application toĮncyclopaedias and ordinary works of reference generally resulted in disappointment. That popular misconceptions concerning its several branches were many and varied. Sions into the literature of the occult, of a somewhat extensive kind, led me to the belief Which, now that I have completed my task, is more than ever painfully perceptible. To the several occult sciences, I have not lost sight of the extensive character ot the subject, In attempting to compile a volume which might serve as a handbook or work of reference Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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