Power of Karma

Author(s): Alexander Cannon
Publisher: Rider and Co

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THE POWER OF KARMA Middle and Late Empires it was used for harming people.
s. Levitation without a trance; the pyramids were erected by making use of a form of levitation.
The original Masons, the men who designed the Pyramids, possessed these secrets, although before our Middle Ages they were lost. Occasionally one hears of a “master”, one of those extremely rare individuals, even to-day, although there are only about ten in the world. Modern Spiritualism, in its purest forms, is a revival of ancient Spiritualism.
In regard to Mexico, this ancient magic was also known there, by a class of priests known as the Chotlotecs, a brotherhood swept away when the later Aztecs invaded the country from British Columbia. These northern barbarians knew nought of real magic, only crude witchcraft, and by the time the Spaniards landed in Mexico, all was myth and legend. As far as is known there is not even a single “master” in all America, and even in Egypt and the Soudan there are but four or five. Egyptian priests of the Seb-ten were required to bathe twice daily, to take but two meals a week, to be complete celibates, and to undergo certain operations required to render them able to perform magic. Theosophists know that clairyoyance can be cultivated by developing a gland behind the glabella, and that this gland, far from being vestigial, is actually embryonical. In early Egypt, this gland was developed by piercing it sharply with a thin spike, which operation produced a clot which made