The Addams Family - S01E01 The Addams Family Goes To School part 1 - 2[360P]

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Preserving its position on its own plane, and evoking the necessary counterpoise to its own deviation from the norm of nothingness.
We may recapitulate the above reflections in a practical form. We will suppose that one wishes to divine by geomancy whether or no one should marry, it being assumed that one's emotional impulses suggest so rash a course.
He must sink his personality in that of the intelligence hearing the question propounded by a stranger to whom he is indifferent, but whom it is his business to serve faithfully.
Physio-psychological theory will probably maintain that the "automatic" action of the hand is controlled by the brain no less than in the case of conscious volition; but this is an additional argument for identifying the brain with the intelligence invoked.
He should exhaust the intellectual sources of information at his disposal, and form from them his judgement. But having done this, he should detach his mind from what it has just formulated, and proceed to concentrate it on the figure as a whole, almost as if it were the object of his meditation
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The Author calls himself Aiwass
"the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat"
Using Cipher or cryptogram in certain passages to set forth recondite facts.
"Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth."
In one sense an art entirely separate from that of Magick; yet it interpenetrates Magick at every point.
His strategical and tactical plans, in no wise enables him to accomplish the impossible.
For example: with the certainty of an astronomer in calculation the return of a comet.
The astronomer himself has to enter a caveat. He can only calculate the probability on the observed facts. Some force might interfere with the anticipated movement.
In asking "shall I be wise to marry?" one leaves it open for wisdom to be defined in divers ways.
On the other hand, the language is admirably simple, clear and vigorous.
The advice only referred to the prospect itself of divination and must not be blamed any more than one would blame a man for buying a house at Ypres three years before the World-War.

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