Bu-mo'i stu-la shu-ru-ru!

The virgin finds pleasure in her rising desire,

The young tiger finds pleasure in his consummation,

The old man finds pleasure in his fertile memory:

That is the teaching on the Three Pleasures.

The bed is the workshop of sex,

And should be wide and comfortable;

The knee is the messenger of sex,

And should be sent up…

The divination by means of the spirits of the dead,

from the Greek words nekros, dead; and manteia, divination. It is

through its Italian form nigromancia that it came to be known as

the "Black Art." With the Greeks it originally signified the descent

into Hades in order to consult the dead rather than summoning the

dead into the mortal sphere again. The art is of almost universal

usage. Considerable difference of opinion exists among modern

adepts as to the exact…

Oracles: Shrines where a god speaks to human beings through the

mouths of priests or priestesses. The concept of the god become

vocal in this manner was by no means confined to Greece or Egypt.

Our object here is to deal with the most celebrated oracles of all

nations as well as those of antiquity. Probably all the primitive

gods those, that is to say, of the fetish class, now under

consideration - were consulted as oracles; it is certain that they

derived…

It has long been an article of faith with students

of occultism that the secret tenets of the various sciences

embraced within it have been preserved to modern times by a

series of adepts, who have handed them down from generation to

generation in their entirety. There is no reason to doubt this belief,

but that the adepts in question existed in one unbroken line, and

that they all professed similar principles is somewhat improbable.

But one thing is fairly…