A Bit of Magical Archeology
The writer has spent hours delving through ancient tomes in search of the concepts of ancient days, endeavoring to penetrate the origin of superstitious customs as well as their secret practices.
By G. G. Laurens
A Marvelous Coincidence
I was myself startled and so was everyone else, the performer possibly most of all. I have never seen anything like it in my experience with the art of conjuring.
By Harry Houdini
The Evolution of Superstition
Mysticism in some form has held the human race in bondage from the earliest time. In all ages the credulous have been easy victims of the crafty designing minds.
By Joseph F. Rinn
Hocus Pocus
Incantations, exclamations they were at first; nay, we to-day must give them a better name: Applied psychology!
By G. G. Laurens
What Magicians Were Expected to Know in 1652
The following summary of "What Every Magician Ought to Know," is from "The Seven Books of Magic," printed in London in 1652, and bound in one volume. This was known as the "Black Book", and its possession was forbidden by both Church and State.
The Secret of One Man’s Success
The principle of concentration of thought by the use of mechanical device like a shining stone or crystal—meant in my fortune and my well-being.
Why Astrology?
Scarcely a day passes that we do not see some person going through life a slave to circumstances, when astrological precaution would have saved them many a pitfall, changed their sorrow to happiness and their failures to success. Many fortunes have been lost to thousands. People who have not been able to see the opportunity until it has passed by.
By Claude Alexander Conlin
Pisces Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Pisces, The Fishes, is the last Sign of the Zodiac and symbolic of the completion of Earth life and experience, and of the time when labors can be permanently laid down.
Aquarius Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Aquarius, The Water Bearer is the Eleventh Sign of the Zodiac and the most important Sign of the Twelve;- the most spiritual, the most difficult to understand, and the hardest one to live up to in its higher vibrations.
Capricorn Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Capricorn is the Tenth Sign of the Zodiac, is the most Southern of the Signs, the last sign of the Earthy Triplicity and is symbolized by The Goat.
Sagittarius Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Sagittarius is the Ninth Sign of the Zodiac and the last Sign of the Fiery Triplicity. This Sign is symbolized by “The Archer”, pictured as a Centaur shooting an arrow from a bow, straight at the mark.
Scorpio Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Scorpio is the Eighth Sign of the Zodiac, counting from Aries, the First, and has its affinity with the Eighth House of the Heavens. The Sign is known as that of legacy, death, finances of the marriage partner, and is classed as a watery, fixed, feminine, nocturnal, fruitful, phlegmatic, cold, negative, Northern sign.
Libra Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Libra is the Seventh Sign of the Zodiac, counting from Aries the First, and is the Sign directly opposite Aries in the Zodiac. Libra is classed as a cardinal, masculine, positive, movable, hot, moist, diurnal, sanguine, humane, Western sign, and is the chief of Day House of Venus.
Virgo Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Virgo is the Sixth Sign of the Zodiac, in their order from Aries, and is known as an Equinoctial Sign, for, when the Sun reaches the end of this Sign each year on or about September 21st, the days and nights are equal.
Leo Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Leo is the Fifth sign of the Zodiac. The Leo Sign is of the East, and is classed as a fiery, hot, fixed, dry, barren, diurnal, masculine, positive, commanding sign.
Cancer Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
The Cancer Sign is the Fourth Sign of the Zodiac, counting from Aries the Head. It is the most Northern of the Signs, and when the Sun enters this sign each year on or about June 21st, we have the first day of summer, and the longest day in the year.
Gemini Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
The Gemini Sign is the Third Sign of the Zodiac. The New Year really begins, in the course of Nature, when the Sun crosses the Equator, on March 21st, which ushers in the first day of Spring.
Taurus Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Taurus is the Second Sign of the Zodiac, the next after Aries, as represented in the Grand Man, made in the Image of God.
Aries Horoscope & Astrological Sign Meaning
Aries is the first Sign of the Zodiac, and is known as an Equinoctial Sign, because when the Sun enters the first degree of Aries each year, on the first day of Spring, about March 21st, the days and nights are equal.
The True Meaning of The Five of Spades
Realize that things will happen the way that they will happen and at their own time. Slow down and pace yourself, realizing that a sustained and constant application and effort will give you better results.