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Many Occultists of our time no longer know the possibility of seeing, in the magic mirror, persons and scenes evoked by the mage. They have forgotten this antique belief because their talents and insufficient science cannot permit them to establish, by this tempting experience, the confirmation of this fact, nevertheless real. The celebrated Dr. Dee of London, and many others before him, used, for this sort of vision, a concave mirror of blackened glass, and also other things, to attract the image or idea form the upper spheres, that they could not capture otherwise—the material age can only admit that a simple physical coefficient, that of the concave oval mirror, the crystal, or a drop of ink, may attempt to draw from the spirit that which the