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Impersonation

Mediums who are controlled by the spirit of a deceased person frequently impersonate that person, imitate his voice and gestures, his physical peculiarities and manners, and exhibit the symptoms of any disease from which he may have suffered. (See Trance Personalities.) Incense, Magical: (See Magic.) Incommunicable Axiom, The: It was believed that all magical science was embodied in knowledge of this secret. The Axiom is to be found enclosed in the four letters of the Tetragram arranged in a certain way; in the words Azoth" and "Inri" written kabalistically; and in the monogram of Christ embroidered in the labarum. He who succeeded in elucidating it became humanly omnipotent from the magical standpoint. 66

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