From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.

"There at last he was free and forever from those halls hung with enigmas, tapestried with tears, before which the sphinx in fight gallops like a jackal."  The final line in The Ghost Girl by Edgar Saltus, 1922.

Eerily, this passage seems to describe our very own sanctum!

From The Judge, 1913.

From Jugend, 1909.

From The Dwarfs' Tailor by Zoe Dana Underhill, 1896.

"The Odic forces generated by man."  From On the Heights of Himalay by Albert Van der Naillen, 1896.

The "key to all intellectual, psychic and spiritual power," from Things Kept Secret from the Foundation of the World, 1922.

From Occultism Simplified or the Mystic Thesaurus by Willis F. Whitehead, 1921.

"Possessed of the devil?"  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.

"Oh, my prophetic soul!"  An illustration by J. H. Striebel for Wayside Tales, 1922.

Here's an occultist's figure of the number nine, from Letters from an Occult Student by Jane Oliphant Muscat, 1922.

The "thought-forms" of fear of detection, devotion, pity, deception, lost time, dread, and anger.  From The Human Aura, A Study by A. Marques, 1896.

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