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All these allegories point to one and the same origin — to the dual and the triple nature of man ; dual, as male and female ; triple — as being of spiritual and psychic essence ''within'', and of a material fabric without.
All these allegories point to one and the same origin — to the dual and the triple nature of man ; dual, as male and female ; triple — as being of spiritual and psychic essence ''within'', and of a material fabric without.
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{{Style P-No indent|law of Buddha,” as Schlagintweit believes, but real living men, some superior to men by virtue of their Occult knowledge, and the ''protectors of Buddha''’''s law'', inasmuch as ''they interpret his metaphysical tenets correctly'', others inferior morally as being ''black ''magicians. Therefore it is truly declared that Gautama Buddha “ is said to have taught them a more philosophical religious system than to men, who were not sufficiently advanced to understand it at the time of his appearance.” (Schlagintweit’s “ ''Tibetan Buddhism.''”)}}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> The Mandragora is the ''mandrake ''of the Bible, of Rachel and Leah. They are the roots of a plant, fleshy, hairy, and forked below, representing roughly the limbs of a man, the body and even a head. Its magical and mysterious properties have been proclaimed in fable and play from the most archaic ages. From Rachel and Leah, who indulged in witchcraft with them, down to Shakespeare, who speaks of ''shrieking'' —
{{Style P-Poem|poem=. . . . “ Like mandrakes torn out of the earth
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad ”}}
{{Style P-No indent|— the mandragora was ''the ''magic plant ''par excellence.''}}
These roots, without any stalk, and with large leaves growing out of the head of the root, like a gigantic crop of hair, present little similitude to man when found in Spain Italy, Asia Minor, or Syria. But on the Isle of Candia, and in Karamania near the city of Adan, they have a wonderfully human form ; being very highly prized as amulets. They are also worn by women as a charm against sterility, and for other purposes They are especially effective in ''Black Magic.''
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