The Magical Mystery Tour:
Yours
and Mine
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Life is a mystery. Don’t you agree? We appear to live in a physical world where we are taught materialistic science and values. But, our existence remains a source of awe, wonder and mystery when we take time to ponder. Why, why, why? What's it all about, Alfie Is it just for the moment we live What's it all about When you sort it out, Alfie Are we meant to take more than we give Or are we meant to be kind? … As sure as I believe there's a heaven above Alfie, I know there's something much more Something even non-believers can believe in I believe in love, Alfie Without true love we just exist, Alfie Life is a mystery. There is no guide book. Do you know anyone who has really got it figured out regardless of the grand advancements of science and technology, the panoply of comforts and entertainments in our day? The mystery remains. Still, mystery can be viewed and approached through the study of magic. Magic? Yes, Magic. We all are on our own personal and collective Magical Mystery Tours. This has been understood for eons – at least by those who dared to remember the inner realms and seek to contact them. Even you and I have hints from time to time that there is more to the world than meets the human eye. And, there have been figures over the centuries Edgar Cayce HP Blavatsky Anton Mesmer Paracelsus Jesus Christ among others, who have "entertained" magic to make it more understandable, visible, and even doable. We give overviews of their teachings which show magic at work in and around us – in fact and in potential. The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to become sharper. WB Yeats  Edgar Cayce - 20th century sleeping magician The magic of Edgar Cayce, America’s Sleeping Prophet, was founded on his simple but profound statement that, “Spirit is the life, mind is the builder and the physical is the result.” Cayce in many thousands of his psychic readings, most often given for people with health issues, repeatedly proclaimed the human trinity of body, mind and spirit. We are spirits, building and rebuilding with our minds, and experiencing rewards and punishments in our bodies and worlds. Edgar Cayce was far from medically trained and quite uneducated in the usual sense of the word. But, was credited thus: “The roots of present-day holism probably go back 100 years to the birth of Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, KY. By the time he died in 1945 …” so wrote John Callan in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Cayce also “returned” frequently spoke on the topic of reincarnation – many lives, many mansions. Magic of human life begins as ethereal souls take on bodies at the moment of birth. Then, we build and rebuild our form natures through the course of our lives until we “hop the twig” and return to the pure worlds of spirit and renewal. Inevitably, we will follow Masters whose Magic keeps the planet turning.  Helena Blavatsky - 19th century vagabond magician HPB, as she was known, lived a phenomenal life of magic as she traveled the world ostensibly studying mediums and magicians and similar sorts. All the while, she worked with the Masters and Hierarchy, communicated with them and others telepathically, formed the Theosophical Society, wrote voluminously, and acted magnetically and magically as need required. HPB’s magic was much more tangible and visible, when she so desired, than Cayce’s readings. On demand, she could materialize books and flowers, call forth spirits to waiting eyes, ring the astral bells and make astral voices audible. Blavatsky began the active and public work of bringing the inner worlds into the light of day. Even though she left her body over a century ago, the work she initiated has hardly begun. Materialistic existence must cede way to magical living on the physical plane in the light of day. And, a brotherhood or family of humankind become a fact of life upon planet Earth.  Anton Mesmer - 18th century magical healer Anton Mesmer discovered secrets and mysteries hidden for long times to public by his own dedicated studies beginning during his medical school days in Vienna. He did so by experimenting with the simple metal magnet, sensing its influences on human tissues, and eventually realizing that he himself had the real effect and far greater on his subjects. Mesmer developed what he called animal magnetism – opposed to the metallic kind – in the treatment of patients in his small home hospital. He gained extraordinary results by what appeared to be simple waves of his hands over their bodies. But, he was willfully emanating what he called the vital fluid. Eventually, Mesmer embarrassed Viennese physicians with his magical cures and was forced “either to desist from your methods or give up medical practice.” The Doctor chose to move to Paris where he also disturbed the medical establishment. At the same time, he gathered a wealth of followers and created the Society of Harmony to teach his methods and magic to laymen as well as professionals. His followers and societies in numerous countries did spread his teachings and works to aid the sick and injured, to relieve suffering, provide for painless surgeries, and make childbirthing much easier. But, the medical orthodoxy was uniformly resistant, medical schools indifferent, and Mesmer’s magnetic work slowly disappeared as his students passed on.  Paracelsus - 16th century natural magician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim aka Paracelsus was the wonder of his era. Jan Van Helmont considered Paracelsus, “a forerunner of the true medicine. He was sent by God, and endowed with divine knowledge.” Paracelsus previewed Mesmer’s animal magnetism as he used magical remedies when physical substances were inadequate to the task. He also predicted the holistic aphorism of Cayce when he pronounced, “The spirit is the master, the imagination is the tool, and the body the plastic material.” To Paracelsus, everything is alive and there is no death. He recognized metals “growing in the earth.” Then like Goethe, he understood Nature as the Garment of God. “If we know Nature we know Man, and if we know Man we know Nature.” He was no regular sort of physician as he amassed useful information from the high and the low, from the learned and from the vulgar, as it was usual for him to pass time in the company of teamsters and vagabonds, on the highways and at public inns. Paracelsus learned not only from physicians, surgeons, and alchemists, but also by intercourse with executioners, barbers, shepherds, Jews, gypsies, midwives, and fortune-tellers. Believing the reason for medicine to be love, Paracelsus founded his practice on Philosophy – knowledge of physical nature; Astronomy – knowledge of the powers of the mind; Alchemy – knowledge of the divine powers in man; and Virtue – holiness – of the physician. The practical application of Astronomy (mental science) is called Magic. And … “Magic power alone … is the true teacher, preceptor, and pedagogue, to teach the art of curing the sick.” He considered true magic to be the greatest of all natural sciences because it includes knowledge of visible and invisible nature. Magic is art and science which cannot be learned from books.  Jesus Christ – magician, miracle worker, teacher of men and of angels Jesus Christ is hailed in our day as The Son of God, even while he set himself only as an Elder Brother. In his own time, Jesus was considered by some as a magician. A mighty one, but still a magician. Admittedly, his works and very being were magical. Reading hearts and minds, walking on water, turning water to wine, raising the dead, and rising himself from the dead set him apart from one and all. But at the same time, the Christ stood as the elder admitted by his saying, “What I do you will do also.” He commissioned his followers from his day to the present to – Preach, Teach, and Heal. Preaching and teaching rarely involve magic. But, healing surely points – especially on a momentary basis – in that direction. Churchmen typically charge ministers and elders with the latter works. Yet, we are all elders in various senses. And, we all can access powers to heal and to do magic. Really? Quite so because the Christ force is with us and in us. It makes us capable of wonders. “Christ in you the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27 And that is most especially case, “Wherever two or more are gathered in my name, there I am in their midst.” Matthew 18:20 With faith and knowledge of things unseen, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do …” John 14:12 In coming times, we explore the lives and teachings of the above souls in some detail with the intention of not just providing information but also of inciting interests in readers to review their past lives in subtle perspective and to seek to become conscious of their very own MAGICAL MYSTERY TOURS |
