One felt, however, a forward movement, through changes soft and slow. The great marvel was drawing nearer, to shine forth and eclipse all other things. It came on in its own calm way: you felt no wish to hurry it. The coming transfiguration, the expected witcheries of the light, took not a whit away from the deep enjoyment of being still under the divinity of night, still, as it were, half-hidden, and slow to emerge from so wonderful a spell.... Come forth, O Sun! We worship thee while yet unseen, but will reap all of good we yet may from these last moments of our dream!
He is about to break forth. In hope let us await his welcome.
THE END.
LIST OF LEADING AUTHORITIES.
- Graesse, Bibliotheca Magiæ, Leipsic, 1843.
- Magie Antique—as edited by Soldan, A. Maury, &c.
- Calcagnini, Miscell., Magia Amatoria Antiqua, 1544.
- J. Grimm, German Mythology.
- Acta Sanctorum.—Acta SS. Ordinis S. Benedicti.
- Michael Psellus, Energie des Démons, 1050.
- Cæsar of Heisterbach, Illustria Miracula, 1220.
- Registers of the Inquisition, 1307-1326, in Limburch; and the extracts given by Magi, Llorente, Lamothe-Langon, &c.
- Directorium. Eymerici, 1358.
- Llorente, The Spanish Inquisition.
- Lamothe-Langon, Inquisition de France.
- Handbooks of the Monk-Inquisitors of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Nider’s Formicarius; Sprenger’s Malleus.
- C. Bernardus’s Lucerna; Spina, Grillandus, &c.
- H. Corn. Agrippæ Opera, Lyons.
- Paracelsi Opera.
- Wyer, De Prestigiis Dæmonum, 1569.
- Bodin, Démonomanie, 1580.
- Remigius, Demonolatria, 1596.
- Del Rio, Disquisitiones Magicæ, 1599.
- Boguet, Discours des Sorciers, Lyons, 1605.
- Leloyer, Histoire des Spectres, Paris, 1605.
- Lancre, Inconstance, 1612: Incredulité, 1622.
- Michaëlis, Histoire d’une Pénitente, &c., 1613.
- Tranquille, Relation de Loudun, 1634.
- Histoire des Diables de Loudun (by Aubin), 1716.
- Histoire de Madeleine Bavent, de Louviers, 1652.
- Examen de Louviers. Apologie de l’Examen (by Yvelin), 1643.
- Procès du P. Girard et de la Cadière; Aix, 1833.
- Pièces relatives à ce Procès; 5 vols., Aix, 1833.
- Factum, Chansons, relatifs, &c. MSS. in the Toulon Library.
- Eugène Salverte, Sciences Occultes, with Introduction by Littré.
- A. Maury, Les Fées, 1843; Magie, 1860.
- Soldan, Histoire des Procès de Sorcellerie, 1843.
- Thos. Wright, Narratives of Sorcery, &c., 1851.
- L. Figuier, Histoire du Merveilleux, 4 vols.
- Ferdinand Denis, Sciences Occultes: Monde Enchanté.
- Histoire des Sciences au Moyen Age, by Sprenger, Pouchet, Cuvier, &c.
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