As Lipton puts it: `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms.

She did not ally herself with Eakins ' ardent student supporters, and later wrote, " A curious instinct of self-preservation kept me outside the magic circle.

Seward surmised that the whole North American continent " shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American Union.

The fact abides that, outside the magic circle at the top, a deep rooted opposition has been disclosed in Britain to surrendering to others the right to make our laws, fix our taxes, or decide our policies.

* the use of a magic circle to defend the magician against the spirits that he is invoking or evoking ; and

However, should a group of Church of Satan members form a " magic circle " for purposes beyond basic social and ritual interaction, and should that circle remain healthy and active for a year and a day, the leader may apply to have it formalized as a Grotto and be chartered as Grotto Master.

Such rituals are called an Esbat and may involve a magic circle which practitioners believe will contain energy and form a sacred space, or will provide them a form of magical protection.

In The Book of Ceremonial Magic published by Arthur Edward Waite in 1911, Waite references a number of early works on magic which mention the bolline or sickle, saying " Among the necessary properties mentioned by the Book of True Black Magic are the sword, the staff, the rod, the lancet, the arctrave or hook, the bolline or sickle, the needle, the ponaird, a white-handled knife and another knife, with a black handle, used to describe the circle.

When, in 1790, the comte de Mirabeau disparaged Fox in Pitt's presence, Pitt stopped him, saying, " You have never seen the wizard within the magic circle.

A current draft Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary gives only the derivation penta + culum, and defines it as a pentagram, especially enclosed in a circle ; a talisman inscribed with such a shape ; or any similar magic symbol ; pentacle and the Middle French pentacol are considered separate and unrelated words.

" Gently, deliberately, he drew me into that magic circle of his personality with the ultimate sureness of a look that needs no touch to seal it.

After creating a magic circle and speaking an incantation in which he revokes his baptism, Faustus sees a devil named Mephistophilis appear before him.

The cave is shaped like a circle, with the entrance on one side and the magic door blocking the opposite side.

Nanny Ogg realized that Granny would lose the duel, so she enticed her grandson, Pewsey Ogg, to run across the magic circle in which the duel was taking place.

Granny discovers that there has been some sort of magic performed at a circle of stones, on the edge of Lancre.

He was formerly a solicitor with the magic circle firm, Slaughter and May.

Using a variety of psychic powers, mixed with folk magic, the priest was able to harness the power of the stones ( which were natural magnets ) and focus negative energy, via a beam of light, through the centre of the circle towards the black hole.

Whoever had caused the Barber-Surgeon to die, most likely another priest-like figure attempting to brainwash the village through use of the magic beam towards the black hole, did not succeed and the time circle again reset itself into the modern age.

The Rite of AshkEnte ( also Ashk ' Ente or Ash ' Kente ) is the ancient magic ritual that summons and binds Death into a circle and prevents him from leaving until invited to do so by the summoning wizard.

There Jedson draws a " magic circle " around the miscreant, imprisoning him.

He was resurrected by a dark spell cast by a group of young amateurs, which used chaos magic to inadvertently infuse him with the spirit of a powerful demon lord when the magic circle used to bind the demon in place was accidentally broken, allowing the demon to escape and possess the remains of Grundy, with his memory of his past incarnation severely addled and lacking the ability to speak.

A magic circle is circle or sphere of space marked out by practitioners of many branches of ritual magic, which they generally believe will contain energy and form a sacred space, or will provide them a form of magical protection, or both.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

Now the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic attraction for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefront extends far beyond our state.

There is no such magic in man-made laws.

We found that wherever you can use two teams on a job, five men, not four, is the magic number ''.

And where is `` home '', that magic place of the heart??

But, again, we have no real evidence on this from that quarter until the close of the ninth century A.D., when an Arabic scholar, Tabit Ibn Korra ( 836-901 ) is said to have discussed the magic square of three.

If one takes the middle number, 5, and multiplies it by 3 ( the base number of the magic square of three ), the result is 15, which is also the constant sum of all the rows, columns, and two main diagonals.

* Psyche is used for feats of willpower or magic.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

Armida is a tale of love and duty in conflict and is saturated in magic.

Abracadabra is an incantation used as a magic word in stage magic tricks, and historically was believed to have healing powers when inscribed on an amulet.

The word is thought to have its origin in the Aramaic language, in which ibra ( אברא ) means " I have created " and k ' dibra ( כדברא ) which means " through my speech ", providing a translation of abracadabra as " created as I say ", thus its use in magic.

In the Nintendo / GameFreak video game franchise " Pokémon ", there are three creatures in the same evolutionary chain named Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam ( the third of which is also an alleged magic word used by stage magicians ).

Abra Kadabra is the name of a DC Comics villain, who originally uses futuristic technology to create effects that appear magic to present-day people, and later gains actual magic powers.

Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous ( Captain Marvel's powers came from magic, unlike Superman's ), the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred.

Subsequent research by the likes of Hutton and Heselton has shown that in fact the New Forest coven was probably only formed in the early 20th century, based upon such sources as folk magic and the theories of Margaret Murray.

It has been calculated that Z = 120 may in fact be the next proton magic number, rather than at Z = 114 or 126.

On the basis of one stanza in Hávamál-where Odin learns nine magic songs from the unnamed brother of his mother Bestla-some scholars have theorized that Bestla's brother may in fact be Mímir, who is then Odin's maternal uncle.

Mana is a limited resource in Niven's work, a fact which eventually will lead to the end of all magic in his antediluvian fantasy setting when all mana is depleted.

In fact, the older wizards tend not to understand how magic actually works at all, instead relying on centuries of lore to achieve their effects.

Harry Potter also served this role in the earlier books in the series, but decreasingly so in the later books as the character became more accustomed to the Wizarding World ; Eragon is used similarly in the Inheritance Cycle due to the fact that he knows nothing about magic, dwarf, or elvish customs in that around the end of each book he is more customed and is no longer needed as a surrogate.

What makes Norwegian black metal unique in comparison to other countries, is the fact that it has " an almost inaudible echo that warns of magic and evil.

Shah went on to say that his books on the subject were not written for the current devotees of magic and witchcraft, and that in fact he subsequently had to avoid them, as they would only be disappointed in what he had to say.

It is, however, short of the magic number, due to the fact that " taboo floors " like 14th and 24th are omitted as being inauspicious – 14 sounds like " definitely fatal " and 24 like " easily fatal " in Cantonese.

In short, Agrippa argued for a synthetic vision of magic whereby the natural world combined with the celestial and the divine through Neoplatonic participation, such that ordinarily licit natural magic was in fact validated by a kind of demonic magic sourced ultimately from God.

As a child Richard travelled extensively with her as she documented the folklore and witchcraft of the subcontinent, spending his formative years in a world where ' magic ' was still a fact of everyday life.

At this time the plans for a double " magic " roundabout at Moor End were first put forward, but in fact it was not until 1973 that the roundabout was opened as it was originally designed.

His obsession with magic causes Tim to ignore everything else, including Molly's growing sadness and even the fact that her feet don't touch the floor.

When the earthquake hit, Calvin had just grabbed his knapsack, a fact that enables him to wow the Arthurians with his futuristic " magic ", including an introduction to rock and roll via CD player, and a Swiss Army knife.

What makes this particular set of writings most important to medical history and understandings of the time is the fact that Imhotep took a more scientific rather than magic approach to medicine and disease.

However, this incident actually sparked the research movement, led by Paul Lazarsfeld and Herta Herzog, that would disprove the magic bullet or hypodermic needle theory, as Hadley Cantril managed to show that reactions to the broadcast were, in fact, diverse, and were largely determined by situational and attitudinal attributes of the listeners.

A world might include magic which only some people ( or only the reader ) know to be in fact technological effects.

Many magicians have used this effect in magic competitions and won, due to their skill in performing this trick, as well as the fact that it depicts such a wide range of magical skill.

It is based on the fact that a pandiagonal magic square has traditionally been called perfect, because all possible lines sum correctly.

It is based on the fact that a pandiagonal magic square has traditionally been called ' perfect ', because all possible lines sum correctly.