Ye Magick Mirrour of Old Japan

Silvanus P. Thompson

Y E MAGICK MIRROUR OF OLD JAPAN.

APPENDIX I. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE MAGIC MIRROR.

APPENDIX II. THE MYTH OF THE SUN-GODDESS AND THE INVENTION OF THE MIRROR.

APPENDIX III. ORIENTAL WRITINGS UPON THE MAGIC MIRROR.

APPENDIX IV. ANALYSES OF JAPANESE MIRRORS.

O. V. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRIVATELY PRINTED OPUSCULA

FOLIA.

MISCELLANIES.

Ye Sette of Odd Volumes.

Supplemental Odd Volumes.

PRIVATELY PRINTED OPUSCULA

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No. XXX.

Y^E MAGICK MIRROUR OF OLD JAPAN.

YE MAGICK MIRROUR
OF OLD JAPAN

Ye Magick Mirrour of
Old Japan

BY

Silvanus P. Thompson, D.Sc., F.R.S.
Magnetizer to the Sette of
Odd Volumes

A Discourse delivered at a Meeting of the
Sette holden at Limmer’s Hotel, on
Friday, December 2, 1892

London
Imprinted for the Author at the Chiswick
Press; and to be had of no Booksellers
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Night’s Robe to-night with Orient Sorcery gleams—

Say: “Magick Mirrour!” murmur: “Old Japan!”

Each Sound’s a Spell, each Word a Talisman,

And we but Dreamers in a World of Dreams.

J. T.

DEDICATED TO

THE UNITED SETTE

BY

THEIR

MAGNETIZER.

This Edition is limited to 97 copies, and is
imprinted for private circulation only.

No.

Presented unto

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