The Oracle’s subjects

The Tree of the Hidden Arts

Everything the Oracle will speak of, on one tree: the arts are its fruit, the lives they draw from are its roots.

30 arts187 branches252 livesSearch the treeThe Lecture Hall

Spirit

Mind

Body

Hidden history

Protection

Spirit realm

Astral projection

Divination

Past lives

Tree of Life

Alchemy

Hermetic principles

After death

Meditation

Dreams

Lucid dreaming

Intention

Physics

Power

The mystics

Sacred geometry

Sixth sense

Movement

Chakras

Herbs and stones

Fasting

Sound

Sacred places

Sky in scripture

Orders

Forbidden knowledge

Conspiracy

Symbols

Lost worlds

Lives90

Thinkers123

Stories39

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Spirit 9

Spirit

Magic and protection

How workings are held to work, and how to stand steady

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The spirit realm

What the traditions say, and whose account it is

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Its branches

Angels and their orders The jinn The ancestors Daimons and intelligences The elementals Testing the spirits Ghosts and hauntings Mediums and Spiritualism Shamans and spirit journeys The fair folk Demons in the old books

Its roots: the lives to read with it

John Dee Paracelsus Orpheus Plotinus

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Protection Alchemy Meditation Herbs and stones After death The mystics Sound

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Astral projection

What it is, and the gentle way to try

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What it is held to be The edge of sleep The gentle way to try Sleep paralysis The planes and the cord

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Helena Blavatsky Rudolf Steiner Plato

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Past lives Lost worlds After death Sacred geometry

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Tarot, runes, I Ching

Mirrors for a question, and how to use them

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Its branches

The tarot The runes The I Ching Reading as a mirror Bring your own draw Pendulum and scrying

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Éliphas Lévi Odin Nostradamus Carl Jung

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Sixth sense Protection Tree of Life Alchemy Dreams Physics Symbols

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The whole of it The Fool’s Journey Dictionary: Tarot Dictionary: I Ching Dictionary: Runes

Past lives and karma

The themes you came in with

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Its branches

Whose teaching it is Karma, rightly told The lunar nodes Saturn and the twelfth house Regression and memory

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Pythagoras Plato Helena Blavatsky Edgar Cayce

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Lost worlds Astral projection After death Sacred geometry Fasting Sixth sense Sound

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The whole of it Dictionary: Karma Dictionary: Reincarnation

The Tree of Life

Ten lights, and where you stand among them

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Its branches

Two streams The ten sefirot The three pillars The twenty-two paths The Zohar and Safed One sefirah for now

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Éliphas Lévi The Golem Marsilio Ficino

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Protection Divination Hermetic principles Herbs and stones Forbidden knowledge Sacred geometry Symbols

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The whole of it The Tree of Life The Twenty-Two Letters Dictionary: Kabbalah

Alchemy

The stages of inner change

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Its branches

Two alchemies The four stages Salt, sulphur, mercury The philosopher’s stone Seven metals, seven planets Who the alchemists were

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Paracelsus Isaac Newton Carl Jung Faust

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Spirit realm Divination Hermetic principles Dreams Physics Herbs and stones Forbidden knowledge Sixth sense

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The whole of it The Great Work Dictionary: Alchemy

The Hermetic principles

The seven principles, truthfully told

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Its branches

The Hermetica The Emerald Tablet The seven principles Poimandres Ficino and the Renaissance

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Hermes Trismegistus Marsilio Ficino Manly P. Hall Isaac Newton

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Tree of Life Alchemy Herbs and stones Sky in scripture Sacred geometry Sacred places Symbols

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The whole of it The Seven Hermetic Principles Hermes the Thrice-Great The Emerald Tablet Dictionary: Hermeticism

Death and what follows

What the traditions teach, and what is known

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Near-death experiences The weighing of the heart The Greek underworld The Tibetan bardo Judgement and the world to come Deathbed visions How the traditions mourn

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Orpheus Plato Edgar Cayce

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Past lives Lost worlds Spirit realm Astral projection Sacred geometry Sixth sense Sound

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Mind 9

Mind

Meditation

One simple practice for today

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Its branches

Resting on the breath The body scan Contemplative prayer Walking practice The evening review When sitting is hard

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Marcus Aurelius Plotinus Lao Tzu

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The mystics Spirit realm Movement

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Dreams

A dream read as a mirror of your days

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Its branches

Keeping your dreams Image and feeling Recurring dreams Jung’s way Dreams and the Moon Nightmares

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Carl Jung Wolfgang Pauli

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Physics Divination Alchemy Sixth sense

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The whole of it The Shadow

Lucid dreaming

Waking inside a dream, begun gently

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Its branches

What it is The dream journal Reality checks The intention at night Staying in the dream When to pause

Its roots: the lives to read with it

The house keeps no life for this art yet.

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Imagination and intention

The law of attraction, honestly told

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Its branches

What is truly known Where it comes from Neville Goddard’s method From wish to plan The words you repeat

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Neville Goddard Napoleon Hill Joe Dispenza

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Physics and the mystics

Where they truly met, and where they did not

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Its branches

What is measured The physicists who read the mystics Likeness, not physics Tesla and 3, 6, 9 Synchronicity

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Wolfgang Pauli Nikola Tesla Walter Russell Carl Jung

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Dreams Divination Alchemy Conspiracy Sixth sense

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The whole of it Synchronicity

Power and influence

How power is sought, so you can see it coming

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Its branches

The 48 Laws of Power The Prince The Art of War Recognising the moves The will to power Keeping your footing

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Niccolò Machiavelli Sun Tzu Robert Greene Napoleon Bonaparte Friedrich Nietzsche

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Orders

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The mystics

What each path teaches, from its own sources

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The Sufis The Christian contemplatives Zen Vedanta and non-duality The Taoists The Hasidim Bhakti, the way of devotion

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Plotinus Lao Tzu Sri Yukteswar

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Meditation Movement Spirit realm Chakras

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Sacred geometry

The figures, their mathematics, and what is claimed for them

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Its branches

The golden ratio The Platonic solids The flower of life The vesica piscis Pythagoras and number Mandala and yantra Magic squares

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Pythagoras Plato Marsilio Ficino

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Past lives Astral projection Tree of Life Hermetic principles Herbs and stones Fasting After death Sound Lost worlds

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The sixth sense

What is claimed, what was tested, and what held

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Its branches

Telepathy Clairvoyance and remote viewing Premonitions What intuition is From Rhine to the ganzfeld Cold reading Psychokinesis

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Edgar Cayce Carl Jung Nostradamus

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Divination Past lives Alchemy Dreams Physics After death Lost worlds

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Body 6

Body

Yoga, qigong, tai chi

The body as the first instrument

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Its branches

Yoga The eight limbs Qigong Tai chi Prayer in motion

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Sri Yukteswar Lao Tzu

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The mystics Meditation Chakras

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Chakras and the breath

A map of attention, and a safe breath

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Its branches

Where the chakras come from The seven centres Gentle breath Kundalini The third eye

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Sri Yukteswar

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Movement The mystics

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The whole of it Dictionary: Chakra

Herbs, oils and stones

What each has stood for, and safe uses

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Its branches

Planetary rulerships Incense and smoke Stones and crystals Oils and scent A small table

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Paracelsus Marsilio Ficino

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Spirit realm Tree of Life Alchemy Hermetic principles Sacred geometry

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Fasting and discipline

What the old disciplines ask, and their limits

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Its branches

Fasting in the religions Where the body sets the limit Silence Cold and the vigil Training the will

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Pythagoras Grigori Rasputin

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Past lives Sacred geometry Sound

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Sound and mantra

What chant does, and what is only claimed

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Its branches

Mantra The syllable Om Chant in the monasteries Singing the names Bowls and gongs The claims for a pitch What chanting does in the body

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Pythagoras Orpheus

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Spirit realm Past lives Fasting After death Sacred geometry

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Sacred places

What stands there, who built it, and what is claimed

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Stonehenge and the stone circles The pyramids of Giza Delphi The labyrinth of Chartres The pilgrim roads Ley lines Feng shui and vastu

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Merlin Hermes Trismegistus

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Protection Hermetic principles Symbols

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Hidden history

The sky in the scriptures

Astrotheology, and what scholars say

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Its branches

What it claims Its authors The zodiac on the body What scholars say The sky scripture names

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Santos Bonacci Alvin Boyd Kuhn Marcus Manilius Thomas Paine Manly P. Hall

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Hermetic principles Conspiracy

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The whole of it The Seven Days Sacred Geometry Dictionary: Astrotheology

Orders and mystery schools

History, legend, and which is which

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The Freemasons The Rosicrucians The ancient mysteries The Golden Dawn Templars and Illuminati The Gnostics

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Albert Pike Count Cagliostro The Count of Saint-Germain Aleister Crowley Napoleon Bonaparte

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Protection Power Conspiracy Symbols

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The whole of it The Gnostic Gospels Dictionary: Freemasonry

Forbidden knowledge

From Prometheus to Frankenstein

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Its branches

Prometheus The tree in Eden Faust Frankenstein What they share

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Prometheus Pandora Icarus Faust Frankenstein The Golem

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Tree of Life Alchemy

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Conspiracies, examined

What is documented, and what is not

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Its branches

Documented conspiracies Why theories take hold Testing a claim Science and faith Medicine and schools

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Albert Pike Nikola Tesla Adolf Hitler Santos Bonacci

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Physics Sky in scripture Orders Symbols

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Symbols

Where each sign comes from, and what it has meant

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Its branches

The pentagram The all-seeing eye The ouroboros The caduceus and the rod The ankh and the cross The six-pointed star The swastika, in two parts Baphomet

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Éliphas Lévi Albert Pike Hermes Trismegistus

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Protection Divination Tree of Life Hermetic principles Orders Conspiracy Sacred places

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Lost worlds

What the sources say, and what the ground shows

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Its branches

Atlantis Lemuria and Mu Shambhala and the hidden kingdoms Ancient astronauts How the monuments were built The lands the sea took Real ancient marvels

Its roots: the lives to read with it

Plato Helena Blavatsky Edgar Cayce

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Past lives Astral projection After death Sacred geometry Sixth sense

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Lives and legends 90

Lives and legends

What the record shows, what is legend, and what was forged.

The ancient world 8

The Middle Ages 8

The Renaissance 15

The eighteenth century 11

The nineteenth century 25

The twentieth century 23

Thinkers and teachers 123

Thinkers and teachers

Philosophers, strategists and modern teachers: what each truly said.

The ancient world 20

The Middle Ages 15

The Renaissance 15

The eighteenth century 13

The nineteenth century 21

The twentieth century 39

Stories of forbidden knowledge 39

Stories of forbidden knowledge

Old tales of what it costs to know, each with its source.

The ancient world 23

The Middle Ages 6

The modern age 10