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ecstatic experiences and the sor-tilegios magic that belonged to a spiritual heritage
immemorial. Anyway, the secret of the magic flight is also owner-ship of Indian
alchemy. And that miracle is so common to the Buddhist arhat, who arahant has spawned
a verb, the verb rahatve Sinhalese, "go, go instantly from one place to another" 19 Dakini,
fairies, magicians played an important role in certain tantric schools in Mongolian
language are called the "walking on air" and in Tibetan "which go to Heaven" 20 The
magic flight and ascension into heaven by a ladder or rope are also frequent topics in
Tibet, where subjects are not necessarily drawn from India, but even when they are
Visuddhimagga 17, p. 396. About gamana, see Sigurd Lindquist, Siddhi
undAbhinna (Uppsala, 1935), p. 58 et seq.
18 Yoga-Sutra, III, 45; Gheranda samhita, III, 78. About traditions if -
lar in the Epic, E. W. Hopkins, Yoga-technique in The Great Epic,
ps. 337, 361.
i 'A. M. Hocart, Flying through the air (Indian Antiquary, 1923, ps. 80-82), pag. 80.
20 J. van Durme, Notes sur le Lamaism (Melanges chinois et bouddhistes, I, 1932, ps.
263-319), p. 374, n. 2.
traditions recorded in the Bon-po or resulting therefrom. Moreover, the same reasons or
issues prominently in magical beliefs and folklore of the Lolo, Moso and the Chinese,
and are also scattered here and there in the primitive world.
The ascension to Heaven and the magic flight are extremely saturated with complex
symbolism, referring to the soul and preferably human intelligence. The "flight"
sometimes translates intelligence, understanding of secret things or metaphysical truths.
"Intelligence (Manas) is the swiftest of birds," says the Rig Veda (VI, 9, 5). And
Pancavimsa Brahmana (XIV, 1, 13) elaborates: "The covering has wings." We know that
many people conceive the soul as a bird. The "magic flight" takes the value of a ~ SaIida
out of body ", ie, which translates plastic the ecstasy, the liberation of the soul. But while
the majority of human beings are transformed into birds only at the time of his death
when they leave his body and fly through the air, the Brahmins, the sorcerers, the ecstatic
of all kinds rea-sion set in this world and how often they want the "out-of-body." The
myth of the soul-bird contains the seeds whole metaphysics of autonomy and spiritual
freedom of man.
Recall finally a "miracle" well-known folk, mango-trick: the yogi buries a mango seed
and the tree grows quickly, before the astonished gaze of the audience. Biidica according
to a tradition recorded in the Dhammapada commentary (Dhammapada-Atthakatha, III,
199), the Buddha would have done the same miracle in the garden of King Pasenadi:
Ganda, royal gardener, offering the Buddha a mango fruit, and Lit asked to bury the seed:
then washes his hands over the hole where it was deposited, and after a while a tree
grows fifty cubits high, covered with flowers and fruits at once. Also there have been
exploits in the media is like before shamanic Americans: among the people, for example,
chama-tions are known to germinate and grow to a grain of wheat in the eyes of the
beholder (Le Chamanisme, p. 285 , footnote 2).
THE "MAGIC HEAT". The "inner light"
Let us turn to another group of techniques the "domain of
fire "and the" magical heat. "Shamans and witches are universal fame of" masters of fire
"swallow hot coals, play hie-rro red, Firewalkers. During the sessions, Siberian shamans