Egyptian Magic in Egyptian Magic by Florence Farr.

“The human mother had in the meantime become the centre of elemental forces that formulated an illusive attraction around her. This is the formulation of the SAHU, or the Astral body of the future human being, under the magic of the natural elemental forces.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “This operation of the SAHU accounts for the vision which some clairvoyants have perceived in regard to the Vegetable Kingdom, of an astral plant-form attached to seeds or grains before they are sown in the ground.”
  2. pre-ritual preparation
  3. soma
  4. “The whole human Ego then being in a state of theurgic excitation the BAIE (spirit) descended and the whole being became a luminous KHOU or Shining Body of super-human potency, the Augoeides of the Greek Mystics.”
  5. “For the plainest woman, for a time, becomes beautiful in the eyes of her lover.”