Does any body lie in the chamber beneath? said the princess. Nobody has dared to lie there, answered Bianca, since the great astrologer that was your brother’s tutor drowned himself.

Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Hermetic quote Walpole Otranto drowned

Consider also:

  1. “and though it be but a body of humiliation compared with that body of incorruption which is the promised inheritance of him who endures to the end, let us never forget that if we never do anything to disgrace the badge of flesh with which God has endowed each of us, that badge will never disgrace us.”
  2. Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley
  3. “All that has happened in the third degree is that he has symbolically passed through a great and striking change: a rebirth, or regeneration of his whole nature. He has been ‘sown a corruptible body’; and in virtue of the self-discipline and self-development he has undergone, there has been raised in him ‘an incorruptible body,’ and death has been swallowed up in the victory he has attained over himself.”
  4. “This, our body of mortality, this veil of flesh and blood clothing the inner soul of us, this is the real ‘badge of innocence,’ the common ‘bond of friendship,’ with which the Great Architect has been pleased to invest us all this, the human body, is the badge which is ‘older and nobler than that of any other Order in existence'”
  5. “M. Chabas in his supplement to the Harris Magical Papyrus gives many instances of the good and evil uses made of the KHOU. One entered the body of a princess who was obsessed for a long period, until it was cast out by means of the health-giving Divinity. It was the KHOU which had been degraded that became a demon and the torturer of mankind.”