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Materialization

noun
1.
The process of coming into being; becoming reality.  Synonym: materialisation.
2.
An appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit).  Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation.
3.
Something that comes into existence as a result.  Synonyms: materialisation, offspring.  "This skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"






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"Materialization" Quotes from Famous Books



... physical, and if he wishes to show himself upon the astral plane for any reason, he does not send for his own astral vehicle, but just by a single action of his will materializes one for his temporary need. Such an astral materialization is sometimes called the mayavirupa, and to form it for the first time usually needs the assistance ...
— Clairvoyance • Charles Webster Leadbeater

... we touch upon the Materialization of Thought, which conception loses a part of the absurdity with which Spiritualists and Occultists have invested it, if we regard all nature as one substance. For, in truth, all that was ever perceived, ...
— The Mystic Will • Charles Godfrey Leland

... Negro. Again, others opposed it because they feared that it meant the abandonment of all political privileges, and the higher or classical education of the race. They feared that the final outcome would be the materialization of the Negro, and the smothering of his spiritual and aesthetic nature. Others felt that industrial education had for its object the limitation of the Negro's development, and the branding him for all time ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various

... it materialization," explained Maggie patiently. "She said that when things were very favorable, and the medium a very good one, the soul that wanted to communicate could make a kind of body for itself out of what she called the astral matter of the ...
— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson

... that with every new "angel-guide" they welcome with rapture, they entice the latter into a Upadana, which will be productive of untold evils for the new Ego that will be reborn under its nefarious shadow, and that with every seance, especially for materialization, they multiply the causes for misery, causes that will make the unfortunate Ego fail in his spiritual birth, or be reborn into a far worse existence than ever—they would, perhaps, be less ...
— Death--and After? • Annie Besant

... features were not distinctly and clearly marked; then at the meal He caused His features to be fully materialized so that the disciples might readily recognize Him. All occultists who have witnessed the materialization of an Astral Body will readily understand this statement. The orthodox theory of Jesus having reappeared in His physical body wholly fails to explain this nonrecognition by His disciples, who had ...
— Mystic Christianity • Yogi Ramacharaka

... begun. A few Earth girls were stolen; then more, until very quickly it was obvious that a wider area than Bermuda was needed. Tako's mind flung to New York—greatest center of population within striking distance of him.[3] The foray into Bermuda—the materialization of that little band on the Paget hilltop was more in the nature of an experiment than a real attack. Tako learned a great deal of the nature of this coming warfare, or thought ...
— The White Invaders • Raymond King Cummings



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