aquastor

plural aquastors

1. A being created and sustained by the power of the imagination and the concentration of thought.

   AQUASTOR.—A being created by the power of the imagination

   [1891, Franz Hartmann, The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, page 40

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   There is another being, created by the imagination entirely, and called Aquastor. The specific imagination required for this creative act is evolved by a concentration of thought upon the A'kasa, which is an Eastern term signifying living primordial substance.

   1899, William Wallace Cook, “Aquastor”, in Overland Monthly, page 14

   Little will here be said concerning Paracelsus' notions on Magic. We have scant inclination to elucidate his aniadum and aquastor, or explain his evestrum and erodinium.

   [1912, Victor Robinson, Pathfinders in Medicine, page 52

   “[…]We are aquastors, beings created and sustained by the power of the imagination and the concentration of thought.”

   1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXI, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 255

   Hearing it, it seemed to me for a moment that it was my own cry, that something I had held deep inside me since that still-dark morning when I had walked the beach with the aquastor Master Malrubius and watched the aquastor Triskele dissolve in shimmering dust had freed itself and separated itself from me, and that it was below, howling in the faint lost light.

   1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter IV, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20

   The etheric aura can be visualized for practical purposes to extend the same distance from our bodies that we can measure by extending both arms. It can be developed by using the invoked light of the First Iliaster to create protective aquastors. These protective aquastors eventually render the auro impenetrable to all but the most potent invasive forces and energies. This is done in the First Empowerment after Initiation in the Temple of the Holy Grail.

   2001, Timothy A. Storlie, “Chapter Twelve Polishing the Chalice: Imperil and Esoteric Purity Practices”, in Initiation Into the Grail Mysteries: Advanced Spiritual Teachings, Practices, and Empowerments for Esoteric World Service, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, “Subtle Anatomy and the Need for Esoteric Purity”, page 155