Adepts

Criss Angel is a master of illusion, but he is also a master of himself and his own mind, and has harnessed enough inner-force to accomplish amazing feats, both by using what you may call trickery, and just as much by actually using a certain power that adepts from the middle east to China HAVE been utilizing for centuries. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"The Goat Variations" by Jeff VanderMeer posits an alternate world (and ultimately several) in which an already-weary new President of North America and Britain contemplates the usefulness of a project involving "adepts" - people whose dreams are believed to be glimpses into the future. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All the Buddhist "adepts" -- experienced meditators -- who lent their brains to science had practiced meditation for at least 10,000 hours. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There are also the Hindu worshippers who see in the materializing phenomena, which are performed by the so-called adepts, a source of power, forgetting, or never seeming to realize, that as soon as the will is withdrawn the forms wither and the vibratory forces of which they are composed vanish. ❋ Charles F. Haanel (2008)

But remember that the Mandaeans also call their adepts ‘Nasurai’: this is no coincidence. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2004)

We must realize that there are entities called adepts or Masters or angels or archangels the heavenly hosts who surround us. ❋ Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud (1992)

Barrett also writes of secret underground tunnels in Chinatown rumored to have been used by local gangsters but which may have actually been conjured up by Chinese "adepts" or magicians employing quartz crystals and copper conductors for teleportation purposes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Back of all these there lies the richest bequest ever made to humanity in the discoveries and revelations of the most ancient "adepts," the fathers of mystical lore, in the light of modern discoveries and inventions, mystical no longer; but practical and full of earnest meaning in their adaptation and adjustment to the needs and wants of the citizens of the world today. ❋ Anna Bishop Scofield (N/A)

Disciples, or "adepts," began to make pilgrimages to the prophet. ❋ Isabel Florence Hapgood (1889)

The countess's description of the "adepts" was as clever as the rest of her remarks, and absolutely accurate. ❋ Isabel Florence Hapgood (1889)

Madame Blavatsky, supported her, and believed in the _bona fides_ of her powers, derived as Madame declared from Eastern "adepts" in the science of Yog-Vidya, as this occult knowledge is called by its devotees. ❋ George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1864)

Only the "adepts" understand that the true purpose of all social trends, movements and world events is to condition the masses to play their role in the Masonic banker world tyranny. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Contrarian: It all comes from the long-running left/right political/esoteric meme of an “invisible college,” a coterie of adepts who can and do influence the tides of history for outcomes a conventional dichotomy would term “good” or “bad.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

Understanding the State is all very easy once you get the hang of the lingo and the thought (sic) process of the Inner Party and its media adepts in the Outer Party. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He and his crew were adepts in the new recording technology — the shotgun mikes, the sparkling Nagra sound equipment, and the handheld, quick-load Eclair NPR cameras that would effect the McLuhan-esque transmutation of Woodstock into Woodstock. ❋ Unknown (2009)