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CONCLUSION.
"THERE is a point," quoth a grandiloquent pseudo-
Eosicrucian in an impressive and tragedy voice, ' '
there is
a point," he repeated in the conventional whisper of the
unexplainable mystic, " beyond which we inevitably must
keep silence. We are driven to take refuge in portentous
darkness and in irretrievable mystery." The godless and
incorrigible scepticism of a coarse, unsubdued intelligence,
surrendered to a reprobate sense, and basely and wilfully
grovelling in the blind alleys of natural causes, begs leave
to believe that this is because extremes meet,
that the
heights of the inexpressible are closely approximate to the
abysmal depths of bathos. But the unsubdued intelligence
is known to have covered the shame of its naked ignorance
with the " filthy rags " of a posteriori methods. Anathema
maranatha. Let it have no part in the life to come !
Nevertheless, I have found it superfluous to "keep guard
over " the secrets of the Eosicrucians, or to veil their mys-
teries in inviolable silence, and this is for a simple reason,
namely, that they have never revealed any.
If the mani-
festoes I|have published emanated in reality from a secret
society, it has stood guard over its own treasures, and as
neither Mr Hargrave Jennings nor myself can "boast of
having ever really and in fact seen or known any supposed
(or suspected) member in the flesh," we have nothing to
reveal or to withhold.
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