SEERSHIP; Guide to Soul Sight - Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

which came so near making her a childless widow.
"It may not be generally known to the public, but it is nevertheless a fact, that these barbarous
African superstitions and practices prevail, and are increasing among the ‘freedmen' not only of
Memphis and Tennessee, but of all the southern States. It is the clearest proof of the inevitable
tendency of the negro to relapse into barbarism when left to control himself."
So much for Voudooism. I believe this story to be true, for I have myself been a victim to the thing,
but the doctor who analyzed the stuff, and found "poison," is both a cheat and a sham to hide his
utter ignorance. There was no poison about it. The whole thing is purely magnetic, as I can
demonstrate at will, for I know this thing from end to end.
But I have already exceeded the limits assigned to this part of my subject, and shall end it with a
few words of advice to those who are mesmerized, who mesmerize others, and to that large class of
persons who, unable to be put into the magnetic state themselves, or induce the sleep in others, yet
have a constitutional tendency towards the occult - a peculiar idiosyncrasy which admirably adapts
them to the investigation of the inner mysteries of existence - men and women, who have strange
prophetic impulses, weird and arabesque dreams - people who feel strange mental depression
without any apparent cause - persons who are strangely warned of impending death or danger, and
before whose eyes fiery sparks glitter a moment and then vanish into the deep blank void again; -
such persons make splendid seers through the magic crystals of Artefius and Dee, the Japanese
crystal globes, and better still, the splendid magnetic mirrors of Trinue, and the finer ones
imported in this country by the Armenian seer, CUILNA VILMARA,(22) many of which I have
used myself, and selected for others. I think I never so deeply regretted the loss of any material
object so much as I did the accidental breaking of a splendid first-class Trinue glass, which cost me
twenty-five dollars, but which I would not have parted with for ten times that sum; for not only
could I see strange scenes upon its charmed magnetic surface, but of the hundreds who have gazed
into it, I only knew of but five who could not see strange scenes upon its charmed magnetic surface,
but of the hundreds who have gazed into it, I only knew of but five who could not see curious clouds
moving at will, and phantoramas strangely beautiful and interesting, clear as noonday and brilliant
as polarized light! To all these classes of persons I say: Your power depends upon your health,
cleanliness, freedom from doubt, irritability and, above all, impatience. You must, if you would
succeed in penetrating the dark pall which hangs between this world and the under and over
realms of light, yet mystery, cultivate firmness of purpose, steadiness of will, persistency in search
of the desired end, volume of lung power and clearness of mind. Mystery never opens her dark
doors to the impatient seeker, has been the result of all my experience, and that of every true
Rosicrucian that ever lived, from Thoth-Mor, King of Egypt and high priest thousands of years
before the birth of the present materialistic phase of civilization, down to the last explorer of the
realms of Mystery. From THOTH in his palaces three miles square on the banks of ancient Nile, to
the humble student on the shores of grander Mississippi, each and both, and the links between, all
tell the same story and recount the same experience - that MYSTERY refuses knowledge to the
impatient Soul - ALWAYS.
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