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or ancient Magic extended very few persons seem
to realize. It is therefore high time that the philosophy
of the East should illumine the science of the
West, and thus give the death blow to that intellectual
diabolism, and spiritual nihilism, known as
Materialism, and this only the Secret Doctrine can
accomplish. Grave responsibility, however, is incurred
by such a revelation. Those who, like the
professional Hypnotists and the Vivisectionists,
have sinned, perhaps ignorantly, and thus have been
unconsciously "Black Magicians," will eventually
find no avenue of escape. Ignorance can no longer
cover their inhuman or cruel practices. The Hypnotist
can not reduce the mind of a trusting but
ignorant brother to the condition of imbecility, without
facing the law that counts such a crime as no
less than murder. The new Science, resulting from
the union to which I have referred, and which, I
believe, Mr. J.
M. Rusk proposes to call Psycho-
Physics, will be well understood before the close of
the 20th century, and many an old score in the
intellectual arena will be settled.
They know little of the forces at work, or the
principles involved, who imagine that there is sufficient
force in dissolving creeds, or in the dying
throes of materialism, to greatly retard the progress