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the Seasons ; to produce in night the phenomena of
day; to send a thought in an instant around the
world; to heal or slay at a distance; to give our
words universal success, and make them reverberate
everywhere."
"This agent, partially revealed by the blind
guesses of the disciples of Mesmer, is precisely what
the Adepts of the middle ages called the 'elementary
matter of the Great Work.'
The Gnostics held that
it composed the igneous body of the Holy Spirit;
and it was adored in the secret rites of the Sabbat
or the Temple, under the hieroglyphic figure of
Baphomet, or the hermaphroditic goat of Mendes.*"
Modern Science is
slowly re-discovering some of
the secrets of Antiquity. The "Radiant matter" of
Professor Crooks, the Cathode ray of Roentgen,
and other advancements in psychic photography, the
Mayava Rupa of Baraduc, and, greatest of all, the
discoveries of J. W. Keely, trench so closely on the
"elementary matter" of the
old Alchemists and the
Akas of the more ancient Adepts of old India, that
a student of occultism need no longer be afraid to
reveal himself.
There is an old legend which declares that the
*Moral8 and Dogma, p. 734.