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The Secret Doctrine. 185
ancient Atlanteans, not those of Plato's island which
was a fragment of the great continent, but of the
Continent which sank, it is said, 50,000 years ago,
possessed the secret of this "most potent force," referred
to by Bro. Pike, that they were great Magicians,
and that they did thus "change the face of
the earth," as Bro. Pike declares possible, and that
the sinking of the continent was the result. Perhaps,
if our "rain-makers" succeed in solving a
little further the problem of vibrations in their relations
to atmospheric changes, this and many other
ancient "Fables" may seem less fabulous to modern
"scientific materialism." When it is stated that these
terrible forces exist, and may be known and utilized,
people are not scandalized in this age of dynamite.
But when it is also stated that the knowledge of
these forces is concealed from all but trained Adepts
who have demonstrated their unqualified beneficence
to man, and that in the hands of vicious, unqualified,
or ignorant persons, they are capable of working
untold misery to man, the statement usually excites
derision.
If this embargo were removed, doubtless mankind
would not long remain in any uncertainty as to the
existence of the terrible vrill of Bulwer Lytton.
If it were revealed to the Spanish Generals or the