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prove.
The "Principalities and Powers of the Air,"
of which the Apostle speaks, and of which the
Kabalah treats very fully, are the Elementals described)
though but blindly, in ancient occult literature.
When the real nature of obscession is understood,
and the character of these depraved entities
becomes known, it will be discerned how little is to
be gained, and how much is to be risked by invoking
them. Here lies the reason why mediumship
should be discouraged and regarded as a disease, or,
at besit, a misfortune. Real Seership is a very different
thing indeed from obscession in any form.
If Seership be compared to the Ecstacy of an innocent
and happy child,
obscession may be likened to
the delirium of drunkenness or madness.
Some idea may be gained, perhaps, from the
foregoing of the source arid character of the penalty
for the violation of obligations assumed by .the
Neophite in the mysteries. In the "Mystery of
Cloomber," Conan Doyle portrays the "idea," but
makes the execution of the penalty at once fantastic,
horrible, and impossible. No real Master, even
such as he portrays, could ever play the bungling
part of executioner, such as he depicts, but would
leave the criminal to the snares and devices of his