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elentless vigour and determination, they have to be ranked with the adepts of the
Black Art.
Black Magic at Work - (Page 25) These are our modern Roman Catholic "fathers"
and clergy. Most of the hieratic writings and symbols have been deciphered by them
since the Middle Ages. A hundred times more learned in secret Symbology and the
old Religions than our Orientalists will ever be, the personification of astuteness and
cleverness, every such adept in the art holds the keys tightly in his firmly clenched
hand, and will take care the secret shall not be easily divulged, if he can help it.
There are more profoundly learned Kabalists in Rome and throughout Europe and
America, than is generally suspected. Thus are the professedly public "brotherhoods"
of "black" adepts more powerful and dangerous for Protestant countries than any
host of Eastern Occultists. People laugh at Magic! Men of Science, Physiologists and
Biologists, deride the potency and even the belief in the existence of what is called in
vulgar parlance "Sorcery" and "Black Magic" The Archaeologists have their
Stonehenge in England with its thousands of secrets, and its twin-brother Karnac of
Brittany, and yet there is not one of them who even suspects what has been going on
in its crypts, and its mysterious nooks and corners, for the last century. More than
that, they do not even know of the existence of such "magic halls" in their
Stonehenge, where curious scenes are taking place, whenever there is a new
convert in view. Hundreds of experiments have been, and are being made daily at
the Salpetriere, and also by learned hypnotisers at their private houses. It is now
proved that certain sensitives - both men and women - when commanded in trance,
by the practitioner, who operates on them, to do a certain thing - from drinking a
glass of water up to simulated murder - on recovering their normal state lose all
remembrance of the order inspired - "suggested" it is now called by Science.
Nevertheless, at the appointed hour and moment, the subject, though conscious and
perfectly awake, is compelled by an irresistible power within himself to do that action
which has been suggested to him by his mesmeriser; and that too, whatever it may
be, and whatever the period fixed by him who controls the subject, that is to say,
holds the latter under the power of his will, as a snake holds a bird under its
fascination, and finally forces it to jump into its open jaws. Worse than this: for the
bird is conscious of the peril; it resists, however helpless in its final efforts, while the
hypnotized subject does not rebel, but seems to follow the suggestions and voice of
its own free-will and soul. Who of our European men of Science, who believe in such
scientific experiments - and very (Page 26) few are they who still doubt them now-adays,
and who do not feel convinced of their actual reality - who of them, it is asked,
is ready to admit this as being Black Magic Yet it is the genuine, undeniable and
actual fascination and sorcery of old. The Mulu Kurumbas of Nilgiri do not proceed
otherwise in their envoutements when they seek to destroy an enemy, nor do the
Dugpas of Sikkim and Bhutan know of any more potential agent than their will. Only
in them that will does not proceed by jumps and starts, but acts with certainty; it does
not depend on the amount of receptivity or nervous impressibility of the "subjects."
Having chosen his victim and placed himself en rapport with them, the Dugpa's "fluid"
is sure to find its way, for his will is immeasurably more strongly developed than the
will of the European experimenter - the self-made, untutored, and unconscious
Sorcerer for the sake of Science - who has no idea (or belief either) of the variety and
potency of the world-old methods used to develop this power, by the conscious
sorcerer, the "Black Magician" of the East and West.
And now the question is openly and squarely asked: Why should not the fanatical
and zealous priest, thirsting to convert some selected rich and influential member of
society, use the same means to accomplish his end as the French Physician and
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