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Bearing in mind the objections that will be made to the teachings of the Esoteric
Doctrine as herein propounded, the writer is forced to meet some of them
beforehand.
Such imputations as those brought by Clemens against the “heathen” Adepts, only
prove the presence of clairvoyant powers and prevision in every age, but are no
evidence in favour of a Devil. They are, therefore, of no value except to the
Christians, for whom Satan is one of the chief pillars of the faith. Baronius and De
Mirville, for instance, find an unanswerable proof of Demonology in the belief in the
co-eternity of Matter with Spirit!
De Mirville writes that Pherecydes
Postulates in principle the primordiality of Zeus or Ether, and then, on
the same plane, a principle, coeternal and coactive, which he calls the
fifth element, or Ogenos. [ Loc. cit.]
He then points out that the meaning of Ogenos is given as that which shuts up, which
holds captive, and that is Hades, “or in a word, hell.”
The synonyms are known to every schoolboy without the Marquis going to the trouble
of explaining them to the Academy; as to the deduction, every Occultist will of course
deny it and only smile at its folly. And now we come to the theological conclusion.
The resumé of the views of the Latin Church - as given by authors of the same
characters as the Marquis de Mirville - amounts to this: that the Hermetic Books, their
wisdom - fully admitted in Rome - notwithstanding, are “the heirloom left by Cain, the
accursed, to mankind.” It is “generally admitted,” says that modern memorialist of
Satan in History:
That immediately after the Flood Cham and his descendants had
propagated anew the ancient teachings of the Cainites and of the
surmerged Race.[Op. cit., iii 208 ]
(Page 42) This proves, at any rate, that Magic, or Sorcery as he calls it, is an
antediluvian Art, and thus one point is gained. For, as he says:-
The evidence of Berosius makes Ham identical with the first Zoroaster,
founder of Bactria, the first author of all the magic arts of Babylonia, the
Chemesenua or Cham, [The English speaking people who spell the
name of Noah's disrespectful son “Ham” have to be reminded that the
right spelling is “Kham” or “Cham”] the infamous [ Black Magic, or
Sorcery, is the evil result obtained in any shape or way through the
practice of Occult Arts: hence it has to be judged only by its effects. The
name of neither Ham nor Cain, when pronounced, has ever killed any
one; whereas, if we have to believe that same Clemens Alexandrinus
who traces the teacher of every Occultist, outside of Christianity, to the
Devil, the name of Jehovah (pronounced Jevo and in a peculiar way)
had the effect of killing a man at a distance. The mysterious
Schemham-phorasch was not always used for holy purposes by the
Kabalists, especially since the Sabbath or Saturday, sacred to Saturn or
the evil Shani, became - with the Jews - sacred to “Jehovah.”] of the
faithful Noachians, finally the object of adoration for Egypt, which
having received its name χημεια, whence chemistry, built in his honour
a town called Choemnis, or the “city of fire.” [ Khoemnis, the pre-historic
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