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city, may or may not have been built by Noah's son, but it was not his
name that was given to the town, but that of the Mystery Goddess
Khoemnu or Khoemnis (Greek form); the deity that was created by the
ardent fancy of the neophyte, who was thus tantalised during his
“twelve labours” of probation before his final initiation. Her male
counterpart is Khem. The city of Choemnis or Khemmis (today
Akhmem) was the chief seat of the God Khem. The Greeks identifying
Khem with Pan, called this city “Panopolis.”] Ham adored it, it is said,
whence the name Chammaim given to the pyramids; which in their turn
have been vulgarised into our modern noun “chimney.” [
Pneumatologie, iii, 210. This looks more like pious vengeance than
philology. The picture, however, seems incomplete, as the author ought
to have added to the “chimney” a witch flying out of it on a broomstick.]
This statement is entirely wrong. Egypt was the cradle of Chemistry and its birthplace
- this is pretty well known by this time. Only Kenrick and others show the root of
the word to be chemi or chem, which is not Chem or Ham, but Khem, the Egyptian
phallic God of the Mysteries.
But this is not all. De Mirville is bent upon finding a satanic origin even for the now
innocent Tarot.
He goes on to say:
As to the means for the propagation of this evil Magic, tradition points it
out, in certain runic characters traced on metallic plates [or leaves, des
lames] which have escaped destruction by the Deluge [ How could they
escape from the Deluge unless God so willed it This is scarcely
logical.] This might have been regarded as legendary, had not
subsequent discoveries shown it far from being so. Plates were found
covered with curious and utterly undecipherable characters, characters
of undeniable antiquity, to which the Chamites [Sorcerers, with the
author] attribute the origin to their marvellous and terrible powers. [ Loc.
cit., p.210 ]
The pious author may, meanwhile, be left to his own orthodox beliefs.
Cain, Mathematical and Anthropomorphic - (Page 43) He, at any rate, seems quite
sincere in his views. Nevertheless, his able arguments will have to be sapped at their
very foundation, for it must be shown on mathematical grounds who, or rather what,
Cain and Ham really were. De Mirville is only the faithful son of his Church, interested
in keeping Cain in his anthropomorphic character and in his present place in “Holy
Writ.” The student of Occultism, on the other hand, is solely interested in the truth.
But the age has to follow the natural course of evolution.
SECTION IV
The Secresy of Initiates
(Page 44) THE false rendering of a number of parables and sayings of Jesus is not to
be wondered at in the least. From Orpheus, the first initiated Adept of whom history
catches a glimpse in the mists of the pre-Christian era, down through Pythagoras,
Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Apollonius of Tyana, to Ammonius Saccas, no Teacher or
Initiate has ever committed to writing for public use. Each and all of them have
invariably recommended silence and secresy on certain facts and deeds, from
Confucius, who refused to explain publicly and satisfactorily what he meant by his
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