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3. Human Artificials. We have now to consider a class of entitieswhich, though it contains but very few individuals, 1 has acquired from its intimate connection with one of the great movements of modern times an importance entirely out of proportion to its numbers. It seems doubtful whether it should appear under the first or third of our main divisions ; but, though certainly human, it is so far removed'from the course of ordinary evolution, so entirely the product of a will outside of its own, that it perhaps falls most naturally into place among the artificial beings.
The easiest way of describing it will be to commence with its tystory, and to do that we must once more look back to the great Atlantean race. I n thinking of the Adepts nd schools of occultism of that remarkable people our ninds instinctively revert to*the evil practices of which we tear so much ir» connection with their latter days ; but we nust not forget that