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INTERIOR VISION. 35
PART SECOND.
THEORY AND PRACTICE— THE MAGNETIC MIRROR. INTRODUCTORY.
My reasons for writing, compiling, and editing the following extraordinary treatise, — a very difficult task, because wholly out of the ordinary literary channels, -—a subject almost wholly unknown to the great majority of readers, and 2 labor that necessitated very extensive reading and research of and among
“Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore” —
were threefold: First, to relieve myself of the pressure of correspondence on the subject of the treatise, and occult matters generally, by recording the principal points upon which inquiries are made of me, from the fact that I am generally supposed to be thoroughly versed in many of those subtle sciences which for ages have constituted the special studics of the fraternities Pythagorean and Rosicrucian, to which I have, for many years, had the honor and privilege to belong. The second motive was that of obliging one who, in the dark hour of sickness, proved to me a friend indeed; and, thirdly, because the time had come wherein to at least partially ventilate a much misunderstood and tabooed subject, especially as the opportunity was afforded me just then to avail myself of very rare and unusual facilities for obtaining information on the subjects treated of, from one of the first masters of occult science now on the globe in fiesh and blood and bone—I allude to the famous Armenian Philosopher, Cuilna Vilmara, then on a brief visit to the shores of Republican and matter-of-fact America.
Aside from these motives is another: Within these past few years there has grown up a very widespread discontent regarding theories, theorists, and the real causes underlying and subtending the strange and varied Psychical Phenomena of the age. Lspecially is this true with reference to the but little understood, yet in reality vast, science of maguetics, one branch of which the following pages are devoted to. The want was felt for a handbook. That want is here supplied.
Amidst the heavy pressure on my time, health, and vital power, but little opportunity has been hitherto afforded the writer hereof, to give the
PART SECOND.
THEORY AND PRACTICE— THE MAGNETIC MIRROR. INTRODUCTORY.
My reasons for writing, compiling, and editing the following extraordinary treatise, — a very difficult task, because wholly out of the ordinary literary channels, -—a subject almost wholly unknown to the great majority of readers, and 2 labor that necessitated very extensive reading and research of and among
“Many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore” —
were threefold: First, to relieve myself of the pressure of correspondence on the subject of the treatise, and occult matters generally, by recording the principal points upon which inquiries are made of me, from the fact that I am generally supposed to be thoroughly versed in many of those subtle sciences which for ages have constituted the special studics of the fraternities Pythagorean and Rosicrucian, to which I have, for many years, had the honor and privilege to belong. The second motive was that of obliging one who, in the dark hour of sickness, proved to me a friend indeed; and, thirdly, because the time had come wherein to at least partially ventilate a much misunderstood and tabooed subject, especially as the opportunity was afforded me just then to avail myself of very rare and unusual facilities for obtaining information on the subjects treated of, from one of the first masters of occult science now on the globe in fiesh and blood and bone—I allude to the famous Armenian Philosopher, Cuilna Vilmara, then on a brief visit to the shores of Republican and matter-of-fact America.
Aside from these motives is another: Within these past few years there has grown up a very widespread discontent regarding theories, theorists, and the real causes underlying and subtending the strange and varied Psychical Phenomena of the age. Lspecially is this true with reference to the but little understood, yet in reality vast, science of maguetics, one branch of which the following pages are devoted to. The want was felt for a handbook. That want is here supplied.
Amidst the heavy pressure on my time, health, and vital power, but little opportunity has been hitherto afforded the writer hereof, to give the
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