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in the perfect sight-making of the optic glasses—in the focus of his glasses of sense. But there are other landscapes. . . and new sights float over, and through, the man-perspectives, and, in new adjustments of the preternatural soul-sight, new worlds are penetrated to, or, which is the same, undulate, centrically, to us, from out the universal flat of shows. Basis of the Rosicrucian secret system, and of all true mysticism or occult knowledge, it is the only thing possible. . . . Wecan glow, by working, as by heavy strokes upon our nature, as like iron in a forge. And this, with an exalting light, forced out — the Immortal fire — wealth — out of another world, even to grow visible to men’s mortal eyes. This is ecstasy, and the Divine Illumination. None the less real, because we see nothing of it in the world. Else we should be, as the Bible says,Gods. . . . Itis inthis magical world of God’s light, that sainthood becomes possible, and that the solid world and the exterior nature obey the God-like nature, — worked and drawn, magically, into the circle of its power, . . . bythe all-compelling magnetism. Trodden ofthe spirit. . . . It is a God-instinctive, magic life, in which unliving things are, really, taken to live. . . . The first magician, who is as such recorded, and who gave distinct teachings on the subject of magic, is Zoroaster, The genius of Socrates, Plotin, Porphyrius, and Jamblichus, of Chichus and Scaliger and Cardanus, is placed in the first rank, which included inward (or magic) sight. In later times Robert Fludd (1638-53) and the great magnetist and mirror-seer, Paracelsus.” We have records of over three thousand grand masters of the art, — all dead; and of scores —all living —right in our land, —ay, within rifie-shot of where these lines are penned. The plane of the mirror is before us, within so few feet or inches; but its lanes lead down the ages, and its roads up the starry steeps of the Infinite. Its field is — the Vastness below, within, above, and around —and elsewhere; but thatelsewhere contains all life next off this life —is an immortal factness, . . .
‘‘In ancient times a natural basin of rock, kept constantly fall by a yunning stream, was a favorite haunt for its magical effects. The double meaning of the word reflection ought here to be considered, and how, gazing down into clear water, the mind is disposed to self-retirement, and to contemplation deeply tinctured with melancholy. Rocky pools and gloomy lakes figure in all stories of magic: witness the Craic-pol-nain in the Highland woods of Laynchork; the Devil’s Glen in the County of Wicklow, Ireland; the Swedish Blokula; the witch-mountains of Italy; and the Babiagora, between Hungary and Poland. Similar resorts, in the glens of Germany, were marked, as Tacitus mentions, by salt-springs.
‘*Tt was, really, only another form of divination by the gloomy waterpool, that attracted so much public attention, a few years ago, when Mr. Lane, in his work on Modern Egypt, testified to its success as practised in Egypt-and Hindostan. That gentleman, having resolved to witness the performance of this species of Psycho-vision, the magician commenced
in the perfect sight-making of the optic glasses—in the focus of his glasses of sense. But there are other landscapes. . . and new sights float over, and through, the man-perspectives, and, in new adjustments of the preternatural soul-sight, new worlds are penetrated to, or, which is the same, undulate, centrically, to us, from out the universal flat of shows. Basis of the Rosicrucian secret system, and of all true mysticism or occult knowledge, it is the only thing possible. . . . Wecan glow, by working, as by heavy strokes upon our nature, as like iron in a forge. And this, with an exalting light, forced out — the Immortal fire — wealth — out of another world, even to grow visible to men’s mortal eyes. This is ecstasy, and the Divine Illumination. None the less real, because we see nothing of it in the world. Else we should be, as the Bible says,Gods. . . . Itis inthis magical world of God’s light, that sainthood becomes possible, and that the solid world and the exterior nature obey the God-like nature, — worked and drawn, magically, into the circle of its power, . . . bythe all-compelling magnetism. Trodden ofthe spirit. . . . It is a God-instinctive, magic life, in which unliving things are, really, taken to live. . . . The first magician, who is as such recorded, and who gave distinct teachings on the subject of magic, is Zoroaster, The genius of Socrates, Plotin, Porphyrius, and Jamblichus, of Chichus and Scaliger and Cardanus, is placed in the first rank, which included inward (or magic) sight. In later times Robert Fludd (1638-53) and the great magnetist and mirror-seer, Paracelsus.” We have records of over three thousand grand masters of the art, — all dead; and of scores —all living —right in our land, —ay, within rifie-shot of where these lines are penned. The plane of the mirror is before us, within so few feet or inches; but its lanes lead down the ages, and its roads up the starry steeps of the Infinite. Its field is — the Vastness below, within, above, and around —and elsewhere; but thatelsewhere contains all life next off this life —is an immortal factness, . . .
‘‘In ancient times a natural basin of rock, kept constantly fall by a yunning stream, was a favorite haunt for its magical effects. The double meaning of the word reflection ought here to be considered, and how, gazing down into clear water, the mind is disposed to self-retirement, and to contemplation deeply tinctured with melancholy. Rocky pools and gloomy lakes figure in all stories of magic: witness the Craic-pol-nain in the Highland woods of Laynchork; the Devil’s Glen in the County of Wicklow, Ireland; the Swedish Blokula; the witch-mountains of Italy; and the Babiagora, between Hungary and Poland. Similar resorts, in the glens of Germany, were marked, as Tacitus mentions, by salt-springs.
‘*Tt was, really, only another form of divination by the gloomy waterpool, that attracted so much public attention, a few years ago, when Mr. Lane, in his work on Modern Egypt, testified to its success as practised in Egypt-and Hindostan. That gentleman, having resolved to witness the performance of this species of Psycho-vision, the magician commenced
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