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mirror, or translucent spirit-seeing crystal, in which impossible-seeming things are disclosed. The menstrwum or universal dissolvent, a transmuting element, the elixir vite or a power of general regeneration, magical means in their widest sense—a capacity to deal with the materials of nature until quite contrary things are evolved of them; every phase of impossible knowledge has been assumed of these philosophers. That soon, outside of our material nature, the grand lights begin to shine, was their argument. But by the vulgar their accomplishments were suspected as the forbidden golden keys of the very treasure-house in which lie the nieans of unlocking the gates to the immortal knowledge!
‘¢ Those who take up these volumes will see, by what is advanced in this concluding chapter, that they deal with no crude or inconclusive fancies of merely enthusiastic, imaginative, theorizing people. Nor that they are to be defrauded in the unconscientious work, sought to be diverted from solid judgment in the flimsy attractions, nor simply seduced in the plausibilities of the book-making tribe; traitors — compelled or lured —to the great commonwealth of letters!
‘‘ The second volume of ‘Curious Things’ (by Hargrave Jennings, F. R. C., from which copious extracts have been made herein), in which will be found some very original and interesting speculation, points, as its keynote, as it were, to the following weil-supported though surprising assertion: ‘That extraordinary race, the Buddhists of Upper India (of whom the Phoenician Canaanite, Melchizedek, was a priest), who builé the Pyramids, Stonehenge, Carnac, etc., can be shown to have founded all the ancient Mythologies of the World, which, however varied and corrupted in recent times, were originally Onz, and that One founded on principles sublime, beautiful, and true!’
« And at this stage of my book, I may, with propriety, cease addressing in the formal and distant third person, and, in my individual capacity, assure the kind reader (who has accompanied me thus far, and so long) that the volumes upon which he has been occupied have been the full work, in one manner and another,’of two years, I first formed the notion of such a book as this at no less distant a date than nine years; namely, in 1851. It was in October, 1858, that I first commenced upon these volumes. Except a certain interval from December, 1859, until the succeeding March, when, I was otherwise occupied, the task has held me, uninterruptedly, down to the present. Twenty years of metaphysics are exhibited in the conclusions of this book. They have, thus, the guarantee of delay and of thought. Much thinking produces good acting.” . . .
“Distributed as over the wide and heaving sea of history, most numerous fragments, evidently of a mighty wreck —most wonderful the ship, and of materials and of design portentous and superhuman — have floated as to the thinker’s feet. Chips as of strange and puzzling woods — pieces that, dissevered, bore no meaning — contradictory objects — diverse matters, only, through keenness, with suspected relation — a beam, portions
mirror, or translucent spirit-seeing crystal, in which impossible-seeming things are disclosed. The menstrwum or universal dissolvent, a transmuting element, the elixir vite or a power of general regeneration, magical means in their widest sense—a capacity to deal with the materials of nature until quite contrary things are evolved of them; every phase of impossible knowledge has been assumed of these philosophers. That soon, outside of our material nature, the grand lights begin to shine, was their argument. But by the vulgar their accomplishments were suspected as the forbidden golden keys of the very treasure-house in which lie the nieans of unlocking the gates to the immortal knowledge!
‘¢ Those who take up these volumes will see, by what is advanced in this concluding chapter, that they deal with no crude or inconclusive fancies of merely enthusiastic, imaginative, theorizing people. Nor that they are to be defrauded in the unconscientious work, sought to be diverted from solid judgment in the flimsy attractions, nor simply seduced in the plausibilities of the book-making tribe; traitors — compelled or lured —to the great commonwealth of letters!
‘‘ The second volume of ‘Curious Things’ (by Hargrave Jennings, F. R. C., from which copious extracts have been made herein), in which will be found some very original and interesting speculation, points, as its keynote, as it were, to the following weil-supported though surprising assertion: ‘That extraordinary race, the Buddhists of Upper India (of whom the Phoenician Canaanite, Melchizedek, was a priest), who builé the Pyramids, Stonehenge, Carnac, etc., can be shown to have founded all the ancient Mythologies of the World, which, however varied and corrupted in recent times, were originally Onz, and that One founded on principles sublime, beautiful, and true!’
« And at this stage of my book, I may, with propriety, cease addressing in the formal and distant third person, and, in my individual capacity, assure the kind reader (who has accompanied me thus far, and so long) that the volumes upon which he has been occupied have been the full work, in one manner and another,’of two years, I first formed the notion of such a book as this at no less distant a date than nine years; namely, in 1851. It was in October, 1858, that I first commenced upon these volumes. Except a certain interval from December, 1859, until the succeeding March, when, I was otherwise occupied, the task has held me, uninterruptedly, down to the present. Twenty years of metaphysics are exhibited in the conclusions of this book. They have, thus, the guarantee of delay and of thought. Much thinking produces good acting.” . . .
“Distributed as over the wide and heaving sea of history, most numerous fragments, evidently of a mighty wreck —most wonderful the ship, and of materials and of design portentous and superhuman — have floated as to the thinker’s feet. Chips as of strange and puzzling woods — pieces that, dissevered, bore no meaning — contradictory objects — diverse matters, only, through keenness, with suspected relation — a beam, portions
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