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{{Style P-Align right|New York, Sept 27. 1875.}}

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''To the, Editor of The Spiritual Scientist:''

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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}} :—The Banner of Light Editor, puts in his issue of last week, certain direct questions to me, in a weak and untruthful article, entitled, “The New Departure,” which he wants answered in “plain speech.” On Sunday evening, 26th inst., I lectured before the Spiritualists of this city, and as my Boston editorial inquisitor seemed so very anxious for knowledge, and as some of his representatives were in my audience,

{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}} :—The Banner of Light Editor, puts in his issue of last week, certain direct questions to me, in a weak and untruthful article, entitled, “The New Departure,” which he wants answered in “plain speech.” On Sunday evening, 26th inst., I lectured before the Spiritualists of this city, and as my Boston editorial inquisitor seemed so very anxious for knowledge, and as some of his representatives were in my audience,

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''To the Editor of The Spiritual Scientist:''

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{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Sir}} :—The author of the article on “Ancient Works on Occult Science,” in a recent number of the Spiritual Scientist, makes a bold assertion when he says that he “is in possession if the Key to the Hermetic Mystery." If this be so, he has the key to unlock the doors of the ancient sanctuaries. In other words, he possesses the knowledge that will enable him to raise the Veil of Isis, and penetrate into the “unknowable,” as Herbert Spencer terms it, and grasp the hidden secrets of Nature. But few, very few of the ancient sages, were able to accomplish so much. A knowledge of the Hermetic secrets will not only enable the recipient to make the Universal Medicine and the ''Lopis Philosophorum'', but give him also a knowledge of universal nature General Hitchcock claimed to have found the Key of the Hermetic philosophy, and wrote a work entitled, “Remarks upon Alchemy and the Alchemists,” in which he attempts to explain the great mystery; but every Occultist student knows that he was far from the truth. ''He who knows it will not reveal it''. Therefore, until the writer of genius gives it to the world as be promises, I will not believe he possesses it. The secret is hidden to them who would reveal it; for the Divine Mind will not permit his secret laws to be known to any until they have so advanced in purity as to be enabled to secure them, and when once revealed silence is enjoined upon the recipient; and if the injunction should be violated, tbc consequences would be most severe to the faithless one. A true initiate never boasts of his knowledge publicly. He is a man of silence, for one of the fundamental laws of Occultism is SILENCE.

{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Sir}} :—The author of the article on “Ancient Works on Occult Science,” in a recent number of the Spiritual Scientist, makes a bold assertion when he says that he “is in possession if the Key to the Hermetic Mystery." If this be so, he has the key to unlock the doors of the ancient sanctuaries. In other words, he possesses the knowledge that will enable him to raise the Veil of Isis, and penetrate into the “unknowable,” as Herbert Spencer terms it, and grasp the hidden secrets of Nature. But few, very few of the ancient sages, were able to accomplish so much. A knowledge of the Hermetic secrets will not only enable the recipient to make the Universal Medicine and the ''Lopis Philosophorum'', but give him also a knowledge of universal nature General Hitchcock claimed to have found the Key of the Hermetic philosophy, and wrote a work entitled, “Remarks upon Alchemy and the Alchemists,” in which he attempts to explain the great mystery; but every Occultist student knows that he was far from the truth. ''He who knows it will not reveal it''. Therefore, until the writer of genius gives it to the world as be promises, I will not believe he possesses it. The secret is hidden to them who would reveal it; for the Divine Mind will not permit his secret laws to be known to any until they have so advanced in purity as to be enabled to secure them, and when once revealed silence is enjoined upon the recipient; and if the injunction should be violated, tbc consequences would be most severe to the faithless one. A true initiate never boasts of his knowledge publicly. He is a man of silence, for one of the fundamental laws of Occultism is SILENCE.