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... | {{Style P-No indent|by them. To have communication with pure immortals, we must have pure-minded mediums; and the first thing necessary to free the mediums from the thrall under which they now are, is to learn the law by which “elementaries’’ can be controlled. Colonel Olcott told about having letters to a friend in India answered in a moment, in his own room, and of an occult “adept” clearing away a rainstorm for him when he wanted to go out once; but said, very considerately, that he didn’t expect his auditors to believe him.}} | ||
In the evening, Colonel Olcott spoke of “Eastern Magic and Western Spiritualism.” The world, he said, moved in cycles; and to attempt to solve the mysteries of the ethereal world without going back to the men who built Karnak and Baalbac “before antiquity began” would seem useless. These men surpassed us in art and equalled us in science; and it is contrary to all analogy and all reason to suppose that they were ignorant of spirit matters. | |||
The occult or divine art was professed by priests of all religions under a veil. This was the soul of all mythology; but, lest its dangerous power should be converted to base uses its votaries were bound to secresy and silence. It was then “white magic;” and what has since been practised by necromancers and Kabi-men is the abuse of it, called the black art. The one has dealings with immortals, the other with “elementaries.” The soul is the apex of the great pyramid of nature, and is given dominion over the microcosm or lesser world. The occult art supplies the “missing link’’ in Darwin’s theory of evolution, and explains the great cosmos governed by one creative force. Colonel Olcott told the story of the fakir who was buried eleven months, and revived, but did not vouch for it. He explained, however, the theory of a man’s “double,” saying that he met the other day the double of a woman whom he knew to be in Florida at the time; to touch and appearance she was solid as when in the body. He referred also to levitation, etc., and the power of passing through walls, which gifted magicians possess, and fortified his marvelous stories by references to the marvels told in the Bible and by patristic writers. The lecture, it is needless to say, was heard with a good deal of interest. | |||
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