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<center>[Lucifer, Vol. III, No. 16, December, 1888, pp. 301-303]</center>

The fragments that we publish below form one of the most remarkable instances of so-called automatic writing when the medium, without any previous knowledge of the subject, is impelled to set down upon the paper that which is not in the brain. The medium here is a young lady who knows nothing about this dirge, but we know that it is a portion of the chant which was sung over the entranced body of the neophyte who was about to become an initiate. The original was found in Egypt among the wrappings of a mummy by the grandfather of a gentleman, a Mason, from whom we got it. Although Egyptologists may have seen the fragment, we are certain that the young lady who wrote down the verses had never heard of it before and was much puzzled by the verses, if not by the signature of “Sepher” given to her. Spiritualists may say it-is something from the “spirits,” but we hold the view that it is a reminiscence from past incarnations of the one who wrote. These recollections are not so rare as is supposed, and while frequently they are not recognised as such, they nevertheless account for many strange things heard at séances with mediums and psycho {{Page aside|209}}graphic writers, as we were told it was only in the days of Ptolemy that this dirge began to be chanted over the really dead or the mummy.—Ed.<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[As appears from H.P.B.’s explanation in the article “The Dirge for the Dead,” which immediately follows the present one, the last two lines of this Editorial Note are faulty, due to a printer’s error. The second footnote of the next article explains what was the real meaning intended to be conveyed.––Compiler.]}}</ref>

<center>KHIOS XXI</center>

Pale mortal, lying so like an image of Phineus,<ref>Phineus, the King of Thrace, who became blind for attempting to see into futurity without being duly initiated, and who was killed by Hercules. An allusion to the closed eyes of the entranced seer, or the mummy.—Ed.</ref> wherefore art thou disquieted? The glitter of chariots will not reach those dazed eyes.

<center>KHIOS XXII</center>

Slain souls wait in Paradise. (In the field of Aarzoo in the original.)

Pass, pass, pass !

 

<center>KHIOS XXIII</center>

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