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{{Style P-Author|by George Wentz}}

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Looking dread command of men

Looking dread command of men

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:And hebold, his dream was o’er.}}

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<center>Historical and Philosophical</center>

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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title|The Science of Magic.}}

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{{Style P-Subtitle|PROOFS OF ITS EXISTENCE—MEDIUMS IN ANCIENT TIMES, &C., &C., &C..}}

| author = Blavatsky, H. P.  

| title = The Science of Magic

| subtitle = Proofs of its existence — Mediums in ancient times, &c., &c., &c..

| source details = vol. III, pp. 64-65

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{{Style P-Author|BY MME. H. P. BLAVATSKY.}}

{{Style P-Author|BY MME. H. P. BLAVATSKY.}}

Happening to be on a visit to Ithaca, where spiritual papers in general, and the Banner of Light in particular, are very little read, but where, luckily, the Scientist has found hospitality in several houses, I learned through your paper of the intensely interesting, and very erudite attack in an editorial of the Banner, on “Magic”; or rather on those who had the absurdity to believe in Magic. As hints concerning myself—at least in the fragment I see—are very decently veiled, and, as it appears, Col. Olcott alone, just now, is offered by way of a pious Holocaust on the altar erected to the angel-world by some Spiritualists, who seem to be terribly in earnest, I will—leaving the said gentleman to take care of himself, provided he thinks it worth his trouble—proceed to say a few words only, in reference to the alleged non-existence of Magic.

Happening to be on a visit to Ithaca, where spiritual papers in general, and the Banner of Light in particular, are very little read, but where, luckily, the Scientist has found hospitality in several houses, I learned through your paper of the intensely interesting, and very erudite attack in an editorial of the Banner, on “Magic”; or rather on those who had the absurdity to believe in Magic. As hints concerning myself—at least in the fragment I see—are very decently veiled, and, as it appears, Col. Olcott alone, just now, is offered by way of a pious Holocaust on the altar erected to the angel-world by some Spiritualists, who seem to be terribly in earnest, I will—leaving the said gentleman to take care of himself, provided he thinks it worth his trouble—proceed to say a few words only, in reference to the alleged non-existence of Magic.

But to return to Magic. Such men as Albertus Magnus, {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-71}}

But to return to Magic. Such men as Albertus Magnus, {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-71}}