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+ | Левая колонка: | ||
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+ | conditional of limitation in time and space, and the All is | ||
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+ | illimitable, or, as the English metaphysician has phrased it | ||
+ | |||
+ | unconditioned. Likewise, with die minor integers of the All ; | ||
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+ | —of them neither create nor uncreate can be predicated. | ||
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+ | Their experiences are from chaos unto their re-association | ||
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+ | with the Divine. Until, therefore, the solemn moment of | ||
+ | |||
+ | apotheosistic concomitance, the passage of the soul through | ||
+ | |||
+ | the ever-changing vale of circumstance goes on. So that the | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rosicrucian may exclaim, in the words of the stern Roman | ||
+ | |||
+ | general, | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | “ Through what variety of untried being, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Through what new scenes and changes, must we pass !” | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | To the mage, each leaf rustling in the breeze, each blossom | ||
+ | |||
+ | perfuming the sunlight, each fish swimming beneath the wave, | ||
+ | |||
+ | each reptile crawling in the marsh, each animal in the forest, | ||
+ | |||
+ | each bird in the air, share with us the pulsations of the | ||
+ | |||
+ | Unknown, which men call Life, and is with us the microcosm | ||
+ | |||
+ | emanating from the macrocosm. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | This sacred truth led the Nilotic Rosicrucians to express | ||
+ | |||
+ | the emanations and the spheres in. the sacred tree, bird, bull | ||
+ | |||
+ | and serpent, and to create a hieroglyphic geometry, whose | ||
+ | |||
+ | grandeur and meaning have baffled all time, appearing and | ||
+ | |||
+ | reappearing in Etruscan jewelry, Greek architecture, Roman | ||
+ | |||
+ | astrology, Gothic and Saracen art, Mediaeval witchcraft, and | ||
+ | |||
+ | modern Free-Masonry. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | O ! preachers and teachers of Christianity, who rail at | ||
+ | |||
+ | Egypt, and call their colossal doctrines animal-worship ; who | ||
+ | |||
+ | pass imbecile jokes upon the Buddhist and Brahman sages ; | ||
+ | |||
+ | who laugh to scorn the Assyrian and Chaldean philosophers, | ||
+ | |||
+ | —know ye not that your own little learning was proclaimed | ||
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+ | by us when you, sunk in obscene barbarism, were torturing | ||
+ | |||
+ | and slaying our own elect?—that your own semi-Semitic faith | ||
+ | |||
+ | was one-half taken from the Nilotic universities by many | ||
+ | |||
+ | men, whom ye ignorantly condense into one being, Moses, | ||
+ | |||
+ | and the other half a poetic repetition of the principles of the | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rosy Cross, the growth of fifty centuries ? | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | To the novice and adept, alike, one principle applies. | ||
+ | |||
+ | “The Rosicrucian becomes and is not made.” The lesson of | ||
+ | |||
+ | the Rosy Cross is not to be learned by the ignorant or lust- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ful, the grasping or the ambitious. “To him who seeks the | ||
+ | |||
+ | truth, the truth will come.” | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | The possession of truth is not knowledge, but wisdom, and | ||
+ | |||
+ | wisdom is neither bought nor sold, nor gained by instruction | ||
+ | |||
+ | nor lost by time. The lesson of the Rosy Cross may contair | ||
+ | |||
+ | facts, and these facts may be learned in the school-room or | ||
+ | |||
+ | the midnight-study; but these facts are no more Rosicru- | ||
+ | |||
+ | cianism, than are so many bricks and stones the facade of a | ||
+ | |||
+ | mighty cathedral. The scholar must glean from history and | ||
+ | |||
+ | literature, and, above all, from the sciences, the truths, one | ||
+ | |||
+ | by one, which, together, will make him an elect. Therefore it | ||
+ | |||
+ | was that, unlike any sector institution the world has ever seen, | ||
+ | |||
+ | the brethren of the Rosy Cross neither made nor attempted | ||
+ | |||
+ | to make any converts. Contented that their lore must remain a | ||
+ | |||
+ | sealed book until distant generations, when ignorance and | ||
+ | |||
+ | pride, bigotry and lust should become evanescent and dis- | ||
+ | |||
+ | appear ; satisfied that the individual must become, and not be | ||
+ | |||
+ | guided into, the real man ; knowing that their mysteries, if | ||
+ | |||
+ | divulged, would produce mere confusion and death ; and | ||
+ | |||
+ | seeing, above all, that, | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | “God is still God. | ||
+ | |||
+ | And his love will not fail us.” | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | — they toiled on in their labors, and left the world alone, | ||
+ | |||
+ | to ripen on in nature’s lengthy course toward the happy age. | ||
+ | |||
+ | But, to re-assure the yearning and wistful seeker after | ||
+ | |||
+ | truth, they chiseled in everlasting rock the symbolisms of | ||
+ | |||
+ | their faith, and left, for coming years to wonder at and study, | ||
+ | |||
+ | the monoliths of Stonehenge, the giant-pillars of France and | ||
+ | |||
+ | the Mediterranean, the fire-towers of Assyria, and highest of | ||
+ | |||
+ | all, the pyramids of Egypt. These they bequeathed to all the | ||
+ | |||
+ | future, not alone as pregnant with wisdom, but more as tokens | ||
+ | |||
+ | of truth and love for the unborn children of man. | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
+ | Правая колонка: | ||
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+ | Недостающие буквы обозначены […] – часть отрезанного листа справа (первые 5 строк) в правой колонке. | ||
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+ | [From the New York Evening Post, 3d.] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ROBERT DALE OWEN. | ||
+ | |||
+ | MR. ROBERT DALE OWEN’S many friends in this city ar[…] | ||
+ | |||
+ | aware that he went a few weeks ago to a water-cur[…] | ||
+ | |||
+ | called the Home on the Hillside, at DanSville, in Weste[...] | ||
+ | |||
+ | New York, where he put himself under the charge of t[...] | ||
+ | |||
+ | superintendent, Dr. James C. Jackson, for purely physic[...] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ailments, which had been troubling him for two or three years | ||
+ | |||
+ | past, and manifested themselves chiefly by indigestion. They | ||
+ | |||
+ | will be startled by a letter which appeared in the Rochester | ||
+ | |||
+ | Express last evening, and announces that he has been taken | ||
+ | |||
+ | to his home in Indiana as insane. We are reluctant to be- | ||
+ | |||
+ | lieve that the inferences of the writer are correct as to the | ||
+ | |||
+ | cause of Mr. Owen’s mental disturbance, if the allegations of | ||
+ | |||
+ | insanity are indeed well founded. We have conversed with | ||
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+ | him personally, within a few weeks, concerning the “ Katy | ||
+ | |||
+ | King business,” and the imposture which was practised on | ||
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+ | him with regard to it, and no one possibly could have talked | ||
+ | |||
+ | with greater simplicity and candor of the error of another^ | ||
+ | |||
+ | than he of his own deficient observation in his experiments | ||
+ | |||
+ | in Philadelphia, and of his earnest desire to correct the im- | ||
+ | |||
+ | pression of the authenticity of the “ Katy King ” manifesta- | ||
+ | |||
+ | tion, so far as he had been the cause of its acceptance by | ||
+ | |||
+ | anybody. But at the same time he earnestly avowed that his | ||
+ | |||
+ | faith in the doctrines of Spiritualism was not impaired by his | ||
+ | |||
+ | own error. Nor was his self-depreciation excessive. It was | ||
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+ | frank, but moderate and reasonable and was consistent with | ||
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+ | the devout tenor of his character. With these few words | ||
+ | |||
+ | we print the letter, which bears date at Dansville, Juue 30 : | ||
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+ | |||
+ | “ For some time Dansville has been the stopping place of | ||
+ | |||
+ | a distinguished visitor, Robert Dale Owen, the well-known | ||
+ | |||
+ | writer and Spiritualist. He came here hoping by freedom | ||
+ | |||
+ | from care and trouble to recuperate and repair his shattered | ||
+ | |||
+ | energies, and to enable him to continue his literary labors. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Occupying his time mainly with recreation, for a time nothing | ||
+ | |||
+ | unusual was observed in his conduct, and he was pointed out | ||
+ | |||
+ | as a rather eccentric old gentleman. An upholder of Spirit- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ualism and a writer of acknowledged merit, his society was | ||
+ | |||
+ | sought after, and his conversations were coherent and instruc- | ||
+ | |||
+ | tive. Invitations to lecture were occasionally accepted, and | ||
+ | |||
+ | some of your readers will, no doubt, remember the lecture on | ||
+ | |||
+ | ‘ Spiritualism,’ delivered by him not long since in your city. | ||
+ | |||
+ | If any one at that ttme considered him insane, they failed to | ||
+ | |||
+ | give others the benefit of their judgment. During the past | ||
+ | |||
+ | week, however, his eccentricities increased to such an alarm- | ||
+ | |||
+ | iug extent that it became painfully evident to those that knew | ||
+ | |||
+ | him that the great mind of Robert Dale Owen had lost its | ||
+ | |||
+ | reason. His wild, excited actions on Friday last at the | ||
+ | |||
+ | grounds of the Dansville Driving Park Association were | ||
+ | |||
+ | clearly those of an insane person. Driving furiously among | ||
+ | |||
+ | a crowd of carriages, accosting strangers and gesticulating | ||
+ | |||
+ | violently, he was a source of annoyance to his friends and a | ||
+ | |||
+ | surprise to strangers. His son was telegraphed for immedi- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ately. He reached here Sunday night, and on Tuesday morn- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ing started for his home in Indiana with Mr. Owen. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | “ Mr. Owen is a man over seventy years of age, apparently | ||
+ | |||
+ | strong and healthy, being especially active for a man of his | ||
+ | |||
+ | years. As to the immediate cause of his insanity we can | ||
+ | |||
+ | only conjecture. His life has been one of toil, ana any one | ||
+ | |||
+ | who read his chapters of autobiography published from time | ||
+ | |||
+ | to time in the Atlantic Monthly, though they are remarkably | ||
+ | |||
+ | free from offensive individuality and egotism, will plainly see | ||
+ | |||
+ | that his life has not been void of results. On him as a sup- | ||
+ | |||
+ | porter of Spiritualism the severest strictures have been | ||
+ | |||
+ | placed, and there seems something of plausibility in the re- | ||
+ | |||
+ | port now current that the loss of faith in his religion conse- | ||
+ | |||
+ | quent upon the Katie King ‘expose’ was the immediate cause | ||
+ | |||
+ | of his insanity, and this theory is supported by facts from his | ||
+ | |||
+ | life. Prior to his embracing spiritualistic doctrines, he was | ||
+ | |||
+ | an atheist, and, as every atheist must, became dissatisfied | ||
+ | |||
+ | with himself and his position. As a relief from this unfortu- | ||
+ | |||
+ | nate condition, he fell into a belief in Spiritualism, and in its | ||
+ | |||
+ | doctrines his whole mind and soul became engrossed. To- | ||
+ | |||
+ | gether with Judge Edmonds, he has for years been pointed | ||
+ | |||
+ | out as the great decider of Spiritualism in this country. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Though his position was often assailed, yet he defended his | ||
+ | |||
+ | cause nobly, and to the time of Katie King had answered | ||
+ | |||
+ | every objection in a manner satisfactory to himself, if not to | ||
+ | |||
+ | the great mass of the reading public; and his success may | ||
+ | |||
+ | be judged of by the rapid increase of Spiritualism in this coun | ||
+ | |||
+ | try. But his unfortunate statements were not so easily ex | ||
+ | |||
+ | plained, and it was perfectly apparent that his own explana- | ||
+ | |||
+ | tions never satisfied himself; he tried in vain, and could see | ||
+ | |||
+ | no way out of his difficulty. Robert Dale Owen was a man | ||
+ | |||
+ | who believed in reasoning, and what he could explain to his | ||
+ | |||
+ | own satisfaction by reasoning, that he believed in implicitly; | ||
+ | |||
+ | and it is fair to suppose that it was a great blow which caused | ||
+ | |||
+ | him to lose faith in the belief which he had so long and faith- | ||
+ | |||
+ | fully advocated and defended’ and was thereby chiefly instru- | ||
+ | |||
+ | mental in dethroning reason in his great mind: but however | ||
+ | |||
+ | that may be, and whatever may have been his religious belief, | ||
+ | |||
+ | the world will lose in him a strong mind, an able reasoner, | ||
+ | |||
+ | and the purest writer of the English language which she has | ||
+ | |||
+ | seen for vears ” | ||
+ | |||
+ | --> |
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Editor's notes
- ↑ Robert Dale Owen by unknown author. From New York Evening Post
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