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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
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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
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apotheosistic concomitance, the passage of the soul through
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the ever-changing vale of circumstance goes on. So that the
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Rosicrucian may exclaim, in the words of the stern Roman
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general,
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“ Through what variety of untried being,
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Through what new scenes and changes, must we pass !”
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To the mage, each leaf rustling in the breeze, each blossom
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perfuming the sunlight, each fish swimming beneath the wave,
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each reptile crawling in the marsh, each animal in the forest,
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each bird in the air, share with us the pulsations of the
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Unknown, which men call Life, and is with us the microcosm
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emanating from the macrocosm.
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This sacred truth led the Nilotic Rosicrucians to express
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the emanations and the spheres in. the sacred tree, bird, bull
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and serpent, and to create a hieroglyphic geometry, whose
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grandeur and meaning have baffled all time, appearing and
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reappearing in Etruscan jewelry, Greek architecture, Roman
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astrology, Gothic and Saracen art, Mediaeval witchcraft, and
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modern Free-Masonry.
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O ! preachers and teachers of Christianity, who rail at
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Egypt, and call their colossal doctrines animal-worship ; who
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pass imbecile jokes upon the Buddhist and Brahman sages ;
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who laugh to scorn the Assyrian and Chaldean philosophers,
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—know ye not that your own little learning was proclaimed
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by us when you, sunk in obscene barbarism, were torturing
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and slaying our own elect?—that your own semi-Semitic faith
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was one-half taken from the Nilotic universities by many
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men, whom ye ignorantly condense into one being, Moses,
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and the other half a poetic repetition of the principles of the
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Rosy Cross, the growth of fifty centuries ?
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To the novice and adept, alike, one principle applies.
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“The Rosicrucian becomes and is not made.” The lesson of
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the Rosy Cross is not to be learned by the ignorant or lust-
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ful, the grasping or the ambitious. “To him who seeks the
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truth, the truth will come.”
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The possession of truth is not knowledge, but wisdom, and
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wisdom is neither bought nor sold, nor gained by instruction
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nor lost by time. The lesson of the Rosy Cross may contair
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facts, and these facts may be learned in the school-room or
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the midnight-study; but these facts are no more Rosicru-
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cianism, than are so many bricks and stones the facade of a
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mighty cathedral. The scholar must glean from history and
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literature, and, above all, from the sciences, the truths, one
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by one, which, together, will make him an elect. Therefore it
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was that, unlike any sector institution the world has ever seen,
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the brethren of the Rosy Cross neither made nor attempted
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to make any converts. Contented that their lore must remain a
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sealed book until distant generations, when ignorance and
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pride, bigotry and lust should become evanescent and dis-
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appear ; satisfied that the individual must become, and not be
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guided into, the real man ; knowing that their mysteries, if
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divulged, would produce mere confusion and death ; and
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seeing, above all, that,
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“God is still God.
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And his love will not fail us.”
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— they toiled on in their labors, and left the world alone,
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to ripen on in nature’s lengthy course toward the happy age.
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But, to re-assure the yearning and wistful seeker after
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truth, they chiseled in everlasting rock the symbolisms of
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their faith, and left, for coming years to wonder at and study,
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the monoliths of Stonehenge, the giant-pillars of France and
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the Mediterranean, the fire-towers of Assyria, and highest of
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all, the pyramids of Egypt. These they bequeathed to all the
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future, not alone as pregnant with wisdom, but more as tokens
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of truth and love for the unborn children of man.
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[From the New York Evening Post, 3d.]
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ROBERT DALE OWEN.
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MR. ROBERT DALE OWEN’S many friends in this city ar[…]
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aware that he went a few weeks ago to a water-cur[…]
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called the Home on the Hillside, at DanSville, in Weste[...]
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New York, where he put himself under the charge of t[...]
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superintendent, Dr. James C. Jackson, for purely physic[...]
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ailments, which had been troubling him for two or three years
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past, and manifested themselves chiefly by indigestion. They
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will be startled by a letter which appeared in the Rochester
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Express last evening, and announces that he has been taken
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to his home in Indiana as insane. We are reluctant to be-
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lieve that the inferences of the writer are correct as to the
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cause of Mr. Owen’s mental disturbance, if the allegations of
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insanity are indeed well founded. We have conversed with
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him personally, within a few weeks, concerning the “ Katy
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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
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with greater simplicity and candor of the error of another^
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than he of his own deficient observation in his experiments
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in Philadelphia, and of his earnest desire to correct the im-
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pression of the authenticity of the “ Katy King ” manifesta-
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tion, so far as he had been the cause of its acceptance by
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anybody. But at the same time he earnestly avowed that his
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faith in the doctrines of Spiritualism was not impaired by his
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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
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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
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a distinguished visitor, Robert Dale Owen, the well-known
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writer and Spiritualist. He came here hoping by freedom
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from care and trouble to recuperate and repair his shattered
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energies, and to enable him to continue his literary labors.
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Occupying his time mainly with recreation, for a time nothing
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unusual was observed in his conduct, and he was pointed out
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as a rather eccentric old gentleman. An upholder of Spirit-
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ualism and a writer of acknowledged merit, his society was
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sought after, and his conversations were coherent and instruc-
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tive. Invitations to lecture were occasionally accepted, and
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some of your readers will, no doubt, remember the lecture on
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‘ Spiritualism,’ delivered by him not long since in your city.
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If any one at that ttme considered him insane, they failed to
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give others the benefit of their judgment. During the past
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week, however, his eccentricities increased to such an alarm-
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iug extent that it became painfully evident to those that knew
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him that the great mind of Robert Dale Owen had lost its
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reason. His wild, excited actions on Friday last at the
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grounds of the Dansville Driving Park Association were
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clearly those of an insane person. Driving furiously among
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a crowd of carriages, accosting strangers and gesticulating
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violently, he was a source of annoyance to his friends and a
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surprise to strangers. His son was telegraphed for immedi-
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ately. He reached here Sunday night, and on Tuesday morn-
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ing started for his home in Indiana with Mr. Owen.
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“ Mr. Owen is a man over seventy years of age, apparently
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strong and healthy, being especially active for a man of his
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years. As to the immediate cause of his insanity we can
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only conjecture. His life has been one of toil, ana any one
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who read his chapters of autobiography published from time
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to time in the Atlantic Monthly, though they are remarkably
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free from offensive individuality and egotism, will plainly see
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that his life has not been void of results. On him as a sup-
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porter of Spiritualism the severest strictures have been
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placed, and there seems something of plausibility in the re-
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port now current that the loss of faith in his religion conse-
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quent upon the Katie King ‘expose’ was the immediate cause
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of his insanity, and this theory is supported by facts from his
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life. Prior to his embracing spiritualistic doctrines, he was
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an atheist, and, as every atheist must, became dissatisfied
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with himself and his position. As a relief from this unfortu-
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nate condition, he fell into a belief in Spiritualism, and in its
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doctrines his whole mind and soul became engrossed. To-
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gether with Judge Edmonds, he has for years been pointed
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out as the great decider of Spiritualism in this country.
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Though his position was often assailed, yet he defended his
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cause nobly, and to the time of Katie King had answered
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every objection in a manner satisfactory to himself, if not to
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the great mass of the reading public; and his success may
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be judged of by the rapid increase of Spiritualism in this coun
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try. But his unfortunate statements were not so easily ex
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plained, and it was perfectly apparent that his own explana-
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tions never satisfied himself; he tried in vain, and could see
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no way out of his difficulty. Robert Dale Owen was a man
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who believed in reasoning, and what he could explain to his
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own satisfaction by reasoning, that he believed in implicitly;
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and it is fair to suppose that it was a great blow which caused
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him to lose faith in the belief which he had so long and faith-
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fully advocated and defended’ and was thereby chiefly instru-
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mental in dethroning reason in his great mind: but however
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that may be, and whatever may have been his religious belief,
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the world will lose in him a strong mind, an able reasoner,
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and the purest writer of the English language which she has
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seen for vears ”
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vol. 3, p. 240
from Adyar archives of the International Theosophical Society
vol. 3 (1875-1878)
 

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Robert Dale Owen

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Editor's notes

  1. Robert Dale Owen by unknown author. From New York Evening Post


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