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Alchemist, v. 2, issue 1, Autumn 1946
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do get results! In Ancient Egypt sorcery was raised to its greatest heighths as a supernormal art and science. it has never experienced such a development since. There are still practitoners of magic-well educated ones-in all big cities who practise the art in secret, but they know only a weak and decadent art compared to that of the great Egyptian wizards. That this vast knowledge has been lost may well be one of the best breaks ever to befall mankind. We fans are prone to seek endlessly after forbidden books of horrific lore in the hope that their mere possession or perusal will open the doors to power. That is, those of us who do not treat the whole thing as a huge joke. I often wonder how many requests the chief librarian at the Library of Congress recieves each year for the information about such books---- The Necronomicon--Unausprechitchen Kul--ten--The Book of Eibon-and others. Alas, we will never see most of the books we seek, because most of them never existed outside of the works of well known and read fantasy authors. But there are a few--oh so few--real books of lost magical lore. For the most part they are unobtainable and illegible-unless you are learned in ancient languages-but there are a few both readable and obtainable. Several of these are the work of great Egyptian Adepts and are many centuries old. English translations of several are readily obtainable in most libraries. This by no means is to say that the great ancient wisdom is readily to be had for the taking. These sacred works are all esoteric to a great degree. Anyone not
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do get results! In Ancient Egypt sorcery was raised to its greatest heighths as a supernormal art and science. it has never experienced such a development since. There are still practitoners of magic-well educated ones-in all big cities who practise the art in secret, but they know only a weak and decadent art compared to that of the great Egyptian wizards. That this vast knowledge has been lost may well be one of the best breaks ever to befall mankind. We fans are prone to seek endlessly after forbidden books of horrific lore in the hope that their mere possession or perusal will open the doors to power. That is, those of us who do not treat the whole thing as a huge joke. I often wonder how many requests the chief librarian at the Library of Congress recieves each year for the information about such books---- The Necronomicon--Unausprechitchen Kul--ten--The Book of Eibon-and others. Alas, we will never see most of the books we seek, because most of them never existed outside of the works of well known and read fantasy authors. But there are a few--oh so few--real books of lost magical lore. For the most part they are unobtainable and illegible-unless you are learned in ancient languages-but there are a few both readable and obtainable. Several of these are the work of great Egyptian Adepts and are many centuries old. English translations of several are readily obtainable in most libraries. This by no means is to say that the great ancient wisdom is readily to be had for the taking. These sacred works are all esoteric to a great degree. Anyone not
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