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Alchemist, v. 2, issue 1, Autumn 1946
Page 26
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26 hood kept the populace so concerned for the welfare of their souls (sounds familarly modern--times haven't changed so much) that there was little danger of their discovering the double purpose of these writings. Where better to hide anything you wish to keep safe from detection than to place it--nay force it--into the hands of a people forcibly kept in ignorance? They will never think to seek it there. In case all this talk of esoteric literature is confusing, do not get the idea that the Egyptians had any patent on it. A sterling example of a book of very ancient origin that is esoteric is the Bible. There are, unfortunately, n early as many interpretations of the Bible as there are interpreters. Possibly all of them had some glimpse of the hidden truth or perhaps all are wrong. If anyone is able to use the ancient art of anthropomancy and can bring forth the spirits of the dead for questioning I wish he would summon up the shades of the authors so that we might know, once and for all, what they really did mean. The doctrine of elemental spirits appears to have been familiar to the great wizards of the Nile Civilization. One of the chapters of the "Book of the Dead", the 108th is titled "The Chapter of Knowing the Spirits of the West", and is thought to deal with elementals. The practise of causing injury or death to an enemy by means of a doll or other image is of undetermined antiquity, probably it is nearly as old as man. Remains discovered in the caves inhabited by Pleistocene Man seem to prove them familiar
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26 hood kept the populace so concerned for the welfare of their souls (sounds familarly modern--times haven't changed so much) that there was little danger of their discovering the double purpose of these writings. Where better to hide anything you wish to keep safe from detection than to place it--nay force it--into the hands of a people forcibly kept in ignorance? They will never think to seek it there. In case all this talk of esoteric literature is confusing, do not get the idea that the Egyptians had any patent on it. A sterling example of a book of very ancient origin that is esoteric is the Bible. There are, unfortunately, n early as many interpretations of the Bible as there are interpreters. Possibly all of them had some glimpse of the hidden truth or perhaps all are wrong. If anyone is able to use the ancient art of anthropomancy and can bring forth the spirits of the dead for questioning I wish he would summon up the shades of the authors so that we might know, once and for all, what they really did mean. The doctrine of elemental spirits appears to have been familiar to the great wizards of the Nile Civilization. One of the chapters of the "Book of the Dead", the 108th is titled "The Chapter of Knowing the Spirits of the West", and is thought to deal with elementals. The practise of causing injury or death to an enemy by means of a doll or other image is of undetermined antiquity, probably it is nearly as old as man. Remains discovered in the caves inhabited by Pleistocene Man seem to prove them familiar
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