THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES
“The third or philosophical cross has been in all initiations
the symbol of Nature, and its four elementary forms. The
four points represent the four indicible and incommunicable
letters of the occult tetragram, that eternal formula of the
Great Arcanum, G.°. A.’.
“The two points on the right represent force, as those
on the left symbolize love, and the four letters should be read
from right to left, beginning by the right-hand upper corner,
and going thence to the left-hand lower corner, and so for the
others, making the cross of St. Andrew.
“The suppression of the two left-hand points expresses
the negation of the cross, the negation of mercy and of love.
“The affirmation of the absolute reign of force, and its
eternal antagonism, from above to beneath, and from beneath
to above.
“The glorification of tyranny and of revolt.
“The hieroglyphic sign of the unclean rite, with which,
rightly or wrongly, the Templars were reproached; it is the
sign of disorder and of eternal despair.”
Such, then, are the first revelations of the hidden science
of the magi with regard to these phenomena of supernatural
manifestations. Now let it be permitted to us to compare
with these strange signatures other contemporary apparitions
of phenomenal writings, for it is really a brief which science
ought to study before taking it to the tribunal of public
opinion. One must then despise no research, overlook no clue.
In the neighbourhood of Caen, at Tilly-sur-Seulles, a
series of inexplicable facts occurred some years ago, under
the influence of a medium, or ecstatic, named Eugéne Vintras.
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