THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES
the vision indicates a transitory perturbation of the nervous
apparatus in its relation to imagination and light.
If this perturbation were frequently repeated, he would
become seriously ill.
Who knows how many collapses, attacks of tetanus,
insanities, violent deaths, the mania of table-turning has
already produced?
These phenomena become particularly terrible when per-
versity takes possession of them.
It is then that one can really affirm the intervention and
the presence of the spirit of evil.
Perversity or fatality, these pretended miracles obey one
of these two powers.
As to qabalistic writings and mysterious signatures, we
shall say that they reproduce themselves by the magnetic
intuition of the mirages of thought in the universal vital fluid.
These instinctive reflections may be produced if the
magic Word has nothing arbitrary in it, and if the signs of
the occult sanctuary are the natural expressions of absolute
ideas.
It is this which we shall demonstrate in our book.
But, in order not to send back our readers from the
unknown to the future, we shall detach beforehand two
chapters of that unpublished work, one upon the qabalistic
Word, the other upon the secrets of the Qabalah, and we shall
draw conclusions which will complete in a manner satis-
factory to all the explanation which we have promised in the
matter of Mr. Home.
There exists a power which generates forms; this power
is light.
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