The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES in order to lead astray the understanding, are as real as photographic images. One could not see what does not exist. The phantoms of dreams, and even the dreams of the waking, are then real images which exist in the light. There exist, besides these, contagious hallucinations. But we here affirm something more than ordinary hallucina- tions. If the images attracted by diseased brains are in some sense real, can they not throw them without themselves, as real as they receive them? These images projected by the complete nervous organism of the medium, can they not affect the complete organism of those who, voluntarily or not, are in nervous sympathy with the medium? The things accomplished by Mr. Home prove that all this is possible. Now, let us reply to those who think that they see in these phenomena manifestations of the other world and facts of necromancy. We shall borrow our answer from the sacred book of the qabalists, and in this our doctrine is that of the rabbis who compiled the Zohar. AXIOM The spirit clothes itself to descend, and strips itself to rise. In fact : Why are created spirits clothed with bodies? It is that they must be limited in order to have a possible existence. Stripped of all body, and become consequently 219