The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The fatal ascendant of one person on another is the true wand of Circe. One knows that almost all human physiognomies bear a resemblance to one animal or another, that is to say, the signature of a specialized instinct. Now, instincts are balanced by contrary instincts, and dominated by instincts stronger than those. In order to dominate sheep, the dog plays upon their fear of wolves. If you are a dog, and you want a pretty little cat to love you, you have only one means to take: to metamorphose yourself into a cat. But how? By observation, imitation and imagination. We think that our figurative language will be understood for once, and we recommend this revelation to all who wish to magnetize : it is the deepest of all the secrets of their art. Here is the formula in technical terms: “To polarize one’s own animal light, in equilibrated antagonism with the contrary pole.” Or: To concentrate in one’s self the special qualities of absorp- tion in order to direct their rays towards an absorbing focus, and vice versa. This government of our magnetic polarization may be done by the assistance of the animal forms of which we have spoken ; they will serve to fix the imagination. Let us give an example : You wish to act magnetically upon a person polarized like yourself, which, if you are a magnetizer, you will divine at the first contact : only that person is a little less strong than you 271