Histoire de la magie avec une exposition claire et précise de ses procédés, de ses rites et de ses mystères

INTRODUCTION.

gress, but what can be said of it will only lead to the confirmation of the first truths. The weak will always be the weak; it matters little that it is no longer the same person. Likewise, the people will always be the people, which is to say, the governable mass that is incapable of governing. In the great army of inferiors, all personal emancipation is a forced desertion, fortunately made imperceptible by an eternal replacement. A king-people or a people of kings would suppose the slavery of the world and anarchy within a single and undisciplinable city, as was the case in Rome during the time of its greatest glory. A nation of sovereigns would necessarily be as anarchic as a class of scholars or schoolchildren who believed themselves to be masters. No one would want to listen, and all would dogmatize and command at the same time.

The same can be said of the radical emancipation of woman. If woman passes from the passive condition to the active condition, entirely and radically, she abdicates her sex and becomes man. Or rather, since such a transformation is physically impossible, she arrives at affirmation through a double negation. She places herself outside of both sexes, like a sterile and monstrous androgyne an entity possessing both male and female characteristics. These are the forced consequences of the great Kabbalistic dogma of the distinction of opposites to arrive at harmony through the analogy of their relationships.

Once this dogma is recognized, and the application of its consequences is made universally through the law of analogies, one arrives at the discovery of the greatest secrets of natural sympathy and antipathy, of