HISTORY OF MAGIC.

reason into an incurable sleep. This state of hallucination has its degrees; all passions are intoxications, all enthusiasms are relative and graduated follies. The lover alone sees infinite perfections around an object that fascinates and intoxicates him. Poor drunkard of pleasures! Tomorrow that perfume of wine that attracts him will be for him a repugnant reminiscence and a cause of a thousand nauseas and a thousand disgusts!

Knowing how to use this force, and never letting oneself be invaded and overcome by it, walking on the head of the serpent, that is what the magic of light teaches us: in this arcane are contained all the mysteries of magnetism, which can already give its name to all the practical part of the high magic of the ancients.

Magnetism is the wand of miracles, but for the initiates only; for to the imprudent who would make of it a toy or an instrument in the service of their passions, it becomes fearsome like that lightning glory which, according to the allegories of the fable, consumed the too ambitious Sémélé Semele, mother of Dionysus, who died after seeing Zeus in his true form in the embraces of Jupiter.

One of the great benefits of magnetism is to make evident, by incontestable facts, the spirituality, the unity, and the immortality of the soul. Once the spirituality, unity, and immortality are demonstrated, God appears to all intelligences and to all hearts. Then from the belief in God and in the harmonies of creation, one is led to that great religious harmony, which could not exist outside the miraculous and legitimate hierarchy of the Catholic Church, the only one that has preserved all the traditions of science and faith.

INTRODUCTION.

The first tradition of the unique revelation has been preserved under the name of kabbale Kabbalah by the priesthood of Israel. The Kabbalistic doctrine, which is the dogma of high magic, is contained in the Sepher Jézirah Book of Formation, the Sohar The Zohar, or Book of Splendor and the Talmud. According to this doctrine, the absolute is being in which is found the Verbe Word, which is the expression of the reason for being and for life.

Being is being, original Hebrew: אהיה אשר אהיה (Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh) I am that I am. This is the principle.

In the principle was, that is to say is, has been, and will be the Verbe Word, that is to say the reason that speaks.

The Word is the reason for belief, and in it also is the expression of the faith that vivifies science. The Word, λόγος logos, is the source of logic. Jesus is the Word incarnate. The accord of reason with faith, of science with belief, of authority with liberty, has become in modern times the true riddle of the sphinx; and at the same time as this great problem, the problem of the respective rights of man and woman has been raised; this had to be, for between all these terms of a great and supreme question, the analogy is constant and the difficulties, like the relationships, are invariably the same.

What makes the solution of this Gordian knot of philosophy and modern politics appear paradoxical is that to reconcile the terms of the equation that must be made, one always attempts to mix or confuse them.

If there is a supreme absurdity, indeed, it is to seek how faith could be a reason, or reason