_porte cigars_, bottles of ordinary kind, and even _ladies' smelling
bottles_, filled with dynamite, nitro-glycerin, etc., etc.--weapons,
some of which, following unconsciously Karmic law, killed many of the
dynamiters in the last Chicago _revolution_. Add to this the forthcoming
long-promised Keeley's vibratory force, capable of reducing in a few
seconds a dead bullock to a heap of ashes, and then ask yourself if the
_Inferno_ of Dante as a locality can ever rival earth in the production
of more hellish engines of destruction?

Thus, if purely material implements are capable of blowing up, from a
few corners, the greatest cities of the globe, provided the murderous
weapons are guided by expert hands--what terrible dangers might not
arise from magical _occult_ secrets being revealed, and allowed to fall
into the possession of ill-meaning persons! A thousand times more
dangerous and lethal are these, because neither the criminal hand, nor
the _immaterial_ invisible weapon used, can ever be detected.

The congenital _black_ magicians--those who, to an innate propensity
towards evil, unite highly-developed mediumistic natures--are but too
numerous in our age. It is nigh time then that the psychologists and
believers, at least, should cease advocating the beauties of publicity
and claiming knowledge of the secrets of nature for all. It is not in
our age of "suggestion" and "explosives" that Occultism can open wide
the doors of its laboratories except to those who _do_ live the life.

H.P.B.


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