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EULIS!
THE HISTORY OF LOVIv
ITS

WONDROUS MAGIC, CHEMISTRY, RULES, LAWS,


MODES, MOODS AND RATIONALE;
II

KI

NG

THE

THIRD REVELATION OF SOUL AND SEX.


Also, REPLY TO

"WHY

IS

MAN IMMORTAL?"

THE SOLUTION OF THE DARWIN PROBLEM.


AN ENTIRELY NEW THEORY.
BY

Paschal Beverly Randolph, M.D.

TOLEDO, OHIO:

RANDOLPH

"Publishing Co
18

4.

JOHN

F.

KAPP;

MCLAUGHLIN;

H.

L.

ALBERT BURPEE JOHN TEMPLE


;

GUSTAV SCHRADER; LEWIS AND JONATHAN KIRK;


E.

A.

PERCEVAL,

ABU-ID-DURR

Jr.;

DJUNDUB OF THE ANSAIREH

OTHMAN ASWAD EL

KINDEE; HER GRACIOUS PURITY,

FAIROOZ SHIRWAN AFRIDOON,


and

to every

Good
them

man,

woman or child besides, whoever,


me a kindness or spoke me fairly

Souls, ever did

to all

human

kind, for the firm

who aim
common human nature

comfiture of

all

all

named great, because


dark hour, and through

and steady rebuilding of a

of social ethics, based upon the purity of


of the race, one wholly free from

as the
in the

woman,

abnormalism; devoted

and true system


the honor

right

the nobleness of

man and

to the everlasting dis-

to pervert the higher, better, purer, nobler instincts of our

;
to the speedy downfall of all false systems and shams,
and to the corresponding advance,
whether in Physics, Morals, Politics or Faith
thrift and triumph of the Good, the Beautiful and the True, and to the assured success of the Superlative Order of Men and Women who constitute the E. W. A. S., this
;

present Edition of

MY WORK OF
IS

RELIGIO-MEDICI

GRATEFULLY DEDICATED BY THE

RE-FOUNDER AND HIERARCH OF EULIS,


P. B.

Toledo, Ohio,

RANDOLPH.

1874.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

P. B.

RANDOLPH,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

AFFECTIONAL ALCHEMY.
o}<c

Reader, mine,
that ever

am

mav

said be tore

about

herein the grandest subject

to treat

but even

In doing so

if so, I

first

have struck upon many things

amount of " physiological

names

of which they

still

is

now

time.
" chaff

is

current in the world,

originating in the pulpy brains of certain people with "


their

it

repeat some things elsewhere, by myself or others,

gi\en to the race for the


vast

I.

engaged or challenged human thought.

likely that

PART

M.D "

after

who eke out a good living by putting medicines,


know little, into bodies whereof they know less.

folks

larger

amount of u chaff"

labelled

"philosophy"

generated for the most part in the angular heads of people,

is afloat,

whom

chronic prostatitis or ovarian fever has so deranged that they really

imagine themselves philosophers,


pose

to revolutionize the

being

only shams,

who

pro-

world, especially the domain of Marriage-

land, by inculcating pudacious sophistries, better calculated to kill

than to cure the victims, on either side.

Light

is

needed

by a different

and

title,

this

I.

exactly

What

what

is

is

certain

(originally intended to be called

completed and rewritten volume)


required

is

meant

and

a tremendous deal of suffering, horror, crime, wretched-

ness and despair there


of

thing

but which intent was abandoned, owing to the

vastly larger scope of the


to afford

work

One

is

in this beautiful,

ours! most of which might be

but badly misused world

prevented in the

first

instance,

or remedied in the second, were there less consummate and con-

up and down

the earth's strong tides of

founded ignorance

afloat

human

strangely, wildly surging ebbs

life,

with

its

and flows, heats

Affectional Alchemy.

4
and snows,

in reference to matters pertaining to,

and concerning

the,

relations, wise and otherwise, subsisting between the separate gen-

human

ders of the

race

especially that portion of

and particularly

so-called "civilized" lands,

it

'located in the

in the cis- Atlantic por-

tion of the Lord's exceedingly z'zwmoral vineyard.

Now, whoever supposes

or that the sum

sometimes spellable as "

solely to the masses,


to Carlyle,

for

among

that the ignorance alluded to

total

the unread, unlettered

them

of non-knowledge must be looked

and unwashed crowds that throng

whose

the great highways of the world, and

struggles for

him

or herself most wofully mistaken

life,

for a far less dense

conglobate ignorance upon matters of vital import to every

among

being exists

the people

other everywhere, and which

few mould

very

from

who

human
each

jostle

the plastic material that the brainful

armed with ploughs or

cannons or spades

than

is

lofty pretensions, not only to


its

rude crowd

and

into voters, hero-worshippers, or send to fight their battles

against each other,


onets,

is

the

and

attention, will

clamors for bread, occupy most of their time and


find

confined

is

asses," according

geologic base to

its

to

rifles,

pitchforks or bay-

be found in circles making

knowledge, but

to morality also,

astronomic summit.

For gross and culpable non-knowledge, especially upon


vital points that cluster

all

the

round the one word " sex," you must look,

not amidst the untaught hosts, the democratic underlayer of society,

but right squarely

much-boasted,

among

the

highly-cultured

centres of population

" learned," professional,

so-called

upper-strata,

especially

whence newspapers by myriads

Were not
now march over

in

those

are scattered

broadcast over all the lands.

this a painful fadt,

classes of " reformers " as

the world

were an

such
utter

impossibility.

They

are an unhealthy

set,

the fungi of a false civilization, reg-

nant for a time, but certain to disappear with the advent of

among

sense

Sex

is

the people as a general thing.

a thing of soul

most people think

earthly form and physical structure.


souls

some no sex

manifesting

common

its

at all,

and others

exact opposite.

But

it

but a mere matter of

True, there are


still

its

some unsexed

claiming one gender, and


laws, offices,

utilities,

and

Affect io)ial Alchemy.


its

deeper and diviner meanings arc

in a million

In

in

about two

to all but

being, every aspirant to immortality beyond the grave.

some sense

but only

books

yet they ought to have the attentive studv of every ra-

human

tional

.sealed

its

this

matter has been, and

outer phases, or

its

is,

the subject of thought,

grosser aspects

higher ones, and never, until now. in any of

its

seldom

Books by ship-loads on one or two, and always

bearings.

in

its

and mystical

loftier

either

its

physiological or sentimental sides of the subject, have been put forth

by ambitious M.D's, or notoriety-seeking empirics


mainly

satisfied a prurient taste or

and generally

light,

morbid

their readers

left

books which

gave but

curiosity,

little

ignorant as

practically as

before.

Other books,

in

other millions, vile, atrocious, cancerous, abound-

ing with death in every

been,

.-till

line,

fraught with ruin on every page, have

are being, scattered everywhere across the nations,

till

the

flower of the world's youth has been blighted, and the morality of

sapped dry.

earth

Oh,

that

literature,

belief! terrible as the cobra's fang,

foul,

beyond

disgusting

keener than the dagger's edge,

monstrous as a drunkard's dream, more devastating than the spotted


plague! until between the two millstones
fessional literature on the

abominations on the other

quackery,

pseudo-pro-

one hand, and the execrable, libidinous

one-half of the manhood and womanhood

of our nation has been ground into the very dust.

Xo

can be too severe for the disseminators of the latter

punishment
no contempt

too great for the authors of the former.

Not one of

the very

many

respectable

French, a score of English, about as

German

author-,

who

people, including

many Americans, and

fifty

few

have stained reams of good white paper, and

spilled gallons of ink in writing ancnt the sublime subject of sex,

have taken the trouble

been content
story,

else

have taken

to

to

go one inch below the surface

but have

copy each other, and repeat the same old worn-out

concealed a few good ideas in barrels of words.

man and woman, shown

something of physical gender


periods, and there
selves.

left us,

us their anatomy

They

explained

said something about function

because they

knew nothing

and

further them-

Affectional Alchemy.

For example, there are ten thousand

what

But the man alluded

certain nameless solitary vice.

concerning

Onan, meaning, thereby, a

the doctors call the sin of one

never was guilty of that

treatises extant

Bible

to in the

Albeit his crime was equally

sin at all.

bad, equally disastrous and hateful.

In these days

it

politely

is

called " conjugal fraud," and in plain terms consists of the nuptive

union

to the

orgasmal climax, which was allowed

to

occur only in a

manner never intended by the Infinite God. " He wasted his seed
upon the ground, that he might not beget children to inherit his
brother's name."
(See Bible.) Millions do the accursed thing
to-day that they

who

he

may

be childless, as indeed they deserve to be

wrong commits

does that heinous

God

against his wife, himself, nature and


right of

Now

souls to be incarnated

all

to say

quadruple

nothing about the

man.

act of

but

me make

let

fail to

give us even half the reasons whv.

a point for the doctors, and

In the normal, proper nuptive union, a term

all

others besides.

invent expressive of

the most sacred and intimate fact of marriage, there

amount of
the

the male vital

same by

dream,

same form
fraud

crime,

the doctors truly say that the sin solitary, and the fraud con-

jugal are both bad

Here

by the

for

life

volume may be wasted

spontaneous ejection of superfluous


;

3d, the

same may be

a certain

form (semen) voided

in fluid

actual weight or

is

lost

exactly

in a lascivious

vital

force

the

in

by the abominable conjugal

or by the heinous sin against one's self

solitary vice.

But

note the tremendous difference in the results that follow in each of


the four cases.
results, positive

ticularly

sombre

1st.

In the reciprocal and normal one, only joy

and pronounced
feelings

and never

is

followed by any par-

happiness ensues, and the man's soul

is

at

perfect peace with his physical form.

In the second case, resulting from spermatic plethora, a relief


follows, but leaves a

recuperate from.

much.
feels

weakness

There's a

after
little

it,

requiring phosphoric food to

shame-facedness

In the third case the whole being

himself to be contemptible and

is

mean

too,

but

shocked, and the

and so he

is.

not

man

In the

fourth case, a bitter, poignant remorse haunts the self-sinner day

and night,

for

sometimes weeks together

and the

results of his

Affect ional Alchemy.


dreadful sin stands

him

l>y

and measures are the same

amount of

fluid life

an accusing goblin from the deeps.

like

Now why? Remember, we

suppose, what
in

one launches

down gulfs of remorseful, mental torture, and


The physiologists have not answered that
case

the normal one,

fii'st,

waste

compensates the

vital loss

sates

on the other
them, not

to

side

on one side

and here

me which

is,

question.

trouble seals
there

them up

ails half the

mean death

liquid form.

in

lymph and upon


:

result of

vaginal and uterine

Xow

which

this

is

not

its

is

little

life

that

nor that

When

sealed

another

That's what

use.

what

is

new

have

thing for the


is

known

as

just explained

precedes both the semen and prostatic

It

contact with the lochia


the fulfilment of

Duvcrnav they fuse

iod's

purpose

and disobeys the fundamental law of i.ove, and that

Love

law of that soul he deliberately

The

not from electric,

hence he draws upon his very soul

he pavs the dreadful penalty.

the

Xow

but one force at work.

from imaginative and mechanical forces

man.

in bi-scxing

thought will be carefully studied and understood.

magnetic or spiritual ones


violates

two

up, and discharge the magnetic fluid of the

in the case of the solitaire there is

result

discovery

French discoverer.

their

to her sooner or later.

know

but thev

It is to collect, store

hope

new

But thev did not know

of.

wives of Christendom.

Cowper's gland

Cowpcr\s gland compen-

Love only keeps them open.

the mascu-

and the absorption by

Just forward of the prostate gland

doctors.

body

which by

no exudation of magnetic lymph, which must be present,

is

else marital rites

it.

all

In

will.

that just within the vulva are

glands, called glands of Duvernay, from

those glands are the scat of

victim into steep-

its

give the doctors a

That much the doctors were aware

exact

that the

occasioned by the magnetic

is

the feminine parietcs of the exudation from

the others do not.

action ot the electric lymph, the absorption of


line

that weights

true,

is

four instances

all

lost: yet

is

itself;
is

why

resides in the soul; the basic

prostitutes,

wherefore his soul, as

well as his body, must and does sutler.

AX EPISODE.
II.

One day

as

A SINOri.AR EXITRIENCE.

went walking up and down the town

in solilo-

Affectional Alchemy.

8
quent mood,
great griefs

met a man, whose woe-begone countenance betokened


tugging at his heart-strings and that soul-pangs were
I

racking the very foundations of his being.

did not say that

was my

it

No,

and

met the man.

alter ego encountering myself!

my

learned his sad story, pondering deeply upon which, I pursued

way

to

where

and

sleep

were wont

to

woo each

other

and

there,

throwing myself upon a lounge, drank some fresh, sweet milk, brought

me by

a chunky

germanesque neighbor of mine, of say nine

little

years, pretty, as all children are,


all

and loquacious and

talkative

as

children should be.

As

I lay there I

she

whom

was

afar

thought of the man,

many

he loved and trusted,

among

off,

a lone, and lonely man

strange people,

and

far too

many

for

years younger than himself,

where amid

the

rounds of

gayety, in fashion's tide, she had no time to think of him,

delving toiler

the

follow the example of that thought-

less girl.

She was wondrously


to air

and conquests

fair,

and heedless as beautiful

to achieve

poor, sweet

with fashions

lady

little

And

as I

pictured her beauty and bloom, I could but justify her vanity, and on
that basis

condone her apparent heartless coldness in never deigning

to write to

silence

And

who was

him,

suffering daily deaths

and contempt.
so I lay

upon

the lounge

milk, and I drought about the


I fell

into a sort of

means

and quaffed the sweet, delicious

Woman

and the

power

to

have a thousand times been able

it

from having incidentally cast

triune, or

magic mirror, such as

induce the state of psycho-vision.


wall, where
it

had placed

to a lady in

pelled
It

me

was

and, as I did so,

it

It

me

this

habit

and by

and

occasion I

to
fell

eyes upon a third class

have used expressly to

hung over

after polishing

to see afar off,

On

my

for years I

Brooklyn, N. Y., to

to sell

do so was born with

glimpse things denied to mortal vision.


into

Man

magnetic trance and clairvoyance

familiar, seeing that the


its

by reason of her cold

it,

whom

the table against the

preparatory to sending

impecuniosity had com-

it.

a fine one, though not the best or most costly

capable of mighty things

when

in the

humor

for,

be

it

yet

known,

was
they,

Affect tonal Alchemy.


like watches, razors, locomotives

and women, arc very

set in their

ways, and will not work unless well treated, and coaxed besides

ranged

spaces above, and to the

to the aerial

and on

its

Its

to.

surface the dead could, and often did, cast cognizable

pictures of themselves and surroundings then and

the morning alluded

breathed upon

to, as I

portentous cloud obscured


indicative

power
vaulted deeps below

then thev operate well enough, as did the one alluded

face,

its

of coming trouble,

happiness and contentment

forgot

actually

sheen,

by

succeeded

error,

folly,

nor

that,

all

approaching drama was ended,

after the

On

again.

followed by a silverv

hatred,

but

then

a thick, heavy, black,

it,

drama

recalled

it

strange

and weird, fraught with pain unutterable, inexpressible,

till

almost unendurable

yet

whose

results or fruitage

was

pome-

as ripe

granates are to the thirsty pilgrims, or the cool, bubbling waters to

Arab on

the parched lips of the

did

dream

that the strange experience

others than myself;


I

the burning sands of Sahara.

such

j'ct

was

Little

of true light to

full

and was; and with grateful heart

it is,

thank the Most Compassionate God, the Ineffable Lord, that

found worthy to

become

lesson to rav brethren of the

In an instant, as

my

eyes

table,

all

of that marvellous glass


six

weeks afterwards,

on

fell

it

that wondrous

The

sequel

shadow of an

far

beheld a scene which

man

the

in, to

believed

along in this book

in

will

cnacT-cdy^:.', or a ligment of

was

hence what

saw

froze

my

man

loved so well, and for

at that

for

verv instant

reality.

loved the man. at

blood with horror, and

whom

and

at the time,

show whether it was the


fancv woven of mist, and

nerves fairly tingle with excitement and pain.


the

the
Child,

in play.

Toledo, dreadful

conjured up out of the cellars of suspicion.


events

came

glvphaj

were gone and unheeded, and on the face

I religiously

being enaclcd far away,

was

wide and wasteful world.

outer world sight receded, and the soul-sight


chairs, lounge

the vessel for the conveyance of so grand a

saw

the

all

made mv

hub

whom

he yearned, and mourned, and

wept bitter tears, revealed before the eyes of my soul. She was just
emerging from a dormitorv, evidently, judging bv appearances, both
a dishonest and dishonored wife

ting with her paramour, a gallant

and woman.

She was

young

who

fellow,

gaily chat-

stood near her,

Affectional AlcJiemy.

io

whom

and on
love.

that

she gazed with unutterable tenderness, volupty and

shuddered with mortal anguish

woman

bore his name.

her to be pure as an angel from heaven

sympathy

him,

for

suffer,

and

is,

sometimes empty

air.

On

not,

is

met the man

the day I

very singular questions

"

Is

through

I,

was

a lesson or a fact

hell.

and

sometimes based on

solid ground,

me

had asked him

he had told
it

had believed

and now did

and

friend,

agonies of the nether

the

ay,

Presently you will see whether the vision

whether jealousy

my

for I loved

Until that hour I and he

that she

possible for a husband to discover

if

goes astray during an absence, without the ordinary evidence

his wife

that establishes such facts?

ing of it?"

dered on them
he imagined

it

out without seeing or hear-

given; but I do

like hot iron, into his soul

know

and he pon-

he grew morbid, and every day, in his loneliness,

till

all

find

know what answer was

I don't

words sunk deep,

that the

Can he

sorts of things,

palpable form before

my

which now bodied themselves

in

soul's gaze.

Subsequently she had written to say that her yearnings were great,

and she was dying from the mere


within a
nothing.

and

my

and

in contact with

husband

and

more

the

all

some very popular

on what

fidelity questions,

As

prolonged absence

in that she

upon her

ich, ripe,

and alluring

lips

saw

face, I

fall

heard his love expressions, and her

but the most cruel thing of


they were playing on

my

all

thick

God

warm

in

his.

replies

was their combined laugh and "joke"


by making his slender purse bear

friend,

the cost of their guiltful amours.

love the babes

the

saw her languish

voluptuous death in his strong arms, and watched her return


fiery salutation.

was

regarded as the wrong side.

gazed on the scene upon the mystic mirror's

fast

yet

agitators of the marriage

lady and her lover as before, and beheld his burning kisses

and

week wrote that she was supremely happy, and longed for
This was ground for suspecting her to be a truant wife,
friend a deceived

thrown

fact of

He

loved that

woman

as mothers

sends through wailing agony to their longing

hearts.
I

leaped from the couch

the tragic tale

rushed to

fired his soul

my

friend's place

with vengeance dire

told

him

and, putting a

Affect ion al Alchemy.


loaded revolver

in

his pocket,

\\

bade him swiftly traverse the 1,100

miles intervening hctwixt him and his deep revenge.

went

grocery hard by, to drink beer to drown out the agonv

to a

for the

God

man, the detestation of the woman.

"

upsets his calculations; or Destiny does.

Grambrins Halle,

to

encountered

She strangely

child, at play.

with but one glass, where

The child saved me I

my

on

jauntily

where

hill,

This done,

my

had intended
I

to

caught her up, seated her

head, and marched back to the lonely house on the


this little child

by, and, as she ran off trippingly home, at her

who was just

German

the Halle

left

my way

drink at least a dozen.

threw myself on the lounge, kissed

the

friend,

little

felt

proposes," but

So now. on

me; and

interested

Returning,

Man

good-

brother's call,

little

then having dreadful trouble with his rabbits,

caught

sight of a scintillant flash of white light issuant from her head, like

gleam of a peerless diamond, when

the radiant

brightly burning

her

lips.

had drawn her

face to mine, inhaling the

soul

and

to

me, and pressed her

balmy aroma of her pure,

and a portion of the roseate

mine.

saw

it,

meaning of a

fire

rosv. childish
fresh,

joyous

of her sweet lips had clung to

like a thin cloud of opalescence,

moved my head,

fro. as I

lamps are

the

all

and a glowing, streaming iridescence flowed from

or breathed.

waving gentlv

began

kiss.

There are but few among the many who know the meaning of
kiss;

or

unity with the lips.

when

from

that the soul,

the upper one

its

seat in the brain,

affcctional, friendly,

filial,

is

in

parental, general, in

sensuous, magnetic, passional, in the lower

loving lips meet lips that love, there

is

life

and

fluid love at the instant of

measures arc greater or

less

ness of each respectively.

according

nor that,

a magnetic discharge of

at the beautiful irradiation alluded to above.


to the

mag-

impact or contact, which

to the love-fulness or

While pondering on

thought to the mirror scene, and

telegraphic

soul-flame, and each party gives and receives large measures of


netic

to

study the

to

this,

chanced

woman

empti-

and marvelling
to recur in

and the man. the

phantorama already described again that strange


numbness of the outer being came over me, and in another instant I

\vicrdly strange

lay there, rapt, entranced, transfigured,

and

for the

time being was as

Affectional Alchemy.

12
newly dead.

are the

Clearly, distinctly, did

and

trate the spaces

my

room, where

localize itself in that far-off

man upon

lip

and as

thought of my friend,

by the Lord of Hosts "

my feelings

and

passion-fires

from

lip to

her husband, I exclaimed, " Guilty

But as

came over

hands on shoulders, and mu-

that,

accompanied with glowing red

tual kisses,

still

woman

stood the recalcitrant wife and her new-found lover, and the

stood on this side, the

pene-

soul's vision

I said so

my soul.

and gazed, a great change

put myself in

my friend's,

her

husband's place, by means of the three principles, Posism, Volantia

and Decretism, hereinafter alluded

comprehending the

situation, I

spattered his heart's blood

would

to,

and then,

far

not, as before,

upon the walls and

more

have

floor, or

clearly

slain her,

have sent a

leaden bullet crashing through his brains, for the whole world, or

more

millions
I

now

just like

love you

if

my

before

my

representing

for

whereas before

this

faithful

Where

guaranty of

my

said unto

soul,

my

soul,

She did not


It is

is

the legitimate result of the


rather,

souls,

wrong

but

relations

mismated marriagees of the

and the bodies they wear, true and

does not mutually exist there can be, and

it

Wherefore,

fidelity.

call to

man

between the mated, or

effects,

great cloud rolled

very day, transpiring in thousands of places the

Love only can keep

had observed

gaze into the vague, dim yEth, and

friend, the

wide world over, and


subsisting

she had, this scene could never have occurred.

one of millions,

facts

beheld their producing, hidden causes.

away from

earth

it

it is

is,

no

incumbent on you to face the

your aid the rare philosophy of common sense

strug-

gle manfully against this dreadful, appalling, yet perfectly natural ca-

tastrophe

heart

ask

Still

you

see

nervous

accept the situation

God

for strength to bear the

representing
is,

worded

friend,

my

heavy burden, and be wise.

soul said

on

Perchance what

morbidity of fancy and loneliness, combined with the

suspicions kindled

departure

my

but a fevered dream, begotten of your depressed

after all,

state,

hush the throbbings of your tortured

by the strange questions asked upon the eve of her

many days

letters sent

ago, and greatly strengthened

by unwisely

and made

by her

back by her

weeks' utter silence

.msband has a right

to

in itself

good cause

still

stronger

six

for suspicion, for every

know his wife's whereabouts,

her surroundings

Affect ion al Alchemy.


and the company she keeps
formed,

lie

has

and

fair

just

and

him thus

she docs not keep

if

grounds

13
in-

her actions arc such

to infer that

as oii'^ht to be hidden from his gaze, and also from that of humanity
at large.
If innocent, she

and pain mav

empty
your

air.

illness tortures things


in

out of shape,

your anxiety and sympathy

woman

may have

really

my

soul

went on

to

my

heart, for

each other

had no right

They

friend,

mere phasmas assume

till

and

itself;

conjured up a

plume of an

lie

Mv

mav

it

and

be

this

down upon

angel's

clung to that hope!

wing
soul

Oh,

my

young are adapted

twain, the far-off couple, are

you (my

was unwise, while

be as unsoiled as the

the ring-dove's breast, or the spotless


ho--:

for she

appearance as the very truth

apparently recusant

while your trouble

have no more solid foundation than vague and

really

Let justice rule on both sides

forms as solid
that

guilty of a great follv

is still

You

friend, of course) are too old for her.

temptation of being away

to subject her to the terrible

from your side for months together, in the midst of gay people, where
everything appealed to and impressed her young heart and fancy,

and made a wider gulf between herself and you.


heart

is

bleeding, that hot tears are streaming

your poor soul

is

hell of jealousy

know your

down your

face, that

sweltering amidst the tortuous flames of the fiercest


yet

why?

for

heartless to you, heartful to her

who

one

paramour

loves
!

Be

you not!
a

man

who

and remem-

ber that she, too, has rights which you are bound to respect
the right to dishonor, but to be free from you by laws
vine,

not

human and

di-

and to make such choice and legal disposal of herself as her

youth demands, and her


If she has fallen,

own.

is

it is

will, soul,

and conscience prompt.

the fault of her husband, not altogether her

She admires him, but probably loves

this distant

Adonis, and,

tempted beyond her strength, she may have forgotten and neglected
duty, at the urgence and

call

of love

the facts of

which came rush-

ing through the air to you and took form and shape through the

vis-

ion of the seer.

Be magnanimous
ever, do not

fail to

and

if

ye twain part, as ye likely will, and

for-

recognize the end as the legitimate result of the

stupid folly of allowing her to dwell so far

away

in the

midst of

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14

Guilty, or not guilty, forget and for-

tempting scenes and people.

Voluntarily free this simpleton from the chafing thrall that

give.

binds her to one whose purse, not person,

Let her go

is all

ded

Hold

wed.

her,

and she

is

for.

you and duty, yield

at the call of affection, and, forsaking

Free her, and they twain

her to the better and nobler law of love.


will likely

on earth she cares

that nameless thing

a wed-

harlot.

My soul

had,

still

And

Behold "
!

through

my

my

heard a sweet and silvery voice

rung

as the delicious tones

spirit I felt that I

and notwithstanding that


guilty,

friend, not myself, gotten thus far in its

when methought

just reasonings
say, "

as

changes

glorified

had grown a century within an hour

my friend's wife to be
my dying day, yet I had

I actually believed

and might probably so believe

until

sympathy

charity for her, as well as sorrow and

myself in his place, and for the

first

time in

my

life

for

him.

put

not only realized

the luxury of forgiveness, but felt capable of even dying a lingering

death that the


loved

would

woman

happy with him she so


can no man show, in that he

so loved might be

and greater affection than that


lay

down

his life for a friend.

with the husband

I talked

He

persuaded him to lay by the pistols and revenge.


ceased to be jealous from that hour, caring but
vision

was of

" Behold "


!

all

penetrates

whether the

actual fact or a delirious dream.


I looked, still

boundaries, cleaves
all

little

did so, and

all

with that ultra soul-sight which leaps

space, flashes over rivers, mountains, seas,

bodies, and brings us in actual contact with the

whole

German

child,

domain of mystery

and again

saw

the

through the walls of both houses, as clearly as


crystal or purest glass instead of boards

little

if

they were of finest

and mortar.

And

beheld

an ineffably pure, pearly-hued effulgence playing about her


head, undulating in billowy

movement

about

all

her

little

infantile

shoulders, streaming from her hair, glowing round her waist, and
in loving wavelets all around.
It

was but

watched

this

with astonishment.

the prelude to the celestial cantata that followed.

saw

her mother gently chide her, and soon she went to bed, and slept the
sweet, delicious slumber of absolute innocence
I

saw

the gossamic cloud of pearly aura

expand

and as she thus lay


till it

filled

the room,

Affect i oil al Alchemy.

15

penetrated the ceiling, the roof, swelling and lengthening out clear
into the starlight,

and forming

the very depths of space

me

turned

ment

at

could follow

again to the sleeping child

beholding

down

it

and afar

no more.

and what was

olV into

Then

my

young children and

the virgin

dead,

Good

fit

catching

is

That

child

of jealous rage in sympathy with

through her again, about


of

my

life.

own

self,

had enabled

me

my

and now

child,

to stave off a
I

was,

and had become suffused with a

sweet aromal aura or atmosphere, and was,

rapport with the same bright beings as she was her-

and was played upon by the same

influences,

friend

little

one of the most important lessons

to learn

had kissed that

portion of her
therefore, en

come

the lane of pearly light, and, entering the house,

gather and dance and play at the bedside of the slumbering


one.

astonish-

hundreds of bright shining and divinely

literallv

beautiful forms, as of

trooping

till

to a point shot out

celestial,

pure and divine

whereof Love was the dominant or major clement.

A portion of these purer, better, and


and occupied the room

hyperphysical auras displaced

of the grosser aura, earth-born and turbid.

found myself cleaner, better, than before, and comprehended Christ's


" Suffer

little

children to

come unto me."

of rapt contemplation had I realized the


single touch of loving lips

that

if it

Not

until that holy

hour

immense meaning of

be purely given and received,

both participants are blessed, not only directly, but through oblique

ways, a myriad

Love

in very

fold.

deed

lies at

the foot of

all,

and

its

mystic and ideal

meaning outweighs the material and popular ones by

as

many

degrees as the pure soul of that baby-girl outweighs the corrupt

We

body of the low-lived debauchee.

may be hugged, embraced,

kissed into heavenly states, or into their exact oppositcs


aside from

wise

who

common

relational lip-contacts, they are

Hence,

worse than un-

touch lips unless love be the underlying prompter; for

the kissed or kisser be bad, just so

much

of that specific evil

is

if

sure to

flow from the magnetic poles of either pair of lips to the soul of him
or her
I

upon whose mouth thev arc

have said the moist

inmost good or

evil.

It

lips
is

laid.

are batteries charged with our very

utterly impossible for a ncgress

having

*6

Affectional Alchemy.

borne a child to a white father ever to give birth to one perfectly


negro,
even though its father, like herself, has never a drop of
other blood in him,
for the reason that the blood of the white

man, through

his child, has

mingled

More

in the mother's veins.

than that, her blood under the microscope will not show the same
crystalline forms after the birth of the mixed child as it did before.
Just so

is

impossible for us not to be

it

made

better or

worse by

lip

touching.

Harlots invariably descend unless snatched from ruin by a miracle.

because of the

It is

combating

many forms

in their nerves

kiss so also is

it

with every other

ordinary shaking of the hands.


I

awoke from my slumber

went out and found

my

him

told

it

was

sort of

its

opposite attends the

human

contact

Gloves, therefore, have

even the

new

had with

and victimized

my own

uses.

man.

a wiser, and. I trust, a better

soul-harried

reasoned with him just as


I

of hell struggling in their veins,

and as heaven or

friend.

I
I

soul a while before.

clear as sunlight that the absent

woman

really

cared not a straw for him, but only for what current funds she could

him and

extract from

that,

although to lose her was a bitter draught

of gall, yet he had better swallow

own

for that

he was only loving his

sphere wherewith he had embalmed her.

had he
soul

it,

to

hold a

woman

asked what right

in duress convert or non-couvert,

whose

was not attached by love to his whose compliance, duty only,


It was clear he ought to give her up at once even if
;

not affectional.

the effort snapped

his

heart-strings, because the mai'king of her

child was a doubtful question.


Whv should he pursue a
phantom? They were disunited in soul.
Behold the

continuance
III.

As

Let her eo

heartless
folly

of

previously remarked herein, writers upon the general

topics of love

and

its offices,

uses, abuses, nature, moods, and modes,


have, in the main, been content with the merely
superficial or ex-

ternal

most,

unto

view

and have, as a general thing, utterly ignored


of the other and deeper significances attached
thereand not one of them has even attempted to tell mankind

if

not

thereof,

all,

more of the

any

principles

underlying sex, Love, and

their

copula

passion, or desire, than any one's personal experience


suggests

but

Affectional Alchemy.

wc

have plenty of hard, dry, pseudo-scientific flummery,

row of medical
by the average

human

soul out of

incisive, cutting,

as explained in the

or

is

of them

has given us

all

the cause

moment whatever

at certain

at

another will almost shock

earthly tenement, the bocl\

its

by

Which of them all has


docs not know to be a fact,

awful intensity?

what every one ought


conjugation

lon^

else a

the why and wherefore, or

and under circumstances: yet

times,
the

Who

stomach.

orgasm

being a thing of apparently no

its

17

platitudes wholly useless, because totally indigestible


intellectual

'the rationale of the

of

to,

"New

but

Mola," and elsewhere

may be

triple

that

is, it

explained

c,

/.

in this book,

may be

keen,

its

that,

human

of soul, spirit or

body, alone or either, and the binary minglings of the three, in


various degrees, even to an infinity
spirit,

five

hundred of mere body, and so on

normal except

in exact equations

one part

for instance,

soul, ten

but never true or

even tens or hundreds, according

The

as the participants are high or low.

philosophers never even

guessed at this truth.

Who

of them has told, or can

very soul

itself,

why the nuptium

fairly laps the

of each participant, too, in the tenderest,

softest,

human, joy

yet at

human, because

truly

tell,

strictly

another gives naught but cruel pain


unsatisfactory to one party,

else

and injurious

to

is

one time

at

but a nervous spasm,

both

and yet the same

people in both instances?

Why
at

is it,

learned anthropologists, that the generative

one time wholly

fill

him with

to the lips

him

the

him with

spire

into

dictu

unman
most

one, yet at another


exquisite,

same ones too will

manly, gallant sensibility

the most lofty virtue and high resolve

with true and royal courage

still,

bring pain, keen mental

facedncss, and suicidal thought


gratefulness, generosity,

in-

charge him

yet at another time transmute

an errant coward and miserable poltroon?

same parties

rite will

And, mirabile
agony, shame-

yet at another, result in pride, joy,

and mental summer, with physical spring-

for

time?

Why

will

sight,

who by

its

spaces

plunge us into the deepest " blues," and fang our souls with

remf

this

mysterious duty

means peoples

such

it

is

in

God's

the worlds, and stocks the starry

rse cruel as the grave, relentless as the

Iladean gulf of Milton,

Affectional Alchemy.

and the other poets


and

yet at another induce a state of feeling in soul

approaching the supposed angelic

spirit quite

why ? and

myriad gaping crowd of scalpel-drivers repeat the sound, and echo


"

Why?" The

answer

who

answers

wherefore

must take up

need the information

know, therefore cannot

their science don't

my

it is

my

pen

lot to

respond to

to

it,

for those

impart.

Since Dr. Dixon, of ''The Scalpel" printed his great and warn-

"The

ing essay on

Law"

organic

and the anonymous

(of sex),

author of "Satan in Society" faintly echoed those stirring notes,

nothing has been given to the world on the mighty subject worthy
of attention or record.

Neither essay

filled the

required

that reason I print this series of salvatory counsels.

probably

and

who

shall, ere long,

bill,

and

may, and

be numbered with the armies of the dead

then will give Randolph's thoughts to the world ?

know, and therefore give

good and

all

at least a part of

consequently,

shall

them before

now convey

concise forms of certain knowledges, which,

long

many

wish

to

I don't

leave for

certain brief

and

abided by, will pro-

if

and add immeasurable happiness

life,

for

to

mankind.

be clearly understood, and yet not to offend the most delicate

or fastidious
tain truths,

for

God

is

my judge

whose mission

wretchedness

now

is

that

my

aim

sole

is to

to stop the tide of crime,

devastating our land.

am

teach cer-

miseiy and

forced to use similes,

but trust to be fully and entirely understood.

IV.

The

Now for

the answer to the loud

states resulting

happily from

"Whys?"

human

fusion

of section three.

were because there

was a human fusion, and that's just it In all the other cases
there was either too much body, too much spirit, and too little or no
They were violations of the love-law, and the suffering
soul at all.
was the penalty. It is a pity that ten thousand times the pain was
really

not the direct result of every violation of the organic law

and

if

every proposed debauchee could or would but die in the attempt, the

world would soon be a great deal better

Where

off.

sits

enshrined over the married man's chamber door,

and reason guides

his conduct towards his wife therein, peace will

reign,

love

and the

sale of syphilitic remedials vastly decrease.

No

pangs

follow the celebration of the rites of holy love, nor judicious use of

Affect ional Alchemy.

19

the divine, but abused, faculties of our nature.

marriage

passion,

never right

rites are

Unless love equals

that's all

V. The grand mistake made by physiologists and other

essavists,

writing on the current topic, consists in their persistent overlooking

man and woman

of the fact that

incarnation, so to speak, of one side of Dcitv

Imperial

and

tive

and

Over Soul
Infinite

side to all these,

one hemisphere of the

human

female represents

for there is a

male and female

while the

and the two genders correspond

Thus

those respective sides.

cither, alone,

Love.

No

rolls

bridge exists in nearly

true

man

can

it

all

requires a bridge to

There's room for more.

loving

heir}

him

attracted to,

The magnetic matehuman beings. Its name is


true

all

in debt,

empty

women

Not such

grosser sense, but in the higher one of soul.

out of his manhood, run

his purse,

not in the

word of

tending to love him, but meaning not one


the sleeve,

in

she was,

how

and triumphing

great a fool

was

he.

it,

man

as lie a

and rob lrm

of his peace, until he actually jeopardizes his soul's salvation,

him

affil-

between them.

Bridges arc in great demand.

VI.

represent,

an Incompleteness

is

they belong to opposite sides of nature, and

span th j amazing gulf that

to,

powers from, and are

iate with, derive their respective

rials for said

an

is

one section of Nature, matter, the Superla-

Mind of Minds

an embodiment of the other

is

The male

arc not the same.

pre-

laughing

at

knowledge of how smart

in the

That's the sort of

women who,

from the year one, have driven hard bargains with the masculine
portion of the race, and rushed

many

a good

ruin and gloom, and horrid, blank despair.

man down the hills of


Nor arc they all dead

yet.

have neither time, assistance, or inclination for moralizing

I
little

patience with

ern

reform"

'

despise

all

'

Scripture" quotcrs

women-haters on one

on the other

side,

at all

were nothing but

Men, who

but

with the mod-

besides which

cordially

and Wcsnentcs (man haters)

and no words of mine can express

my

abhorrence

utter

woman

if

she

pleasure-vehicle, to be kissed, petted, and

ill-

of the things miscalled

treated in alternate slices.

tempt

and age

tribes of the land

none

But

for that large class of

practically regard

I feel

quite as

women who

much

as

ind gnant con:

are ever ready to use their

Affectional Alchemy.

20

beauty as a trap to catch male gudgeons

game,

fair

ling silks,

to

be

lied to,

in the

world

There's quite as

woman

a diamond

is

all

men

as

to the tune of rust-

heartless shes as hes

a greater danger to

is

for her sex gives her

points of advantage .denied to


true

many

woman
scoundrelly men

the world than a dozen

all

utter heartlessness belies

and whose

only that one soulless

look on

and played on, generally

and crisp bank notes

the index of their sex.

who

of the opposite gender.

good,

a bad and heartless one worse than Mil-

ton's Satan.

Sitting near

four grave
into

me

dined yesterday, were

their mother's sex.

men, deliberately traducing

paroxysms of what they called

struation,

where

in the eating-house

"Fun"

They went

anent pregnancy, men-

They, and millions

and sexive matters generally.

like

them

everywhere, in every bar-room, hotel, stable, store, grocer}', consider


u smart" and manly to, even before young boys, habitually blasit

pheme Deity and dishonor

the mothers that bore them,

by

irreverent,

and obscene speech concerning the sex. Poor wretches who


disgrace the forms they bear by speaking of woman as if she were
flippant

nothing but a target for

tongues to hurl their venom at

filthy

or, at

own abominable lubricity mere exthe venomtinguishers of the bale-fires rioting in their own veins,
ous fever-passions of their own gross natures, and far more ignoble
than those of the four-footed dogs that run our streets. It made me

best, as destined victims to their

sick

it

always

did to

outrageous talk going on every-

listen to the

where about women, whenever two or more human males of the


" civilized" kind happen to get together for an hour. Even stately
officials, fathers

their presence,
foul talk, to

scene,

mind

of families, do

which

is

and

devilish,

debauched and

if not, at least often

almost as bad.

be heard everywhere,

and altogether

It is

is

totally

So

at an)- time,

that

it is

allow

almost universal

is

it

in

this

ribald, coarse, ob-

no wonder that the public

demoralized.

a evirious fact that people will talk smut, laugh heartily at

coarse jokes and improbable stories concerning the eternal God's

method of peopling

the worlds,

yond the grave, when of

all

and

human

filling

deeds

up

it is

the starry

domes be-

the most sacred, seri-

Affect ional Alchemy.

21

human being laughs then; for the wei ,!it


of worlds rests upon human shoulders.
It is a bad sign any man hangs out when he makes " fun" of what
ous, and laughless.

JYo

ought to challenge his holiest emotions and most profound respect.

There was a young man of the fun-making genus,


nature

up

a fellow whose

was inflamed nearly a year before his birth, and who kept it
by food and drink, and the secret books he first

to boiling-point

and then so

read,

were sure

artfully concealed, that the servant-girls

read, get detected, of course, by the owner.


destruction
poor she, brag by he, who of course was petted
them,

to find
sult,

re-

to

and made much

of, while his victim's head, in time hung low, for a


was breaking. Well, this Lothario's eyes used to
when they rested upon any young female form, and the

bleeding heart
fairly glisten

burden of his

women.

talk

was

the victories he

had won over too confiding

Brag.

happened that he was one of a jury of inquest over the dead


body of poor Maria Lee, a child of sixteen summers, whom a rich
It

so

merchant of Loudon had betrayed, and then procured a double murder at the hands of an abortionist.
Poor child she bled to death
!

from a skewer of

steel

run clean through both the uterus and

tents.

The

charity:

by-and-by joined

The medical
out in
its

five

rich

practitioner

weeks

some

the church, and his sin

went

to jail for six

and the babe went back

months

to

heaven

was

its

con-

more

in

forgotten.

was pardoned
in the

arms of

slaughtered mother.

But there she

Simon
ble or

merchant paid some money

lay,

poor child, upon the long work-table of good

and delicate as

Scott, the carpenter, all pale

wax-work, and beautiful

God,

how

finest

Parian mar-

immortally beautiful

had fashioned her before the rich merchant of Loufriends, the doctor and death, had finished the work so

just as Deity

don and
fairly

his

begun

finished her

for the

grave and heaven; for

golden portals swing wide to admit

a_

shining soul, surely

will revolve like lightning to let in a ruined

Well, the autopsy went on

the facts

if
its

ever

its

hinges

woman.

were disclosed

and while

the surgeon plied his work, and a strong magnifying glass

was

handed round among the jurymen, none were so eager and earnest

Affectional Alchemy.

22

the general lover


and question, as the fast young man,
He carefully examined lungs, brain, stomach, breasts,
alluded to.
and
all; and as he laid down the glass he muttered
heart, uterus
in scrutiny

-with the

womb

my

in

hand, and the knife between

my

echoed, from the floor of

God

curse him,

stopped

but not

them

till

too, if ever I "

registered

up

there

by

and there he

where vows are

If I could, I certainly -would

forgotten.

would have every

forgotten truth that her soul


;

words ''Murdered,

fifteen

hospital for syphilides.

body

was

teeth

witness just such a redemptive and imand would take every boy through the wards of a

have every male over


;

is

his

soul,

and me,

his oath

never broken, and nothing

pressive scene

my

something they

little

is

worth, at

dream

of,

girl

taught the long-

least, quite as

so ardent

is

much

their

as her

worship

at

the shrine of .Saint Frivole.

Had I been so instruded

long years agone,

subsequent mistakes, and consequent misery

was

had escaped very many

but

I.

like

most

others,

a long time in learning thoroughly the tremendous difference

between the chaste desire of pure love, and the lurid fires of burning
hence this, and my later books, which I
I learned it at last
lust.
rocks and
trust will seive as beacons to warn mankind off sunken
;

reefs long after these

soul that animates

hands have returned

them

is

to primal dust,

and the

kneeling at the feet of the Redeeming

God.
VII.

From

prevailed

and

the earliest historical ages an unnatural custom has


its

results

have been

fearful,

sub rosa

mainly, for
I refer to

the victims generally grieve, mourn, and die in silence.


the abominable practice of old
that the temptations,
society, position,
that,

it is

men marrying young

girls.

youth and freshness on one side


other, are great indeed

money, on the

know

influence,

but for

all

a something against which that same society ought to turn

and one that God Himself frowns down for never a marriage
among them all produced other fruits than discontent, jealousy,
;

madness and despair.


Campbell, in that odd book " Hermippus, or the Sage's Triumph,"
lays it down that the old can regain many months or even years of
life

by consorting and cohabiting with the young.

It is,

and

is

not

Affectional Alchemy.
If

true.

were possible

it

for

two people, one

man, and the man increase the

man

in

New York

waxen

thin, pale,

State,

burv

and

it

Were

his

man

literally

It

was buried

the

in

body

hillside.

of that age to use means to thus get a daughter of

when

was young,

is

safe to say,

think there'd

for I regard

it

as a

my

rea-

where occasionally the young

girl

crime even worse than some sorts of murder


:

it.

his daughter's

happiness together in one grave on the

have been a third-class funeral in that town

why

But,

fix

drove his daughter, a

years afterwards, a child

mine, say twenty-live years ago,

sons

power.

nohow you can

West, and four weeks afterwards the father bore


to

would help the

recuperative

sixty,

who

girl

child of sixteen, into a hated marriage of sixty-five

Two

or thereabouts.

girl's

cant love

happilv, girls of sixteen

knew

sixty, the other sixteen,

and mutually love each other, then the

to fully

23

and here are

marries an old man, and good results follow, that such cases are extraordinary, and altogether exceptional to an almost universal rule

because the old man's motive

is

expense of a fresh young

at the

but a

life

mean, self-preservative

selfish,

prolong his miserable existence

to

and of course

instinct

his u love

while the

girl's

"

is

love

is

one of advantage, either money-wise or from gratitude, and therefore not real love at all

but

because in the very nature of things she can

an utter disgust, an awful and appalling horror and loathing

feel

at the bare thought,

Happiness

is

much

less the

sickening ordeal oifact.

out of the question, and the cases exceedingly rare

Nearly every one will

where they produce anything but misery.


once see

many

of the reasons

why

but there are some others not

quite so self-apparent, and here they are.

In marriage and

must be a reciprocal piav of

and magnetic

there

unless

mutual, there's

eledtric

disaster just ahead,

around, upon which that ship of wedlock

run aground
lost,

and

in the

and that some one

worn-out

The

wreck
is

is

that follows

young

at

its

offices

forces

for

and sunken rocks

all

sure, sooner or later, to

some one

is

sure to be

wife, tired of an old, besotted,

man /

great disparity of years, magnetism, vitality and life-force be-

tween such an

ill-starred

couple renders

it

utterly impossible for the

Affectional Alchemy.

24
young thing

to

have one single

common

taste or desire in

with the

old dotard she calls husband.


assimilate him, or aught pertain-

She cannot absorb, reciprocate or

way and

ing to him, magnetically, or in any other

she even loathes

the food he dotes on, and the liquids he consumes to keep his unnatural fever up.

The magnetic

auras issuant from them are unlike, and to her re-

pellant, after a time, if not at once.

He

consumes, absorbs, and

similates the totality of her vital

and

at length she dies for sheer

want of
here

that

it is

life,

But a

whereof he robs her.

stronger protest

still

man

poisons both the body and soul of the young girl

up the fountains of her youth and responsive power

door of amative joy in her face

gests evil thoughts to her mind,

heart and

is

found in the well-known fact that the old and coarse mag-

netism of the
seals

as-

all else to

shuts the

robs her of her rights as wife

and paves the way

whoever near her own age

giving her a kind of love she needs, and which

sug-

for her to yield

tries to

win

her,

by

proper for one of

is

her tender years.

Where the disparity is even twenty years it is infinitely far too


Ten years' difference is a deal too much, and five the limit,
great.
save in the case of bloodless girls and very magnetic men in which
;

union the female thrives on


in

the fresh vitality of the

man.

such cases, she must be blonde, and he the opposite

if the

reverse happens, she's a

But, even

always;

doomed woman, and he

imbecile, in five years' time at the utmost.

for

a physical

In the case of ordinary

December and May marriages he robs her of life she gestates horror instead of affedlion for in natural marriage souls blend and
interfuse more or less perfectly after a time
and those who have
lived unhappy lives often find out how well they loved at heart, after
;

death comes tapping at the gate,

have thought
cause the girl
the

man

it ?

is

" but too late I

if

not before.

is,

limy, calcareous

mingle in any more intimate

it is

"

Who'd

Such antipodes cannot blend, be-

peach-downy, supple, gay,

lithy, that

Then

lithe

and lightsome, but

and they cannot, will not

relations than

that of

father

and

daughter.

Some

people have young souls in old bodies, in which case things

Affect ional Alchemy.


are not so bad

but where such soul-youth does not

passable harmony,

tics live in

still

constructive -wijicidc, and this

become

cal

and she

is

the

and mental

ami the par-

harm done,

in fait,

apt to

is

young one

be-

cooler, his passion slower in culmina-

is

likely to conceive

is

exist,

reason whv,
a wife

there's great

mother quicker by an old husband than

cause the old man's blood


tion

25

from sheer weariness, and physi-

guard herself; besides which, she never

inability to

dreams of danger, or of the female

finesses she

would put

play

in

against a younger .husband.


If ever

right to prevent conception, I believe

it is

tional cases like this before us

courses through her

ing her

down with

young veins, making her old prematurely

is

childhood means.

born old;

yet
its
its

its

by

thus,

for the offspring of January


Its

cranium
;

and

is

if

its

knows what babyhood is, 01


an oddity knows no infantile
;

own

is

father,

But

robbed and cheated

that's not the

worst of

broader,

flatter, thicker,

is

right

and dense as those of a grown

young mother escapes

forceps-delivery, or a

pity all such, and alas

How often we
his love."

thousands of such there are.

hear the expression, " She tapped the fountains of

Well, the thing

can onlv be done

is

possible, yet

when both

is

seldom realized,

for that

are maritally conjoined while influ-

enced by a passion born of perfect, deep, soul-founded love


then

still

May

worse operation, she may consider herself a fortunate woman.

God

it

sure to be nearly as calcareous as

bones are harder, firmer, more solid than

the

Besides

never

most halcyon days.

best and

father.

man

is

run of years.

his long

all

looks, feels, is

It

days or pleasures, and


out of

load-

the accumulated mental, physical and moral,

magnetic and other diseases of

which, his child

through his child,

for his old blood,

excep-

in

it is

ah, then! the cup of

human

bliss

is

indeed

Why?

full.

and
Be-

cause a portion of each soul becomes incorporate in the other, and


the mystical blending

" they twain

But souls can be tapped without


soul

is

shall be

one "

is

reciprocity, for the

complete.

young

wife's

drained from her, either directly as a sponge, by her old hus-

band, or indirectly through the uterine and vaginal diseases sure to

be her

lot

sooner or later; for the fluids of the twain will not, cannot

blend, except in so far forth as to innoculate the poor

young thing

Affectional Alchemy.

26

with malignant poison, by which

do not here mean

syphilis, but I

do mean that worse poison resultant from chemical incompatibility,


mental and affe&ional disgust and repulsion, which leave ulcers and

Gentlemen

corrosions in their train, with death in the foreground.

M.

D.'s, here's the origin of evil

for

even

if

the husband

not old,

is

but only a hellion to her, she's your patient straightway, and you

have a fine chance for the sale of lotions, washes, pessaries, support-

and

ers,

all

"in the

the other vast paraphernalia born of non-love,

auld house at

hame."
Children conceived in May, June, July, August and

Birth months.

September, and who, therefore, are born in February, March, April,

May, and June, are, unquestionably, better constituted and will live
longer, have more character and power than when the double events
occur in other months

because nature and weather are more propi-

Conceptions occurring in the morning hours are a

tious at the start.

myriad degrees better than when that event occurs

A person's
veal

more of

tant,

and

tion,

shadow on

the wall in a room,

at other periods.

by lamp-light,

will re-

that party's real character than all the phrenology ex-

in its

minute phases, too

just as a peculiar smile, observa-

movement, or tone of voice

more of a person's

will

sometimes

tell

an acquaintance of

real self, than

second

in a
fifty

intimate

years would otherwise.

Gender

in the

in the animate

human being

means propagation, mainly


for,

is

a very different thing from gender

kingdoms below the grade of man.


for food

purposes

In the beasts

but in

man

it

it

stands

and implies, a great deal more, as will be seen hereinafter.

At

wish

this point I

to

pick a flaw or two in the reasonings of

and phrenologists of the day, every one of


moral pleas mainly upon the ground that the mar-

the popular physiologists

whom

urge their

ital-functional nuptive rite of the

with the creative act of beasts

human being is precisely on a par


is, that God intended it in man

that

as in animals, to be solely and only a propagative function,

and nothing more.


state

precedent

to,

it,

is

but the natural spur

therefore, say they, the sacred

when both

that,

generative ends only, and the nervous

and succeeding

God-foreseen result
missible only

It is for

nuptium

to the
is

per-

parents desire to add one more unit to the

Affect io?ial Alchemy.


great world's population.

Now

scious hypocrites, teaching

what they

us tools, and
I

we

27

these philosophers either are condon't believe

else they

think

inozv they are.

have seen a book, of nearly a thousand mortal pages, and that

doctrine

ment

was

whole

the

lame, for

own

believe his

gist

and burden of

logic

Why?

by identical laws

he continually confutes himself, and the com-

man

because

to

is

be found

in the

not a beast, and

is

but comes under, and

labored and lame argu-

author shows in a hundred places that he don't

its

plctest refutation of the absurdity

not true

its

is

words

is

In those realms, sex

In man,

tit?.

it

is

is

and

an

is

not governed

played upon, and moved

bv, higher ones altogether than such as rule in the


beasts, birds, reptiles, fish

It

kingdom of

insects.

instinct, a periodical function

and appe-

and a mystical and

a fact of soul; a principle,

divine power, altogether superior to the passing furore of beasts that

perish and arc


it

does

known no more

in all other

and

it

means more

than

in his case

departments of the sentient world, singly or com-

bined.
I

down

here throw

the gauntlet, and state, boldly and squarely,

right in the teeth of all the so-called scientists

on earth or under

heaven, that the scxive principle, habitude, and instinct in the


is

not in very

many

respects identical with that of the

inhabitants of the globe


implies,

and leads

to

we

live

on

on the contrary,

outside of the

human,

the instinct

seeking there, as everywhere

else,

all-powerful impelling motive,


cats

and

dogs and

fishes,

non-human
us

it

means,

immeasurably more and deeper things than the

average thinker ever dreams of or imagines.

doms

in

human

flies,

if

is

In the organic king-

blindly obeyed, and

and not propagation

at all,

self-

is

the

Bears and horses,

motive there be.

and every other living thing bearing

gender, invariably trouble themselves not at

all

concerning increase

of family, or prolongation of the species, until such increase appears;

bv which time Nature has brought


play.

Parallels

in beasts sexive

they coexist.
at

maturity

new

instinct

and passion

between man and beasts arc not correct or


and parental

instincts are separate affairs,

just

in

into
;

for

man

In beasts the offspring and parents become disunited


in the

human,

the practical relationship lasts not only

28

Affectional Alchemy.
and

to the gates of the grave, but leaps the barriers of death,

ishes in the far-off

Time

heaven

and will

the universe grows old, and

till

himself topples with hoary age.

We are gravely told that animals obey the


season, as the case

buthewo'// nor
that I

flour-

may be

will these self-same

especially
man

because

is

man ought

that

own

their

in

impulse once a year, or

go and do likewise

to

philosophers, I'm

especial

and

sure of

cases;

particular

a myriad grades or degrees higher and finer in

organization than the animals

and

nature calls for more than

his.

theirs possibly can, or does.

They obey

the instinct

beast, just like

man up

nature to attend to
is

the spur to propagation

is

given point, risks

to a

and she does

it

at the time

all

is

albeit consequences are foreseen,

the spur, and

like the kind, dear old

In the average human, the spur

all for

but the

subsequent consequences, but leaves them for

cares nothing for

that she

it

mother

that's cared for

and due provisions

made for to marry and mate, beasts only mate, and marriage is
unknown to them. Not one human couple in fifty millions propa;

gate on purpose, for as a rule


for one

we

impossible

is

not so with beasts

hour seals the origin of the progenal result

the periods, and

but

it

know

day when

to a

sight of the

new

We are all

accidents I

To

instance.

insult to the

God

soul

eyes shall gladden at the

sends to cheer and bless us.

and not a few of us unhappy ones,

apply rules

human

men mark
new animal

and

to look for the

when our

can only guess the time

to

race.

children, will never succeed

man

applicable to animals alone,

I,

for

is

an

Stirpiculture, or the rearing of better

upon

agricultural, stock-farm, or barn-

yard principles.
True, nature requires a rich

whether human or other


richest of fertilizers,

make your

and

sorts

its

soil to
;

name

produce high grades of

fruit,

but in the former she requires the


is

love.

eyes glisten at the beauty of the

Give her

work

that,

and

she does

she'll

deprive

and a human crab is the


gnarliest and most bitter fruit in all God's garden.
In the lower
kingdoms nature does her best to produce a superior grade of body.
and crab apples are the

her of

it,

In the

human world

result

she works wholly to produce a

loftier

order of

Affect ional Alchemy.


soul in

triplicate divisions,

its

intellect,

29

imagination, emotion; and

never satisfied until success fairly crowns her

is

somer

race, physically. I never

others on the earth,

who

if

we

paramount

are lords

the

hand-

modern Greek

nor

for your Romaic rascal can discount

such a perfect race of scamps;


all

saw than

efforts.

Xew York

except these of

in all sorts of villany,

and Boston,

from the picking of a

pocket to stealing a railway.

"

only just one," says many a


make an experiment
man and he makes it the upshot being that from the instant he
does so, home ceases to be such to him, and any woman's presence
and activities is preferable to those of his wife. But why? Simply
because his imagination has rendered the other woman's charms live

guess

I'll

thousand times more important than they actually are, and yet they

him

are sufficient to enable

wife and fleeting

solid

him with

inspired
in

presence of the

new

in the end,

harlot

man
!

know

for the old wife,

just

wait a

bit

how

we'll see

he; and happily,

too, if

all
it

be not

it

and ruin

effectually displaces
bitter ashes.

sudden and electric

moment

happiness

if

he have not, by that time, buried

thousand resurrectionless fathoms

new, exciting magnetism

that the strange,

to his home-love, desolation to his hearth-stone, isola-

eternally will, because

for a

so will

love in a grave ten

tion to his heart,

is

has

and so he abuses one, and lavishes

But you

and

lie did not

meant death

end

and he don't care

of t/iat sort of weakness,

his wife's

deep

strange blood,

fire,

Three weeks' experience with a mistress will cure almost

too late.

any

Xew

mistress.

fresh passion,

he has on the other.

works

draw disparaging estimates between

to

for

be sweet, but

neck-deep
"Jw;t once;"

is

it

and

In a
fire,

yet

it

did and does, and

scortatory, malign, fiery,

kills

home-love,

and while

fails to satisfy

it

weak moment, many

man,

and

fired

of delirious joy

has bartered off a whole

indulges in stolen fruit,

with

life

fixed,

in perdition!

and "just once" lands him

His

talk

or

hers

but, " It's all very fine, sir or

of

which may

never so good as that which grows on one's

becomes

it

its

has fallen into passion's dreadful snare, and

when once one


is

trees, the habit

to his happiness

ought

or her

to

madam but

own

be not
it

won't

Affectional Alchemy.

30
pay, and

IX.

you

see

I'll

human talk
As already

That's

after,

in

said herein,

you can guess where

marriage

whenever and wherever printed

nuptive union of the sexes


is

well,

the prompter

profanation

otherwise

is

and

it is

by

first."

which term herein-

in italic letters, I

only really nuptive

it is

mean the
when love

a desecration and worse than beastly

productive of an entire series of effects and results

man and

aside from the perpetuatory or propagative one wherein

animals are alike, and therein only ; for in them sex distinctions are,

human

of course, merely bodily, while in the

domain of both body,

ces the entire vast

soul,

In the non-human races the marriage

human being

lodged

for

results continue,

its

but in the

rite

away

and through the

into

when

spirit.

germ

the

is

only begin at that point

be propagative or no, not

only through an arc or chord of fleeting time


stretch

involves and embra-

office ceases

its offices

whether the

it

and the interwoven

infinite

but they, the results,

and eternal spaces, and

probably cease not, but endure forever and forever.


If there

is

one thing more

to

certain, after death, than another,

man and woman

that every immortal

have all love and

whom we

its

inhuman

rape.

mark on us and

ished that their whole career

such or such
life

an act fact;

by reason of the

Nor

married or not.
isms more or

less

We
and

love, to the horror

Every carnal association

the other

it is

bound and doomed


are

have been carnally intimate in

any degree, from that of pure and gentle


lence of

is

escapades universally known.

lust

destined to meet all with

of us

vio-

affects us, leaves

and some there be who will be aston-

was turned on

earth in consequence of

and that defeat followed them

in after

some wronged

victims,

invisible presence of
is this all,

and a man

in

for every

escapade mingles magnet-

New York

in 1875

may feel

the

life

going out of him day by day, himself not even suspecting that a dozen
or more

women

in as

many

different parts of the earth, or

even from

the spaces, are at that instant thinking of him, yearning for him, voluntarily or not,
as he

drew

before

and are drawing out

their life

his soul just as easily

through honeyed

and surely

lips ten, twenty, or thirty years

wherefore libertinism and cyprianism are attended with

strange penalties.

Affect ional Alchemy.


In the truly

mens of

junctam,
one

it

to the

as

Father,

never degrades the parties either in


but

becomes

purifies the heart

it

up-

soul,

Con-

Beauty and Divinity joined as

is,

mystic light, instantly, the holiest

in this

hence the most potent and

effective of all possible prayers,

tremendous energy and agency

and

PulcJtritiidi)icm Diviliis

really

is

ever should be, that

it

therefore

and most

marriage

or each other's eyes

them

lifts

the non-savage and non-barbaric speci-

human being

the races

their own

31

the entire material and hyper-

in

physical universe.

Let

me

you, reader,

how and why

But before

this is so.

do

look at Jugurtha, Attila, Xero and the Bonapartcs. with

just

it.

tell

called into
lash the earth to agony.
prayer of

scores of other scourges of

God and

being in an instant of time

to

human

the

world.

-a

evil-guild, silently, but effectively uttered at the instant of their de-

scent into the matrices that thereafter gave


this sufficient to

Turn

the

prove the truth of what

page and behold a Christ,

and see the

St.

world.

to the

most

Is not

prayer

effective

John, Buddha, Confucius,

results of peaceful prayer uttered silently too, exactly as

But there are other proofs

in the other case or cases.

X. That the creative function

is

self-evident

therefore requiring

the highest force in us, as

and of the Deity, admits of no denial


a perfectly

them

I call

for

it

ought

proposition, axiomatic

no attempt toward

its

to be, if

in

its

nature,

demonstration

in

it is

it is

for

not,

and
is

it

palpably clear that two principles are interwoven and reciprocally


acting and reacting
the universe

upon each other everywhere and

whereof we know.

in all things in

These principles are male and

fe-

male, and both alike arc manifestations or modes of the superlative

and ineffable Master-Potency, Power, Energy, or over-lapping, subtending, underlying, crowning essence of the universal realm, call

by whatever name you will


all

To

around, demonstrates
it

all

and

itself to

things arc subsidiary.

it,

be the Imperial Force of

To

it

all

all

that

All that

of,

would become

starless void, as terrible as eternal

itself:

and

more cheerless than

is.

things bow, bend, acknowl-

edge the peremptory sway


a blank

it

the bisexive energy, displayed

and without which the

is

Night

the grave; a radical nihility, so utterly

Affectional

32

benumbed and benumbing

Alchemy.

that destruction itself were

tame

in

com-

is

dual

parison.

God

is

supposed to be a dual being

in a double sense
tively female

We

all

while

God

attributes of

know

is

also, as in

it

is

positively male,

man,

all

and posi-

the masculine or electric

by the magnetic feminine principle.


side of man is the she or mother side

spring

we admire an

and

man

the major elements of both his greatness

all

because from

intellectual giant, while

we

his love, not his intellect, arises

of goodness, inspiration, aspiration, generosity of soul which

all

We

characterizes him.
the Christs.

that alone

are pleased with the Platos, but

we worship

the softer side of soul that generates moral or any

It is

other real grandeur, and


is

God

are pervaded

his goodness

adore a loving

but Deity

is

to say,

that the better

and that from


and

that

man

so

makes great deeds

which has power

to

transmute

possible to

man the

man

for

savage into

it

man

the incarnate demi-god.

All sentient and non-sentient being


cording to capacity, with what

may

is

call the

or effluence of the great Supreme, the

Deity

and

human,

all

more

or less pervaded, ac-

male and female aura

unknown and unknowable

these incarnations of the original Life, save only the

are distinctively and radically either wholly male or female.

True, there are

among

the lower types and forms of organic

few seeming exceptions, as the so-called hermaphrodites


such are apparent only

ality,

ern science proves

all

life,

but, in re-

examination in the light of mod-

such organisms to be a union of the two prin-

ciples in a single body,

male

for

and not a fusion, by any means

or any other bisexed being

is

and that the

But a human, canine, equine, bovine,

side fecundates the other.

an utterly impossible thing,

all

those

affirming to the contrary notwithstanding.

There are and have been


malformations claimed to be proofs of dual gender, but they were
really

one or the other.

Below man, while


not a physical
this,

fact,

first

time fuse and blend,

and probably upon every other soul-bearing world

vaults of space.

we

the sexes are distinct, in him, as a principle,

they for the

are

for

It is this

at least

on

in the eternal

blending of sex in soul that makes us what

were we not half mother, our

father's influence

upon us

Alchemy.

Affect ion a 1
would drive the world
cellent in us

is

ment, yet

in a

the capacity to love

is

year

and

that

all

really ex-

is

and grow; and nothing

capa-

is

man.

ble of love but

There

chaos

to

33

a curious proof of the soundness of the foregoing state-

it

seems

have escaped the notice of the scientist

to

lude to the notorious fact that

I al-

some womb-bearers, wives and moth-

ers too, arc females only physically

morally, psychically, and in every other

while spiritually, mentallv,

way

but one, the} were and


-

are wholly hard, cold, masculine beings, living contradictions of the


statement', their forms

other hand,

men

in soul,

and functions declare

many who wear


than

On

to the world.

more

the Phallic sign of gender are no

romping

the

little
lass of
summers a
woman.
human monstrosities, and were born wrong. If

is

the

five brief

full-grown, full-blown

Such people
you ask

are

me why and how,

yet briefly told

listen,

and the story

human monad, or " zoosperm," from


encounters a ripe ovum from the left side

XI. If a
father,

fact

determines the gender.

problem

to solve

accomplished than

Now

It will

though how

follow, invariably,

all

be male.

the

left side

yet

it

to

of the mother, that

[See a section on

on purpose

it

can be done, and

may

at first sight

do

of the

is

results will

is

somewhat

more

far

this

easily

appear.

accidents and inversions, aversions and perversions, occur in

departments of nature, but none so glaring and positive as are en-

countered

among human

of the most

common

beings

and the mis-sexing of them

forms of mal-construction

happens that a female -/oosperm, which

is

mother,

is

unable

to

which case the body of the


of the opposite one.

strosities,

is

one

frequently

monad, or
in

flc-h

soul-

by the

com-

is

wrong ovarium

child will be of one gender,

its

soul

in

and

In a normally peopled world such mon-

which now abound

all

about

us,

coaxed, drawn or forced into existence as a


is

it

reach a corresponding female ovum, and

pelled to be expurgated, or enter one from the

spirit

lor

the living

germ, supplied by the male parent, and clothed

it

full}", fairly,

Reverse the case, and reverse

very point in the sequel.]

difficult

be

shall

utterly impossible for such to

could not possibly be

human

appear

at all

incarnation

upon

and

the world's

Affectional Alchemy.

34

stage, if parents wholly, or

even partially, love each other

such miscreations are seen,


did not rule

love

affirmed as a truth that true

ondarily of body

mixed beings

is

hence

it

is

it

human sex

is

not a permanent duration of their condition here

up

or

her true condition

to his or

begins to lessen by slow degrees,

assume either the perfected

its

its

man, or

the beings

native force and

gradually

is

the malformation

and then they

signs to disappear,

states of

worn away, and

angularities are

have

follows that the post-mortem state of such

the physical, or rather hyper-physical being

down

toned

Now

primarily of soul, and sec-

for gradually the true sex of the individual asserts

power

and when

proof stronger than holy writ that

hour of their generation.

in the

that of

who on

woman

their

earth belied the

story of their true gender become as other normal beings are

the

memory of what they once were fades away, and they take rank
among the truly human.
XII. The philosophers of my day were generally blind to, or
oblivious of, the fact that the greatest degree of human excellence in
offspring can never be attained, even though the parents are phvsically perfect

but that a wife every

way

inferior except

in

love,

loving and being loved, will give the world such children as will

prove themselves, indeed, truly great, and


strongest force, mental power,

of science,

in the

philosophy, and literature everywhere,

art,

manifested by those

them

grandly good.

and creative energy

who

people whose

is

The

domains

invariably

have the most loved and loving mother in

feminine or magnetic side entirely balances,

or slightly overweighs the electric or masculine moiety of their


being.

He

everywhere most welcomely greeted, caressed and


who is most magnetic, or female, not in the effeminate
is

influential,

sense, but in the glowing, radiant heartfulness of his nature,

one

who

has not the most

affection,

combined with

example,

who

Bunscn~\
years to

it.

intellect,

Take

is

but most gentleness, love,

the real or ideal Nazarene,

per

perished for loving mankind in his 49th year [see

going back of his alleged times, leap the chasmal


the Bo-Tree man, and scores of others equally good, if not
or,

so famous

and whenever you find a great soul

depend upon

it

he

is

more than half mother

for

in a
it

is

male body,
the

woman

Affect Zonal Alchemy.


side of such people that gives

35

them power, genius, mental

and

pith,

enables them to write their names in adamantine letters upon the

grand facade of the universal human temple!

equally true, that

It is

those are the most glorious and glorified of the other gender,

who

were, or arc, not the most electric, masculine and intellectual, but the

most tender, pure, loving and feminine

We women

XIII. But you say, "


perfect offspring

We

wish.

Some

in all respects.

are not perfect yet.

We want

of us have not just such husbands as

arc too pure to sully our souls, no matter

how

we

great the

may be. We prefer to abide in marriage as we have


found it. Some children, the results of such marriage, are not
what we would have them therefore, pray tell us how to improve
temptation

upon them

hereafter."

The answer

simple, the

is

method

easy.

Never run the

risk of

conception, except you be mentally and physically prepared,


for //

but

soul to give

and wish,

to utterly

him

all

the love then

at the

marriage

that you can,

will, pray, desire, decree, that the result, if

may be modelled

after

the time of gestation

not

banish everything but the pure desire of vour

if

your

soul's loftiest ideal.

possible,

such there be,

Keep up

this all

and the operation of the law

just

revealed will convince you and the world that nothing equal to
ever
*

fell

from human

lips or

it

pen.*

deep, if not loud


Complaints on both sides
are made about want of pasand affectional ardor; and unjustly often in both cases, for each

sional fervor,

way to bring about


once asked an Arab physician in E^ypt, if such
things existed among the dark races, in the harems, or amidst the nomads.
Yes, he said; but seldom. And when it does, the entire character of the food is
changed; abstinence Vamovr, is persisted in; and when both these fail, the weak
one is by the other mesmerized with a long-fringed feather, tenderly, lightly,
slowly drawn down the spine, breast-, and across all parts of the well-washed
There is a peculiar and powerful conductcuticle, so lightly as scarce to touch
ing property in such a feather, and never yet in :?.o0;) years lias it been known to
fail.
In your cold land (America) the aphrodisiacal treatment should be accompanied witli the internal cordials I told you of; and Allah, precious Allah! will
speedily bless the unfruitful pair; for a soul In-Gotten without fervor had better
never come to earth, for it will be wretched and a curse to itself until its flight

takes especial pains and particular care not to strive in any

a different nerval condition.

toward the Ghillem.


herein.

There

is

more on these

points, but they cannot be given

Affectional Alchemy.

36

Please recall the incident of myself and the

worth worlds

is

to you, for

suppose

of wishing, willing,

that, instead

you exert

desiring, decreeing perfect offspring,

Well, that

little fairy.

it

redeem your

to

husband, to kindle up his love for you, for home, for his

Eut perhaps you care

side.

want

health, beauty, strength

and long

by the same magic means

able

power absence
your

you will

ere long

most assuredly be

else

that

of which

life, all

in

all

your rjower

find that
felt,

still

you

such moments

grand law, follow out

this

fire-

are achiev-

during

home

into

this splendid rule,

and

these are lost, and another nail driven

all

Obey

coffin.

or naught for

little

own

perceptibly augment,

-will

and before you are well aware of

will

it

work

such a redemptive change as shall bathe your house in pearly glory.

This principle will win him from


all

was

and

cheerless, wintry blasts before.

am

confident that she

bility fail

Of

who

it,

have seen

it

tried,

by any

possi-

power can be used by husbands.

body and sufferance


life

but, as sure as death, here

tions of life

Reply

may

be those

never could, and do not want to


will be seen further

wish

at this point

on

in this

once for

and wide-spread agitation of

who

variety in the love rela-

all to
all

it is

rious to soul

my

can find happiness therein.

say that

believe in free speech,

questions, social
I

and sexual included

by no means espouse the cause of

those champions, for I must abide

and

or

make the experiment. My reasons


work but before we come to that, I

but while I champion the right,

ality,

the starting

There

is

XIV. But how about promiscuity

by the

laves of

my own

individu-

firm belief that love-variety in any shape

is

inju-

and body, and that the highest point of human power

can only be reached by those

who

for purity alone is the price of


is

know

persistently tries cannot

course the same

point of a divine

it

and kindle love where

simply substituting active soul-will, love, for indifference, pas-

It is

sive

all others,

are amatively true to each other

power, the secret of soul-might, and

the coin accepted at God's exchange for such glories as he keeps

especially for true and earnest souls.


at this

moment

says that I

am

a paper

lies, in

two

I write these lines

senses, before

here because

me, which

an advocate of certain opinions which

my

distinctly

entire life

Affc dional

Ic/i any.

37

has been spent in confuting as 'witness even book

have ever

written,

every speech

record,

now drop

all

forever and

sifiers,

Having put

have ever spoken.

that matter,

both the falsehoods

this

on

and the

fal-

forevennore, as being beneath either notice or

contempt.
for novelty, ' variety," or

The demand
not a part of

my

change

being, and only foiled zealots

in love matters,

is

feminine and

worse things in male shape, ever started such malignant slanders


against me,

me

human perverts of both genders, who,

pervert certain knowledge and powers to their base ends and

to

me by

systems, sought to injure

of

all

my

But

possible scandal.

the meanest and most contemptible

laughed

fingers at the rogues in grain.

one time, but that time


just

failing to induce

ahead of us

years, thank

XV. So

to

Heaven, and
is

fastens

Temporary

all.

true

me

at the cyprians,

and snapped

am

only capable of one love at

its

further end to the eternities

attractions departed with

their fruitage

was

my

dead

ever bitter, bitter.

the statement concerning the vastly greater

and

superior relative value of the Feminine Principle, that even in the

present lubricious age,


rated, badly educated,
still,

deep down

when woman

is

almost everywhere wrongly

and worse placed than she should

in the hearts of most, even the coarsest

ure of gallant respect,


deeds, and brave

which occasionally gleams

championage of the

be, there

forth

noble

in

such guise as

sex, in

is

men, a meas-

to give

great hope for fuller and better things by and by.

The

chivalry of

knowledged

its

all

ages has not only proved

fcal to

her and ac-

dependence upon her smile and frown, boldly

ing for her right or wrong, then, in the foretime, just as

has taken especial pains to celebrate individual


versal sex

and

this

worship of the second,

if

women

fight-

now

but

and the uni-

not the primal element

of nature, has been carried further, and been more general, than the

modern reader might imagine.

For

instance,

who among

those

who

peruse this cssav would believe, save on most indubitable evidence,


that the very flower of one, nay, t~vo of the leading nations of the

world

this

day do homage

nevertheless, such

is

to the

emblem

of

Womanhood ?

Yet,

the fact; for the noblest regalia, the highest

honor won and worn by Britain's proudest men,

is

to

be acknowledged

38

Affectional Alchemy.

be worthy of wearing the royal insignia of the Garter

to

while the

Fleur-de-lis of France, meaning something precisely similar, has

been the boast of her noblest

Now what
formed as

heels

imagine for a

to

worn about

flense,

no such puerile nonsense


translated to

" Evil to him

who

correct, for

does

it

generally think
it

Is there

any one so unin-

signifies the

mere

string

the leg to keep nice stockings from dragging about fair

Princely and Imperial,

but

mean ?
moment that it

If so, here let that absurd notion be rectified, for the

signifies

for centuries.

does that same Garter

it

expressly

evil thinks,"

mean

to the uninitiated, outside

world

which, in a certain sense,

true

that, but not at all in the

docs.

means

happens that the

in these

is

mean

emblem
The motto of the order,
days written Honi soil qui mal
at all.

It

manner

and

that people

has no reference to general evil whatever,

and peculiar kind

evil of a certain

real first

means nothing more nor

is

word

less

not

is

Honi

but

for

it

so

Toni, and that

than the feminine organs of generation,

coupled with their periodic functions.

Now, while
jority of all
force,

in all ages of the world's

mankind, including

known

modern

history, a

is

while they,

the

male organ of generation and Priapus was

its

energy

as

adored and adore creative

I repeat,

symbolized by the emblem alluded

to,

of which

all steeples,

beacons, light-houses, monuments, cenotaphs, and


poles and fiagstaffs, are but symbols

of the male god


its

grand ma-

Christians, worship brute

and luxuriate in varied forms of Phallic or Priapic worship,

and the Phallus

god

all

has been, and

still

May

and

towers,
liberty

while that form of worship


is,

almost universal, except in

coarser, grosser forms, in our days, there

have not been wanting

human hosts who did, and still do, pay homage at the shrine of
Feminine Deity, whose symbol is the rose, discus, arch, oval, and
dome and in some barbaric lands the organ itself, openly, as in all

other
the

lands sub rosa or secretly

and disgusting form,

for

and practically worship

but in civilized America in

its

most low

thousands seem to adore no god but Lust,


at

no other shrine.

Witness the universal

prevalence of concubinage and harlotry, gotten to be even a licensed

and everywhere a winked-at adjunct of civilization, to the debasement of man and blasphemy of God and Womanhood, as of yore
thing,

Affect'Zonal Alchemy.

Greco-Roman days; but

in

upon

stead of rewards

king

triplicate

its

39

time entailing dreadful penalties

this

multitudinous devotees; for not even the

opium, alcohol, and tobacco,

evils,

in-

such awful

inflict

punishments upon their votaries as Cypriana, the salacious Diva of


Ilarlotdom.

To

return to the point at issue

most of us worship the disc symbol

world

is

and

before this

one successful
slime and

claims,

it

effort

filth

thing on earth,

finished, to demonstrate

is

new

hitherto attendant

ought

it

to

upon

be Love

knowledge of which

is

to

it

it.

be

in

make

revelation of sex, and to

remove the subject

to

it

above the muck,

far

for if there

its

shadows, and the vast

a divine

is

laws, rules, phases and

its

redeeming power.

alluded to the universality of sex emblems, and will close this

section
flair

of mine

it

and are embosomed within

that underlie

t..sk

very truth what

other,

to-dav agitated, not merely concerning the svmbol and

volume of meanings

moods,

some form or

four-fifths of the intelligent

nature, but about the tremendous mysteries

trust,

In

by

calling attention to our national

floating from

a staff

glory in the world

is

one of the

because the

staff

banner

for the

symbolizes the Phallus

represents the chain of love binding the sexes together

bunting arc emblems of woman's floating draj>ery


his. her,

American

finest illustrations of the

their mutual truth and fidelity

double
its

cord

the folds of

the blue

means

the white, her purity

the

red symbolizes her periodicity and ability to defy death by rcpeopling the world.

XVI.

shall allude to other colors in another section.

enabling him to master metaphysics

nor

at

maturity does he ever

average Anglo Saxon

surpass in capacity the adolescent

power of maintaining

love at high tide he can discount

races of the globe!

reasons

mv

first,

to

draw

make

"To mcctiivs, and

there

but

all

in the

the white

this observation at this point for

a parallel

second, to

medical practice, in nervo-vital diseases,

They

development

true negro never reaches a stage of mental

fifty cents in the plate " for

tell

two

the reader that in

often prescribe "

Xe-

being therein' benefited.

did so, these pale, haggard wives and chlorotic girls, and sat
to

glorious,

hear the ardent worshippers preach, sing. pray,

and

fill

the

room with

a rich

inhalation of which, to the sick ones,

shout-,

get

and healthy magnetism, every


is

worth a month's

life,

and a

Affect ional Alchemy.

4-0

ton of doctor's stuff thrown in.

Now

for the other point

does an American boy get on his

first

rient notions right straight along,

and takes good care

them with chalk upon

No

sooner

pair of pants than he has pru-

demonstrate

to

Now

the walls and fences everywhere.

this

such antics characterize

hand and teach


provided his elders would take him
mals,
is

not so dreadful after

all

for

all,

young

him

in

the true

ani-

meaning of the origin of the strange ideas which from morbid

nature, inculcation, precept

his associates he has im-

and example of

bibed, but does not comprehend.


I

have said that

this nation

But then you know

moved by

the

same

that nations

forces,

by the same motives

dered at

nor that

its

earth.

and individuals arc exactly

alike

governed by the same principles, prompted

and remember

yet, not out of its teens

on

the most passional one

was

hence,

its

too, that this nation

universal pudicity

is

but a boy

is

won-

not to be

and best-paid-for worship

principal, most sincere

come yet will be, at the passional shrine, in or


out of wedlock. The same thing prevails all over the globe, and likely
At all
for the same reason i. c, because as yet it is but a baby-world
is,

and

for

some time

to

events

its

worship

men have been


there

is

is

of the character already set forth

the most earnest devotees

less

strictest rules

of nun-ship or monk-hood

results

and

its

best

somehow or other,
man in it but who has

for

not and never has been a really great

been more or

chargeable with practices not accordant with the

which

is

oftener

in

monkey-hood instead.

XVII. Ilargrave Jennings, of England, the eminent Rosicrucian,

Ashmole
world knows the

writing upon the subject of the Garter, and before quoting


in regard to the

same matter, observes

chivalric origin of the

" All the

Most Noble Order of

a princely act, rightly considered princely,


inexpressibly high-bred motive and

which motive
King Edward

is

its

the Garter.

when

It

the real, delicate,

circumstances arc understood,

systematically and properly concealed.

III.

picked from the

arose in

floor,

Our

great

with the famous words of

the motto of the Order of the Garter, the "garter," or, as

we

inter-

by adding a new construction with hidden meanings, the


"garder" \gaurdcr, P. B. R.], (or especial cast us, shall we call it?)

pret

it,

of the beautiful and celebrated Countess of Salisbury, with

whom,

it

Affcctional Alchemy.
supposed King Edward was

is

dropped

which men ought never

a cloth

In

love."

in

41
words she

other

and Edward

to heliold;

acted the part of a true gentleman, in preserving her from ridicule

and shame, by turning an accident

would giggle

fouls

commanding profound reverence and

one

at, inlo

chivalric respect from all

who

pride themselves on being men.

Old Elias Ashmole, the very highest British authority on the points

"The Order

here involved, writing about them, says:

by

motto, seems to challenge inquiry, and defy reproach.

its

body must know the


having been supposed

Queen

The ensign

in the

conclusion of the

the gist of

Being

was worn

form of a bracelet

in the

to the

might possibly divert the attention of the men from the

it

puted original

it

P.

last section.

of the order, in jewelry or enamel,

originally on the left arm.

re-

might be dropped and resumed without confusion

and the only objection

can see

signifies not only a

use of such an ornament

to the

the hazard of mistake from the double

which

or the Countess of Salisbury

[Here follows some Latin,

have already given

B. R.]

to a

have dropped one of those very useful pieces

to

of female attire at a dance.

which

Every-

name

story that refers the origin of the

piece of gallantry; either the

arm,

of the Gaiter,

is

meaning of the term pcriscclis,

garter, but hrccclics, which our English

ladies never wear."

That

settles the point.

The

garter

was

dropped; and the true gentleman picked


breast,

and challenged the world's respect

forever and forevermorc.

XVIII.
fail to

Isn't

Glorious

Edward

girder, which the lady


up, pinned

it

for

curious that the generality of even educated people

it

see that the idea of sex as a principle,

and

runs through everything, even language?

no

as with us, but everything

know

that

human speech

is

the differences of latitude,

tant surroundings.
in

male and female.

its

soil,

Letters

them

all

The

is il

or

clle,

in all its implica-

In French there's

her or

she.

We

all

the result of the gradual development of

the race through ages of time

thought; and

to his

woman

tions,
it,

it

himself and

dii'crcnt

forms being determined by

climate, physical and other concomiare but

external

symbols of human

two basic ideas predominate


letter

and

its

/.<., the

equivalent^, the Egyptian

Affectional Alchemy.

42

hieroglyph and hieratic figure, and the Phoenician one likewise,

but the feminine symbol, more or

less perfectly

the ability of the scribes or sculptors

drawn,

who made

them.

Thus

and nearer nature are their equivalents of the Roman R


N, L, and

their

sh, are

blem, others

And

modern

opposite, and

its

so

it is

some
still

all

from 1,000

while

through the entire

to

600 years

list

of

representing one em-

letters

others the union of the two.

Instance the Archaic alphabet, Greek, Phoenician,


existed

also

unquestionably suggested by the phallus, or

lingam, the opposite idea.


alphabets, ancient and

is

according to

before

Christ's

Italic,

as they

date

for

the

Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, He, Var, Zyin, Cheth, Kaph, Teth,

Lamed, Samekh, Ayin, and Tav, and their English, Phenician,


Greek and Italic equivalents, as unmistakably emblematize the
above three ideas, as that rain

and fen

What

of growth in

tells

forest

field,

sweet, flowing circle

soft,

or ring,

symbol of Faith, Eternity, Eternal Love, Magnetism,

the

yoni,

the

or male

all

instance,

female

is

the
is

I or

is

the

the letter I

the

male, and the

lingam,

or female ideas.

two-thirds female, one-third male

both sexes

Q^ suggests union

convey the same meaning in

and

mainly

is

in fact, all letters

clear, or less clear form.

XIX. The Lingam, Linga


but the reverse of the discal

where

O? What

but

letters are but interchanges, interminglings of the

original forms

For

letter

but the symbol of generative power,

1,

Ay,

the

female emblem

or the figure

two

the

is

Lingum (male organ-worship), is


or oval worship.
The dome every-

or

and

as said before, actually the colors of all our flags, red, white

and

is

but the female idea

blue, green

Idea

the

of woman
result

the minaret represents the male

and yellow, are representative of the same, or Garter

first
;

two meaning the

spiritual purity

the blue already explained

of the union of male and

growth

and

sacrificial

blood

the green representing the

female

production,

and the yellow typifying ripeness, or the

first

fertility,

completion of

the destiny ordained to both.

XX.

Torches, flambeaux, and fireworks everywhere symbolize

sexual, therefore creative passion (and

seen hereinafter

for

it is

?iot

what

this last

means

will

be

limited to the generation of progeny)

Affect ional Alchemy.

i>

Tliev typify vaguely to some, clearer to others, the strange, inner

mystic rim-: which, unlike

God. and

when our
unholy

soul, before

it

metaphysical before

catches

fire,

for passion

fountain

its

more unholy body.

still

the

in

Desire

human kind;

material in

it is

origin in

soul; not the body, save

Thus

may

and often

be,

sent from the

is,

but

combustion leaps

and hurls

its

body

thence

the

to

brain,

a spark

the

soul

masses of lurid flame through the cerebrum,

cerebellum, spinal cord, ovaria, prostate gland, testes or vagina

and

draw the curtain

XXI. Just

genius,

their

o'er the dreadful scene

art,

as sex runs through all nature

nations, tribes, peoples


in

is

certain foods or drinks generate an excess

nervous ganglia of the reproductive system

of caloric in the

spontaneous

its

and moral poles arc reversed, the spark that

the conscience

to the soul.

in the

and even then

leaps to the

explodes the mental flame


first

mind when normal,

natures are inverted

a/:i\')'s first

when

other forms of Flame, has

flow from within us, net from without

its

in the

rises

all

docs

so

obtain of

it

and ages; some are entirely female or male

and

literature,

general

and so

specialties;

plainly docs this truth manifest itself that I do not care to occupy

time

proving

in

But

it.

this will

feminine peoples

is

god

i>

far

The most masculine

and.

per contra,

nations

the ideal of the

the masculine worship.

man

Finally, the most masculine


his

sav

tend greatest to feminine worship

more she than he

adores at the female shrine, and

while the most feminine

worships the most masculine man.

Thus

here, there,

where the two universal principles seek each

woman

and every-

other, blend, fuse,

intermingle, and unwittingly obey the mighty dual law!

XXII.

hove between human beings of opposite sexes

general kinds;
as

or

tlie

isl.

purely

friendly;

ethereal, based

which

that in

is

upon

that

afiinities

the

and which, while

earth, vet

which

its full

it

is

that

is

not an integrant, such

which

platonic

of two

or

is

wholly amicive

purely

spiritual,

of ta-te. similitudes of soul;

founded upon gratitude

and absolutely mystical


iecliug

which passion

love between parent and child

is

and, lastly, that which

is

that

wholly

(lon't-know-why-but-it-i-so kind of

may

be

to a limited extent gratified

fruition can only be achieved, felt

and realized

on

after

Affectional Alchemy.

44

both shall have become citizens of the country of disembodied souls.

Now

often

it

mistake

happens that people

nature and significance

its

each other

in

whom

this sort of love exists

imagine that they were born for

and, so they are, but not for the

marry, and, to their

and subsequent horror, discover

first surprise,

that for all the purposes of

They

below.

life

matrimony one

is oil,

the other water,

without a particle of mental lime to combine and fuse the two

and thereby form a true kalsomate of

together,

" I think the pity of

So

Is lore.

Whose

this earthly life

sighs a singer of the

my

pensive strain

Sadly prolongs.

Alas

day

sympathetic lay

the endless strife

Of Love's sweet law with


The loving souls unloved

cold Convention's rules


the perfect mate,

After long years of yearning, found

" The treason of

soul.

false friends

too late

the frown of fools

The fear that baffles bliss in beauty's arms


The weariness of absence and the dread
Of lover, or of love, untimely dead,
Musing on these, and all the direful harms
That hapless human hearts are doomed to prove,
;

I think the pity of this

So do

I.

life is

But even a greater pity

love

"
!

exists

where,

fired

ardent hopes, one or both find out that not a real

Then comes

the twain together.

the unveiling

tie

and,

by the mos\
of soul bind?

my

God, what

an awful, horrible spectre stands frowning where each expected


behold and hold

When
on earth

she an Adonis, he a perfect Hebe

the mistake
it

can be so

is

made such

and

why

parties marvel

the actual

so utterly foreign to their expectations

two such

there

is

and wonder how

marriage produces

and hopes.

to

effects

In the union of

a compatibility of spirits to a great extent, but

none whatever on the amative plane,

the

sex of form

actual fact of marriage produces utter dissatisfaction


horror, pain, mental anguish, disease and lingering death

for the
to

/tim,

to her.

This generates discord and despair, general unhappiness, and is


almost sure to drive the man to the house of the strange Woman,

Affect io7ial Alchemy.


and

45
arms of a lover who

his wife cither to insanity, the grave, or the

with her to some extent,

cati affiliate

mainly sensuous plane

two wretched

my

in

other scores, ay, millions that


secret

travels

have seen scores of

further

matter, hundreds

make no

which
on

is

read

lanes of

and there arc

have not seen, and of whose terrible

and sometimes they do not

to a

thousand

the real and true one.

New

in this

who

divorce and

up and down the

them, and attribute their distresses

ails

causes, not one of

When,

is

just such cases;

no one but themselves are aware

know what

upon the external or

and the upshot of the matter

Now,

lives.

Marriage-land,

at least

it

Revelation,

analyze the

shall

will sec the real point, and, probably,

effort to better their sad condition.

From

such unions as

these spring a class of children so utterly angular and deficient that


the marvel

they ever find peace at

is

all

on earth, or enjoy a happy

hour.

may

XXIII. The second general kind of love between the sexes


be numbered oxe and two.
in nearly

site,
is

all

endurable, because there


;

their offspring

own

first

of which

last

said union

is

the exact oppo-

and deceptive, as the other, but


is

a better cohesion

their lives are evener, their

more adapted

to life

is

far

It

more

between them than

marriage

on earth, and

phvsical health and that of their children

union will

is

respects, of that just described in Section zzd.

just as earnest, honest,

the other case

The

is

in

satisfactory

in society

better

their

and their

longer and produce generally better results, albeit

quite as far from being right and proper as anything

can well be.


In the

first

case, to use a

met each other upstairs,

meaning metaphor, the

in the

first

garret ; they only fused

couple only
in the

Irain.

in the passional moms of the


Thev could not affiliate downstairs
house of marriage ; although they were compelled to descend once
in a while,

and

to

it

was something

to

be gotten over as quickly as possible,

be only remembered with a shudder by her, a smothered

malediction by him.
In the other case

monotony endurable
for

it

so

it

was kitchen and

cellar life

ail the time

certainly, but very unsatisfactory for all that;

happens that although some of us overvalue ludy,

its

Affectional Alchemy.

46
adjuncts, functions
intellect, soul

body

only,

and

and emotion with our

and

need of a

feel the

monotony

to other persons

own

their

The

state

and

who

it

same time

know how

of soul-starvation, they

each other

appreciate

to

He

in physics purely.

its rise

is

and passional auras envelop him

full of fire,

and passion ahvays exaggerates both the properties

upon

with what

it

whom

eyes are cast

its

has not, and never will have

revels in an insane

dream of fancied

be realized, because his whole being

that,

tired of

manifest qualities and powers, which, from

qualities of the object

endows

to

little

and either party of such a firm will strangely take

magnetic, robust,

round about

require a

sour leavening to season the

little

origin of such marriages takes

stout,

lives

we

cannot be contented with

Such couples grow

dry bread of earthly being.


of the

being human,

offices, yet,

and

human

at

the

joys, destined never

could he actualize his desire, death would stop him

because nothing

mentally

such a red-hot fever,

in

is

instantly,

could endure such a poignancy as he hopes

to enjoy.

She

is

young, round-limbed, rosy-cheeked,

spirited, vivacious, full

of health, and from what she has learned through other females
full of curiosity as to the facts

of marriage.

Well, she has passed

the rubicon, and they twain lengthen out their

a year

at the

end of which time

and discontent comes

The upshot

change.

of such a union

genuinely happy hour,

till

that

is

feels the

number

The

one.

next division

that
about

mysteries holy and unholy

its

abnormal or unhealthful one

is

is

in its
to

need of a

that neither of

wherein each hopes

to

that

which

them

be

So much

the other, and try their chances elsewhere.


division

for

an old and flavorless

it is

because each

in,

honeymoon

is

free

about
story,
little

see a

from

for general

being, with

normal development, and

be treated in the pages that

follow.

XXIV. Love
the sexes,

it is

being

much more

plain that neither

than a mere sentiment between

its

ground-work, nature, or cryptic

meaning, has hitherto in any land been thoroughly understood.


have for long, weary years studied

Here and
led

me

there I got

to investigate

it

in

many

not a new idea of


and explore.

it,

countries of the globe.

but sugggestions which

And now,

in this,

probably the

Affect ion a 1 Alchemy.


last

book but one or two which

make

a co/t/rss.'c/t, for

am proud

statement and explanation.


at

do

have bathed

eased

me up

mv

falls

mv

ence.

mv

Early

in life I

supposed had

lo\

and
its

lo

its

my

ait into

discovered that the faet


elfeetual

thought

influ-

studied Rosicrucian-

So

mysticisms.
to the

and birth elsewhere than

called

world

as Rosi-

the world greeted with loud applause

origin

ing

be able to

my own

what they were, was an

and loved

myself The Rosicrucian, and gave


;

whose

preferment and advancement, usefulness and

suggestive,

it

cian thought

de-pair; and

ot

should have rushed of

a lair

suspicion, slander anil

became famous, but never popular.

ism, found

to get

time, in view of the

dark waters

in the

ancestry on one side, being

cstoppal on

fur.

make

to

in the bitter strife, or, tailing to

the awful fields of eternity.

of

had struggled so hard

many

delved

hut

believe, the protecting care of the dead,

hands either held


that,

of mystery

was met everywhere with

malignant envy,
for, as

desire, nut to

the truths alone

of

the bar of the world, that

cruel faet that

but

shall ever write,

zem zem

and brought up from the

hearing

47

what

it

in the soul of P. L>.

Randolph.

Very nearly

mv

soul

all that

have given as Rosicrucianism originated in

and scarce a single thought, only

borrowed from those who,

name

one which

mental treasures

served

in

me

name, but would, and

did,

ages past, called themselves by that


well as a vehicle wherein to take

market, which gladly opened

to a

have

suggestion--,

slam

to

its

its

mv

doors to that

portals in the face of the

tawnv student of Esoterics.


Precisely so

was

it

with things purporting

be Ansairetic.

to

had merely read Lydde's book, and got hold of

new name; and

again mankind hurrahed for the wonderful Ansaireh, but incontinently turned up

its

nose at the supposed copyist.

truth of these statements, and of

challenged to find a line of

Rosicrucianism;

know many

such

thought

had

In proof of the

to struggle, the

in the

whole

.j.ooo

among; the brethren of that Eratcrrhlv


in

various lands, and was,

till

Temple
works, English, German, Syriac

Grand Master of
the .Ansairetic

mv

how

the only

world

hooks on

and

resigned the

of the Order on the globe


or Arabic.

is

office,
;

or in

Affectional AlcJiemy.

48

forget which
One

night

was in far-off Jerusalem or Bethlehem, I really


made love to, and was loved by, a dusky maiden

it

of Arabic blood.
directly,

but by suggestion

Magic of Love

and that experience, learned

of her,

the fundamental principle of the White

subsequently I became affiliated with some der-

whom, by

vishes and fakirs of

other knowledges

suggestion

found the road to

still,

and of these devout praclicers of a simple, but

sublime and holy magic, I obtained additional clues

little

of suggestion, which, being persistently followed, led


labyrinths of

ence

and

of.

became

practically,

them

masters, and pursuing

what

Alkahest

naturally

taking the clues

of life

all

left

exist-

mystic,

by

the

had ever been before

the universal Solvent, or

or her

of which this book contains; but only

who

searches well.

me

gave to the world, that world paid

But what of that?

benefits.

threads

soul into

the water of beauty and perpetual youth, and the

philosopher's stone,

him

was

farther than they

actually discovering the elixir

findable by

my

knowledge themselves did not even suspect the

in time chief of the lofty brethren

celestial

not

Justice

The

for, as it
is

thoughts which I

always has paid

sure to be done

for

me by and

by.
I

am

mind
doors

much

induced to say thus

to Rosicrucianism,

relative

in order to disabuse the public

which

is

but one of our outer

and which was not originated by Christian

Rosencrux

but

merely revived, and replanted in Europe by him subsequent to his


return from oriental lands, whither, like myself and hundreds of
others, he

went

for initiation.

The Rosicrucian system is, and never was other else than a door
It was the trial chamber
to the ineffable Grand Temple of Eulis.
wherein men were tested as to their fitness for loftier things. And
even Eulis,

some

itself,

in the outer, a

These, the
last.

Now

facts

let

a triplicate of body, spirit, soul.

is

few

There are

in the inner crypts.

concerning Rosicrucia and myself, are out

at

us go on with the book.

Enthusiasts are the ambassadors of God.


that great truths reach the world,

ure in crucifying

all

such

It is

through such only

and that world takes exquisite pleas-

and yet they will

arise,

proclaim their

Affcctional Alchemy.
new

mission, deliver their message, establish

49

truths,

and then march

ages there have been

men

cut out after a different pattern from their contemporaries, and

who,

Patmos

straight to Calvary or

had and have a

for that reason,

great,

Among

all

who have

-'To he

different destiny to fulfil.

for

mankind than

and

lastly, the

whom were, and arc, students


When David G. Brown, of

men known

that class of

among whom was, and is. that


men of mark; Fythago-

time as Mvstics, foremost

branch of them known as Ilermetists.


reans. Rosicrucians,

have worked harder, or

ever lived, none

accomplished more good


in all

all

he misunderstood," av, and crucified time and again.

to

is

In

Brotherhood of Eulis,

of the

same

the city of

of

all

school.

New

York, more recently

connected with Bennett's " Herald," was, in Montreal,

believe, asked

concerning the origin of the Great .Society, or rather Fraternity,


(the Rosicrucian branch,

but differing essentially from

the

branch

of that august brotherhood represented by adepts in Europe, Asia,

and myself and confreres


far as the

in this country,-

yet

man

general welfare of universal

identical in spirit, so

concerned), he

is

re-

sponded as follows, save that he disguised certain names, which

/ now throw

disguises

and gazing

the sea,

off

As

one standing upon the beach by


turbulent waters, finds the

off over the

far

horizon lowering in the distance, and shutting out the land unseen
that lies

bevond

ing back over the

so we, standing

upon

the sands of time,

sea of our past history, find there

is

and lookboundary

beyond which the vision cannot extend, a point where many have
written, "

And,

Xo more

as the

of vessels

lost,

beyond'."

ocean casts up from

which

float

upon

its

its

unfathomable depths wrecks

surface,

and are

lost

upon our

shores: so sometimes, from the immeasurable gulf that has buried


in its

depths the secret of our origin, a waif drifting on the bosom

time finds
to us

its

wav

to the limits

of the historical epoch, and reveals

something of what was, and

we may from

these waifs.

is lost.

maybe

childhood's

gathered.
-dory

t'->

Let us add
our

Then

let

Let us wander upon

shores of a silent sea, and bring from


that

<>t

its

all

manhood's

us learn
these

that

all

trackless

drift-wood and wrecks


that

maybe added

suffering,

and

all

of our

our coming

Afectional Alchemy.

50

We

triumph.

will be

proud that we are

disciples of

Hermes

Tris-

megistus, that thrice-sealed Lord of Mind, the Mystical Mal-Kiza-

dek [Melchizadek] of Bible repute

we

proud that

but

let

are disciples of the viewless

us not forget to be

God.

Twine

the laurel wreath for the victor, but add the cypress for the victim.
.

Let us go, then,

Holy Byblus, and

the land of the

upon

their shores, our

romance and of dream,

to the land of

minds

the Sacred Ganges.

back

will revert

Standing

dim

in the

ages, to

the days of our childhood, and the birth of the mystical reign of

We

Ahrimanes.
kingdoms,
like the

will behold in our mind's eye a succession

like the succession of seasons, a rise

We will

sowing and reaping of grain.

who

patricians

multitude of plebeians

who

count the number of

agony and want.

die in

of

of dynasties,

fall

and luxury, and shudder

idleness

in

live

and

at

the

Behold those

monsters of selfishness and cruelty, whose insatiable appetite of


ambition and pride, wealth and power, could not appease, and for

maw

whose
became

Here and

food.

oppression as
as

we have

and trickling blood of a people

the quivering flesh

we

we

there,

have struggled

taught,

reviled

royal road

that

we have been. We
our burdens who had no hope

and scorned as

knowledge

and that they were as wise

we
And now

ation, as

struggling against

people teaching virtue and charity

will discover that others have borne

of receiving our reward

men

will find

is

in the

universal,

and has no

wisdom of

their gener-

are in ours.

tread softly.

slumbering ages.

The

We

are entering the dark realm

of the

dust of a million years has gathered here,

and no voice has awakened

echoes since the days

its

when

the

Indian Bacchus consorted with the daughters of men.

We

have

left

the land of the probable,

regions of the possible.


mortals, but of those

who

who

The

footprints

and revealed the Chrishna, the


sea, the

here and there arc of

who have

raised the veil of Isis,

yae or the A. A.

in the distance, shining

from the

unquenchable torch of her

stars that circle

in the

have beheld the hidden mysteries of Eulis,

are familiars of the Cabbala,

Behold

and are journeying

who

round her, as she kneels

east as the sun


is

nameless

to write

from the

observe the

upon

the sand.

Affect ional Alchemy.

51

Sec the sheen of her golden hair, and the spotless white of her robes;
catch the
as they

strains of that

first

wondrous philosophy,

wordless music from her lips

fall in

and marvellous beauty, have,

infinite truth

bound us together by an

past,

indissoluble

and remember

this

its

in all the ages that are

taught us to sacrifice ourselves, that the peoples

crown of glory on our

how

bond of brotherhood, and

leavened with our faith in the innate kindness of the

They were fragments of

and pure,

classic

may

philosophy which

human

heart,

advance.

we wore

as a

morn, that were disseminated by our

natal

Master and his innumerable followers, and cast hither and thither

upon

the stream of time,

were

washed by successive waves

finally

of war and pilgrimage, to the shores of Egypt.


u History of Civilization in

author of the

of these the

England" speaks,

"forming one of the elements

whose

It is

subtle speculations,

guage, anticipated

in

They were fragments

of Alexandria, and

carried on in their

the efforts of

all

the school

as

own

exquisite lan-

modern European metaphysics."

of this philosophy which, perverted by the

strong individualities of Plato, Aristotle

and Pythagoras, became

alike the systems of their schools, the Portico, the Grove,

and the

Garden.
Melchizadek, or Hermes, was our

many masters

before and since, he lived

of joint," and the age

He

feeling.

first

was not attuned

to

great master

when

but like

the " times were out

symphonies of thought and

tanght his rich philosophy to

all,

opened great hidden

depths of thought to the public eye, explained the most subtle


truths to barbarian cars,

He

success.

and

threw

they extended in every direction, as far as eye

could reach, surging like the waves of the sea,

and

ocean.

Were

with
all

all

whom

when

tossed by tem-

the deep undertones and mutterings of the

these his pupils?

and depths of reasoning?


of

his

gathered round him his disciples, and looked beyond

at their followers

pests,

And

pearls to swine.

No.

All these versed in the shoals

They were

families,

some member

believed an abstract philosophical truth, and

the rest

all

believed the man.

They reduced

the laws of nature to form a creed, and they

golden calf of some special physical force, and

fell

down

to

made

worship

Affectional Alchemy.

52
They

it.

That was

natural element.

As a
mouthed wonder watch
it

all.

uninstructed

rustic,

associate

own

resolved, themselves, after their agitation, into their

in

the principles, might with

of coal, and

the burning

endeavor to

Hermes, expecting only

inflation of a balloon, so

with the

open-

was awed by the


As he comprehended the magni-

the preconceived consequences of his teaching,

immense bubble he had formed.


tude of his creation, and
there arose in his

teachings and

mind

all

his

among

great minds

now

its

evident consequences, perhaps

that inevitable conclusion that from all his

labor

The

would be accomplished.

little

would be philosophers, but they


The mass would be

his followers

would have been philosophers without him.


fanatics, as they
tliis

given

had been

He had

fanatics before him.

done only

a direction to their studies and speculations, given a

name and method


scholasticism

and madness.

to their ignorance

and philosophy,

all this

And

this

all

ignorance and madness, would

be the new religion of India, would take the place forever of her

Hold

first idolatry.

It is

not yet too late to retrieve, and by one

of those rapid and eccentric movements in literature, which the


great genius of Bonaparte

whole
last

was wont

And

features of the campaign.

Grand Master of the Order, prior

regnant, peerless Eulis

So

we

am

so changing

I,

the

to its final absorption into

received our heritage, and the soul of philosophy vanished

The

and the wonder of ours.

long since, like Her

shadows of the

who came

invisible,

Ah

and

most noble Master, you have

befoi-e you,

passed forever

minds of men, and never cease

Eulis' nature is infinite

safely

the

But as the material form was

lives forever in that land of

blossom and of flowers,

so that spiritual and ideal emanation shall, through all


live in the

among

and the dark, but deathless realms, where

our fathers have gone before us.


indestructible,

was hidden, and


awe of past genera-

kernel

the shell alone permitted to remain to excite the

How

it

from India and the world as a dream.

tions,

war, to change the

to receive in

and

to

coming

time,

be born anew, for

eternal

our secrets have been guarded,

according to the progress he has

made

let

in mastering

each
them.

answer

How

Affect ion al Ah'hcmy.


little

was abstracted

and Eatiniyeh, you

the Esscnes, Gnostics

!>y

53
a'l

know.
For ten thousand years
contact with

all

Hermes, we

after

we threw off in grasping their hands


Though few in numbers, we guarded the great

elements

its

our

in

importance

to the

human

trust

committed

Every member realized

race.

to

Every member was aware

our care with a never-ceasing vigilance.


of

no more,

lost

the various peoples of the world, than the electric

that

the flowers gathered from the graves of dead years must be pre-

Amid

served as a wreath to crown the age to come.


sects

and

societies that

sprang

to life in the East,

surrounded by

Golden Age of Greece,

the schools that ilourished in the

band of

swarm of

the

that

all

little-

souls preserved their purity.

Secretly and silently they

moved over

the sands of time to the

coming of the Nazarene

In the twilight that sue-

cecds the crucifixion of Calvary

we can

They seem

ments of individuals, and the banding of men.


with an uncertain purpose, and

One. two.

three, five

hours to midnight.

have

to

hundred years

Then

there

is

roll

move-

see indistinctly the


to

move

lost their old effectiveness.

by

as

one would count the

Work

a bustle.

is

at

hand.

Into

those dark ages that succeed, pass the mustering bands, and for a

thousand years death at the stake, persecution and despair on the


one hand, and the retribution of the Vehmgerichte and kindred associations, alone

point out the position of the contestants, and the

progress of the fight.

Then from
Seizing

all at

but to work

his cradle in the

a glance, the society

no more

destiny, but to assist in

unfortunate

Alps looms up Christian Rosencrux.

to
its

is

reorganized

wait for the

human

accomplishment

to raise the fallen

great light.
life.

no more

her bosom

oppressed
;

dream,

to

race to accomplish

to oiler

to succor the

her form between the tyrant and the slave

to lead the

its

to the

to interpose

van

in the

She has the gathered knowledge of her ages of student-

She has the patience taught by centuries of adversity.

the courage of the true and the beautiful; and, above


the peoples, and Paschal Levcrly
as the legitimate

all,

She

lias

she loves

Randolph succeeded Rosencrux,

Grand Master of Rosicrucia, and Ilierarch of

Eulis.

Affectional Alchemy.

54

And now I would say one word in


societies.
Many of them were organized
gone by, but the

in the days

regard to contemporary

with meritorious objects

state of things that

has long since passed away.

They presented

gave them being

a sad spectacle of

having outlived their usefulness, and drag out a

existence of

fitful

and abstract forms, from which the soul has


few should receive the tribute of respect due to

senseless ceremonies

long departed.

which

that

venerable and good, and Freemasonry should ever be

is

associated with the broad mantle of

its

charity.

In the superstructures which have been erected at different periods,

upon these foundations, one


called the
softly

Rose Croix, or occasionally hear the mystic name

was conversing with

a gentleman

We

have,

lives

supposed

said,

to be a
" The Rosy Cross

true, galvanized its skeleton into a transitory

it is

but the Rosy Cross of history

lives

whom

of one of these " Chapters," and he

dead.

life,

Eulis,

pronounced.

member
is

will often observe a pillar, here or there,

Dead

dead."

is

I cried.

with the rich blood of the South in her veins

North

the vigor of the

in her constitution

She
with

with the clear brains of

the temperate zone, the depth of thought of the Orient, the versatility

of France, and earnestness of purpose, and boldness of resolu-

tion of the

New World

hundred years that you

lives these three

think her dead, as she lived the countless centuries before you

thought her born

and may she never cease

and remain a

for her jewels,

to

have a

fitting casket

and beauty

reflex of the glorious truth

of the superlative wisdom, power and goodness.

So

far well

but at

last the

world wants

wonderful fraternity, which, nameless

to

blossomed a few centuries ago as Rosicrucia, but


the fore-front of all the real reform
age, and lo

founded

on

know more

at times for

now

movements of

has leaped to

this

wonderful

the banner of peerless Eulis floats proudly


the breeze.

We,

of that

long centuries,

the people of Eulis, be

it

rockknown,

are students of nature in her interior departments, and rejecting


alike the coarse materialism of the ages,

and the sham "philoso-

phies " of the ages past and current, accept only that which forces
conviction by

its

irresistible logic.

Men who

realize the existence

Affectional Alchemy.

55

of other worlds than this arc not apt to give loose rein

We

nor he content with fraud in any shape.

we

facts, anil therefore

We

force of truth.

prefer one

method

possible mystery

all

knowing

other hyper-human agencies,

to all

and mysterious; and

cannot take say-sos

modes of rapporting

book, and

this

for

that appeals to others with the

are ambitious to solve

infinitely preferable to all other

be

is

much

reject

passion;

to

it

to

the occult

same pen,

others from the

all

we

but a very imperfect sketch or outline of the sublime philosophy

We

of the Templars of Eclis.


the scxive principle

power

she but

if

enormous importance of

woman

that a menstruating

knew

fortune

and that while thus she can make or

We know

and of

the gates alike of heaven

an immense

is

that a pregnant one holds the keys of

it!

eternal mystery in her hand,

mar any human

k/tozu the

hell

the mystic act

is

one unhinging

and we know two semi-brain-

people may, by an application of esoteric principles, stock the

less

But where

world with mental giants.

shall

we

Arc

find students?

the people, nearly, the slaves of lust, place, gold?

not

all

we

find

one

now and

hailed the sea

with

arc not multitudinous

XXV.

then

excessive joy

now, but

Unquestionably while

we wear

and probably after


to death,

we

and

hail

him

or her as the Greeks

Thalatta

will be in the

we occupy

Well,

Thalatta

They

good time coming.

flesh

and blood bodies,

our electric or ethereal ones subsequent

Love, other than amicive and

filial,

will

depend upon the

magnetic congeniality existing between the two concerned

although

even the most perfect state of magnetic fusion and reciprocation


is

liable to lie

disturbed by any one of quite a numerous

list

of

causes.

"We arc

all

of us,

more

or

less,

counterparts and embodiments of

nature; and nature has her ups and downs, fogs and

and

heats, ice

must we.

and

fire,

volcanoes and wintry blasts

just as long as the earth

they change,

so

will we.

between a couple there be


neither

there

them.

is

draws from the

and nature are

and very
a full

likely

not

sleets,

and

as at present

much

storms

so do. so
;

when

before.

and mutual play of magnetism,

other, except to replace with his

If

it

or her own,

a good chance of general harmony, joy and content


If not. then not.

If

tor

one party overflows with magnetism,

Affectional Alchemy.

56

and the other has but a scanty supply, strong love may exist between
them, all other things being equal and the weak one will depend
;

almost for

upon

life itself

the strong

and the strong be firmly drawn

But there must be an assimilation between, and

toward the weak.

blending of, the two magnetisms, else they will assuredly antagonize
One party may be very glowing and loving
and repel each other
!

and magnetic,

say, for instance,

on plane A,

solid, physical,

cular, heedless, jolly, devil-me-care-sort of individual

such an one could make a perfect heaven

woman

of the same grade

but

on

how would

it

and

delicate

spiritual

the grade of

whose magnetism was

tow-cloth ?

Now just

the consequence

is

intellectual, refined"

magnetic as himself, but

as satin

compared

to his

own

such couples, or those as naturally and organ-

somehow

ically incompatible,

say a man
with a

his plane

be were he conjoined

with a joyous, rich-souled, healthy, magnificent,

woman, equally

mus-

or other,

manage

to get together,

removed from happiness by a

life

great,

and

yawn-

impassable gulf, whose black and sullen waters cannot be

ing,

bridged.

Some

day, in the future, there will be honorable methods

the present general mixed-upness will be

made

straight,

whereby

and people

having unfortunatcfy made the wrong choice, and gotten some one's
else wife or

Why

"swap."
society

husband, will be able to


not,

themselves are

if

satisfied, the

is

yes

some cases

in

actually

rendered happier by

it;

prior families duly provided for, and no sin

committed, no harm done?

Woman

faces

heaven when she gives herself

willingly or victimly.
strous

The

for there are, there

human

depravity

rule

is

to

Love and man

universal, the exceptions

malformations

and

was founded, and whose tremendous importance and


above

is

me

human and

force

allude

to

no further herein.

not only her nature, but I hold

celestial nature,

the

to

is

first

vital sacred-

The

first

fact

She receives both

the divine in her demise of affection,

man

in

an especial sign of hei

and of heaven's mystical favor.

But coarser

mon-

third,

those mysterious forms of prayer in vogue before Nineveh the

ness compel

cases utter

can be none save in three

certain physical

if

even by

looks toward the world's face, for then he

"

Affect ional Alchemy.


is

almost cntiivlv of the earth


horrified

she

may he

still

Now

Marys

to the

and

slue

fol-

can mother

world.

here comes in a mooted point: of one unfaithful wife, and

which commits the greater

one unfaithful kusband.

equal grade of offence before


right or wimii",

woman

life

he, but touch the right chord,

heroes, and give gladsome

receives.

To

God?

or

sin?

is

an

it

reply: In the act,

this I

man gives of himself, whether good or evil and


The malign influence is external with and to him
;

internal with

and

to her.

It

compared with her

effects,

influence imparted to,

the greater

her

is

fall

an angel

ability to

him

himself of the

to rid

do the same

for the foreign

with her, and becomes an

inte-

and, as she naturally stands nearer heaven,

far greater

Hence

deal too near the earth.


tell

easy for

is

remains

grant of her very being

would

is

it

low as she may

bad

never

hut she looks toward the empyrean, and


however degraded receives measure of divine

indiiTcrent

from

Woman

cartliv.

57

who

than his

who

is

already a creat

hold her sin greatest, just as

had sinned, "

Be

thy punishment severe,"

but would bid a half imbecile to " Clear out and not bother the
court."

XXVI. But

there

is

another thought arising right here

times,

and

one

both the parties to a marital compact, from

fir

causes,

in this

age and country, very frequently, happens, that

some of which

conclude that
fact is that

down-

I will

state,

toward the other party

attraction

all

love between

each has quite as

much

bridge

is

manage

and ten

them

is

to

wholly

seldom utterly destroyed.

the position here affirmed

to

lose

a variety

this

lost

or dead,

of

magnetic

one each will

as ever, but the bridge

that mystic bridge, which, resting

spans the gulf of eternity.

soids.

some-

It

at

once

when
is

the

broken

on the abutments of both

But, although often broken, this

The

statistics

of divorce prove

for a large percentage of divo: ced couples,

after enjoying a brief period of

" Freedom," begin

to

think about

it;

conclude they had not been wise enough, and were altogether too
hastv

that, after all, there's

the old love

like the old

one

no love like

and thev marry each other over again, and, having cut

their eve-tccth.
thereafter.

no home

steer clear of

former

faults,

and lead happy

lives

58

Affectional Alchemy.

Why

more care a greater amount of


give and take, without being mad about it, and make more strenuous
endeavors to please each other
and that's just it I for as soon as
Because they have a

little

people do that, they cease

fuming, worrying, com-

fretting, scolding,

plaining and borrowing trouble

and therefore cease

to waste their

magnetisms, consequently the honey bubbles up again and


gar leaks out

Now, owing

as they should be,

vine-

life's

married people are not

to these causes,

the happiest beings on

earth

from

far

it

the

youths and maidens discount them largely on the general average

and you can almost always


eyes on them

for

it's

heads up

else

but each other.

Not

lean

away from each

other,

a married pair wherever you clap

tell

and a smirk or smile

so with

unwedded

and gaze askant

to every

one

The former

lovers.

the latter lean to each

other and drink in delicious draughts of ecstasy from each other's

Now

eyes.

man who

the

hypothesis that the one


patory,

is

fool,

passion appeased, the other only antici-

What magnetism

is

in

one case

I will tell

to record its existence,

and

you presently

by suggestion, the cure

cool everywhere, under

all

all

When
work

and devote

visiting,

above adduced.

this section, indicated,

provocations and circumstances.

the day's labor

make

it

is

a business of

with a will

done, forget

it.

but don't
all

about

have your two, or even one hour a day,


care.

Hard

to

do

it

work

hard, fare hard,

sleep hard, have a hard time generally through this

dying hard, and going

was "

to perdition at last,"

particularly

from sordid

free

at first in these grab-all days,

wherein, as the sailor said, " People eat hard,

Briefly,

at least

and worldly

salt said

at this stage

it

two hours of the evening to social chat, talk,


or receiving visitors walk out read, listen to music, and

persistently
strife

When

sources of magnetic depletion.

you work, with hands or brain, do

all the time.

is

in the other.

for this state of affairs.

Eat, drink, sleep well, and whatever you do,

it,

suffice

to note such facts as

they are to utterly put a stop to

Keep

true reading

magnetic reciprocity

have already, in a previous paragraph of

generally,

The

besides being a selfish knave.

Magnetic exhaustion

is

accounts for this state of things on the

derned hard

which the

life,

at length

sceptical old

"
!

pint of water contains latent force enough to

blow a town

Affect ional Alchemy.


flinders

to

enough

an equal amount of magnetism contains active force

new

incarnate a

to

upon the

59

being, and launch an

limitless sea of eternity

and

immortal

soul

minutes of growl-

yet in five

stewing, fretting, anger, or in a wanton's or libertine's arms,

ing,

amount of imperial life is lost


and
shortening of at least ten good days on earth
thrice that

means,

it

also, the

XXVII. Of
one's coffin

broad

And

an effective nail

is

me

reminds

to say

something

human body and

them

directly,

as

abominations

utter

and the use of that

will,

and against excessive progenv

for I hold nearly all

but on the

soul.

in reference, not to the fetid

and unclean subject of conception-preventives,


of

any

in

excessive child-bearing, seeing that both arc

is

discharging magnetism from the

rivers,

this

course excessive vencry

and so

and

culture

of the will

alone, in determining for

it

for a couple

better have three

had

and delicate ones.

reallv fine children, than thirty half-formed

Excessive connubial pleasures invariably produce dyspepsia, not


only of the body, but of the mind, intellect and soul
spring results from such conditions,
lacking in

womanhood.
evil,

though

The human

what

Absolute and prolonged


penalty

its

is

next to love,

will,

immortal mankind.

most

In

is

off-

and perfect man and

continence

upon

inflicted

and when

wonder that they are

the grand essentials of a genuine

all

is

but

less

transgressor alone.

the

the most powerful attribute of

people

it

is

splurgy, occasional,

paroxysmal, and, as a steady power, practically of no account.


-..ill"

and straightway they screwed

their faces, clenched their teeth,

and looked most absurdly and

have told some persons to

up

amusingly awful
trying to

lift

such way.

or

a ton.
It is

is

feeble, as

ridiculous.

Now

-.-ill is

They

strained

and fumed as

if

no such thing, to be exerted in no

simplv a quiet power, and requires no muscular or

nervous, but simply a


it

in

still,

most

it

mental force,
is;

it

to

urge

it

into play,

when

should be cultivated by thinking

determinedly, at intervals, of one thing <:ly at a time, to the total


exclusion of every thing, topic or subject besides.

after

practice

to the face, as

We

tears

to the eyes,

Thus one can

will

blushes to the cheeks, pallor

thousands of ministers and other actors constantly do.

can will to close our hands or eyes; and just so

we

close

or

Affectional Alchemy.

6o
open the sphincter

ani, or that of the

them

The Oneida

at pleasure.

man

doubted truth, that any

bowels, bladder,

Perfectionists declare,

can, at will, after a

and

lips,

and with unpractice,

little

effectually control the ejective action of the seminal vessels


is

an unwise and suicidal

man who

close

but he

attempts a thing so unnatural and

injurious.

But how

is it

muscles ?

know

woman ? Can

with

answer, most

she control corresponding uterine


All mothers and obstetricians

assuredly.

enormous expulsive power of the uterus and that conand expansive power, like that of any other sphincter, is

the

tractile

measurably under her

power but her

other

will.

When

own can

she sees

know when to exert that power and


save when she believes an ovum is
;

justified of nature

her children

but she

there

closed,

no

and she ought

to

keep

to
;

it

no necessity

is

to use

it,

then present, and undesirable

In the will she has the only natural agent

maternity threatened.

and means,

fit

defeat her purpose

is

and God, of controlling the number of

only thus justified,

when

disease, excessive

maternal weariness, a sickly, disordered, depraved or drunken hus-

whom

band, or one

malformation,

tell

she hates, or

is

hated by, or insanity, gloom or

her in thunder tones she ought not to give to the

World what she cannot give well, and with

By

simply willing, and without

and remain thus

much

for days together

life.

strain, the os uteri will close,

hence

own

safety to her

washes and preventives

all

can be consigned forever to the bad limbo whence they originated.

But
said,

this is

and

moon

is

removes
to

do

it

only one of the silent energies of the

I believe, that

on
it

her,

whom

stays

woman

cursed or blessed

but she can, and ought to bless,

power, once

started,

grows apace

till

would

retain

power of your own

and wear, and wean

too,

it,

soul

you,

foes, and,

enemies to both.

by

their

to

This

her

will-

wife of the
it

to direct

upon him you

from bad

malign influence of those who, claiming


really your

when

same woman

the time.

all

and with

that

It is

hence zoxmot afford

troubled heart! can powerfully, silently, resistlessly, use


the mighty magnetic

will.

blesses or curses

well, if she curses, she hurts herself,

human

habits,

love,

and the

be his friends, are

bad power over him, are practically

Affect ion al Alchemy.

quote Poe,

But

everlasting.

lands

Nothing good can ever eaie


True
be trodden down; 'but it will rise again to

you cannot.

Fail
to

61

was

to

and one day,

present

its

the guest of

In

application.

some Arab brethren, of

in a boat,

we

sailed

How

grand Cairo, up the

stately

matters not; but then and there

women

for,

West

the port of

we

far

went,

ascertained

of that brotherhood, and some others in that distant

sunny land, knew some natural


the

life

Oriental

far-olT

whither, or what
that the

the

a certain mystic tie

away from Loolak,

and solemn Nile.

may,

it

When

are totally ignorant of.

fectly assured that,

which

secrets,

by reason of

illness,

their fairer sisters of

one of those wives

per-

is

age or weakness, she cannot

more children without hazarding both lives, she shrinks


with unutterable horror from what our American women contemsafely bear

plate with a " pish."

once heard a

At the house of one Mrs.

"woman,"

never would bear a child

but would

the

kill

if

women

she did

subsequent to death,

knows

just as if they

repeat, shrinks with superlative loathing

as all trice

murderess

them

and ever

do,

and that she

as

that

will,

itself

knowing she were a

is

sure

come.

to

denials

laughed
fail to

then

at,

Refuse

knowing she would be

abused or divorced, or even,

if

not,

that

such

generate quietude in the tent, or peace in the familv.

Why,

she cither times her meeting with her husband,

with reference to her periods, so as


if

it

She

that the nature of the tics that bind her in marriage will,

those risks she never dreams of doing, well

What

her

fruit of

just as certain to suffer for

is

death

murder of the

The

from the

time and again, subject her to the chances of maternity.

either

were

worse than female demon!

idea of murdering, or conniving at the

womb,

in Boston, I

then on the point of marriage, declare she

"so many puppy dogs!"


Oriental wife,

L ds,

to

avoid distasteful chances

accident prevents that, she merely places the ball of her

her mouth, breathes hard upon

it,

instantly out of danger, for both

strains

or,

thumb

in

and "bears down," and

is

ovum and zoosperm

are forthwith

expelled by the forceful contractions of the uterine and abdominal


muscles.

In these respects the law of

instead of the abortional devils

and Christian mankind.

God

which haunt

rules in the

Arab

tent,

the boudoirs of civilized

Affectional Alchemy.

62

render

On

imperative.

it

the contrary, offspring are rightly consid-

ered as special blessings from the

such a

She

result.

abandon her
woman-life

told

is

to

wholly,

and being

entire faculties

the

Supreme God

her mother are

from

receives

a bride

lesson

among

There
the

all

is

many

not as

is

Moslems,

her glowing soul,

all

fruitful, as all

women

ivills

should

favor

that

prayerfully

Hence

it

there are not a hun-

with

200,000,000

its

of those fearful crimes committed

ten years,

in

first

one grand end of

to the

always pure

York, or Philadelphia every month

with

those
freely,

fully,

adulteresses or child-killers in all Islam,

votaries

hence, the

sacred mission of the wifely mother.

happens that the Oriental wife


dred

resorts to that

method, and then only when age, disease, or malformations

sinless

in

woman

indeed very seldom that an Eastern

It is

we

save

disgrace Boston,

as

The

live.

Oriental wife,

in very rare instances

and becomes

New

to

be

There are rare cases

so.

which a wife cannot, without imperilling her

undergo the

life,

ordeal of maternity, and then, and then only, the timely exercise of
the will

alone forestalls death,

prevents crime, and obviates

all

suffering.

XXVIII. Love,
law.

It is

stated, is magnetic,

a force also, capable, as

strange effects both


the question

have

upon human

Tell us that

souls

and subject

magnetic

know, of exerting very

all

But how?

and bodies.

I will, listen

to

that's

Matter and mind, in some mysterious way, are not only both alike

and unlike, and conjoin

to

form the thing called man, but they act

together directly and indirectly, fully or partially, and yet are not of
the

same

nature, albeit they act

and react upon each other

in

myriad

ways, a fact which every one's experience demonstrates beyond

One

cavil.

brain

thing

that in

it

is

absolutely certain

inheres

what

that the

constitutes us

mind

human

resides in the
;

and that the

conscious point resides in the centre of the encephalon, at that spot

where

all

three brains meet, viz., cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla,

or spinal marrow, which

is

an elongated brain,

is

a clear fact, the

proof of which can be found by consulting any good anatomical and


physiological atlas.

In this central point, as through and around

the corpus callosum, there

is,

in death, a nervous

and spheral waste

Aftcctional Alc/iemy.
in life a brilliant

sux varying

in size

perfectly gorgeous sun-shining

A ball

this

human

one facing time and

three inches in diameter.

and

par excellence, the tremendous


consciousness

from that of a large pea to a

diamond

white fire

of dazzling

63

is

the

soul

mystery.

it

fashions material eyes

myriad rays darting from


Telescope to scorn

accidents and incidents

its

sometimes

from the body which

point that the eves arc veiled

magnetic or other sleep the clouds

in

more eyes glance over

and then one

shift,

and momentarily glimpse

infinite fields,

the actualities of space, time, possibility and eternity.

what

this point to reveal

know

of soul,

its

[Were

I, 'at

and the

destiny, nature,

of the ultimate spaces, this world would stand agape

realities

the

hither

its

thither use every one of a

its

arises a fog

central

this

For

an eye whose powers laugh Rossc's

Cut there

mainly so envelops

or

is

it

for

being

has a double

It

other gazing square and straight right into eternity.


use

the

but

temptation, and go on with this book.]

resist the

This central ball draws

its

supplies from space, air, ether, and

being mystic and divine, directly from the Lord of the universe,
the Imperial Mystery,

and Eternal God.

Infinite

mystery the Savans are as greatly


facts of

growth.]

and ebbs

flux

It

breathes

at fault as they are

has

tilings,

[About which
concerning the

tides, its diastole, svstole.

its

and, being compelled to gaze on the outer world

through opaque glasses, diseased bodies,


of

it

takes but distorted views

and scarce ever can rely upon the absolute truth of what

the senses

tell

from which

it;

results mistakes, confusion, misap-

prehensions, crime, and whatever else of evil betides

its

fortunes

here.

The

breath of the body

is

atmospheric

air,

air is

more

or

penetrated with the ether of space, the breath of God, and the

less

magnetism of the heavens surrounding the

On

these

portion of
its

which

desire

netism

is

it

subsists

its

own

and when

sphere,

and attention
that specific

its

it

means

divine nerval

and the vehicle

vif or fluid

life

the purpose of a soul

a thing
life
is

it

discharges a

toward the object of

magnetism, and mag-

manufactured by the sexual

apparatus of cither gender, as said before.


it is

entire material universe.

The

thing conveyed by

the result, a certain yielding of any other

Affectional Alchemy.

64
force on earth

for

waked-up human

XXIX. The

nothing can withstand the absolute decree of the

soul.

Illustration

woman non

soul of a

convert sends

The atmosphere surrounding

her form, because she loves the man.


her bulges at the equator of her body
hips

and she draws all males

over

its fires all

the pelvic region across the


with a very powerful

to her then

attraction.

Cut after couvcrturc, and before impregnation, if she be disappointed in her dream of bliss she sends the same sphere out to any
one

else

as sJic

but him; and for

purposes thereafter, so far

all affectional

concerned, he might as well'be dead

is

up when

near her, and although he

7ie is

he can never reach her

for the sphere flattens

may compel

Then comes Hades

soul.

For

then assuredly behind the scenes!

there's

her obedience,
if

not openly,

no more warmth,

verve, elan, or passion in her for him, because he has lost the
to

evoke them

power

and while he may, by right of human law, and her

sufferance, possess her form, her soul in

secure citadel grimly

its

laughs him to scorn, and despises him with perfect unction, because
it

knows

heart

that every time he profanes her he stabs himself to the

for

he outrages her

whomsoever on God's broad


stays accursed,

soul,

and outrage

earth a

Woman

invites, curses,

and

curses then and there

and horror and defeat follows

in his footsteps

wher-

What d'ye think of that, my lady ? What d'ye


think of that, my man ?
But take a woman after couverture, to the point of pregnancy
ever he

may be

no sooner

is

the

monad, seed or germ lodged within the sacred and

most transcendently holy and mystical chamber of the womb, and


the filamental door has closed the aperture thereof, shutting out and
in

its

treasure,

and from

all

eyes concealing the divine workshop of

the Eternal, than her soul withdraws


direct

upon
the

and alone, and begins


that

less,

it

depended on the

depends almost wholly upon IT.

and

womb

magnetism

its

that instant she begins to love

Why

but the unborn baby more.

to that point, her soul

from the

attentions

to concentrate

womb's contents; and from

man no

its

man

but

now

She must search out

particles of her blood, brain, food, drink,

air, light,

Because, up
a

all

new

soul

the best

nervaura, muscle,

Alchemy.

Affect ional

65

bone, lymph, cartilage, carbon, and a million chemicals

up

to build

soul

new body, from

wherein

ials,

to dwell for a time and times and half a time,

is

quacks, and fashions don't

tionists,

calcium, nearly

iron, silver, gold,

body

original matei

Then

and strong.

stout

phor, manufactures

all

lodges angels

flame, anil

up

fire in

the bodv,

beside

well knowing that

do so alone; must
sands

with

own

its

knowing
victory

strong hand, alone

be

won

Now, what time


she

is

is

it

is

shall be so :i',

She

wonder,
if

on

own

its

God

while

has a
a

woman

is

work

it

and

fight

its

human being

in fact a

whole universe

Why?

is all

all

Reader,

and

the soul, spirit, and hod}' of the

to her

who

cannot,

who was

so then

rolls

between the two

cranky then, and no

soft,

it.

for the

simple reason that

have already told you that

nature incarnated.

these things

when

right to raise the very Satan then

Nature

her moods, sunny, tempestuous, coarse, foul,

and

way

looks on and smiles, he

insist that she

has an undoubted

it

host

must

as that?

queer, short, snappish,

for she

feet

and yet there arc fools called men

when

thev can't help

blusters

fearful

got for the frivolities of love

she choose; and most of them do

the

reach heaven

sweet, though the road be bitter, and that

will not, see all this, but think

states.

and

calls

among

any wonder her love changes from her uterus

Not any

bosom?

and

at last.

doing so grand

Well,

flight,

to offset the angels,

new charge

a million hells

that the goal

may

if

her

joy, sorrow,

and sweat, and tread upon and over red-hot

toil,

wade through

mansion; music here,

little

avarice, anger, lying, robbery, lust,

are

After which

memory, ambition, hope,

up tempters from the deeps of being

whom

drums,

chemical laboratories, and

After which she takes a lower

love and aspiration.

phos-

from heaven, mctaohvsical

fire

over the

all

science there, mathematics and

the abor-

reservoirs, telescopes,

cellars,

and brings down

new

sends lime,

soul

mechanical contrivances of the most marvellous kind.


she "ocs aloft

if

this

the earths and salts to mala- the

pumps,

domes,

The

it.

she stores

canals,

cylinders, flutes, columns,

kill

w1h.ti.-u ith

states she

is

is

changeable

in

mean, genial, calm,

forced

new pilgrim about

to incarnate in

starting on

its

66

Alchemy.

Affectional

the valley of earth to the eternal land of paradise, the

way from

splendid city of the Ineffable God.

XXX.

have said

that,

pregnant

great degree then, for the mother

husband and father

the

if

is

aided in

fails in

vehicle, with

all

her mystic work by

some

her in fury and anger,

fly at

the ethereal, magnetic

essential things,

load of soul-born love, can be by the persistent will

its

made to effectively operate


being. There are those
human
every
though not

on, almost any

projected upon, and

son's

back

that a given per-

magnetic effluence will no more touch than water will a duck's


;

it

rolls off,

and never contacts

In such hard cases the

at all.

attempt had better be abandoned, for two reasons

owing

succeed,
if it

to a

he be a ma?i, and loving, gentle, kind and

forbearing as he should be, and not

because she

and even

states aside,

could

it

to organic differences of constitution

would be

cannot

and second,

But the same power

thrown away.

effort

first, it

and force can be directed upon ourselves by ourselves, either upon


from brain to heel, or upon the
an afflicted member of the body,

internal viscera, as in cases of dyspepsia, liver trouble,


culty, heart disease, cancer of

of either gender

when

stomach

above

disordered, as most are

all,

congestions

vaginitis,

the

manner

repetition.

all

inflamed

prostate,

these are reachable

by the

or

the pelvic viscera

ovarian disease,

febrile

force

specified in a preceding section, but

Direct the attention toward

diffi-

gravid uterus, ulcer-

ated, originating frequently in lacerated, vagina

vulvular

kidney

and

testes

named, exerted

which

in

are worth

the cause of anxiety,

person, sick or well, generally, or to a specific point of body, mind,

morals,
to

and

be effective

strongly, yet calmly, desire, wish, will, the love-cure

but a few

qualified, success

genuine cure far

trials will

be needed

to

ensure absolute,

an assuagement will assuredly follow, nor


off.

It is

is

if

the

a scientific application of the mother's

power over her babe, exerted on a wider scale.


XXXI. But what's the use of anything unless used and enjoyed?
There are thousands of married couples living in a very bad and
unhappy

state,

simply because they won't

and so magnetic will-force


se.

It

must be exerted

to

is

fairly try for

any other

of no account, whatever, as a force per

be available.

Then, and not

till

then,

it,

Affcctional Alchemy.
and the love borne on

Witness the many undoubted cures of disease effected

on earth.

ties

one of the most powerful instrumentali-

is

it,

by those who go about laying on of hands;

them

although some of

for

which behold

are charlatans, yet others are not, in proof of

following

results

the

67

and

matter,

neglect this

their

suffer

from

another growing cool

But wives

practice.
in

consequence.

causes already

and

husbands

People find one

set forth

herein,

and

instead of checking that coolness, bv trying to. they fly off at a tan-

up

gent, set
fuss

grow

a domestic growlery, create innumerable excuses for a

morose

sullen,

and contrive, by every earthly means,

when

render matters ten times tvorsr tJian ever ;


sistent resort

to

a timely

the aid of the great magnetic law

correct all the trouble, which, in married

and per-

would speedily

nine times in ten.

life,

originates either in

outside or inside magnetic exhaustion

domestic passional

satiety,

and

to

or in

nervous waste, which

excessive

creates disgust on one side, antipathy on the other, with a grilling

of discontent

fire

unpalatable

anywhere
to the

great
stop

bewcen

truth,

else,

let

And

true nevertheless.

me

say further, that a

fair

supreme law of cleanliness, sunshine and

way toward
to

that

same

preventing
satiety

and

have seen those

whom

magnetic

here,

Some people

may

be an

as well

as

share of obedience
ventilation, will

exhaustion,

with

disgust,

some,

this, to

yet

and overcrowning horripilances.


I

Now

the two.

all

and

their

go a

put

attendant

bathe too often, and

did not believe had bathed five times in

sixty years.

If a wife
dress,

husband growing

finds her

manner; smiles

cool, let her attend

to

her

instead of frowns; sugar, not salt; honev. not

vinegar; and place her will steadily, strongly, persistently, upon

him,

at the

same time sending

and magnetic force of magnetic


resist it!

1 1 is

in

human

Iveers!

this

was learned
life.

The man Jout

magic charm

Let her remember

fascination

her woman's love, sympathy,


live

-://>

can

love will revive just as surely as that heaven exists.

But she cannot work


encc.

forth
love.

this,

for

it

in
is

anger, jealousy or inditlerthe

from the birds, and

grand true secret of


lias

worked miracles

The same principle obtains amo)!g utnve<{JcJ

Affectional Alchemy.

(fe

When
their

to please

wives dress up and put their best foot forward

own

households, as they do for outsiders

when

husband

the

dons his best coat and pantaloons, boots and hat, cane and gloves as
often

and

he does

to

deal better

Men's

That

when away
walk out with his own wife, as
do the same for somebody else's, the world will be a good

readily, to

oft"

than

woman

to-day.

is

it

be happy and pleasant

lives will

woman not

is a

wives appreciate forbearance.

when

they learn:

a softer sort of man.

2d.

ist.

That

That occasionally a woman's

3d.

organization becomes so deranged that she needs sympathy, love,

tenderness and great patience on his part, for she cannot help her
vagaries.

Bread thus thrown upon the waters will return a harvest

of love ere

many

days.

4th.

A wife

a truer friend, even

is

than the most beautiful outsider that ever lived.


wife into your counsels

home

to saddle

them on her

Study your wife, and adapt yourself


other half; for lo

ye twain are one

in-law, or any relation,

and " For

may

this cause shall a

(only) to his wife,"

if

to her

flesh.

say or do.

man

mother, can,

let

No

and

and be

Never bring
7th,

and

By

her really be your

matter what mothers-

Remember

that ye are one,

she really be such in soul and

spirit, as

all

disagreeables of whatever

believing- she shall and will produce a superior

all

evil

dwelling

only on that which

is

jeal-

true,

and good.

Women
trains

well

she will, produce offspring that shall be

if

specimen of the race, and by firmly resisting discontent, anger,


ousy, hatred, and
beautiful

last,

leave father and mother and cleave

superior to either parent, by avoiding

kind or nature.

6th.

talk,

and appearances.

as in law, gospel,

Any

homely,

Take your

5th.

amusement walk,

Attentions pay large interest.

pleasant with her.


all your troubles

the place of

if

suffering

of evils

from

known

means of rejuvenation

affectional perversions, resulting

" female complaints," have a

as

in

the

positive

in the will, in the cultivation of the purer

attributes of their nature

and a firm determination

observance of the law of soap and water,

to

be no longer slaves

fishness, the doctors, envy, or

to drugs, anger, sel-

anything else calculated

to

unbalance

Affect ional Alchemy.

69

Thus mentally they can heal themselves, become


ami gain the new life, energy, and power.

them.

We

now

healthy,

pass to the consideration of one of ihc most strange and

abcrant phases oflove

with which the mind has

misnomer

love he not a

if

to

grapple during

its

as applied to

mazy

search into the

human form.
forme to look upon

it

labvrinths concealed beneath the

XXXII.

If

it

was

possible

broad world

this

and broader universe with the jaundiced eves of some zealot,


bile,

gloom, bitterness and bigotry;

God

that

is

not

all

good

if I

were capable

if

of

full

could imagine a yawning gulf, and

peopled with tortured souls, whose agonizing shrieks

of

believing
it

sudden

for

death were answered back by the exultant shouts of jubilant fiends,

Kixg Devil

with a

then would

at their

head,

which

but

I can't

believe that from that//V, clean back of the

could,

if I

shadow of

God, came trooping forth a score of superlatively horrible gorgon^,


destined by the

mandate of the chief

among which,
with venom at its

fiend to desolate the earth,

and

torment mankind,

one, always clad in rays of light,

vet sweltering

heart, stands

mean

which

that awful thing for

among

English there

in

the foremost.

no name, but

is

which ever and always assumes the garb and mien and
bright, heaven-born

named

this pestilent thing

Now
it

the

name

is

LOVE.

angel,

last

on

to

dark caverns

iting

being
that

its

which

leech

is

in Oriental

natural habitat; and

way chance

life,

to

fall

name

its

gore

made while

inhabits

and never

is

first

place

tropical waters;
lets

go

until the

applied to a huge bat inhab-

when man

asleep,

this

wierd sing-song the while

a deep, comatic sleep falls


stir is

have

and other lands, darkness and gloom

proaches, and gently, soothingly, flaps

droning

of the
I

sucked out, and the victim topples into the arms

Secondly, the same

of death.

books

familiar to everybody, because, in the

whatever has sentient

drop of blood

my

Vamfiyrism.

pertains to a monstrous

fastens

In other of

office

upon them,

or beasts travelling along

bat of
its

Hades

stealthily ap-

huge wings, croning and

thus fanning
so hard

its

victims, until

and strong, that not

the bat opens a vein, and drinks

its

fill

of living

When
this, tor

the

awaking

crimes, the

mankind, never

eves open in another world than

at all for beasts.

The name

in the third use

7o

Affectional Alchemy.

is attached to certain peculiar, fantastic beings,


half human, half
demon, of Oriental and German story. These beings emerge from
deep darkness in the middle of the night open new-made graves,
;

take out the bodies therein, eat the flesh, and then, the horrid ban-

quet over, stealthily return whence they came, surfeited to plethora

with the dreadful repast.

it sometimes happens so goes the


no new-made graves offer their temptations, and still

that

legend

the ghouls

must

the veins

of

live

But

wherefore they gain access to houses and drain

whomsoever they

possibly

can.

These harpies

are,

however, vulnerable to shot and death but if you kill one, be sure
to bury him five feet or a fathom, beneath the solid earth
and be
sure you run a stake through his breast, with a cross on top and if
;

possible, at a cross-roads

you negledt to do this, and the vambody remains above ground, just as soon, and as surely as
the moon's beams shine upon it, just so surely will its life return
for if

pyre's

and

it

go scot

and deaths.

free to continue its ravages

through successive

some of her dark moods, or whether some of them


of perverted imagination, the reality,
all

lives

All these horrid things, whether creative of nature in

if

of

life

are the offspring

or of legend, alike are

bad enough, and we turn from the bare contemplation of each

with a shudder, begotten of horror on the body of disgust


fearful as they are, not

horrible reality

one of them, or

and

yet,

combined, can equal the

all

the absolutely unmistakable genuine, living human

ghouls, right in our very midst

where about us

devouring gorgons,

who go up and down

before us, clad in fine raiment

our

streets,

who

are every-

and

in

faces decked with smiles

and out
and who

only enter our houses, and partake of our hospitality, to betray our
trust,

and fatten on the

gender their sole aim

lives of us
is

to gratify their

passion at anybody's expense whatever


of our friends

ment

is

become

too severe

has forever taken

The ghoul
the union.

and ours

own

where of the male

infernal morbidity of

and the wives and daughters

whom no punishfrom whom conscience

the prey of wretches, for

doubly-dyed vampires,
its

for

flight,

and

to

whom

gratitude

is

unknown.

originates in such marriages as have no love to cement

The

father

is

a coarse, selfish, material surface

without tenderness, affection,

anything

wholly

human

man,

and

his

Affect Zonal Alchemy.


wife,

not

if

from the

cold as himself,

:is

altar to

comes

is

t<'>

all

full

and send

ETcstic

of

Manv

it,

one they meet

fiery

their

empty

whom

upon

they feed,

and

and having ruined them, blasted

peace of mind, shipwrecked fami-

debauched honest men's wives, they brag

clouds of remorse and shame, to crown the

Their crime

lust.

is

conclude this section by briefly recapitulating the res

which mav be thus summarized

people of both sexes often experience a terrible attraction

toward another, that resembles, but


is

fill

are blood spots from

victims of their rapacity, and coarsely brutal


I

to eternity

so long as these leeches get their

evil betides those

violated daughters,

fiendish.

and

soul,

their tracks

For

their happiness, destroyed their

it.

way hack

These ghouls have no principle, declare love with

thev ruin.

like fervor to everv

of

her child

love-hungry

gratified:

the

all

that

is

what

care they even though desolation, despair and death

no matter what

lies,

earns, and vainly, tor

of love, they cling to such with the tenacity

hearts that thev have broken?

whom

nothing

or she thus horn, encounters those of oppo-

follow in their footsteps, and

fill,

and the consequence

until they sap out the

itself,

What

ones.

time, and through time

of death

woman who

true love

Now. when lie


gender, who are full

site

earth with yearnings never to he

to

from eternitv
a^ain

probably just the opposite, and

the grave never realizes the lea^t love:

hut selfish passion.


she cannot get.

is

71

is

not, love.

On

the contrary,

it

a fearful, monstrous passion, and they almost vainly struggle to

Such persons are vampyrized and a vampyre is a


person born love-hungry, who have none themselves, who are
emptv of it. but who fascinate and literally suck others dry who do

escape

it.

have love
is

in their natures.

Detect

it

thus

never content but in handling, fondling


victim utterly exhausted, and

leaves

the

Break

off at once.

hands

to touch,

Baffle

it

the

its

vampyre

object,

they

is

selfish,

which process

don't

know why.

by steady refusal; allow not even

and remember that the vampyre seeks

to

prolong his

own existence, life and pleasure, at the expense of your own.


Women when thus assailed should treat the assailant with perfect

or her

coldness and horror.

which

is

Thus they can

baffle this pestiferous thing

more common than people even suspect

in fact,

an every-

Affectional Alchemy.

72
day

Many

affair.

man and

unhappily together, some aware, but many

frime cause

of

the part of one


irritability

or the other.

live

still

unconscious, that the

bickerings and discontent

all their

many

wife have parted,

vampyrism on

is

causes fretfulness, moodiness,

It

who

a feeling of repugnance arises toward the one

should be most dear

and eventually positive

dislike takes the place

of that tender affection which should ever grow more and more

who have given themselves to each other.


many cases so strong that the parties cannot

endearing between those

This

dislike

becomes

in

endure each other's presence

and separation becomes

This

neither, perhaps, conscious of the true cause.

owing

inevitable,

sometimes

is

an inferior development of amativeness, sometimes

to

debility, lack of vitality, the

nervous system

and

to

consequence of a feeble or shattered

in either case the cure is to be

found in

less

frequent contact, separate rooms, health, and mutual endeavor to


correct the fault.

XXXIII. What
called

what tremendous throngs of what are


husbands, and notoriously what almost infinite numbers of

women

married
all

for

find

home

want of mutuality,

reciprocity, that

from

vast hosts,

a real hell on a small scale instead, and


domesticity, sympathy, and, above

the impartation

is

and reception each by,

the other, of the mysterious thing

many such

there be,

magnetism

as

life,

make great mistakes about


They imagine it to be either all
too,

both

and

People,

this self-same

physical, or

this subtle fluid, or

mystic magnetism.

all

mental, when, in

emanation,

is

the absolute

connecting link between soul and body, matter and mind, and,
mately, between

man and

the Deity.

Thus

in a

few

lines

mystery which has puzzled the world for centuries,


subtle something

the two.

There

which was, and


is

is,

sphere

is

ulti-

solved a

is

that of the

the connecting link between

a magnetism or effluence of soul, arising in, and

flowing forth from, the persons of either sex,

endowed with

And

actually long for death, or anything

mitigate or change the current horror of their lives.

fact, it is

all,

and

who, realizing nothing but the worst kind of

blanks in their lottery of


else, to

known

to,

who

are,

large, open, free, sensitive, generous souls

deeply charged with mind, love, and

all

by
;

nature,

and

this

else that distin-

Affect i on al Alchemy.
Nor docs

"uishes noble from ignoble souls.

upon

at all

mere physique

size of brain, or

73
this

for

magnetism depend
abounds

it

anions the small people, intuitive ami physically weak,


anion;' those

man

or

who

woman

parent offspring every

There

than themselves.
to the

bad, because

all

perfect, and, physically speaking, better

but

is

danger of such persons going

little

natural

their

their physical,

and

upward and

tendencies are

advancivc, not retrogressive, barbaric, or descensive

magnetism charges

it is

of

full

for their soul-

energy, emo-

life,

and goodness; hence, whoever comes within the area of

tion

action

is

the partner be loved, will be able to

if

way

does

it

Hence

are materially opposite in construction.

of this sort,

much

as

as

benefited, not injured

and

this is

its

an imperative, universal

rule.

XXXIV. But
magnetism than
conceded
as

there

another, and to

And

this.

may

some

here remark that

the fruits of honest marriage

Doubted, as a general thing.

more powerful

extent,

They

is

it

a generally

always smartest,

fact that illegitimate children are nearly

compared with

best?

is

but are they the

are smarter, fuller of

nerve, dash, clan, because struck into being at passion's highest


tide

but their moral natures and principles are almost universally,

wofully deficient

was

and of

all

the

noted for goodness

ever

famous bastards of history not one

True, they

have a very large

all

measure of personal magnetism, and mental force


be forgotten that goodness alone
the best

is

show than

is

but

wherefore, he

more

volatile

who would

never

it

absolute power, and, therefore,

always greatest, even though the good


the

let

and cstimably

gifted

man make

less

son of earth

beget the noblest sons and daughters must

do so under the dominance of a calm and steady love, within the


pales of those barriers

which

societv has erected to protect itself

from barbaric savage principles and peoples, individual as well


as aggregative.

XXXV.

There

ous, Websterian,
in

is

another sort of magnetism, rich,

which

voluptu-

full,

originates in bm/y, not in soul; and

copious streams from the persons of such as have

cvervthing and everybodv with

it->

warm and

charged with passion, enthusiasm, volcanic

it,

it

suffusing

vivifving power.

lire

and while

flows

it

It is

warms

Affectional Alchemy.

74
others

very apt to burn.

is

livers,

good

spirit,

and always more or

comes of

It

full veins,

large lungs,

digestion, steady nerves, fulness of habit, appetite


less

wins influence and marked

and

distinction

Aaron Burr was a good example of its nature,


and power. Now mark this The ghoul wins and ruins,

for its possessor.

character,

because affectionally and in love he

women

female butterfly

any miller

like

their

man

vacuum

and

silly,

think to find reciprocation, but attain utter

On

exhaustion and ruin instead.

magnetic

a perfect

because the empty gorgon draws upon

at a candle,

They

fulness.

is

rush to him, and get their wings scorched

the other hand, the physically

and souls of his victims with his


own magnetic fulness the woman, or man, as the case may be, is
drawn to him or her, and while he or she is there to keep up the
suffuses the bodies
;

incessant play of aromal forces, both are

happy

but

when

ing time comes, and the lesser person no longer has the

the part-

full

one to

draw, drain, or feed upon magnetically, then heart-aches and excrupangs follow upon one side, and, generally, a magnificent

ciating

indifference

and don't-care-much-about-it-ness on the

other.

People with debts of gratitude to pay name towns, counties, lakes,

and boats

rivers, ships, inns, horses,

friends.

after

their

benefactors and

never exactly follow precedents, yet have a

little

by christening a hitherto nameless crime. J


the horrible one committed by a species of human ghoul
pay, and do

it

from either of the others


is

the

name

human
cur-dog

I give the

feeling
is,

and

just described.

awful sin

mean he

The Dentonite,

is

is

soulless,

young

as

is

whom

girls,

often the case

ends the dreadful tragedy.


that,

nor give

it

XXXVI. My
rationale of the

for

such

him

to

and

seek to supply the

he will.remorsely violate and

him

in his fiendish

terrible, awful, outright

murder

can conceive no worse horror than

befitting

name.

investigations into the mysteries, philosophy, and

human

being, and

its

loves and passions, has led

me

and irresistible conclusion that Force is of body,


and muscular organization mainly; and that real Power

to the inevitable

nerves,

more

differing

and altogether void of

ruin, even if cool deliberate knife-butchery aids

crime

allude to

not immortal any more than a mongrel

his lack of soul impels

dreadful want from

bill to

Affect ional Alchemy.

75

Now, l>y the term power I do not mean, as


some have misunderstood me in the past to mean, the mere genital
powers common alike to man and brutes but I do mean that irresistin the

lies

soul alone.

energy latent

ible

limited few.

and developed but

in all souls,

hold that no pmver, such as

man

understood, ever comes to

through the

Baconian adage, " Knowledge

the

partially true

here intended to he

intellect.

power,"

aihrm that

not wholly, but only

is

here repeat, Goodness alone

for I

is

is

an exceedingly

in

power, and

is

goodness inheres not in brain, but in heart, metaphysically speaking,


or on the emotional side or department of man's intricate
lute nature

onlv

come

wherefore,
to,

I lay

and be developed

of the immaterial soul

woman

all else

which

is

the underlying, primal Jire-liCc

the invisible being that constitutes us

that exists outside the Eternal

unimaginable Lord

mystical

soul

man

the fire-energy subtending the very basis of our being

and, indeed, of
the

power can
through Love; not

as an axiom, that

in, the

Love

passion or lust, look you, but

or

down

it

and invo-

Heat which

God

itself,

of the Infinite Universe, that most

fuses all things, subtends all existence,

now

formative floor of the worlds

the

Flame

and

rolling in silent

majesty through space, cushioned upon the yEther, the very breasts
of the mother side of

God

deeper, inner love

the beginning of the road

into,
I

and invests

it

is

Now,

the true sensing of that higher,

power

with, real

And

maintain, lieth at the foundation.

life

and strength, and lordly

real

development

lay

it

truth that the true-love conjugation of

and most sacred praver

Thus,

in

proof:

how

often

soul

Love,

synonym of
truth,

God, possible

it

happens

that

in soul, fruitful in

in the cases of those to

realities of love are as thrice-sealed

who

of,

in habitude, instead of servile, decrepit,

maturely wrinkled, as

for

and

down as another immutable


man and wife is the loftiest

and imitation

couple continually grow more youthful

and joyous

the very

whole vast realm of matter and mind,

creature in the

thought.

to,

is

it

and clingingness, and

will,

wherefore,

which leads the

in the loftier degrees

books!

to

any

spirit

and

loving

happiness,

warped and

whom
Why?

the

pre-

wondrous

Because they

thus truly love, in their sacred, spiritual passion, strike out this

divine spark

partake of that celestial

fire

replenish

themselves

Affectional Alchemy.

y6

with the quintessence of

life

grow

itself;

and

better,

spiritually

stronger, and more beautiful, ripe, morally wealthy, calm, hopeful,

attuned to this upper music

pass the brutal lands untouched

draw down

malarias, and

unharmed amidst moral

copper-rods the lightning, the divine fervor and

walk

to their souls, as

of the aerial

fire

become baptized of
supreme Lord of Glory,

Holy

spaces, the far-off heavens, and

the

and earthly proteges of the

our God.

Now

Spirit,

once in a while couples do love each other, and from the

product of such unions, what few civilized people there are take their
rise

and departure

and thus the world

is

saved by God's

one honest man, and good, was declared

fiat,

just as

sufficient to prevent the

overthrow of Sodom.

The world owes its salvation to the accidents of Love; but by and
by, what are now exceptional cases will become the universal rule,
and then farewell human Boyhood, and welcome glorious Manhood.
Couples not loving each other are mutually exhaustive, and, as a
consequence,

wear

and fume, worry the

fret

their very souls threadbare

they amount

to

realms in a

state

but

little,

and

and

out of one another, and

life

to shreds, so that here

after

death

the

enter

on earth
ethereal

of immortal leanness, wizzenness, scranniness,

requiring, perhaps, ages of time, or, at least, a long lapse of years,

before they can ever reach a condition of soul-fatness, or celestial

We

plumptitude.

can gain

XXXVII. Light
seen, for
is

He ever

always

to

and whispers

the

much by

truly loving

shadow of God

for

and whosoeveryee/.y

when we

to the soul

feel for

Here am

Heat
which

for

He

Deity

is

never to be

is

for

God

is

But

He

sure to touch

him, he invariably comes forth


I

But the inscrutable Being

Shadow, behind the Everlasting


the Eternal Fire and the quintessence of All

dwells within the Everlasting

Flame

recedes from telescopic or visual scrutiny.

be felt

and find him

is

not the heat of combustion, but

its

opposites, like unto that

when we truly Love.


Men gazing upon solar light have been struck dumb with the tremendous conception that God was concentrated Light, and that to
find

is

evolved from within our souls

him they must rush

into the intolerable effulgence, the awful

brilliance of all the focal spaces

But they

erred.

The amazing

Affect ion al Alchemy.

and conceived, and which they confounded with,

"lories they beheld

or to he the verv

view

focalized

Fluid

God, was but the dark shadow shielding him from

fire,

God,

not

and even thing, especially the human

being

ness in

concentrated,

is

a condensation and crystallization of God's

But man, as

fire.

Man,

penetralia of mystery!

in the

77

we know him

nor

here,

is

form of that

soul, is a

not the only self-conscious-

There

worst of worlds.

this the best or

is

Xenons

are,

and the .Frial spaces abound with, multiform intelligences, having

aswc have

their conscious origin in /Ethereal realms,

But as the divine Fire


fusion

the base of all alike

is

the destiny of

is

all,

it

follows that there

ours in matter.

and as love and

inter-

common

point

is

one

where the sub-human, human, and ultra-human can contact each


other and meet

and

this point is that of interblending, for that

point everywhere, and in


all

which

It

all

things,

common

the only one thing

is

really

is

accomplished, the more powerful

is

the higher

it

reaches

to

anywhere.

exist as living entities

follows again that the higher the motives urging us

universal duty

one

the

more

it

is

when

that

the prayer

it

brings us en rapport

with the blessed ones of the purer Mvnr, and the greater rain of
goodness, power, health,

good

calls

it

life,

mystic enjoyment, and

down upon our heads

to saturate

possible

all

But

our souls.

there

away from our

are grades of these ultra-human orders, towering

place and position in the eternal scale, in series vast, inconceivable,

of

Orders,

Eterne

Societies,

and other

Grades, Hierarchies,

of the opposites of what" we call goodness

on one

common ground

as the others

give lust the rein, instead of love,


infuse us with strange

here reveal, teaches


.Africa
hell

to

unimaginable

an

descending to an equally unimaginable deep

series

and

ills

how

and

these, too,

and can and

do.

ascend from the depths

evils.

rapport the

to

meet us

when wc
to us.

and

The White Magic, which I


good. The Biack Magic of

and America (Voudooism) rapports us with the denizens of

and crime and wretchedness as surely flow out from the one

affiliation, as the

good flows

revelation here, because

it

have made

this

and afford a new held

for

forth from the other.

will do good,

the explorations of such as are interested in solving the tremendous

problem of

evil, its

nature and origin.

Affectional Alchemy.

?8

XXXVIII.

have already told the world herein and elsewhere

[in " Soul, the Soul-world, and

Homes

Dead

of the

" a reprint

and

enlargement of the original volume " Dealings with the Dead"]

human

that the seat of

consciousness

in the brain,

is

polar world or globe of white diamondesque

two

subject to

It is

electric

thunders forth

it

edicts

its

in the brain, the central point of the head.

and mystic moods,

inspiring, creative

The

another seat within the body.

ful,

its

power

seat of

head.

But

from

in

In

state.
its

its*

throne

most awe-

its

its

fiats

are given forth from

brain

is its

throne of Force; the

In sleep, especially that which

a positive and negative, masculine or

states,

male mood,

it is

human

the

fire in

and a feminine, magnetic, or womanesque

intellectual or

pelvis

that

therefore dreamless, the soul sends a fibril of fire

health-

is

an

incan-

descent railway, from the corpus calossum to the medulla oblongata,

down

the spinal

plexus,
all

marrow

to the solar

body bring

servants of the

the treasures they have gathered during the wakeful day, from

the various laboratories,

stomach,

lungs, liver, testes, arteries

aroma with

own

its

life,

human

intestines, ovaria, nerve-ganglia,

and there the

soul charges the fine

and sends them back

portions of the living being


the

back of the stomach

to right

the great storehouse where the

it

imparts

become

to

life-fire to

parts and

every section of

frame.

After this the soul sometimes sends a filamental

cord out into the

that ladder of light

air, above the earth, and on


mounts the azure, and scans and contemplates

occasionally unfathomable mystery itself

we

translate them, have a fixed

But there

is

distant scenes,

Hence

all

and

dreams, could

and determinate meaning.

a farther revelation to be

made

right here.

If

human

interblending occurs white weary, half asleep, vexed, anxious, distrustful, suspicious,

or mental

state,

thinking of money, or in an excited, passionate

two things are

likely to occur, i.e., pregnancy,

which case the child is sure to come here and


and go to the other world, and remain there, for

in

stay here, die here,

centuries perhaps

half asleep, vexed, anxious, distrustful, suspicious, and mentally or

otherwise excited

up

builds

cause

the

all

child,

the livelong years


the

father

for although

the

woman

invariably imparts the bias,

be-

Affectional Alchemy.

XXXIX.

In the beginning of the viarriagc every fibre of his

body sends a

spiritual

material portion of

and

the prostate gland,

and

at the

exact instant that these

passing through, takes with

and mind send

at that

point, the

and the procreativc

fluid

the prostatic exudations, and the im-

it

thus charged with a joyous load of heaven, or a

is

But

grievous burden of intolerable horrors.

occur

meet

all

half of

right half of the pros-

to the

nervo-vital muscles spasmodically contract,

mortal being

itself to the left

his spiritual, emotional, soul

corresponding portions of themselves


tate,

79

may

impregnation

not

yet the fluids thus charged, and discharged, arc absorbed in

great measure
parietes,

by the innumerable mouths and duels of the vaginal

and she absorbs

his physical, mental and moral poisons as


husband was freighted down with syphilitic virus
the one eats away and cankers her flesh
while the other

surely as if the

only that

corrodes her soul

Men

are proverbially, in these matters, careless of possible conse-

quences, and this

is

a source of terrible dread to their

a degree, that fear paralyzes their passional nature


side there

is,

the average

and can be, no response

finding

husband grows crisp and cranky,

right angry; all of

which she

feels,

which

wives

to

such

and on their

to

be the case,

offish, petulant,

down-

and discord and misery reign

beneath that roof.

Well

Reply

By an

effort

of the will the male can prevent the

prostatic flow; and, secondly, the wife


at the

crisis,

by becoming mentally positive

and willing that she ought not, must not,

conceive, cannot; or that she will not absorb that

her mental or physical health


safe,

whenever she

XL. Power,

zvills to

is

be

so absorb

which
it.

not

will impair

Hence

she

is

true power, can only descend from heaven to true

loving souls, because


albeit she

cannot

zvill

power

is

feminine, and

practically ignorant of the fact

learn that the seeds of

power descend

woman represents
and a man has vet

it,

to

cither through the feminine

channels of his soul, or to him through

woman. All ereat men


have been made so through women, either by their mothers, or
by some

woman whose

love

made her

will

and wish him

to

lx;

good, great and happy, during the sacred prayer of holy, loving

Affectional Alchemy.

8o
wifehood.

have already alluded

man

any

utterly ruin

same circumstances
best

man

and with

living.

to the

ability of a

woman

to

her soul loathes and hates, under precisely the


for

make or mar the


make and the mar,

within her power to

it lies

have seen

tried, in

it

results magnificent in the

both the

one case, and insufferably poig-

Thus man, by love all the time, but especially


then, can wholly modify woman's character, and kindle her ice to
But carelessness and ignoa gentle, constant and invigorant flame.
rance on the part of many millions of wives, in some sense, make
nant in the other.

them responsible

for their

own

miseries

to resist the depleting effects of pestilent

the diseases, disasters and

vampyrism, and avoid

and also

to

all

wholly transform the nature

and character of almost any man, no matter


In declaring these

ability

ailments, mental, moral, physical and

emotional, thus engendered

ate, careless, indifferent or

have the

for they all

how

coarse, inconsider-

mean.

new and weighty

truths I victoriously plant the

white banner over the frowning ramparts of the social world.

Why

How

Attend

XLI. Because almost everywhere

in this

practically exists as a repressive system


is

that head, while the wife

either partner or equal

grow

not
if

is

and, so long as such

home

not found at the fireside at

Now

want

weal as

it

it is all

to stop all that

man

head, and the

but an appendage, and by no means

because happiness

better,

broad land marriage

is

is

the case, things will

what every one seeks

for,

and

will be searched for elsewhere.

by showing the law underlying human

has never been shown before on earth.

The system

of

marriage should be one of absolute equality and partnership between


couples.

want

to

help along that system

vogue practically drives enormous hosts of people


lots,

to

now

all to

avoid such.

discussed at present, there

horrors of deformity in

make people

all

On
is

am

the marriage question, as mainly

too

much

everlasting gabble on the

parts of the social machine

but

I seek

purer, nobler, truer, and draw, not drive,

heavenward by appeals

in

heaven across

over steep-down gulfs of social and domestic horror.

teaching

to

one

for the

them

to the good, the true, and the beautiful latent

Affect i 071 al Alchemy.


when

within them, and which,

Si

active, brings bliss to every beatin"

heart.

XLII. Too many marriagecs concern themselves about mourning


I

wish them

be deeply, continually interested about joy.

to

how

think mainly concerning

bearing

and

that; while I

all

am

teaching them

an exceedingly good one

and

wholesale

They

the best of a bad bargain;

abiding with befitting patience to the end,

crosses;

life's

make

to

how

the worst of

how

to

make

bad bargain

by

to neutralize the social poisor.s

them

are generated at

home

and

all

through the triple white magic of Love, will, and persistent trying
that

which,

cure their

to

is.

seems, after

it

stupid

way

ignore

its

in

all, is

is

have said, and

a very

and plain behests

of the average mind, and

XLIII.

by the constant exercise of common sense,

ills

uncommon

thing, judging by the

which nine married couples out of every

clear

for

common

an excellent guide
it

to

sense

is

ten totally
the genius

go b}\

true, that the other, the feminine,

is

magnetic, and, therefore, superior pole, or polar dwelling, of the

human

viewless soul of
respectively
love reigns

whence

and

rules,

kind,

each

new

let

soul

is

human

officiates at the

where

true

banquet, and the cele-

holy

in the

incarnation of the new

then and there called into outer being,

is

of time in

tion

nuptial unions,

wherefore, both the positive and negative powers and forces

of each party assist at the


a

all

each sex

governs and controls, the entire beings of each

party, the entire soul of

bration

in the genital system of

is

follows that in

it

its

race to the fields of eternity

and,

it

to

and

soul,

if

run the gaunt-

all

such genera-

being a genuine marriage, none but truly

children are called into the world.

But where no love inspires the parents, only one of the two grand
forces of their souls officiate either in, or at, the generation of their

mutual ofiVpring

some
and

quality,

and

and such children are death-sure


to

pay through

lives

bitter, for the sins of their parents,

to

be deficient

in

more

or less angular, limited,

and

their profanation of the

human sanctities, and violation of the grandest and


that of Love; from such condilaw of the human world

holiest of all

deepest
tions

it

happens

that the

Women, and abound

in

lands are

human

teeming with half-men.

weaklings.

Illegitimates"

halt-

are

82

Affactional Alchemy.

exceptional in brilliance, because at least some tolerable measure of

when

Love, and a great deal of Passion, obtained

they were called

into earthly existence.

Apply
reason

the principle herein laid down, and

why

and loved women,

inferior-drained, but strongly loving

become mothers of mental-moral

millionaires, while brainy mothers

Men

give us children born to intellectual penury.


tively small cerebral capital

and

calibre, but

while per contra

we

all

with compara-

whose love-nature

become

large, full, open, generous, almost invariably

mental superiors

not hard to see the

it is

know

is

fathers to their

.that great talent,

and actual genius seldom produces anything higher than a very low
grade of mediocrity. Their children are notoriously below par

and

PA

These truths may be new and novel, as are many of

also.

those to follow herein, but they are assuredly destined and com-

missioned to revolutionize the world of thought on these subjects,


nevertheless and nothwithstandine.

XLIV. The
Thoughtful.

negative or brain pole of the soul, so to speak,

Its

mission

understand, know.
intellectual

It is

en rapport more or

an electric

is

scan, search, explore, investigate, reason,

and knowing universe

Now

electric.

is to

man

toward, and captures knowledge,

that

to say,

is

with the

less perfectly,
it is

masculine and

"progresses," stores up, advances

and principles

facts, things, ideas

and only give him time, and he will become an encyclopaedia on


legs, for all that's knowable he feels bound to find out.
But the
positive pole or sphere of the soul being feminine or magnetic,
in direct contact or rapport

with the very soul of being

the foundation fires of the universe

with

all

itself;

that vast

is

domain

underlying increase, growth, generation, evolution, emotion, heat,

the sole and base of being, the


Himself measureless Love the primal

expansion, energy, power

God

blood of

arterial

fire-flow

of the whole vast realm of universal existence,


nearer

God

opposite

than

it is

being by

for

than the male, and


it is

in

to gestate

God

is

far

whence the female is


more female than its

him, as in the human, a far

and bring

forth.

God

struck the universe into

a single fiat of his Imperial Will

billions of centuries to gestate

less labor to create

but

took even him

it

and bring forth man

just as a

man

Affect ional Alchemy.


monad

occupies one second of time only, to plant a


takes

woman

the earth;

or

takes

occupies

the energies of

but

soil,

it

all

it

is

worth

odd weeks

one second

woman's

prepare

to

soul and

at least fifty millions of

verse, bears the

same

and right here

it-,

uses on

work, which

Hence one good

male drones, without love

good

for

in the uni-

ratio to his worthlessncss, as a general rule

my

upon

desire to impress

consequences of destroying

human

life at

any

soul,

stage

and the awful


but to enforce

the absolute necessity of marriage and parentage,

every child, no matter


to the

universe

every

man who

dies without

how

imperfect,

who

and every female

eventually a

goes

prolonging his

human

j:>ositive

for

gain

grave childless

to the

his duty to himself,

in

fails

is

readers, not only the

tremendous value and importance of any human

upon them

for

uterine

body about twenty-six

guide them heavenwards; and her influence

to

in the

it

begin

to

complete what he began!

mil/ion seconds to

mother

forty

man

83

God and

nature, and

commits a grave offence,

line,

so grave as not to be easily forgiven.

all

Thus

it

that

is,

is

readily seen that through

and

is

Love man

seizes directly

and rapport with

in actual contact

all

on

and singular

every being that feels and Loves within the confines of the habitable universe.
affiliates

him

But
to a

an}-

amount of brain or learning he may have

very few at most, because

soul, in the

three
that

radii

male,

is

in,

extending

The

sentient creatures

Love

few can think and knove.

love and_/i:c/, while comparatively

forever against the world

all

positive throne or seat of the

near, and about, the prostatic gland, with

to the

connected viscera, whence

emasculation injures the very soul

happens

it

itself.

In the female, the major force of the soul resides in the uterus,

with three radii extending


nected viscera,

whence

it

to the right

happens

and

ovaria and the con-

left

that illness or injuries there have

the most baleful, injurious and debilitating elleet

and department of her being and nature.


u

fine

specimen of

woman

such terms are never applied

"
!

to

''A

We

upon every portion

often hear the phrase

magnificent

woman

but

any mere bundle of brains, but

always of those of fne physical prc-cncc, geniality of demeanor, and


magnetic fulness, indicating Love within the soul, whether

it

be well

Affectional Alchemy.

84

and highly cultured or


fat

who

I believe they call

and

is

Now

not.

lean, or lean
it

who

its

The mode

states.

pointed out, hence need not again recur

XLV. Do

steadily

grow

Bantingism

and non-magnetic

fat,

have

to

may demand;

opposite, as the case

knoiv that a lean soul can also grow

people reverse their

man

possible for a

by pursuing

is fat,

or

is

it

already herein

to.

not forget that herein and elsewhere I have declared

manhood and womanhood

the great truth that true

more or

are

less

en rapport with one or more of the upper hierarchies of Intelligent


Potentialities, earth-born

and not earth-born.

believe there are

means whereby a person may become associated with, and receive


instruction from, them.
More than that, I believe in what I may
call

will-magnets, or talismans

wear them, and

by those

the gulfs of space

diamond across

that

it

is

possible to construct and

that they emit a peculiar light, discernible across

a play-house

and

intelligent

chasmal steeps

will,

and

wearers, just as a good brother here

of

him who

do, cross the

shall give the

discern a

that such are signals to the beholders

and that they


assist the

we

powers, just as

grand hailing-signs of

to save, succor,

flies to

distress.

the relief

This

is

provable.

This grand mystery of the


aid to ?>ian, for

is

it

will, properly cultured, is the highest

Energos, white, pure magic, the

a divine

miracle-working potentiality which cometh only


"wholly unshackled
salvation from

human

soul

while to

the free

to

woman

is

it

the only

marital vampyrism, the shield and buckler of her

power, and the groundwork upon which must be builded the


rule of her influence in the

will be readily seen

divine science,

world and

by recurring

which declares

that

positive heat, celestial fire


is

love, the prime element of

the

for

it

follows that

expression be coarse or
of

all

at

home.

God

in

him

perfecting of

or her

all

fine,

The

reasons

real

why

to the basic propositions of the

God, the soul of the universe,


that the aura of Deity

power, the external

informing and formative pulse of matter.

crystalline

and

whoso hath most

cultured or rude

is

(God-od)

fire-sphere,

The

deduction

is

love

whether

its

hath, therefore, most

the element of time being competent to the

refining influences, over the ocean of Death, if not

Affect i on al Alchemy.
upon the hither

Conversely put, the statement stands thus

side.

whoso most resembleth God,


claim

God

may understand
homos;

Now

aimed

the result

their evolution,

and crystallization

power.

diamond, though they resemble somewhat, nor


its

own

because through

Paste

alone

God

gives

true men

is

not

Love ever any-

is

transcendant self; yet normal passion

it

the

hold that Love

ever was, and eternally will be, absolutely pure.

thing but

in

being the elimination of the gross, and

at

their orderly consolidation into personal


is,

these

that all

of,

the laws of love, will, and ethereal force, and the

modes of

principles and

not a libertine

is

here give the true knowledge

to

therefore, hath most of love, goodness,

and the elements of power.


latent energies I

S-

is

divine,

man-

to the great

There can be no such thing as unholy Love ; nor

wanting world.

good badness, nor bad goodness.

XLVI.

Silence

alone are worth}

human

equality

it

do not believe
is

reason and experience

hood
it

and the

strength,

is

rules, is

is

own
it

wc, absurd dogma of

a hypocritical, cruel,

always a unit in

always ruled, and

is

eternally at

interests,

which

is true that

some

these

and steady head

the demonstrable negation of

never was, will, nor can be, true

But

in the, to

lip

interests

wrong

for '-aristocracy" of

interests,

war with
it

all

human

and delusive

puts people out of their element, and into

always

its

silent

false-

positions

while " democracy

itself,

some kind
" is

and clashing about

perpetually injures and destroys.

souls are nobler, better, higher, finer, richer,

than

some other souls, and are


worth immeasurably more, whether weighed or plumbed in God's
riper, rounder,

scales or
bitter,
avoirs

the

man's.

seven",

For some souls are young, green,

acid, acrid,

imperfect, and non-poised, these seven, and such stand

lor

of ages gaping, on the highways, at regal souls rushing across

deeps toward Achievement

here, there,

now,

then,

Streets of the worlds,

and down the corridors of heaven.

'"aristocratic" souls,

who will circumnavigate


"What next?" and, Did you

others are wondering,

the

Splendid,

eternity while the

souls, just created, requiring a

eternal sca-lc":s on, before

up

ever

thousand or two of ages

n_-in'_r

able to steadily

the cviternal ship of centuries and power, or

walk

'."

new-

to get

their

the decks ot

compete with those

Affectional Alchemy.

86
who,

now, yet have passed

living

civilization

had taken root

preceded

Men who make and

it.

ordeals long before this

their

mouldy

in the

of scores that had

soil

govern circumstances instead of

allowing circumstances to govern them.

XL VII.

True Passion

expression
that one

and

grand
this

is

it

somewhat, not

is

but one, and a minor mode, of Love's

offices are triplicate

its

secret, farewell to social, domestic,

my

fully, in all
I

can attain unto Godness, and

and

that brains

same

woman

but

man

reign queen and equal, where

and

illegal

something

crystallized within

for that reason is entitled to stand the peer of the best

breathing God's free air

ills

been teaching,

that through these last

serves as drudge, toy, and legal

and

other

intellects differ,

worse; that woman, as such, has most of love


her,

all

books, on both shores of the oceans

know

hearts and affection are ever the

now

and

secret I have, for long years,

grand

that girdle the world.

she

and when people understand

man

not by reason of her beauty, accomplish-

ments, wealth, or any other accident, but because she hath the

womb,

the perfected laboratory wherein she fashioneth, and alone

completes, what

took God, Nature, and Man, singly and com-

it

bined, to only begin


that

and

that, too, so badly, that the

is,

swarming hordes of murderers do not throng the world's high-

ways where
splendid

human

and cultured
conditions

But so

walks.

redeemed the race from savagery

science,

that,

too,

and

religion,

under

all

and

made

world began

and

to a

fostered

renders earth

chance of trying what

who

did so well under

hold this to be the strongest argument for

since the

advance

it

woman

only as one of

the external reasons I entertain, holding in reserve others as

stronger and

an

of repressions and bad

sorts

now

assuredly entitling her

that

all

she can do, under favorable circumstances,


the bad

infinitely great

from the worst of seed she has raised many a

tree

art,

and

habitable,

man now

civilized

artiste is she, that

ever

wonder

more cogent than

these, as a chain-cable

is

much

superior to

a child's slender whip-cord.

XL VIII.

I further

hold that there are ^Ethereal (spacial) centres

of Love, Power, Force, Energy, Goodness, and for, and

grade, species, and order of knowledge

known

to

of,

every kind,

man, and whereof

Affect ion al Alchemy.


he

knows

centrcs,

not anything

and that

is

it

not on\y

and obtain those knowledges,

wake up,

when

too late, to find out

what

necessitating

present instance

it

thev have been,


In the

only remains for the purposes of this Declaration

it

draw

of Principles, to

fouls

not the present jjurposc to reveal.

is

l>v

die half ripe, and

life,

what

achievable

is

it

number, who now drone and doze awav

vast

to reach tho-e

f ossicle

that

l.iut

S~

my

between

a brief comparison

system and

the very best that can possibly, truthfully be said of any single one

of

now

the others

all

parts,

one of which proceeds

flesh,

and renders

life

baptism, from that


lust

and license

They

extant anywhere.

to totally ignore the body, mortifies the

truly a semi-graveyard operation

to death.

to the elect,

two

are divided into

The

from birth

to

other allows the utmost limit to

and roundly berates

others outside.

all

Vide Mormonism, Perfectionism, and Islamism, and contrast them

But current systems,

with their opposites in belief, as the Shakers.

bend

as a general thing,

men's

all their

place, of so

little

may go

heaven,

to the

other

They

believe in crucifying the

effect that

very thing for the soul.

account are they.

and generally

flesh altogether,

in trying to get souls into

which, practically,

sight of the bodies,

lose

energies toward the salvation of

spending time

souls, and, in

They wholly lose sight of a fundamental principle of human nature,


which

is

bidden

to.

take delight in doing the very thing

to

The people
once
it,

in ten

of a

years

town might

not, if let

make

but you just

and that town will be empty

it

alone, leave

is

sternly for-

its*

boundaries

law that they shall not leave


Again:

than a single day.

in less

Said landlord Boniface, "Traveller, you must go further to pass the


night, for

wcarv

my

house

traveller,

you serve

me

is full,

and

" Don't say so

so?

I
;

have no place
don't say no

I'm so fagged out

can't

walk another

put up with anything rather than go on."

weary man,

pity you,

the other

at the far

The one
corner

light,

go quietly

to bed,

and

is

at

step.

"'

can
I'll

Poor,

there

is

nearest the door_>w< can sleep

occupied by a lady,

You must

not be disturbed in anv way.

How

Says Boniface,

and on one condition you can stay

one room with two beds.


in

poor me!

Says

to put you."

enter

daybreak quit

it

it

on

tiptoe,

in the

who must
without a

same manner.

Affectional Alchemy.

88

Do you

agree to these conditions?"

"I

do;" and he was shown

But, by and by, there was a

the door, and again strictly cautioned.

wayworn

sound of devilry by night, and that weary,

up

his voice

ing

and yelled aloud

and

stairs,

knew

O Lord

"

that before," said landlord

Just so.

nature

gests the query that

is

were

sent and attraction


wouldn't be a hell
dred brief years

flying the descend-

erect,

one

" What's the

woman's dead I"


"I
how did you Jind it out?"

that

" but

came

floor just

" said the traveller.

"Why,

Boniface.

Human

went

down, reaching the lower

speedily following down,

matter?" asked

his voice

with protruding eyes, and hair

his body,

second after his voice.

and

traveller lifted

strongly perverse, and this incident sug-

social life

and marriage based upon con-

what they are based on, there


on earth or anywhere else, in less than one huninstead of

brief

to

God, and

to

immortal man.

and triumphantly,

Finally, to conclude this section, I admit,

too,

that in the cultured, or magic, because magnetic, will, I find a

remedy
in our

many

for very

of the

ills

marriage matters in the

more, that by obedience

may be

found, and the

besetting us

now proceed

false society of to-day

human

stay

and

further-

elixir of

life

on earth be prolonged a great


ten.

to the consideration of a

phase of the matter

hand, never before fairly treated upon, or even touched by those

in

who assumed
being
bly

my

may

alluded

Men

to discuss

it,

by reason of

its

to,

it

It

lasts, I possi-

better in essaying the unravelling of the knot

than in any other way.

whose actione currente is wholly feminine


greater number of females are found who have ail the

are often seen

yearnings proper only to the opposite gender.


the proper function of

crate, to beget his

peculiar.
receive,

have

recondite nature.

highest ambition to do good while the frame

achieve

but a far

is

earth, especially

to law, herein set forth, the

deal beyond the storied threescore years and


Let us

on the

all

It is

kind

man

Understand me.

It

to impart, to give, to enforce, to gen-

and of course the impelling sensations are

the proper function of

woman

to reverse all this

to

respond, provoke passion, accept, exude, gestate, and to


the sensations proper thereto.

But thousands have the

characteristics of their proper sex, physiologically, with their

normal

Affectional Alchemy.
sensations, impcllant or ncrvo-vital action,
latter characteristics of the reverse

common,

very

the unborn

produce

its

and instead have


This abnormal

gender.

be of one sex, while nature determines

opposite

all

the

state, so

from their mothers wishing and hoping that

results

may

89

wherefore such

and docs

to,

girls will love

like

man

woman, and of course can never be satisfied in


very account. The upshot of it all is, that urged on

such boys love like a

on that

this life

by an

irresistible

impulse, such persons resort to unnatural methods

appease the quenchless thirst; assuage the yearning appetite,

to

we have

hence

onanists,

masturbationists,

associate with four-footed beasts,

infamous levels
fairly

even

to

and

pederasts

who

those

in other respects sink to

those horrible

very

name which

ones, to

shudder, and therefore will not.

When

woman

is

pregnant, her whole desire should be that f

giving to the world a perfect specimen of her maternal work, allowing nature to determine the sex

XLIX.

we

shall

we

beings on this

be rid of agitators of the

'

behold no more

shall

fair earth

of ours

Sexual Question."

In announcing the law and fact that the subtle element

magnetism

called

and then

human

such improperly constructed

wherefore

is

the connecting link

between mind and bodv, the

flesh,

sinew, bone and muscle, and the incorporeal viewless soul of

man,

it

declared a

new

truth, or rather

one newly discovered.

has been suspected that electricity, in some of

am

was

that link, but I

ism,

was ever even suspected

the senses

soul

is

its

True,

subtler forms,

not aware that the subtler element, magnetto

be such

link.

Body

the seat of the deeper faculties

is

the scat of

for

Emotion,

Love, Sympathy, Memory, Fancy, Judgment, and a hundred other

human
mind,

attributes belong to the region

and action upon, and

When we
do,

in the outer

and be

to imitate

follow.
a

world,

is

magnetism.

Proof:

Observe these

magnetic halfness

our action, think our thoughts, do as

time our exact counterparts

for the

in absolute electric contact,

is

soul, spirit,

arc in perfect magnetic rapport with an individual, that

person can be made

we

and domain of

the invisible man within, and the vehicle of their display

but

and not one of these strange

facts
zvit/i

we mav

be

results will

cohabitation, love not being the spur,


love,

it

is

magnetic circulation, that

Affectional Alchemy.

90

say, pleasure results

is to

from a nervous current rushing along the

nerves of each, and mingling in chemico-magnetic union in and at


the termination of the nervous filaments radiating from every portion

of the two beings, and converging to a point at the respective vital


centres of each.

There can be no mutual joy unless such nervous currents do


along the nervo-telegraphic system

we

nor can

flash

experience any

pleasure, whatever, either nerval, gustatory, or in any other manner,

unless such currents do thus pass

human joy, must

false

We

pate.

muscles

cannot

first

lift

and, moreover, every true, or even

be in the soul, before the body can partici-

a board

This

to the task.

we bend

till

to

and brace the

it,

the principle of Posism

is

i. e.,

placing

We

ourselves to do the work, receive a blow, shock or impression.


hate,

and

ever

all

our external features array themselves

involuntarily

metaphysical emotion.

to materially express the

Now

for

the application of this principle to the subject under consideration.

L.

would look

It

foolish for

while the face betokened


ference

If the heart

one

to verbally protest

deadly opposite, or actual, stupid

its

means

love,

and the

lips

manner, eyes, and genial glow, must express


to be believed.

thousands
the

lie

who

Yet

also, if

just

is

what and

spoken

not credited.
all

the voice,

one expects

and yet the speakers

Such persons,

credence,

and retaining what of love

Counsel

If your

lips

too,

may

they say, yet, failing to pose them-

selves to the requirements of the case, fail also

it,

indif-

talk love, while face, feature, voice and conduct give

marvel because their story

mean

it

assert

love,

in spite of the notoriously plain truth, there are

direct to all the lips have

honestly

burning

both in winning

they have

already won.

speak love, always pose your features

natural language of the passion or sentiment.

to the

For the expression

of feature, the soft and flowing modulations of tone, the mellow

cadence and inflection of the voice,

tells

the immortal story of the

more eloquently, than can possibly


any collocation of mere words, which any one can marshal to his
or her aid and soft and gentle tones will do more for errant, faulty
heart quite as plainly, and far

husbands and wives than

all

one could utter in a century

the protestations or verbal storms that

Affcctional Alchemy.

91

"Wc have societies for the protection of beasts; and need a larger

one

to

human

of

for the protection

ought

beings in certain vital respects.

It

be just ground for instant divorce wherever and whenever a

human male forces unwelcome embraces upon any female, whatever.


The beasts of the field don't do so. Why should men?
More than that; it ought to be a criminal offence in the eye of the
law
and as such, punishable, for any human male, under any
cirumstanccs, whatever, to force the inclinations of any woman,
;

whatever, or to exact or seek wifely offices or concessions, except

when she wills and ordains that such


and we shall have less work for sextons
so

and so,"

mon

sense of

mankind knows

who demands what

satyr,

The

and

pangs past endurance, or

states

is

behind

as are the tones

it,

absolute and unqualified truth

and

It

excellent digestion to

if

you mean

invisible

changes

effect

body

for

good or

ill

in the soul's feelings

quite as

much

Married people arc either

soul.

that

Thcv

live a

cat-and-dog

life,

some physical disturbance unhinges

mav

be completely

full

mcnial pains, or some other

<>f.

ill,

is

and

man. worried

to

Thus, a

as the

body

not aware

affects
ot

its

this

heavy

some

express what the soul

woman

apt to be ratJicr

to

and

mutual, for the

is

the soul, or that

externally, even while July really reigns deep


ruffled, soul;

because neither reasons

metaphvsical derangement unfits the body


itself

Why?

a first-class sceptic.

double-acting law of the homos, or else wilfully ignore

meanings.

love,

requires a fine stomach, keen

make

between the outer and the inner being

soul affects the

the

it

never saw a sick man, really, desperately sick, whoever

Because conditions of body


the play

utter

over

all

denied the existence of a God.


appetite,

which

not only a truism, but an

is

Wherefore

itself.

look love from top to toe, and

You

at the

as clear an expression of a passion,

for " Actions speak louder than words"

LI.

no man, but only a

life.

action of the muscles

and the mental

is

cannot be granted, save with a shudder

of unutterable horror and disgust


risk of health

The com-

thirty-five.

well that he

full

this a law,

digging graves for '"Mrs.

anv age between sixteen and

at

Make

ma}- be.
in

down

suffering cata-

Xovemberish

in her sweet, but

death with worldly cares,

Affectional Alchemy.

92

or condition to lavish tenderness even

mood

not always either in

his loins, or the wife of his

upon the children of

bosom,

he loves beyond his then-capacity of expression.


certain physical states is insane for the time being
to curse

God, and die

would unbar

yet a dose of opening medicine

person in

fully willing

is

of whom

all

the gates of his soul, and within two hours that self-same

would bless God, and

And

when, next day,

At

live.

a wife in certain magnetic and mental states, the result of

would

physiological causes,

caress

him

fly at

man and

half to death.

am

this writing I

suffering

fall,

the bottom, sent

down

from partial paralysis, partly the

mere matter of twenty-five

the trestle-work of a bridge,


there

upon a not very

by

constitution,

had

it

at the

was

affectional

bottom of

it

"

of rocks at

two converging
I

could

resilient energies of

not happened that for months before, then,


I

continually laboring with brain, hands,

bad enough, but was

and continued

through

But that injury

have recovered from, by reason of the strong

and months afterward,

feet

soft pile

the savage threats of

locomotives, one behind and one before.

and pen,

scratch his eyes out,

good dose of senna, she would love and

after a

result of a severe

my

man

also subjected daily to violent

and mental emotion; cause:

and that

"A woman

sort of excitement is quite sufficient

to bring on paralysis, without the help of any locomotive that ever

screeched over the " Middle Ground,"

a place in Toledo,

more ghosts of mangled dead walk than upon any

where

surface of equal

area in the entire universe.

As

physician, I have treated

many

cases of disease

which the

patients attributed to scores of causes other than the right one,


affectional

Merchants, bankers,

trouble.

men of large business,


down in the midst of

are almost invariably, and inevitably, stricken


life

and hope, by apoplexy,

gravel, or

embolism

paralysis,

chronic

dyspepsia, stone,

not alone by reason of their business activity,

or even nervous exhaustion, but because they do no not loosen up,

change

their

modes of motion, and devote more time

side, social life,


all in all

and " fun."

to the

home-

Business, the infernal demon-god,

passion but a spasm

love, a

is

myth, an unrealized dream,

Affect tonal Alchemy.


its

joys

more

still

to

phantomesque.

unreal, vague,

God

nature wears out,

93
until

at

length

and he sends the Angel of Midnight

insulted,

drop the curtain, and change the scene.

most

Aphrodisiacs arc certain preparations


infernal

which

human

being.

before

There arc long

And

who

them

of

lists

and main' years

author discovered the best six

its

world had ever seen, or has

zonic Remedials.
people,

amorous or passional appetites of the

excite the

book was written,

this

tonics the

of them outright

yet.

refer

have known hundreds upon hundreds of

so close to the dollar-counter, that nature with-

lived

drew her smiles from them, and impotence, dead,

became

and

their lot,

To

these

the

horrible,

sterile,

had never known love

for years they

power of some

physical aspects unless under the forcing


stimulant.

the Proto-

to

in

its

disastrous

protozoncs were blessings, indeed, and

once more the mad-house and apoplexy were


because they were remedials, but civilizers

left

not

behind,

humanizers,

fitting

the wasted nerve, balancing the tottering brain, restoring the primal

upon which human

conditions
not being

hapf>incss in the social arc depends,

mere chemicals, but alchymics or conveyers of

But what a

in the

mad

nity.

Paternity

compared

to

just think of

which

it

well aspire

to.

what

unto

God's

men

finest

have seen

less

and

martvrs
I

ever

have

of

took

saw

oil'

what

as,

a joy,

were but

who gave

pass along the streets


;

and

have seen things shaped

felt

it is

my

and

hat.

the incarnators of regal soul

love,

and victims of

like rushing

scoundrels to pieces;

a glory, and

laugh and giggle as thev passed along; thc-e doers

thing on earth
that

sensible,

and God,

diadem which even gods might

women

and greatest work

unappreciated
beside.

soul.

while Parentage, Fatherhood,

is

token of their coming pain and glorv


like

socictv.

the wealth and honor earth can give

all

Imperial Motherhood,

all

home, wife,

chase for wealth, to sacrifice Manhood, Love and Pater-

hollow shams and empty mockery

above

wherein men, otherwise

state of things is that

so far forget their duties to self,

spirit

too

often

upon, and tearing the heart-

for if there be a transcendantlv glorious

mother.

And

I,

and did homage

would do

man

<>f

these

it,

were

Paschal, the writer, here say


to

that

even" pregnant

woman

woman

no higher than a

Affectional Alchemy.

94
common

so highly and

troll,

worship Motherhood.
But

now

if

devoutly did

There,

that's

my

few

lines,

-after

domestic

sense

not form

spirit,

bliss, like

wrong

at the

him who

end.

the truth I

It is this:

ist,

most

builds from the roof

It is to

heart, not dress

knew

they too, like myself, would laugh,

but with royal joy, instead of coarse derision.

groundward, begin

and

adore

I,

soul

these laughers, these careless husbands,

reveal in the next

seekers

do

I,

be found in

and

soul, not

love, not passion.

A pregnant woman, judiciously loved and treated, not spoiled

2d.

and pampered, or kept

at a

dead level of

life,

love, temper, feeling,

made to develop her womanadd more soul, strength, fervor,

passion, ardor, fervor, labor, rest, but

hood,

every ten days,

will, in

beauty, compactness, energy, power, and force of character and

genius to her baby than she could in


if

neglected in the above respects

in

every hour she lives

it

weeks of

the forty

all

for she will knit

and each step or stage of gestation will

The

be carried one or more degrees toward perfection.

human ninny

ference between a genius and a

up

work goes

as the

well risen
will

for,

He

is

finished
;

well flavored

around, and will be

all

and wept over when gone, just as children mourn the

good things that have passed away

forever.

Paralysis, caused other than

LII.

is

dif-

well done

is

give excellent satisfaction

that one

is,

only

well kneaded, and needed, too

well baked, and, therefore,

keep well

longed

on.

gestation

more greatness

of over-emotion

by physical

injury, is the result

too acrid states of the blood and fluids

(often

removable by continued catharsis) and by nerve-embolism, as well


as that of the blood-vessels, consequently the system

with a proper amount of vitalized pabulum.

from

results

cure

is

dials,

affectional troubles than anything else,

their re-arrangement,

and

is

not supplied

Paralysis

more

often

and the only

accompanied with phosphorized

phosphoric food, to which

pouring over the head and backbone of

may be added
at least

two

the

cor-

daily

pailfuls of hot

water, as hot as can be borne, alternating with ice-rubbing of the


spine, or rhigolene-spray baths

when

mentally caused

this will cure

it

nine times in ten,

and would have saved Napoleon

perhaps a disastrous war, had his physicians been wise

III.,

and

but they

Affect tonal Alchemy.


were

not.

and suffered him

to eat, drink,

smoke, and

his early
fistula

refused to respond to desire

in

embolism increased

his

libcrtinixe to

bv amatory outrage

excess, until at last his constitution, enfeebled


life,

95

attacked the perinajum. involving the entire pelvic system,

necessitating castration at the knife of the surgeon, and ending at

and

Chiselhurst, in fever and death, but a few months after.


crisis hastened swiftlv

bv the keen ancruish

only a eunuch or

human

This

stag.

fact of his loss

" Dcc/icancc" act of the French Senate;


ruled bv either a woman or a

woman

Barrenness of

These

or to retain

it

if,

for

man. but

occasioned the

they would not be

from similar causes; and so aho

now abounding even-where

Lack of muscular

are, 1st.

Inability to elaborate the vital fluid

3d.

and when, elaborated

bv reason of trouble

from the con-

castrato.

results

does the four kinds of male impotence,


to a frightful extent.

resulting:

was no longer

sciousness that he, the great emperor,

the

force

Inability to retain
:

2d.

at all

it

4th. Inability to vitalize

it

Hitherto the medical

in the prostate gland.

people have recognized but one form of impotence, whereas there


are no less than four, each, of course, requiring quite

dissimilar

methods of curative treatment.


LIII.

Nothing goes on cither

Wc

of expenditure.

as well as a physical one

in,

and

body without some

and

wc

know

all

that unless

matter of the food and drinks

the superfluous

comes

in soul or

finally

we grow

dull,

sleepy,

we

wc

take,

who

and death soon comes tapping

etc.,

ever suspected that

is

it

excrete

dyspepsia

and stupid from the

accumulated phosphates, acid or alkaline, lime, carbon,


uric acid,

at

etc..

must

Yet such

cast out of

it

all

is
it

just as necessary to void mental, moral,

the case.

The

is

the

result,

these higher qualities

LIV.
to

Now

if

cannot appropriate, assimilate, and trans-

terminating

which par

he or she

it

mind that would be healthy

mute, else mental, moral, and alVectional diseases


debility

urea,

the door; but

and aflectional wastes, and thus prevent soul-dvspepsia, or cure


established?

sort

have a mental, moral, and affcctional digestion

who

enormous nervous waste

in

set in,

and p^-vchal

complete deadening of

excellence

make

dwells mainly

in

us truly

the brain

all

human.
is

subject

and the blood, charged with refuse brain

Affectional Alchemy.

96
and

and there unloads

nerve-rust, rushes to the kidneys,

freight

but

all

servants get tired,

that after a while they cease to drain

and

is

poured back into the circulation,

inch of the physical body

is

poisoned

all

kidneys begin to suffer and give out

the

and no longer

then the

know

testes, prostate,

the

it,

man

The bladder

is

work and

and

rest

amorous diversion
dull

boy

sleep,

ist,

goes next,

and before you

Wherefore follow

a splendid wreck.

Solomon's advice, and remember two things


for

supra-renal capsules

ovaries, or uterus follow

woman

or

The

fluids.

act as storehouses for the kidney-

placed there daily by the watchful soul.

life

discharged,

and a healthy soul cannot

and tainted

their fibre,

so

until finally every

healthfully act through poisoned nerves

change

so perfectly as of yore

sift

consequently the alkaline phosphates and urea are not

but a portion

bad

its

and so do the organs named

that there's a time

and amusements and converse and

next, that all work,

and no play, makes Jack a

meals, sleep, love-seasons, all should be as nearly as

possible orbital or periodic in their motions, just as the day, night,

winter, spring, and

autumn

nature, will

and each season will come

assist,

in the

world without.

proper time, just as eclipses occur, and green

In a

little

while

in full force at

fields

its

smile again.

Surely married people will understand this delicate, but very

important suggestion.
cian,

Hundreds of people, consulting me

as physi-

have benefited by that advice, and by resolutely sleeping


have begun to realize a domestic

apart, as a custom,

never before imagined to be possible.


sary in

all

cases

where

Nay,

felicity

they

absolutely neces-

it is

perfect restoration does not follow every

night's slumber.

Reader, you have one hundred and sixty bones, and


muscles

your blood weighs twenty-five pounds

inches in length and three inches in diameter

it

five

hundred

your heart

is

five

beats seventy times

a minute, four thousand two hundred times per hour, one hundred

thousand eight hundred times per day, and twenty-six millions seven

hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred times per year. At


each beat a little over two ounces of blood is thrown out of it and
;

each day
fluid.

it

receives

Your lungs

and discharges seven tons of that wonderful

will contain a gallon

of

air,

and you inhale

Affect idnal Alchemy.

97

The average

twenty-three thousaiul gallons a day.

surface of the

of your lungs supposing them to he spread out. exceeds

air-cells

The weight <>f your brain is three


pounds. In the average American man it will weigh about eight
ounces more. Your nerves exceed ten millions in number. Your
twenty thousand square inches.

skin

is

composed of three

layers,

and varied from one-fourth

The

eighth of an inch in thickness.

area of your skin

is

one-

to

about

one-

thousand seven hundred square inches, and you arc subjected

to

atmospheric pressure of

Each

pounds

fifteen

to the

square inch.

an

square inch of your skin contains three thousand sweating tubes, or


respiratory pores, each of
tile

which may be likened

making

one-fourth of an inch long,

entire surface of

hundred and

to a little drain-

the aggregate length of the

your body of two hundred and one thousand three

sixty-five feet,

body

or a tile-ditch for draining the

almost forty miles long.

Now

in

atom of
But

any act which requires more than a normal drain, every

this

magnificent machine

in sexism, true

up

yield

when we

injured,

is

and normal, and

a portion of the

life

But

lessly

rest

the false rites,

no return

life

jeoparded.

and perverted ones

false

sleep with nervous or organic incompatibles.

and perfect

in

its

of every particle of the being

eous conjugation what one gives out


other,

and

in

kind

what of

thrown on the counters of

LY. The

bitterest

also

In right-

by the

instantly replaced

and equilibrium follow the natural shock.


life

no change given

is

also,

There

goes out, stays out.


for the

golden coin of

life

is

reck-

lust

matrimonial discontents arise from the

unconscious misconception that happiness, not growth,

is

half-

the

end

human nature is universal.


two people thoroughly to know each other until

of marriage, and the forgctfulncss that


It is

impossible for

they have been tested by the exigencies of a united


radical

antagonism of temperament

union oppressive,

What

is

to

whv

is

life.

If then a

developed, which makes the

should the discordant souls be kept together

be gained bv holding them

The remedy cannot be found

in

in the abolition

the bonds of hatred?

of the civil contract of

marriage, leaving them bee to repeat again and again the disastrous

experiment, because that has been tried and

failed.

Now

it

seems

Affectional Alchemy.

98

me

to

that there should be schools of marriage

that

with professorships, expressly to teach the laws which


where, underlie

male

human
and

stupidity,

system of nervous
drink, sleep,

life,

As

happiness.

alike, every-

win

to-day, pretty faces

is

it

Above

invariably follows.

disaster

institutions

is,

our

all,

good food poorly cooked, the way we

the

eat,

are axes laid at the roots of the tree of domestic

all

life!

man

There's not one sound


thousand,

who

hundred

The

food

we

eat,

bodies

and

LVI.

am

upon our

upon our mere

as

the hotels of earth, with golden plate, could

all

because such food


I

resulting from

ills

drink, at

much

is

seasoned with goodness.

satisfied that sleeping together,

and too frequent

ing to the impulses incident to the chemically fevered state


in,

in a

had rather have one meal cooked by a good, loving

old mother, than


furnish

we

and what

our emotions, and our loves, quite as

woman

nor a

does not have the doctor's care for

this false life.

souls,

in five

produces a peculiar nervous exhaustion which,

if

yield-

we

are

long continued,

always results in a chronic morbidity closely verging upon actual


insanity,

indeed,

itself; for

but

all
life

ill,

what

in

else

most

upon some

or gorgons

in the wife or

till

right insanity

exposes

and

in that

at

magnifies

faults,

and only breathes venom,

death 'did them part.


;

insanity

is

floating over the sky of

and malignant hate, upon one sworn at the altar


cherished

it

husband, nothing but demons

chatters about him, or her

mole-hills into rocky mountains

points,

be called which sees nothing

state

dark-omened shadows continually

and which beholds,

cases,

can that

This

is

to

be loved and

sheer madness

mood what worlds

of

spite,

wrong

down-

are daily

done, and that, too, by people in whose hearts angels slumber, and

long to be awakened, that their wings might fan the fevered brow,

and

lull

the

weary

souls to rest.

and non-reciprocity
wife
later

and

upon

Owing

is

in the

This insanity has

more intimate

akin to that which

the onanist
to the

its rise

relations of

falls like

in satiety,

husband and

a leaden pall sooner or

and debauchee.

imperfe6t marriages of to-day, and the few past

decades, millions of half-children, or unsound ones, have been born

crooked, angular, violent, unreliable, impulsive, vagarious, and con-

Alchemy.

Affect ional

morbid, with a powerful

stitutionallv

Passing along the streets

insanity.

born:

latent

embers

insane

head

into

less

quarter of the sane head

rijrht

<

pick out people thus

>

left.

Many

frontal

region.

proyocation to fan the

little

terrible

flame.

usually larger than the right, while the

is

head

right anterior quarter of the insane

than the

The average
in all its dimensions than the sane.
The
irregularity of outline.
The left anterior

glowing and

also,

requires but

it

.smaller

is

shows,

latter

and

easy

and heads betray the unmistakable brand of

faces

their

incipient lunacy

toward unquestionable

l>ias
is

it

99

show

insane people

Now

mark

is

almost always larger

a decided projection in the

the conduct of

our friends thus

organized.

LVIII. But
retic

but

zc7/y arc

What's the actual

they insane?

not

theo-

Reply: Magnetic

purely scientific facts of such cases?

and amative depletion act upon some people precisely as starvation

When

upon everybody.

acts

consume and

the

bodv begins

fat,

and we grow lean

skeletons

mucous

the stomach can no longer get food,

to

then

it

surfaces are called

him

drives

return,

become

and

his

passion

way

upon

down

waiting

its

till it

body.

his

the curtain

flight,

LVIII.

When

fall

no

is

nerves

the

First,

then the muscular cords are slackened


then the prostate

its

fat to

it

marrow

acts at all

is

itself

ot

up. moodily

compelled

The man

teaching those

is

fire.

the brain

and perverted channels; hence,

the tragedy

then

feed the fearful

furnace; the soul shuts

and when

then the

then the substance

distorted, outre, queer, abnormal.

let

bunch of bones

his hist

consumes

so through diseased organs


is

their the

serous plates are

tensioncd beyond endurance, and one after

to death's hot

does

cadaverous

at last the

Dentonian debauchee, when

reaches the brain

time of

we become

In the

of the hack-bone softens and yields

creeping up

absorbs the

only.

the testicular glands decrease:

goes

first it

cither excess or sexivc horrors, there

to

strained and

another gives

itself;

we become
and

and the grave closes over

case of the sexual pedcrastic,

upon

attacks the muscles, and

next the liver goes, and

attacked,

alone

feed

is

to d<>
all

it

mad and

ended.

who were

desirous of mastering the

principles pervading the books, and constituting the soul

of

the sys-

Affectional Alchemy.

ioo

tem evoked and elaborated by him whose pen scores these

was

him

the custom for

or their equivalents

in

not merely

its loftier,

insight, far-sight,

address them in these following words,

to

mystery of Life, and Power, Seership,

First, the

lines, it

lesser

its

meanings,

forecast, endurance,

longevity, silent energy, mental force, magnetic

presence, and impressive capacity,

flow out

lie in,

pertain

of,

and

to,

accord with, the she or mother-side of Deity, the love-principle of

human-kind, and the sexive natures of the complicate homos.


side of

its

sphere of operations

all is

mystic and magic circle dwells


actual

and metaphysical

all

there

all

cold and deathful

there
is

is

of

within

latent

fire,

Out-

and

its

active,

of energy, procreant power,

physical, mental, spiritual, and all other;

and

it

Love

the

is

master-key unlocking every barred door in the realms that are.

Remember,

Neophyte (and reader of

book)

this

am

that I

not

dealing in mere philosophical formulas, " recipes," or trashy " direc-

and with fundamental principles, underlying

tions," but in,

Fix

this first principle firmly in

your memory, and

tongue of your clearest understanding

your

spirit

digest

take

well, and assimilate

it

roll

it

in the

it

under the

stomach of

quintessence

its

own soul. That principle is formulated thus


Lieth at the Foundation (of all that is) and Love

with, your

Master

enthusiasm

affection

heat

fire

is

essential self

is

planted within the matrix,

serious, powerful,

shall

con-

God.

Second, the nuptive moment, the instant wherein the

that.

germs of a possible new being are lodged, or

earth

Love

soul

and

to,

vertibly passion

being.

all

and only

to

a portion of man's

the

is

most solemn,

and energetic moment he can ever know on


be excelled by correspondent instants

after

he

have ascended to realms beyond the stariy spaces.

LIX.

If a

man

actualizes that

human

of animal instinct, or

unmanning, degrading,

to

moment while under

both himself and her

the recipient, and suicidal to himself.

magnetic ruin
area on earth

to both
;

feeds

its

the dominion

lust alone, then the effect is losing,

It

means

murderous toward
hatred, disease, and

influence for evil spreads over a

and sustains barbarism

wide

nourishes the mon-

kingdoms of the <zred habitats of disembodied beings, even when no progeny results.
But if there
strous Larvae of the middle

Affect zonal Alchemy.


shall, then he

and she generate misery, crime, and possible murder

as the heritage of that child.

prompting angel

at

the

on the other hand, low

If,

then

hearth-nuptial,

harmony and sweet melodies of

truth,

101

God

are insured to the offspring

ensue

life

to the

t!ie

twain, and

Third, at the vcrv

them.

shall give

la-

goodne

strength,

instant his seminal glands contract to expel their treasure-, at Mich


instant his interior nostrils open,

and minute

dial's,

which are sealed

at all

other times, then expand, and as the lightning from his soul

darts

from the brain, rushes down the spinal-cord, leaps the solar

plexus, plunges along the nerval filaments to the prostate gland to

immortalize the germal


leaping to

human being; and while

the dark chamber wherein soul

the vivific pulse

clothed in flesh

is

is

,,d

blood, at that instant he breathes in through the inner nostrils one

of two atmospheres underlying, inter-penetrating


the

the outer air which sentient things inhale.

body

auras

is

as the

deeply charged with, because

where

quintessence of evil from evcrv inhabited

One

the effluvium

is

it

pleasant sphere of the border spaces,

is

spirit

of,

in the pellucid

aroma of

human world
from the

divinity

of thc-e
the un-

congregated the
in the entire

congeries of soul-bearing galaxies of the broad universe

draws

does

else he

far-off multiple

It follows that as are the people at that moj?:c/it so will

heavens.

be that which enters into them from the regions above, beneath, and

roundabout; wherefore, whatsoever male or female


for.

hopefully pray

holy,

in

is

for,

and earnestly yearn

for,

shall truly will

when

love,

pure and

the nuptive ascendant, in form, passional, alleciional,

divine and volitional, that prayer will he granted, and the boon be

given.

But

the prayer

Discoid reigns
that while the

withdraws
part

its

in

must precede.

marriage-land to-day, and one principal cause

magnetic

tide

power from

company, and the

is

at

its

height, and before the soul

the pelvis back to the brain-seat, thev

spiritual auras

and

external world, instead of being stored

woman's

spirit

and

is,

vital

air

escapes into the

up and absorbed bv

the

soul.

XL. The consequence

is

that

the

evil

forces

take

hold, with

deadly grip, upon the very roots of their triplicate being, because in
aciing as the}' do, they defy, annul, prostitute, violate, and disobey,

Affectional Alchemy.

102
the very primary
defeat

God

law of human

man

him

after, as before!

"

I say,

"

lost

it is

He who

keep

hatred, horror
evil

it

up

and

at

trtie

in the first degree.

after

But most
!

and

"Men"

(?) not only begin

name

their

is

legion

till

either kills her outright, or suggests an

human

shrinks.

any stage from conception


It effectually kills

the mother, destroys her

and

is

say this after a large medical practice

fools

and disgust

LXII. Abortion

der

the

from which every

begins with his wife by a rape

next to impossible that she ever can love

of not less than thirty years.


thus, but

to

Almighty's great purpose, underlying their creation.

LXI. Balzac says


!

and voluntarily seek

existence,

to birth is

Mur-

the child, demoralizes

moral and physical

health, while living,

death dooms, irrevocably dooms, her and her assistants to

murderers beyond the grave, from which


doom there is no appeal. So beware of the crime.
LXIII. Circumstances may demand non-increase of family there-

the perpetual society of

fore,

avoid

all

risk forty-eight hours before,

the Catamenial period.

or temporary absence

LXIV.

After the

Avoid

all risk after

and one hundred

after

a return from a journey

and

make up

following an unpleasantness,

tiff,

spat

or downright family quarrel, because the reaction creates not only

increased affectional and procreative energy, but also a peculiar

of unwished-for parentage, then especially.

liability to the risk

LXV.

Mental, moral, physical and domestic trouble, mutual mag-

neto-vital exhaustion are easily preventable

will but sleep apart, have hard beds,

good

between couples

if

they

ventilation, never sleeping

day-worn under-clothes, and each magnetizing the other at the


seven magnetic points of the human frame
sides, spine, throat,

in

head, breast, and over the stomach.

LXVI.

Superior men, whatever their rank or calling, are very

attractive to

women,

they are almost always very licentious


fulness

and prayer

LXVII. The

men

as a general thing; therefore such

as

have great need of watch but more watch

considerable prayer

true nature of any wife

is

quickly changed

worse by the pigness and private brutalisms of

their

for

the

husbands;

A factional
and " can't a

No, even

When

conceded, which

is

is

but one

way

change

to

it

back, and that

when one

vou, Jiirror to

to

not in

Jicr,

sympathy with her husband

foolishly ruins

force an

It

own

his

in all respects,

not at once

if

it

If she

be

means death

to

and he

best

is

unwelcome feast

except she be ahungered as well?

her affection for him, in time,

who

But why

hungry.

is

f,,r!>ear-

is

Lovf.

ance. self-restraint, care, gentleness, reciprocity,


to eat only

isn't.

it

a husband's private conduct. jinrcasonablc de-

estranged the dear love, so precious to every genu-

etc., lias

man, there

ine

103

as he likes with his own.'" requires a universal

ownership of the wife

if

LXVIII.
mands,

man do

Alchemy.

a poor bird

is

and how many human birds do

nest,

it!

We

are

passions

beings

triplicate

may

soul,

it is

it

is

If

useless.

be of body only, then lust

crime swelters in the


then

wc

because

air.

are bereft of the

we

three of these.

it

be of

our love

power

all

become Energies

to

around, and

in the world,

make our mark on each

good physico-vital constitutions

our loves be of soul and body,

If

the rest of

mankind, and are lone pilgrims

we

only,

arc

we
all

we

fulfil

our

to

are isolated from

way

the

extreme either

dental affection, or downright animal passionists.

our loves are triplicate that

too

is

it

be of soul and spirit only,

offspring.

body

spirit only,

regnant, with hell

is

If our loves

other, the world, or to give

the

If

and physically unsatisfactory.

lack the material force to either

they be spirit and

and

loves

too fine and ethereal for this lower world, and for

practical purposes

vague, unsubstantial, unthoughtful,


If

all

Our

body.

spirit,

be of either one, two or

be only of soul
all

along.

all

It is

If

transcen-

when

only

our true mission, and realize

supreme jovs of existence.

The

marital office and function

The

and mystic.

Christian world

but nothing whatever of the


contains

it,

function

is

for

it

therefore material, spiritual

This book of

alone declares and establishes the

mv

the

two

fir.>t,

doctrine only

fact that the

marital

unquestionably the highest, holiest, most important, and

most wrctchcdlv abused of


Its offices are

that

last.

is

knows much about

so vital that

all
I

that pertains

to

the

human

being.

hold as cardinal, indisputable axioms.

Affectional Alchemy.

104

LXIX. He who

man

while thus

whither
is

all

diseased or unsound, felvically,

is

that his soul

his immortality

Woman

everywhere

is

same law and penalty.

subject to the

LXX. We

and that

he does become sound.

till

not a true

barred out from the heavens

is

souls repair during sound sleep,

not certain

is

hold that any over-passional, inconsiderate male

human

no man, and that such a husband must necessarily destroy the


best wife ever given by God to the son of man and
is

LXXI. An

over-passional

husband on the

and

earth,

woman

can easily destroy and rain any

totally unfit

him

for

combat with the

world.

unless the message

hence any
time,

will,

sent for

is

artifice to

They

are the gifts of God.

LXXII. Children

them during the

will

not

come

wife's lunar season

prevent conception, save such as are based upon

and her moon's changes, are diabolic, inhuman and

man and

dangerous to both the

LXXIII. Giours and

the

woman,

souls as well as bodies.

fools think to avoid all disaster

murderous habit of incompletion of the conjugal

through the

But they are

rite.

mistaken, both the wife and husband, for such folly begets hatred,

and brain, nerves and soul

disease of bladder

ponding host of

LXXIV.

Why

evils in the wife.

Because

it is

pepsia, insanity, paralysis,

him, and a corre-

not merely suicidal and unnatural, but

among whose

also a conjugal fraud,

in

results

and impotence on

may

be reckoned dys-

his side,

vaginal, and ovarian inflammations, ulcers, leucorrhas,

on her

side, physically,

LXXV. Too
do not

know

few husbands respect the modesty of

that

it is

and

trifles,

uterine,

and prolapsus

and hatred, disgust and ruin on both

forget that drapery, perfumes, beautiful

is

sides.

their wives

are powerful adjuncts

impossible for a wife to love

him

unless she

is

won, not forced, to compliance that he can never hold her soul,
and she be made to realize the natural God-intended joy of conjugal
;

association, except

by those

affectional

and magnetical caresses and

endearments which to the wise husband suggest themselves.


all let

lost

none be careless of modesty

for

Above

whoever cannot blush

is

LXXVI. Too

frequent exercise of any power, quality, or faculty

Affcctional Alchemy.
is

This

ruinous.

only productive of two results


holy

rite

marriage

especially true of

is

105

For the

hell or heaven.

ascensive, and leads to health, happiness,

is

gevity, gracious, celestial and glorious joy

the lowest depths of social, moral

many

sad rocks too

which are

matters,

delight, lon-

or descensive, leading to

and domestic horror, on which

souls are wrecked.

LXXYII. Love between husband and wife


With careful
brink of the grave but it don't.

should

obedience

clergymen,

Doctors,

merchants,

whose minds arc constantly on the


mental culture, are all more or

people

lawyers,
stretch

of

to these

less deficient in vital

will.

//

letters,

women

also,

the

to

last

and judicious food, drink, and occasional baths,

rules,

and

true

all

of like

energy, and

all

speedily reach primitive vigor, endurance, and elasticity of

will

and body, only through the natural methods herein

spirit

LXXVIII. Conjugal
or diminishes,

love never stands

set forth.

either increases

It

still.

and husbands and wives both injure and mar

it

by

heedlessness.

LXXIX. She who yields


him.
lie who patronizes a

harlot

is

unworthy of the forms they bear,

are

humans do

morals, as

passion builds

is

be despised by

no beast sins against beast-

for
.

Whoever

not only a fool but a suicide

up the human

soul, but

mere

yields to
;

for love-

lust absolutely ivastcs

knoivs this from experience,

soul,

and every one guilty of the

for a

debauch lessens the entire volume of power.

folly

Whoever

is

false

wife or husband contracts the malaria of the Siiadls, and

to a true
is

to

worse than a beast, and either

against theirs.

passion not love-founded

sure

to a libertine is

sure to bring

home

the subtle poison, and lav the broad founda-

tion of

domestic Ruiv.

power;

just as

Love

Sexual

faith

and purity

is

All people

the sole base of immortality.

is

the price of

no NOT HAVE SOILS.

LXXX.
either
lo.^t.

too

love

Both husbands and wives

would
~:

be

grant as

refuse to accord a rite claimed as a right.

but everything

near

will

is

boon,

Nothing

gained bv the persuasive mood.

ho comes to be denied.

sure to .show

it;

if

Instance

is

when

IFc comes

hrutallsni.

vou're true, she's sure to

is

Ask
know

in
it.

Affectional Alchemy.

106

Slow paces last the longer. Unless


growing pandemonium is kindled.

LXXXI. Govern

yourself, then

there's mutuality, a

you may

rule a

little,

but

kingdom, and then

your mate.

LXXXII. Nothing but

man faithful, and not that


at home than abroad
and

love can keep a

always, unless he finds greater solace

They

that's just it.

too often do, and that's her fault

for unless

he does she's never sure of him.

A woman

LXXXIII.

must have love

in all its true

meanings

home, but

she don't have

if

must love and be loved

ought, of course, to have and exercise


there she will elsewhere

it

imagines he can keep her true, in heart, at


right along,
fool,

and

and right

dolt

from

straight

his to her soul,

truth, assiduity,

idle wife

may

passion

will

but a

egotist, a

can only be

be successfully tempted

dressy one, or one subject to flattery.

She

an

is

won by

and genuine manhood.

LXXXIV. An
fall.

It

at

without loving her

least,

Lost love seldom returns.

it

who

and he

For such

forget everything but a

man

to

slight

so

may

be tempted

to

her love

is

a
to

not

will forget a slight to his love, but never forgive

Ought he ?

a sin against his conjugal rights.

LXXXV. No power can tempt a woman against


loves, and whom she knows loves her in return.
LXXXVI. No rite of marriage gives ownership,

the

man

she

but equality.

Proprietorship means despair to her, dishonor to him.

LXXXVII.

A woman

in love

can be wholly trusted, but not so

with a man.

LXXXVIII. One
he comes across,

if

sheep-killing

dog

will ruin all the other clogs

you grant him time

and one loose

woman

corrupt five hundred innocent girls or wives in six months


give her the chance to do so.

Finally

commend

these

It is their

if

will

you but

chief delight.

twenty-eight points to the study of

mankind, as also that portion of knowledge which

is

yet to be

taught you here [in] after.

LXXXIX. The

entire social, conjugal

and domestic worlds

to-

day, are in an uproar, chaos and revolution.


It is

deplorable that so

much

ill-will, sickness,

discontent, hatred,

Affectional Alchemy.
sadness, insanity and wretchedness exists

day.

But

it is

true,

among

and domestic happiness

almost universal rule, at least

among

107
the married of to-

the exception to an

is

the people of every sort and

section of this nation, and scarcely anywhere else, in such frightful

Husbands neglect

forms upon the globe.


cally

them

hate

wives and practi-

their

wives the same, and universal domestic chaos

The worst

reigns supreme.

of the matter

is,

that both wives, hus-

bands, and society at large attribute the bad state of things to vcr<>?ig
causes, for the fact

is,

that the real one lays right before their very

Such

eyes, yet they iuill not see.

among Oriental
Were

it

a state of things cannot exist

nations, or the dark-skinned people of the world.

not so serious a matter, one

would laugh

absurd and

at the

puerile folly that permits the reign of such social non-concord for a

when

single day,

As

causes are so palpable, and

cure so easy.

its

things exist, wives are defrauded, husbands do not love them,

and wives
indeed,
at

its

home

fail to

hold their lords in affectional duress.

know how,
;

and

yet,

On my

low few,

or even care to accomplish health and happiness


it is

make

every man's power to

in

his wife love

make her husband worship God through

him, and in every wife's to


her.

soul, I truly believe, that if

my

rules

were followed,

the social millennium would be close at hand.


No strictly good
human power can dwell in, or be developed by any man who is
nor in any
sexually unsound, imbecile, puerile, weak or impotent
woman with fallen womb, leucorrhea, ulcerated vagina or passional
frigidity.
How, let me ask, in God's Holy Name, can you expect
;

home, happiness or heaven


the altar,

in a family

where she swore her

life

where the wife never, from

away,

grave that closes

to the

marriage joy.

over her fretted corpse, never realizes the slightest

anything else than utter and profound disgust?


constant, faithful,
after harlots

good or

great,

because his wife

is

who

is

How

in a sense,

clear passage

man be

compelled

You

concentrated ice?

perfection from conditions themselves imperfect

can a

or

to

run

can't expect

But there

is

water out of this Polar sea of marriage

and open

land.

XC. There cannot be

doubt but that the " Philosopher's Stone"

of ancient and mediaeval lore, and the ' Tlixir Vita; "

Water of

Life

Affectional Alchemy.

108

by old writers, and which


constitutes the burden of the celebrated book "Hermipus Redivivus" or the Sage's Triumph over decrepitude and death,
and Perpetual Youth, so vaguely hinted

means
cally

this identical triple mystery,

knows, but which

and divine

in the land

all

at

which scarce any one

should learn, and which every physician

ought to be compelled

under heavy penalties of neglect, because


youth, grace and beauty
signet of ineffable

it is

human glory

the fountains of excessive joy


story

bearings of

it is

the secret of sustained

the gate of power,


it

and the crown and

unveils the throne of Will, and taps

it

is

and

life

its

the Jemschidgenie of Persian

who have

it,

celestial

meanings, becoming indeed a child of the

and no longer a stranger

Infinite,

alone

to teach their subjects

and he or she who knows, appreciates diviner and

practi-

to the Father's face

and they

are able to reach that magnificent sweep of clair-

voyant vision, which, leaping from earth

at

a bound, scans the

unutterable glories of space, and beholds the rain of starry systems


as

we view a gentle summer shower.


XCI. The great source of crime, illness, wretchedness, and

ing has been traced to

improper
relations,
It

is

use,

its

one single source, and that

and mismatching of people

in their loves, conjugal

proven that these bad conditions are frequently the

result of

and sometimes spring from incompatible,

electric,

That

absolute

magnetic and chemical relations between couples.


separation

fair

is

state,

only cure for some

the

or inter-relationship

amount of try

is

metals, gases

and

in every

in their nature.

who

are wretched in theii

while attention

to health,

and a

a certain cure for other cases.

XCII. The body of man


meated

the abuse,

and sexual incompatibilities.

organization,

married

is,

suffer-

fluids

is

a mere conglomerate of earths and

wholly material, but penetrated and per-

atom by imponderable elements

Thus beneath, and

organs corresponding thereto

essentially electric

lining our eyes are ethereal

beneath our limbs, heart, lungs,

brain, in short, all our parts are corresponding electric organs, and

the totality of these constitutes the ethereal, spiritual, death-proof

man or woman, and when dissolution occurs this inner man or


woman oozes out of the material structure, becomes self-conscious

Affect ional Alchemy.


again, and takes

its

place anions; the countless armies of the de-

parted, hut neither lost or dead;

woman

109

and

this

internal, ethereal

man,

or child, can he contacted hy us in the flesh.

l.\ conform in"


laws governing such contact, and the ohservance of a few-

to the

simple rules.

XCIII.
only

passionless

when wc

man or woman is a human nonentity. It is


man or woman in the higher, holier, and
we can reach the loftier and more signifi-

arc wholly

also physical sense, that

cant heights of any sort of

would

power whatever;

cultivate those loftier instincts,

with to scale the heavens, should at

therefore, those

who

and gain mental wings whereonce attend to the business of

regaining perfect health, mental, physical, emotional and passional.


Presently great-hearted love and blessed compassion will nestle in all
our hearts, and in this glad, prophetic hope

Wc

yet.
all

be

are none of us

only then

so, for

become vessels
yet did

we may all be happy


ever wise except when merciful.
Let us
can we be perfectly human
only then

for the influence

man come

and

effect

of God-xess.

to the absolute conviction of

Never

Soul and Immor-

came to that of God and Prayer for. say what


both are and ever will be positive realities in the universe.
In Love alone lies the boon of IMMORTALITY!
INJUS-

tality,

but he also

you

will,

TICE

reigns to-day.
Sad

art'

And

brothels flourish, and Cyprians bear the sway;

the times

when wedded wives decay,

These arc Ihe times

And

their scarlet

honest wives, neglected,

"

When woman's

banner wave8,

up a million graves!

eye grows dull,

And her check

When

fill

paleth,

fades the beautiful,

Then man's love faileth


He sits not beside bur chair,
;

Clasps not her fingers,


Twir.es not the

That
"

damp

hair

o'er her brow.lingers.

He comes

moment in,
Though her eye lightens,
Though her cheek, pale and
but a

Feverishly brightens.

thin,

no

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He

stays but a

moment

When that flush

near,

fadeth,

Though true affection's tear


Her soft eyelid shadeth.
"

He

goes from her chamber straight

Into

He

life's jostle

meets at the very gate

Business and bustle

He

thinks not of her within,

Silently sighing;

He

forgets, in that noisy din,

That she

is

dying.

" And when her heart

What though
Soon from

his

is still,

he mourneth,

sorrow

chill

Wearied he turneth.
o'er her buried head

Soon

Memory's

And

Thus man

But

it

won't be so

when

law, that no happiness

refkaed

lights settcth,

the true-hearted dead

is

forgetteth."

both sides have found out, as a rule and


dired, although joy may be but always

in other words, that to

love and render

be happy, and loved,

happy some other

Love's equation, and

is

soul.

as absolute, rigid,

This

is

we must

first

the eternal law of

and unalterable, as are

the

laws of number, reflection and gravitation.


good deal of,
all need, at times, a little, and occasionally a
We are a perverse set, and oftentimes refuse to do the

We

coaxing.

are aching,
very identical thing others want, and we ourselves
enough to
dying, to do, simply because some witling has not sense
sufcoax us and many a good man, and better woman, has been
;

mouth of
fered to gallop straight into the jaws of death, right into the
of the blarney sort
hell, for want of a little, gentle persuasion, even
especially

is

this true of

sections of the

human

men, even quite as much

being.

I believe the only physician

exercise

as of the other

was Cardenus,

who

has been

a physician of Milan.

known

He

to

condemn

exclaims against

in

Affectional Alchemy.
using any exercise that can fatigue a

throw him
observes

man

the smallest derive, or

in

into a sweat, or accelerate his respiration.

that trees live

longer than animals, because they

About

from their places.

man might

prudence, and

same time

the

man

undertook to prove that


given living

stir

immortal, or rather that any

literally

is

not

d<>

French writer,

Asgill, a

probably never

he used sufficient

die, if

He

a forcible exercise of the will.

of dying, considering

co'vardly practice

lie gra\clv

complains of the

mere

it

unnec-

trick, or

essary habit.

XCY.

my

copy from

manuscript of the Ansairetic Mvsterv. a

and mystic composition of mine upon the same

medico-religio.

general subject as this book, but which, as


delicate facts

and principles, adapted only


study

fore for private

do

so. that

need that
will

it

stating, before

my

while alive and able, such of


letter,

patrons and patients as

can write for

it

but in no case

be sent save under seal, as a private message from physician

noble

to patient

Man

and

Wherever you
boy or

girl

and pupil

Womanhood

and genuine candidates

for full,

power

see a rich, jouissant. beaut}', spirit or

wherever you behold force of genius, vou may

which they are the

assured that the conception of

when

mature, and there-

to the

following paragraph

now widely famous

and teacher
true,

the

expounds certain very

it

their parents both

tra ric: whenever

come

genuine

across

rest

occurred

An

and were impassioned.

loved

you

result,

in

con-

meanness,

lean,

wcazelish. deceitful, slanderous, lying, scrawny, white-livered people,

grab-allish.

wager your very

and accursed, generally, vou may

selfish,
life

were mothered by passionless,


slightest

heartless, dry
feel a

soul-pang from the cradle

men and women

arc

never

"

to success
to the

failures!

all its

thev enjoy, do so intensely

phases must be on

while the

swimmingly, and never

grave

yet. nevertheless, true

Sham

always

ones

because the good influence survives, the bad dies out.

when

and

best people on earth see the most trouble

and mean go on

force,

used-up wives, without the

sickly,

danger of perilling vour stake

XCVI. The

were begotten of

that such beings

safely

The good,

but the bad. coarse being's

par with him

or herself:

are!

and

life,

in

there's as

H2

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much

between the joys of such as betwixt the Dundreary

difference

skip of a fop and fool, a ninny, or idiot, and the joyous

gushing-hearted, brainful

my lot

has been

It

beck than the

bettering

among

who were

they are a bad breed

by whomsoever

travels

known some

not that I have not

the

radical classes, I for years

yet, as a general rule, I

the honor of those

more of human pinch-

to encounter a great deal

noble and glorious people


;

girl.

solid soul-ful gold

associated with

romp of

found

it

unsafe to trust to

extreme in the business of world-

and Diogenes' lantern

needed

is still

among them.

A happy man never writes

book

This

is

my

twentieth

But

might have been happy had I kept away from the world-saving
" Philosophers." Here and there I have met a real lady or gentle-

man, such as that king of nature's nobleman, Jesse B. Furguson, of


and
Tennessee
God bless his green and pleasant memory

few others of the same State; but among professional


and I speak only of such as I personally know, I found
reformers
latterly a

a few golden ingots, and a plentiful surplusage of brass ones

malcontents

by

who

take to world-saving, themselves needing

Such people

far.

constantly yelp and

as preach divine

howl down

born
it

most

charity and all that, yet

to the bitter depths of death, slan-

human being whom they cannot use


with them. They are magnificent demon-

der or disgrace, any and every


at will, or

who

disagrees

strations of the sublime truth of the philosophy I teach, viz., that as

was

a person's anti-natal circumstances, so will his or her subse-

quent

life

be.

If begotten in lust, alone', then that will be their bias

from the breast

to the grave

if

of " authority " backed by brute

on the body of half-dead compliance, then such


through life, biting, barking, snarling, growling, making all

force,

trouble

go

sorts of

incapable either of generosity or appreciation, and scattering

discord wherever their scandal-scattering footsteps


long, lean, lank, slab-sided
fests nearly

human

every neighborhood.

halfness,

Thus

nature's noblemen, I have never failed to

temptibly small as to

Who

will

would

fall

generally,

one or more of whom

in close juxtaposition

in-

with

meet men of souls so con-

make one ashamed

of the form one wore.

naturally have dreamed, surmised, or indeed have ever

Affect ional Alchemy.


suspected

was

there

Slander? yet there

many

the

connection between

slightest

Read

is.

this scrap,

years ago, and then to the proof:

'The slanderer

is

a pest

which

cut from a paper

Like

wake.

should be

to society, that

subjected to a slow cauterization, and then be lopped

oil"

Like the viper, he leaves a shining

greeable excrescence.

Love and

an incubus

113

like a disatrail in his

he weaves a thread of candor with a

a tarantula,

web

of wiles, or. with all the mendicity of hints, whispers forth his tale,
the fabling Xile. no

like

that,

even the dead

over

whose

The dead

knows.

fountain

corpse sleeps the dark

pale, sheeted

venomed tongue can wake, and whose pale

sleep no

av.

lips

have then

no voice to plead, are subjected to the scandalous attacks of the


slanderer

"

Who

'

A
"

think

of sin,
faint

is

it

wears a mask the Gorgon would disown,

cheek of parchment, and an eye of stone

who

Pollock

whose tongue was

says the slanderer

set

on

with haste to circulate the


"

'

He

has a

lip

of

fire

lie his

lies,

in hell,

is

no animal

'

despise

These ravenous

Of great
" Oh,
cries

ships,

who would
The

finger

and whose legs were

more than

who

feel.'

these moths and scaraps

who

follow only in the

wake

because perchance they're great.'

disarrange

slanderer

long, envious

fishes

whelp

the foulest

a face formed to conceal,

of society, the malicious censurers


"

is

had framed.

soul

That, without feeling, mocks at those

"There

all

society with their false

makes few

direct charges

points

no certain

to

and

lapwing

His

assertions.

locality.

lie

has

an

inimitable shrug of the shoulders, can give peculiar glances


"

'

Or convey a

libel to a

frown,

Or wink n reputation down


'

He

seems

to glory in the

'
!

misery he entails.

The

innocent wear

the foulest impress of his smutty palm, and a soul pure as

arctic

U4

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snow twice

bolted by the northern blast,' through his

discolored glasses,

"

warped and

wear a mottled hue.

A whisper broke the air


A soft light tone, and low,
j

Yet barbed with shame and woe

Nor might

No
"

'

Ah, me

it

only perish there,

farther go

a quick and eager ear

Caught up the

meaning sound

little

Another voice then wreathed

And so
From ear
Until

it

it

Now

observe that
is

clear,

from

to lip,

lip to ear,

reached a gentle heart,

And

whatever gender,

it

wandered round,

that

is

it

it

broke!'"

inflexibly true

that every slanderer, of

nearly always a long, lank,

little, lilly-livered,

tucked-up, wizenish being, without any plumpness, either of body,


spirit or

manner

they are invariably disappointed, unloving, three-

cornered folks, without the slightest love save that of

when modern
into

its

spiritualism

self;

and

came along thousands of such rushed

ranks, disgraced the cause and themselves, and foisted their

miserable twaddle upon the world as true supernalism, when, in


fact, spiritualism really

had nothing

to

do with

present constituted that ism contains, within

four,
of

sorts of people,

human

ist.

Those who

hail

it

it

its

As

whatever.

at

ranks, three, nay,

as the demonstration

continuance beyond the grave, and the celestial harbinger

of the good time coming.

among them have

I ever

heaven they seek.

2d.

These people are true supernalists

found sympathizers, and people

A large

and

for the

fit

class of social revolutionists

under

various leaderships, who, accepting the facts, are eager to push on

toward the realization of the promised good time.


prise the

army whose

blows right and

iconoclastic

ing some of the idols of the Past

remains to be seen what sort of


those
class

These two comleft

are demolish-

but they are builders yet, and

it

edifice they will give us in lieu of

now crumbling before their fierce artillery.


who cling to old traditions insist upon tying
;

3d.

smaller

this century to

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dead ones, and fastening their

the old

Bible and the manifestations.


contents
there,

and

The

who

fourth class

has his hands

made up

is

satisfied

of mal-

having, here and

the time.
The rank
army wouldn't pass muster at the

of this trouble-making

file

about equally on the

faith

always making trouble, never

an able leader

115

full all

gates of heaven; for a more ungenerous, malignant, back-biting set


was never developed by any civilization earth ever saw. Born of
loveless parents, they rush

friend or foe

through

life

striking alike, hap-hazard, at

discontented from the nipple to eternity

full of
malice; steeped to the lips with cruel, cool, cobra-like venom, they
are never happy save when slandering their betters, picking flaws in
;

others' characters,

and

in stabbing in the

Beware of such

not face.

not on legs, arc dangerous.

and

now proceed

to

pay

my

XCVII. Reduced from competence


Boston

fire

of Nov., 1S72,

ing materials

at

went

thev dare

some snakes,

like

have already described them phys-

known when

so that they will be

ically,

mankind

whom

back those

They abound, and

to

met.

owed

duty to

this

little Bill.

nothing, by the

to

Ohio from

hand, in great abundance,

and

necessity,

made

it

terrible

my

find-

especial

business to study the workings of the organic law of sex, as dis-

played

from

in the

fifteen

case was

product of marriages, accomplished


to sixty-five

that

of a

except

even

rect their

no right

whoever

these

own make-up

to find fault

failed

run the

respect be the

retailing
to suit

it,

at its feet.

unhappy

risk,

ones,

is

with everything and

was

it

ever happy,

slanderous tales and

come

or go at

Now

the fault

for they

nor to parentage

beck

its
is

had no hand

make no

not
in

effort to cor-

that of their progenitors.

for

whose

abortion,

We

of being guilty of the insensate

parenting such monstrosities,


tions beside

long, lank

(save in that they usually

shortcomings), but
to

himself, or rather Itself; nor

and do humble homage

call,

altogether theirs,
their

him

when going up and down

scandal concerning

and

Ohio,

in

nature constantly impelled

everybody

One remarkable

years anterior to 1S73.

man

periods varying

at

have

folly

of

such they are, and moral abor-

at all unless

mutual

love,

esteem and

prompting spur.

People of that grade are usually one-sided, angular, not

to

be

A Ichemy.

Affe ctio nal

1 1

depended on, and generally passion-driven

down

as incontrovertibly true, that wherever

class alluded to, there also will


I

once

different type

me

from the above, yet

months

for

in

exchange

prices than he paid

him

that I should aid

hungry

was

grateful

well

knew

me

him

foil

my

and

first

in the second

knew

decided to protect

no manner lending

he wanted,

him

to

it

a mere child, of but

roundelay

war-path

yet

too,

to enable

fair to

look on

simple, heedless, joyous as a

he,

morning

lecherous as a satyr

to "

And

keep to the windward."

away down

did

own

soul

it,

do an

yet this

yet he

few

Adonis had

sun-greeting

unwashed

out,

feculence,

warning passers-by

man had

certain, but

its

human, two-thirds goat

hung

because

inevitable death to her within a


for the gentle

in

"marry"

a great, rich

and that

was

tremendous guerdon,

knew

not

knew such

brief,

it

sacrifice all things

what he was

and so instead of helping him wed

cautioned the child against

months

ruin, or

in the inner deeps,

vague hope of achieving one

to

by

brutal as a Kaffir on .the

which, as will be hereinafter seen, urged him to

salvation of his

himself,

an old man, of

bird, carolling

one-third

a sign

striving after.

once

at

a hundred weight of beauty and glee

whose presence anywhere was

in the

and

a few months over fifteen

nearly two hundred pounds of rough, uncouth,

the

determined to

still I

compass the

and he coarse as rag-carpet

jewel of goodness,

made

should transform him, and his

destruc-

to defeat his

knowledge, power or influence,

Magic powers,

an outrage

own

pity for her

at

either

at

him caused me

eight and sixty!

summers,

my

demands

his

at his

what sacrifice or pain to me


a young thing, and save him from

do right, no matter

just think of

and

hence

had fed

far higher

preferred to go

comply with

household, too, into bitter enemies of mine

evil deed.

but

place,

friendship for

well-cherished plans.

He

and one day he proposed

would be conniving

that to do so

Onan.

of a slightly

marketable at

a cruel scheme

in

and probable death,

set it

one of the

a monstrosity.

still

for information

against an innocent child, in the


tion

human being

ay, starve outright, rather than

because

still

you

find

find a devout disciple of

you

"friendship" of a male

lost the

may

or rather you

her, I

a step meant

lust-harried, agonizing

confidentially boasted to

me

of

Affect ion a I Alchemy.


his intentions, vol
that, save

and

said that, passionallv a

lie

117

moderate man was

under extraordinary circumstances, he would be con-

tent with what may God protect even

from!

Finding some Power working

taken a

woman

and

man

into

my

woman

of the wilderness

to use

magic

certain

South, and other lands

image

of, to

enable him

human

be used for awhile, as only a

her, to

and loathsome thing

a loathed

was

well, he

wooed and won


XCVIII.

my manhood
his

own

my

soul,

many

missed

all

comprehend

letter

his

me

That man

meaning.

if their lusts

clearly

and

thereafter hated

me

natural, because

are defeated.

individuals in their conduct proclaim the cat-and-dog


it

to

wi

tree.

it

was whiskey,

provided and dispensed by the

Were excellent judges of the

article,

of a particularly reverend brother,

along the tube leading to

my

to a desperate

and
I

stomach

tried
I

saints,

too. a

it

on

most

until I

gasped

all

beverage
of

whom

and

as

it

passed

experienced a sensation, only

encounter between two infuriate iron-

Vesuvian volcanic eruptions, and four typhoons,

man,

at the earnest solicitation

going on simultaneously with an electrical storm,

internal

that

for instance

Religious Picnic," of the " Reformers," and

while taking a drink behind a

clads,

happens

often

Once

comparable

hold

abominable and

in a community do the very same thing

plentifully

and tarnish

might

which he was

in

dav

this

to disgrace myself,

by their immediate progenitors, but

went

me

as I did. but I kept

To

whole classes
I

and
of

young man honorably

for a

being written that

animals are rendered furious

lives led

life

view the matter as he

in furtherance of his

thousand horse-power,

Not only do

down

be cast aside as

For the

good meal by doing

by an infamous deed

fifty

desired

gain control of

to

by defeating a wrong.

unsullied,

written letter requesting

distinctly

save

her.

abnormal passion, said

with

game;

the

lost

to

forever, with a bagnio close by,

so stone blind as to be wholly unable to

and so

did,

had

beast can use God's

darkly rolling, sullen river, in the near distance


I

'

the people

to

and then, utterly ruined,

female form

in

me
man"

confidence, to enable

common among

spells,

wot

for

him

against

the girl from the horrible fate threatened her, the old

me

lie.

for breath,

all

couple

going on

in

ot

my

and mine eves resembled

n8

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two burnt holes in a


me once for all, and led me to

paii of exceedingly large peeled onions, or

blanket

which experience

wonder

was

that

if

satisfied

down below.

could be the quality of the article served out

While trying
another to get

my

to catch

me

me

me

in

such opprobrious

with indignant anger without the

Ten

damnable stimulus of the rankly poison draught.

additional

minutes afterward, against


piece, just as

my

breath, I overheard one saint counsel

and both spoke of

to orate,

terms as would have fired

what

I failed

wherein whiskey was a high moral motor.

to see

to

what

the best brand of Reformer's whiskey,

my

we Randolphs

traducers

will, I took the stand and

are accustomed

justice

doing which, and differing from them about

for

manhood, the leading

constitutes

and dealt out

to,

my

spoke

proposed

saints

me,

to silence

demonstrate their sainthood, and end the dispute by cool, calm,

Murder, by drowning me in the river hard


attempt it, because when they proposed it my

deliberate, premeditated

They

by.

hand

did not

round

slid

to

well-armed man.
really spiritual,

my

hip-pocket, and cowards seldom attack a

This experience

it is

satisfied

to

make

posed

and

to

my

have alluded

salacious

and second,

is

it

has

the

first is this

now before Reform

never a

full,

Of

course, your

round, genial, or generous

found, on close examination, to

more

tall,

ill-shaped

or little-bodied men.
delight in breaking

up

thin, spare males,

who, as a

holds true of females

families, creating scandal,

people by slanderous tongues or innuendo.

are

have

rule,

and angular, heads, than either

The same

man

partake

They

largely of the hang-dog, sneak-thief, and lecherous look.

generally moderately

pro-

point out the characteristics of certain

to

invariably be

larger, but

who

and condu6t, instead of empty words as at

and other self-assumed " Reformers."

pseudo-philosopher
but will

to these things

the slightest notice, but solely, only

purpose of making two remarks

will be a thing of heart

present

world needs something better than

that the

people are

book, and not because the savages

murder me are worth

for the express

that, until

best to be always prepared with carnal logic to

withstand their material arguments.


a point in

me

large, fat,

such

as

and ruining other

Husbands, wives, be

very chary of entertaining guests of either sex thus

made up

else

Affectional Alchemy.
you may expect moral poison and ruin
have departed.
influence

Theirs

theirs,

is

to the business

119

remain

to

after

the vampire build, and

is

themselves

that

sort

of

seven times in every eight, where they have taken

of world-saving.

In thirty years

have conversed

with scores of such and found, exceptionless, that their ideal of love

was

which

that

passion,

better

men

stigmatize as unhallowed lust and fiery

unredeemed by the

or genuine

declare for a " central, solar, or

all

;" that

is

to say,

keep the cosmos

in

order

round

pivotal love, with planetary loves revolving

main one with "outside" indulgences

which means,
entitled

to

in plain

manhood, womanhood,

faintest spark of

They

goodness.

to

man

Saxon, that

is

but a feathcrless rooster,

one queen-hen with a flock of


during incubation.

relieve her

would assuredly glory

it

lesser chic-a-biddies to

should not like to lionize, but

canonizing that species of foul fowl

in

such people can see no higher use for certain organic functions than
to

fill

their

own

places after death, or to gratify their morbid natures.

They cannot imagine anything


the

offices

else,

nor even dream that through

of monogamal, conjugal

life,

the

soul

itself

may be

enormously intensified and expanded, and the evolution of mighty


thought

go on

itself

more rapid

at a

rate,

taking higher

flights,

skimming deeper oceans, and, consequently, the mental, psychal,


emotional, and creative powers of the

This

million fold.

is

and that a base one.


cians,

and pass

human

all

Some

their time

inventing " preventives," embracing'

in

and a hundred other infamous abominations

set forth

on

this point

be enhanced a

of these people call themselves physi-

"shields," ''pellets," "plugs," excoriating and

and enrich themselves.

spirit

Greek to these harpers on a single string,

Let

all

tanning " washes,"

to entrap the suffering,

henceforth know, not only what

is

man who

elsewhere herein, but that the

wishes to spare the partner of his joys, who, poor soul, always runs
the risk of death every time she yields, not to please herself, but to
bless the

man

she has called husband, can, by will, restraint, and

firmly holding his breath,

of the

monad

when

or germ, and

will, the flash of fire

its

so disposed, prevent the inhalation

descent to the prostate, and, a!>o, by

from his central

can render fruitfulness possible.

soul,

which

alone,

They never dreamed

and only,

of that, yet

Affectional Alchemy.

120
it is

They cannot

as certainly true as truth itself!

things, because their visual range

is

see these splendid

groundy, while these

are at their base anchored in the substance of the

lofty truths

human

soul,

and

held there by a cable, Love, whose other end girdles the Infinite

God!

Man
One

deals with masses

woman

with individuals

and the Great

deals with, protects, comforts, solaces, and, through pure love

human

every

Would

redeems both.

alone,

heart, even

that these revealments

though mine

own

is

might reach

aching and breaking

the while.

XCIX. Said Lewis Kirk, " An ounce of heaven, a pound of hell,


mind-suffermakes life. Not many ever experience mental pain
Financial trouble
Pshaw
is nothin its keenest sense.
ing

ing " and as times go, the


those
it

is

statement

first

is

correct

none but

for

who

are conscious of soul, can experience soul-pangs

these

who

turn in any direction for

relief,

and

and

victims to

fall

the abominable quackery of the would-be world-reformers,

which sprung

class

with Fourier and Graham, and which,

into notice

since the advent of Spiritualism, has increased to an alarming extent


all

over this land.

Their hobby

is

"Sexism,"

a thing

basic principles they are as ignorant as they are of

who

of whose

built Baal-

These tramps scour the country, victimize honest men's wives

bec.

and daughters

and even have the effrontery

to enforce their odious

embraces upon decent women, on the infamous and

filtiry

they, the lady-victims, require a change of

forsooth

magnetism

plea that
!

which change themselves are the veiy ones to triumphantly effect.


Hoodwinked by psychologic power, deluded by specious sophistry,
anxious for

relief,

by hundreds,
matter

how

fall

make any

ready to

into the accursed

secret the

deed

may

sacrifice to obtain

net,

be, her soul

knows

who

fall for

ruin

"

These people

if

not by

but none for those


find a

gravid uterus, leucorrhoea, or ulcerated vagina or

no

because

can have some pity for those

lack of strength to resist temptation

by a " medical theory

all

ought to swing by their heels,

their necks, at the nearest tree.

for

the fact, feels

the weight, and suffers untold agony in consequence, and

of salacious wretches

women,

it,

and are ruined

woman

ill

who
who
with

womb, whereupon

Affcctional Alchemy.

121

they proceed to the most infernal exposures, inspections, and tactual

manipulations, conceivable, and utterly horrent to any sensitive and

woman

delicate

which

the upshot of

grows ten times worse than

she takes his

is

and

stuff,

wholly bent on svmptom-

ever, because

ology, they are ignorant that all these troubles are physical expressions of internal, mental,

emotional, afleclional or spiritual states

or

half the time; and that ulcerations proceed from lacerations.

brutalisms on the part of the he head of the house.


realize that disturbances, origiuating

in spiritual

only be cured by administering spiritual remedies,

operating upon the soul as well as upon

How

blood, bone and nerves.

been

its

not

commotions, can

that

to say,

is

physical garment

flesh,

accomplished, has already

is

set forth herein.

C.
to

this

Thcv do

my intention, if I live,
my time to teaching such

It is

devote

which have been the


and with

whom

every step,

sole study of

my

more

yet not so few after

who

spend on earth,

light

but to

all,

many for
for

know

that our doors

to follow

him

where

all

have

in

this

!"

know we have

and hearts are open,

of

trial

six

proved signally unequal

and twenty vears


crying, " Crucify him

man, and

to the task of defeating a

man the penman of this book,


chal Beyekly Randolph!
the sang milccl
Proud
single solitary

to

Xeglecl, slander, vile prejudices,

though ranking millions armed with staves,


crucify

good com-

day by day the ranks

have been content

acolvtes by thousands.

contumely

the

at

has grown thinner, and our Brotherhood of Thinkers has

the world

let

for,

met with ingratitude

increased correspondingly, until at last we, of Enlis.

welcome

on the matters

Ostracized by those

life.

gladly accept the ostracism of the

of the discontented army,


led,

as desire

had labored since 1S4S

panionship of the few

impulse

during the years

that

Pasof

his

descent from the kings and queens, not of Xigritia. but of Madagascar, to
rise

sav nothing,

to

say nothing of the

from Warwick, the king-maker

melodies, and then sav


the ignoble

if

such blood should

crowd whose only patent

of the seashore sorcerers

Randolphs, nor their

Listen to one of our wild

is

bow and bend

before

that thcv boast the lineage

Affectional Alchemy.

122

MADAGASCAK SONG.
[Translated by Sir John Bowring.~\

Trust not

trust not to the seashore sorcerers

In the times of old the sorcerers came

To our island and were thus accosted


" Land is here, so tarry with your women;
Be ye good and just, and be our brothers "
Thus the sorcerers promised
we believed them.
!

Soon they overturned our

walls

erected

Threatening fortresses, which poured forth thunder

In their fury

and their priests would give us

Other unknown gods than ours

And

to

worship

they spoke of services and obedience.

The fight was long and bloody.


They were masters of the murderous lightnings,
And our multitudinous hosts they scattered

Better die

our people perished.

Trust not
trust not to the seashore sorcerers
More invaders came, yet bolder stronger.
All were scattered

On

all

the seashore they their banners planted

But Heaven fought with

Heavy

torrents

fell

us,

and they were conquered

and mighty tempests,

Storms and poisonous winds o'erwhelmed the stranger.

They

are gone

are dead

and we, the

living,

Live to know that we are free and happy.

Trust not

trust not to the seashore sorcerers

I did not follow the counsel thus given


alty I paid.

My

to the extent of

nearly

fifty

and

lo,

the terrible pen-

crime was rete mucosmal, and for that scarce a

"Reform"

lecturer or paper devoted to

even

my

abusing

years ago.

But

but had

dead mother,

bided

my

time

fling at

its

who went

whom

heaven

Veni Vidi Vici


!

Hundreds of "Lecturers" and thousands of "The


unco-Godly," most of

to

me,

faithful

and

never saw, considered their labor

incomplete, and their speech imperfect, unless they could soundly

abuse

my

But what did

mother's only son.

it

avail

end?

in the

They were compelled to borrow, or rather steal, my thought, and


and I have cut out of their articles and
pass it off as their own
;

speeches thousands of

lines,

and hundreds of thoughts, which

had

Ajfectional Alchemy.
given to the world

first

who

tuted differently from those

insult all the

my good

despite

Selah

way along

But triumphantly have

myself!

For the

suffered, as

it

on

my

the

cowards

dared

be

done that same thing, "and

all

life,

because

Lords Cardinal," from the early days

cast,

have

cheek, not

its

bay

volcanic

and

for five

my

soul

thirty years

my

me

and

crucified,

of

have

Fires which

have

held

been doubly

wronged, by these and them and those, who, when


needed, gladly availed them of

now,

For the Madagascan tinge

in

fires

till

was, to make

it

been almost

were, a thousand deaths.

at

veins, yet have I


to

of

fault of the Infinite, if fault

an unfashionable

mv

than twelve strains of blood rush through

met

same thought you

sec light in the

sure to be hated on that

ever

consti-

manhood throbbing in your veins


and
account.
I am a Sang Melee
and not

do, vet feel the pulses of

less

by God

a terrible crime to be

It is

123

was

help

brain and speech and pen, to

Driven by the
damn me when the fights were won
flaming sword of mean prejudice from all noble occupation and
employment, by those whose pallor, alone, not Soul, or Honor or
Manhood, or nobility of character, made them strong, and gave
devoutly

them warrant

my

invariably behind
face,

cowards,
me

beneath

my

invade

to

all,

back

and darkly slander me,

rights,

lacking manly courage to do

whom

felt

as the floor of space

is

and

to

below the

Turret of the

loftiest

Attacked with

and envious malignity, ever without the chance of reply,


tongue and pen,

more
all

still I

survived

like a beast of the jungle

logic trying to

thinkers

cated

mcl

afford

me

and

in

me

prove

them

to

human being;

than a

a nobody,

They thought

it

better to

own

became

Power

in the

me

and practice

and

in this

What

world!

But

Treated

all.

the only real

outrage, really vindi-

the while, yet

because

to utter scprn

hour!

by

denounce and slay me, than

all

it,

bitter

they exhausted

themselves

a fair, free field to contest in the matter of

Mirrorologv, and they did not like


their isms

despite them

and

seeking to justify their

ing abuse and contumely on


all?

my

were, and are, as far

feel

Immeasurable Temple wherein God resides

it

and

just

Mind

enabled

me

where and

their hostilities

heap-

what availed

are they?
it

to

it

took to
to

laugh

as, I

hold

in all dicse

years

Affectional Alchemy.

124

drove me back upon


taught

among

me

soul

names the discontented could

called all the

counted

God and my own

their

and

prefer being

or can apply, to being

my

malign confraternity, because

Philosophy

to forbear retaliation, seeing they could not help

doing as

they did, being aborts, badly begotten and worse brought forth

mean,

constitutionally

My

victims for mothers.

them

my vision

while

when

plrysico-worshipping
science told

me

fathers, half-murdered

just

what

expect of

to

disclosed images of pool-haunting newts,

seeking for figures to represent their souls

and, en passant,

it

was

partly because I advocated Oriental Magic, in preference to

their

mesmeric and similar revelative methods, that

could not help

know

for I believe in

it,

God, and even so do

with

forever and ever

death

beyond

their reach

for

we know where we go

in the

bed-bug I

whom

never either harmed or even met

them, and longed for lasting

I pitied

same

after

it.

not so now, for the victory

cate

Mysteries

have yearned for everlasting death, in view of the

jealous, sordid

week than they can

remorseless persecutions, insults, wrongs, heaped on

by thousands

believe and

methods combined

all their fantastic

they but guess at

Oh, how
less,

hated.

dark ovoids, in proper hands, are capable of

that those

enabling a true soul to scan more mysteries in a


in a lifetime,

was

spirit in

is

mine, and

I pity

which an elephant

for I regard all slanderers as

and deliciously odoriferous

During the year 1874

my

piti-

head

envious,
rest.

It is

and forgive them

pities

and

all,

forgives a

most people do that

deli-

insect.

propose to give the world a

test

of the

powers of Vision of the soul when under the sleep of Sialam,


that upper clairvoyance which comes never by mesmeric roads, nor
drugs, fumes, ethers or spiritual circles, but ever by the three principles,

herein.

who,

through the aid of the Vast Ovoid elsewhere treated of


[If I die

in time, will finish

hope.]

Because

wonder-seekers,

instrument
are

there

able to

know

fail

is

another

what

I leave

well that

selected chief of Eulis

undone

weak and

at least,

such

but others, a goodly band of royal seers


loftiest

my

impatient ones or mere

with them, as would an Ashantee with a

accomplish

is

transit

succeed, and

things of seership, not alone by

Affect ional Alchemy.

12^

visions in the oval, but from the point d'cippni of mental crvstallic.
ascensivc, penetrative, and comprehensive grasp, reached

gazing
fail

dark and glorious

<>n their

faces.

steadily

1>\

who

onlv unripe ones

It is

malignant quacks and folly-driven fanatics who, too low

in the

sensual scale, too gross in mental and physical tastes and habitudes
to appreciate

aught of pure

that flights immensity,

and

spirit,

unsullied thought, and the vision

towering mountains, and roar-

laucrlis at

ing, intervening oceans, of either

water or space, denounce through

malignant envy and the spiteful jealous}" of the Xaga, what

These are beneath

ever beyond and above them.

and

notice,

for-

is

their

and hatred, as their regard and praise, arc of equal weight and

spite

value,

less

than that of the shadow of an atom

Mesmerism and

other methods of reaching psycho vision were but

the guide-boards pointing to this, the surer, purer, better, than all

others

Many

on the globe beside.

woman

and many

facilities

afforded

fallen low, low, low,

new, Xcw-old Sight of the Soul.

'After Death," and

BEYOND

Slumber have

to

CI.

but

all uplifted,

me

to

for filth

and

to

su'

r,

thought, be

all

it

though their
any one

them

lives

to love

defile

the bed of a

be cat-and-doggish

one and hold another

fairly, squarely,

part

company

at bay,

is

not true,

up, or sugar

it

to

nor can an unholy

it

slang of these pseudo reformers, stripped of

to

glori-

no matter what subterfuges

ritrlit,

insufferably offensive to anv health-loving soul in

can never be right

Sialam

the

things are pure,

of sophistry or false logic are brought to bear to prove


fore, the

volume

everybody, and you can't dress

'cslion, or

in a

honor and pamize the

the acceptance of any but a born idiot or fool

deed,

through this Old-

keep the human bloodhounds

saving, that to the pure

is filth

broad

the

all

expect to produce the Sequel to

span the unfathomable ocean of Eternity

The

in

Dealings with the Dead,"


THE SPACES." Through

been educated

ous bridge that enabled

and

has become a libertine,

from the temptations and

by animal magnetism

world no soul has been degraded, but

concerning

man

its

where-

glitter, is

the lands.

it

ever be right for

unloving, legal duress.

before

It

husband or wife, even

nor can
in

all

so

either

Let

hangs out the

Agectional Alchemy.

126

To Let.

Sign,

Be

off

with the old

in

honest style before going on

with the new

We

people of the world are born to trade in equivalents.

give love

where

we want

it

in return.

If

no love whatever

there's

we

labor for and protect even

in the case, yet

me

not,

another, you

and have dalliance elsewhere.

we

still

my

right of being respected, and you shall not live on

respect

For

if

have the

earnings yet

you yield

and that other must abide the consequences.

other must care

to

That

labor for, and protect you

for, feed, clothe,

we

If

for I

am not bound by any law, human or divine, to keep a corner in


I work for, for others' uses and, by Heaven, I won't do it

that

you no longer command

my

you do the bad thing then

let's

part, for

respect, nor are entitled to the results of

my

labor, or deserving of

my homage

or esteem in any degree whatever.

Eternal law

Now

here

is

Remember and abide by


another new revelation
:

modes and motions;

ist,

in billowy undulations

wave

one

If

like

Equivalents

is

the

it

Pleasurej like light, has two

2d, linear

one in rays, the other

beams from

a candle or star

The

other like the swelling of the ocean waters.

the

pleasures of Lust

or passion alone, as in unloving union, or the sin of the Onanite,

always Electric, non-responsive-a/c;zeness, non-mutual


like lightning, destructive.

and

results

from the rush and escape of


is

therefore,

keen, sharp, cutting, incisive, and

It is

shocks the body and soul to the verge of death.

wherefore, of course,

just so

It is

much

wholly

selfish,

nervo-vital

life,

self-murderous, because the electric loss

not compensated by a magnetic inflow from a loving opposite.


linear.

But when pleasure

is

from a meeting of the

results

is

It is

electric

currents of the male with the magnetic flow of the female, in the

nerves of each, as in the touch of loving

spread out into waves, which flow

all

lips, the

two currents

over the vast nervous network

of both, until they die out as they roll upon the foot of the throne

whereon each
all

joy

each

is

is

soul

local;

sits

in

voluptuous expectancy.

in the other,

bathed in the

celestial

it

is

In the one case

diffused over both beings, and

and divine aura

suffusing both bodies, refreshing both souls

the breath of God,


But

this holy experi-

ence cannot be had where habit has blunted the nerves of each

Affectional Alchemy.

Slumber and

Rest, Repose,

has destroyed impressibility.

excess

127

Activity, Wakefulness, imprcssionablcncss, are the equations of the


eternal sexiye law,

me

Let
arc

and

all

law

restate the

others as well.

in clearer

terms:

consequent upon- the rush of nervous

"When

ganglia of either sex.

vital

When

contacts on both sides

it

it is

flows alone

it

magnetic.

up

in

Love

along the nerval

fluid

it

the

in

electric.

is

The

2d.

Love-joy depends upon the plethora of vital


stored

joys of

wires of the system, centring

cords, or

filamental

fibrils,

The

ist.

fulness of

and nerve-aura

life

ganglia of the system, but especially upon the

the

magazined within the mystic

greater or less stock

of Nature for that purpose.

3d.

The

cripts appointed

conditions essential

the

to

maintenance of any special power of either soul or body, especially


of Love and

which involves both, are

its offices,

voluntary cessation of

its

other

in

energies of

the

directions

individual.

possible affectional

at the

and, 2d, upon

4th.

appetite

grow

stronger,

the nervous magazines

more conductive, and

burnings,

physico-passional
is

healthful.

mate relations between soul and body render each


of,

and martyr

never in order save


the other,

to,

the other

when each mind and

and the four combine and unite

money-lender,

in the conditional

the future,

serves you

it

mood

keeps you

and puts a period

to

union wafts you up to Godness


soul

you
;

and adds immeasurable joys

Remember

that the

human

The

for loveless

purpose.

union

in the present tense, lends


in the subjective

the end

in

to the

is

inti-

at times the tor-

common

one

to

ripens you

soul

5th.

which

each bociy agrees with

sum

FORE TAKE CARE YOl'R LOVE DON'T PERISH


6th.

sensitive

hence Love-offices are

Otherwise disastrous results inevitably follow


like a

force

recuperative

while morbid inflammations cease and normal

succeeds to insane

mented victim

amount of
the

In order to reach the highest

are unnatural, while the former

latter

pro-

less

there must be lengthened terms of inaction,

life,

the filaments

same time

more or

the

ist,

during which period the forces accumulate

expand

Regular remission,

activities for a period

and whose term depends upon,

tracted,

expended

rules

is

you

you

in

whereas Loving

increases the bulk of


total of life.

IX

THERE-

THK ESIXG OF

IT

a musical instrument played

Affectional Alchemy.

128
on by the

fingers

and the breath of God, wherefore

be kept in tune so that none but

see to

that

it

symphonies are evoked

finest

it

for

only then that you can realize either the true stress or strain of

it is

Forget not that the soul

being.
faculty

is

one of the States

is

a Republic

and that

each should conspire to one

that each organ

common weal

to insure the

common purpose

and

the happiness of

all.

Life without love

7th.

perpetual death

is

midst of

and they

We

lash their souls to frenzy.

kind

we

to

human

truly

must lean
we must love. To
who live apart, isolated lives, are dwelling in the
viewless horrors, ready at any moment to take form and

and purely good,

upon us

To be

be strong, something

were born

bear children to the world and

defeat the very purposes

for

to

God

to beget our

love

and

failing therein,

which Deity launched us into

being.
CII.

theme,

Ever since
I

began

on

to write

and most

this prolific

vital

have persistently, constantly endeavored to prove that the

overstocked condition of the female labor market, and the prepon-

derance of the female over the male element in society were


causes that led to the increase of the Social Evil

show

and

now

fruitful

write to

that there are operating, right here in our very midst, the most

wicked

practices, tending not only to

an increase of

this evil, but

sapping the very foundations of the morals of society.


It is

a startling fact that the

number of marriages

is

diminishing

number of divorce cases increasing, there being forty-four on the


docket of the Supreme Court for one term in a single county

the

Connecticut, the State of "blue laws" and "steady habits."

in

Another
the

startling fact

number of

births

is,

is

that
less

among

the native element of society

than the number of deaths in many

sections of all the States.

A wicked

and

fearful extravagance in the

ing marriage and housekeeping so


decline of marriages.
rich,

The poorer

mode

difficult,

class

is

of living, render-

one cause of the

must ape the

style of the

and they make a great display when they marry.

Being

unable to come up to the standard, they remain single, and plunge


into sensuality

and

vice.

It is estimated that in

New York

City,

Ajfcctional Alchemy.

129

and the surrounding suburbs, there are more than two hundred thou-

many men, living, openly or in private,


The same causes are operating in

sand females, and quite as

shame and

lives of

New York

sensuality.

form vigilance committees, and for the same purpose,

to

correct intolerable evils,

growing

this fearfully
it,

to purify the political

and

The

evil.

There

is

of which

to

to

check

must look

pathway of ruin

equilibrium, for they cannot wholly escape the dread

and

influences

viz..

social atmos-

better portion of society

or this element in their midst will rush by a

to restore the

love

and

Marriage and employment would have a tendency

phere.

to

San Francisco, years ago,

to-day that led the citizens of

effects.

the revolting sin of foeticide, or infanticide, the tendency

is

both soul and body, sunder, the bonds of pure

to ruin

between the sexes, and send our most promising young

women

and wives into premature graves, spreading a gloom dark as night


over hearts and

homes

happiness.

It is

trying to checkmate the Infinite God.

There

a plan

is

aware that
States

it

that should be bright with health, joy and

whereby much of this

be obviated.

am

has been tried, but never in right-down earnest in these

or under municipal surveillance.

may

evil

refer to the

establish-

ment of Matrimonial Bureaus, under sworn commissioners, and


So

direct care of Public authorities.

affairs

have been

money-seeking panders and procuresses, and

interests of

in the

such

far all

afford better facilities for

supplying

and bagnio-keepers with ruined

men with

to

victims and mistresses,

There are scores of thou-

girls.

sands of both sexes without any chance of finding mates, and they
are rushed to ruin through

and

the reefs* of social vice,

bad; no one sighs


life

of

shame

to

and are forever

one of honor and respect


to

prevent

all

bureaus wherein women, and men,

Xo

lost.

for harlotry or libertinism

the State to take measures


lish

"Personals" and blind advertisements;

trying to sail toward honorable marriage, run straight

in

too.

false

may

it

graves.

jails,

prisons,

All of us have

syphilitic

human

lie

the duty of

and estab-

find suitable mates,

hospitals,

hearts and

is

steps,

and establish decent, comfortable homes, instead of


gaming-hells.

to

and no one prefers

hence

such

one wants

upon

human

filling

and

bagnios,

premature

feelings,

and we

Affectional Alchemy.

130

were created duo-sexed expressly


natures.
food.
is

The

we might commingle our


much as the body requires

that

soul needs love just as

the nostalgia, or homesickness of the soul

Love-starvation

the most terrible evil that can oppress the

think

how

human

spirit.

Reader,

dreadful must have been the suffering that inspired these

lines the requiem of a breaking heart


:

" Out from

his palace

home

He came to my cottage door


Few were his looks and words,
But they

The

smile of his sad, blue eyes

Was
Yet

linger for evermore.

tender as smile could be

was nothing

Though he was

to him,

the world to

me

" Fair was the bride he won,

Yet her heart was never

Her beauty he had and


But

his spirit

his

own

held,

was ever alone.

I would have been his slave,

With
But

a kiss for

my

life-long fee

was nothing to him,

While he was the world


" To-day,

On

in his stately

me

to

home,

a flower-strewn bier he

With the drooping

lids fast

lies,

closed

O'er the beautiful, sad blue eyes.

And among the mourners who mourn


I may not a mourner be
For

was nothing

Though he was
"

to him,

the world to

me

How will it be with our souls


When they meet in the better land?
What

the mortal could never know,

Will the

spirit

yet understand?

Or, in some celestial form,

Must

And

the sorrow repeated be,

I be nothing to him,

While he dims heaven

for

me ? "

Alchemy.

Affect ion al

And
from

heavenward every day

yet just such wails arise

thousands of bleeding

literally

CIII.

*3i
in the

year

spirits.

do not envy the feelings of those

guilt)'

of breaking up

love-matches, or tyrannically ordering what shall or shall not he.


there

is

a hell, hereafter,

who

seems

summering,

tor a

there, at least

it

if

me

that all

no longer

such ought

If

go

to

yet there are those

happiness, because they have

destroy others'

ruthlessly

to

the

power.
"

My

was not my

wife

wife, but always her mother's daughter

has been the story ever since mothers-in-law


is

my

came

in fashion

"
!

and

it

opinion that more families have been " smashed into smither-

eens," to emote a Hibernicism,

any other single cause in the


forcibly

by

that awful power, than perhaps

yet they think they do no

list,

reminding one of the '-Moral

XEKRASOF
"

moral man have

strictly

I lent
I

my

jogged

never.

sum of money he could


memory in a friendly way,

friend a

his

Then tooK
The law

been ever,

not pay,

the law of

him the

to prison sent

my

affair to

end

worthy friend.

He died there not a farthing for poor me


I am not angry, though I've cause to be.
His debt that very moment I forgave,
And shed sad tears of sorrow o'er his grave.
A strictly moral man have I been ever,
And never injured anybody never.

" I sent

Meat

my

And

He
I,

slave to learn the art of dressing

he succeeded a good cook's a blessing

But he,

too, oft

would leave

his occupation,

gained a taste not suited to his station.

liked to read, to reason,

and discuss;

tired of scolding, without further fuss,

Had

the rogue Hogged

all for the

love of him

He went and drowned himself 'twas a


A strictly moral man have I been ever,
And never injured anybody never.

harm

of the Russian poet,

And never injured anybody


"

man"

strange whim.

A Icliemy.

Affectional

132

My

"

silly

And

daughter

love one day,

fell in

with her tutor wished to run away

I threatened curses, and pronounced

my

She yielded, and espoused a

man.

rich, old

Their house was splendid, brimming

But suddenly poor Mary

And
She

o'er with

wealth

her health,

consumption wrought her doom;

in a year
left

lost

ban

us mourning o'er her early tomb.

strictly

moral man have I been ever,

And never

injured anybody

CIV. Probably when animal

never."

loves die out, and spiritual Loves

succeed them, as a general rule, the true civilization


will

come

change

impudicities

its

gamy and polyandry


opposites,
their

we hope

Society must outgrow the possibilities of

along.

its

its

practical poly-

infernal saturnalias of Lust, for their exact

its

scabrous practices

for

and

evil,

and then, but not

till

then, will all the sexive horrors take

We, who

departure from the world.

Men

ourselves,

of

Eulis, beholding the curses and contrasts of the present civilization

Murder

this thing that shines so bright, yet nurses

this thing that glitters

lifting the veil to

against

it.

ism, but

show

we do

with the Beaut'c du Diable,

the concealed horror

We believe

at its breasts,

and

to

strive

by

warn mankind

not in any form of concubinage or libertin-

not use the same weapons against them that others

are accustomed to.

We" propose

to

make

every

man and woman

master and mistress of themselves, and enable them to detect the

diamond

paste from the

CV. Of

late

years there has run a chain of peculiar crime the

whole length and breath of the United

States,

from Maine

to Texas,

San Francisco. It appears as if the arch-fiend of Lust,


himself, had invented this new enormity.
I allude to the systematic
rapes, by terrible violence, or by drugging, of young children,

Boston

to

girls of

from

five

to fifteen years of age,

headed, scoundrel lechers, rheumy-eyed,

Many

and generally by hoary-

filthy,

wholly disgusting

in

of these awful crimes are the

work

of demonized men, acting from sudden impulse upon their

own

every conceivable sense.

responsibility

gang, with

its

but there

is

every reason to believe that an atrocious

head-quarters in

New

York

City,

and having

its

laws,

Affect zonal Alchemy.


rules, countersigns,

and pass-words, with branches here and


and members

over the vast country,

regular meetings

tise their

ncarlv ever}' considcral

in

way, so

albeit in a blind

then.' all
'e

There are papers which adver-

town, and village in the land.

citv,

none but

that

The principal idea that forms the soul


this: Young girls are by them supposed.

the initiate can understand.

of this infamous band

is

while pure, and preceding, and just subsequent


natural advance into

prolonging the
it

life

womanhood,

of

him who

to be

shall

endowed with
by means

first,

be f>oss/6/c that such an horror could

can be.
fifths

her

succeed

fair,

in

debauching

of her allotted term of

him

to

shared by

and that the

all

life

will,

puberty, or their

to

It is

cannot, never

it

supposed that two-

life-stock thus

obtained, can be, a:*d

is.

others of the band, on the principle of magneto-vital

Thus

would sain an average of one month's continued

It

is

to this

band

eight tenths of the child-rapes, which,

by

that

band of

is

and the

their ultra horror, so fre-

They

are all

sudden death by murder,

traitor is liable to

any moment.

the pistol, knife, or poison, at

they

be attributed

to

quently shock the nerves of the people of the world.


to secrecy,

forty

beyond the

life

-but which

term of each, as the result of one outrage

term by a gentler name.

sworn

if

by the deed, be transferred from

transfusion, not of blood, but of Nerve-aura.

allotted

foul or fair,

which

her.

power of

the

Perhaps

their secret

had

never leaked out but for the confession beneath the rope, and in

view of the
and

fire

that awaited him, of the wretch,

almost said

infuriated

mob

Righteous, taking-off a

in the "West,

still

is

whose summary,

few years ago, b\ an

fresh in the public

crime, like that of

Onan and

murder, because

has none of the terrible motives

tives of those

it

awful deeds, or ordinary rape

aided by the cruel knife,

inhuman butchery,
Lust seems
the

to

Christianic

boasted

that he

''Principle"

the Pederasts,

!!

The

mind.

regard as worse than


for,

or provoca-

for this latter

is

seldom

nor the dreadful climax crowned with

as the latter nearly always has been.

be having a Saturnalia

in these

days

Era, a male human, through

went about

the

and

in 1^7.1

Public

Press.

the country seducing men's wives on

declaring he did no wrong!

Onanism

is

mainly

physical disease; but the other crimes, including the boasting

lib-

Affectional Alchemy.

134

meaning,

ertine's,

one Moses Hull, the author of a shocking

"Personal Experience,"

human

conscienceless

are

souls

in other

actions of lost and

deliberate

the

human

words, of

brutes, not

yet immortalized.

CVI. In September,

attended a convention of ultra

1873,

Radicals in Chicago, led by a noted agitatress, with whose courage

and persistence

my

and took

member

of

besides

me

and not because

view the

to

was

in Promiscuity, as

particularly pleased,

was,

that

little

is,

or ever could be,

from either her stand-

do not, cannot, never

some claimed

her emphatically deny,

it

social question

point or that of her confreres

closed, or

stand on her side, because of her sex, and a persecuted

it

possible for

views

in advocating her

woman

did, believe

which

did, but

heard

while before either that convention

some peoples' eyes were opened

as mine certainly were,

through an incident that occurred in the

However, on the

hall.

ground of her gender, her championship of Fair play for woman


her splendid attack upon the unjust and unequal Taxation laws, and
because of her right to a

was up

for office

human

but of

trines,

stout

when

and

and the sacred

would have stood by

the side of any

similar circumstances, even though, as in

one of her points of doctrine were and are

quite dissimilar and antipodal to those I hold

upon

the

same ques-

I defended her right to a fair hearing in her bold, iconoclastic

tions.

upon the wrongs of woman, and

attack

tem of

to-day.

woman

by no means could

the injurious marriage sys-

see

it

man

or

woman

same to-day

that she

husband,

to share the favors of another's wife or

a loved and loving wife of mine

was not

and hope
to

blame,

At that convention

Freedom

in the

" confining

and

who

to

till

I pass

away,

assisted not at her

word

for I

or

was

should victimize

would have

same procedure then

uttered no

my

man

right for one

barbarian enough then to have Sickleized him

the

same woman

battle in behalf, not of her peculiar doc-

human being under

this case, nearly every

other

maintained in

responsibility, individualism,

right of Free discussion

other

the

and candid hearing,

fair

Chicago, as in Boston the year previous,

justified

I justify

them

provided

own

any
just

always

disgrace.

either for or against " Social

speeches to the three points above

named

Affect i on al Alchemy.
but

hailed that

and confidence

woman

and every one

infernal

else's declaration of belief

monogamic marriage

in sanctified

ciation of unbridled license.

vention

135

few days before

and

their

went

denun-

to that con-

had heard of, and read, the unqualifiedly infamous and


recital of " A Personal Experience " and I went there

human shape who

expressly to measure swords with the thing in

published

it

luted front

but the coward and braggart dared not show his pol-

Mr. Moses Hull was not there

for

to defend his peculiar

views and practice.

My command
bitter

enough

to

of language

my

express

wronged husband who should

became known by
time being,
the

lest

it

to bottle

kindle a

same day

my

was

the duty

plain

She was a

would have a hand

on the lurid lakes of Gehenna

own

of"

A Personal

took

warm

and throughout the nation.

make two

arena

human

and destiny

and. 2d,

soul
I

its

a female adulteress or harlot

could, and

actual

my

declared

that neither

do, alike pity

is

and

five feet

God

is

life, its

belief,

but in doing so

many

1st,

in

my

speeches

individual

the

and here repeat

it,

that

no worse than a male libertine or

beyond the range of pardon


her

people in

personal responsibility

who

and

that

"falls" from force of circum-

stances, poverty, presents, opportunity, importunity,

tion

and com-

stand,

sought

they were these:

points only;

nature of the

woman

conscience, fairly and deftly threw that bone of con-

the conclave,

voluptuary

for the

to the care of

purposely allowed myself to be misunderstood by

him

in the battle,

my

Experience "

tention entirely outside of the rather

to

and others

play until there was good skating upon ice

thick

and his

intentions

learned that the foes of Free discussion were

up

mitting the author

renders

not easily extinguished.

fire

stand

for fair

My

him.

lightning against

preparing a coup against the female leader.

man

profan-

and now, woidd

I then,
kill

the injudicious gabble of a confidant

came and persuaded me

On

family; and

words

find

who gloried in
which Manhood worships and

homage that of the

justify the

nor could

opinion of him,

ing the very holiest shrine at


grateful

limited

is

and organiza-

and him who, distracted and rendered passion-mad by a

Affectional Alchemy.

136

billowy expanse of beautiful, snowy, palpitating bosom, loses his

seven senses and follows straight in old Adam's wake.


In the Chicago conclave, as in

who

female outcast, and held that she

became a mother

aside and

who

esteem than him

my

all

works,

pleaded for the

through misfortune stepped

ere a bride, should not be held in less

That

brought the trouble to her door.

remember our own weakness, and give the helping


but
and hand. I think so still and it was in allusion to what the
fair to

ing

woman

of the convention said on that very point that

"I

by

I uttered

in the utterance of such

views until there's good skating on

feet thick

upon

Lakes of Tophet " and so


!

the

ever or whenever a

wrong

out as God's eternal

CVII.

me

own

for

He

causes underlying his actions.

to first seduce every

men and women

paternity of a given child,


sional attraction

if

it

trample upon

to

know

the hidden

certainly a strange

when

woman, married

man who

lust is alone the

or single, that he

Impregnating other men's wives

man

forgetting

man

to support

to play the role of

the last victims while in search

common

cyprian

encouraging

and scattering

possible discord and desolation wherever his salacious footsteps


to

he,

he has dishonored, and the

repeating the ghastly crime everywhere

Supposing such a being

such should be the issue of the " Pas-

and the wandering " Lover's" bastards, and

wife he has degraded


;

him
not

too to remain in ignorance as to the

the " Wanderer," laughing at the

new ones
his own wife

is

misconceptions of

" forcing an honest, hard-working

his harlotized wife,

of

we may

or another's proceedings

can, and then publicly boast of

compelling

would, and where-

denounce as an unmitigated

obligation lead

what most of us regard as holy

prompter,

to

human being whose

Manhood and human duty and

justify his

ice five

be righted and human justice dealt

is to

scoundrel and villain, any

can

her)

is.

impossible for

It is

this

is

lead-

woman (naming

the memorable sentence

will stand

it

heart

fall

be sane, then such a thing in human

who would deliberately win the favors of any woman, save a


courtesan, and then brag of it, to her shame and his
common
very
own dishonor, is too small a specimen of the genus homo to be
shape,

tolerated in society calling itself civilized.

Savagery

is

his status,

Ajfectional Alchemy.
and

to

should

it

But

he be relegated.

views and practice

not sane

is

man

a civilized

of such

he gives incontestable proof of

for

137

being the victim of chronic prostatic inflammation, undoubtedly of

more

Onanistic, but

mad,

sexually

semi-responsible

is

likely of I'cdcrastic

-whom the universe appears

as

have done with him

having thus handed him

Dentonism

call

and

after the

named Moses

this thing

down

ilk

Hull,

the ages, and that's

other, child-rape

which

latter

man,

Hull excepted,

regard

as the worst that ever existed within the confines of civilization,

the

calling

in

attention

amply redeem

thereto, I

most wretched and contemptible thing

wore the semblance of

that ever

his

That crime, and the

enough!

maniac, to

ccrebro-prostatic

one grand discus or yoni and himself

the aspiring priapic-phallic godling

But there

and thus hem"

origin;

and

of the public, but especially legislators,

my

my

promise, and have fully paid

little

Bill I
never did, by speech or pen, advocate any of the peculiar social

theories

broached and ventilated in

fully

what

and

and

at issue,

yet,

because

and

held

my

to

all

my

life

various

peace upon the main questions

was

held to have sanctioned and

the radical utterances there

all

have fought

fastening, or

of the fact, I

in spite

endorsed

marriage

my

already herein and elsewhere set forth in

for reasons

writings

any similar conclave

that, or

long,

the

made
total

to

have upheld

abrogation of

all

have espoused the doctrine of connubial hand-

temporary marriages, and

know

what

not

else of

absurdity the foes of Fair phi}- and Free discussion chose to invent

and fashion

in fantastic

As

peculiar fancies.

garb out of whole cloth to

suffered

the sun actually rose next day

Love's

emotional,
are

Human

marriage, being

has three

offices, clear

humanizing and perpetuating;

means

0:1c,

for

distortion, so did others,

ot

soul-growth; and, 3d.

bevond

all

own

and yet

Alchemy The Marrow; Res

CVIII.

by

suit their

triplicate,

and
2d.

oestve

Stmming

material,

distinct.

They

1st.

up.

mental,
functions

Its

are refining, elevating,

The purpose

doubt the ultimate of the

it

serves

human

is

is

mvstic

deific

Affectional Alchemy.

138

fusion mingling, interblending

God

at-one-ment

what came from, must return

to,

with the Omnipotent

the centre

would be nearer God is he who loves the purest.


CIX. The test of all Love is its self-sacrificing
amative love

all

which

is

its

must be builded of

it

mental and spiritual

Woman

CX.

it

up.

man, and

loves easier than

When

man

it,

be based upon

it

respect,

affection, that

it is

then

down

easier broken, unless

it is

next to death to

earnest,

and from the

women Society

But take the two and probably the

of.

people, I
loves will

balance each other, with this eternal fact in woman's favor


self-sacrificing,

and her

love,

when

it

is love, is

she

is

untainted with earth

never external, never merely sensual.

is

Woman

CXI.
of

which she

really feels,
;

to perfection

way by a
More men love their wives
;

embrace him, with a load of deceit


over.

all

Blast

it,

The

be

real, tells its

for the lady


at the

in her heart.

is

own

He

can coolly kiss

very

first

chance

But when a man

and you destroy him.

days love as true and solid as that

ones

with the intent of playing upon him

loves he loves

eyes open cannot be

than wives their husbands

cannot make believe half as well as she

man

a spark

and hoodwink any man she

woman with her


man for love, if it

but a

served the same


story.

not

can conceal, dissemble, pretend love,

chooses to play upon

and

other things being equal, ever-

all

masses, overweighs, any love modern

mean are capable

loves in right

feminine side of his soul,

else it lasts not.

roots are grounded in her very soul

give

unselfishness

unclean, abnormal, unless

is false,

wow-physical

the

and he who

But

in these

exceedingly rare indeed

undetected and unconvicted adulterers exceed the uncaught

five

hundred

to one.

This result from the non-understanding

of the real and radical differences existing between true soul-love

mere passional and magnetic


times more abundant than the other.
and

its

CXII.

That

is

No wicked
the

which are

fifty

person can truly love and remain wicked.

redemptive, salvatory and alchemical power of the

divine principle

great

counterfeits

True-heartedness

human world and human

is

soul.

the corrective agency of the

Without

it

we

are ships

on

the stormy deep, with a wild rush of angry waters threatening to

Affectioiial Alchemy.
submerge us
havens

secure anchorage

anil

blessedness; without

it,

wc arc lifc-1 mated into


With it, we arise into bliss

With

any instant!

at

misery

it,

our

is

lot;

for

System wherewith God engirdles the worlds


Ilim

to

returns, bringing

it

finds there,

it

CXIII. At

like

and viewless Lord of

first

it

beads

it

it

goes

hang round the neck


and superlative glorv

infinite

in

our souls, a new-

At

urged

soul

we

and unless

expend

to centre

it

cease to be truly

do, wretched arc

human

but sink

we

If

till

we

deliverance, but a very troublous

we do the measure
CXIV. The new soul

and entrusted
forty

to the

Bv

weeks.

her

of our

one.

l'/e

descends

We

on earth

so to do, but

fail

man

and

it

is

bond

speedily
slaves of

which there may be


must love one; for
unfilled.

by him

bequeathed

dear mother's care, during those

mysterious

it

is

his

robed in flesh and blood, and during the

bounden duty

form, from the gentle caress


gallantry.

is

we

is

to

wonderful and thrice holy process she needs


can spare

we

arc the

pernicious, debasing, demoralizing habit, from

unless

we

on some one, some reciprocating

forces here, there, everywhere, anywhere,

its

the

and we are glad without know-

ing the reasons why, like unto the babe quickened en 7itcro ; and
are irresistibly

to

Love springs up and surges

vague, general, diffusive

is

anil

forlorn ones

born and strange power, which rules us with a rod of iron.


start

fair

the telegraphic

is

From Ilim

up from the deeps the poor

and stringing them

of the ineffable

139

to the

to

all

impart

the vital
it

life

that he

in every possible

kind word and act of tender

She knows when she requires magnetism, and

sJic is to

be sole and supreme judge of xvJicn. and zv/icrc and Aozc that vital

power

An

shall

be imparted

Do

not forget this.

hour's rest on his loving shoulder at the eventide, just as they

sit by the open casement, is sometimes of more value to an unwell


woman, than untold gold and diamonds would be at another time,

and under different conditions.


Moreover.

have no patience with the puerile jargon of the

"Physiologists." to the end that the great climax of C'Dinubiality

ought alwavs
tion
all

to

cease from the conceptive

that non-intercourse

of which

moment

till

after lacta-

should he the ride, and rigidly enforced.

regard as stupid nonsense

prefixed with a dash and

Affectional Alchemy.

140
two

d's,

because

we

are

human

beings, not

both the mother and babe require that magnetic


only the father

There

is

mere animals

and

and vtf which

life

and husband can supply.

a very curious thing right here

Instances are numerous

of a wife descending, subsequent to conception, to other than the

man

In such case, the second

father of her child.

determines the

shape, quality and calibre of the unborn infant's soul

has no right to wrong any

and the

cyprian,

child

man

in that style

essentially

is

an

The woman

for she ranks but as a

illegitimate

because,

whereas, the husband has given body to his offspring, the other
supplies
like

it

with the elements of

him than

its

own

force than physical

father

spirit,

because spiritual laws are of stronger

Don't forget

But the husband has no more


because wherever he goes he

is

this

rights in this respect than his wife

sure to bring back a non-assimilable,

foreign, magneto-vital influence,

appropriate and absorb

and the babe will be more

which neither

his wife nor child can

and thus he warps the babe's

soul, if not

its

body, and infuses an aura into the very marrow of the being of both
his dependents,

which

is

injurious to

all,

and may crop out

cal disease or mental ailment, in after years,

conduct of his angular child

When
sleep

in physi-

by the hair-graying

babes and children have trouble, they cry themselves

to

when men and women have trouble, slumber flies their


Now when men are careless concerning the substance

weary

eyes.

of this paragraph, they indicate a bad state of puerility

human

for of all

who shall
Suppose an inferior woman

duties, the grandest is that of fathering those

"But how?

superior to ourselves.

be already pregnant,

how

shall I, her

haste, imperfect organization,

in a

be
to

husband, correct the faults of

word, suppose the child

to

be

has been launched into existence under very unfavorable conditions

how

shall I correct the

come

to the

world a

bad bias

far better

just as they began?


Tell me
thank you on bended knee "

and what

this,

O man

do that

shall I

and nobler being than

if

of Eulis,

it

may

things ended

and

I will

Well

1 st.

put,

my

questioner.

Remember

Now

heed thou well the reply thereto

that in her condition your

marital offices are

Affectional Alchemy.
never in order save

may\ic.
direct

That

2d.

when
if

results

injury

Wherefore In frequency
good

for

results.

spirit;

and through

blessed or cursed

it.

to wife,

you hope

if

threefold

is

That said
body and

soul,

maybe

then both the mother and the child

poisoned or purified;

with divine

filled

mag-

greatest streams of

states of the

3d.

child.

and wife to husband.

convex ing the

or

to.

time,

oilier

;uiv

consummation

that

That then the

sot'L.

a vehicle

is

at

and her unborn

the true policy to be pursued,

is

netism flow from husband

Magnetism

and accepted

the mother

Remember

_|th.

of body, spirit.

she determine* thev shall, aught

otlcrcd

to

141

life,

or

charged with the quintessence of horror and hell


Well, do you sec the point? do you understand your duty: and do

you perceive that,


and

when

follow,

by restraint you add vigor

she invites you to share

praying

willing,

if

that

that

your entire being

with her. you do

good,

untold

and result therefrom,

it

to

unnumbered

wishing,

so,

may

blessings

they ivill come, just as sure as

God reigns? If you do not so perceive it, it is high time you did.
Were you an initiate of Eulis, you would find out more on this
wonderful point but as it is, take what I herein give you, and God
grant you may profit by it.
;

CXV.
fidelity

Love, and love only, can secure the devotion and heart-

woman, and any

of a

woman

loves,

turned, she

even

if

ones, by unwise

is

is

heroine

a great deal better than

ruin

their

is

but

if re-

heroism

homes, even though loving

and untimely association.

It

should never be a

matter of course, but ever and always a dual inspiration


it

When

not worth having.

is

unreturned, she

happy, which

is

CXVI. Married people

other sort

otherwise

detective.

Woman

CXVII.
compatibles

ways.
alone

is

each contrasts and opposites

The

and man are not equals.


tiie

but an

is

incompleteness. a

what has made marriage

wrangle, tangle.

were well

if

are

compact.
it

is

The

to-dav.

anything, even thing, but what

we would

in all

Either

Neither owns the

halfness.

as

diverse

offsetting

other,

two. together, constitute the being called man.

other, but are joint intere<tants in the social

ownership

They

each of us constantly bear

it

in

idea of
jangle,

should be.

mind

that

It

we

Affectional Alchemy.

142

conquer oftenest when

we

stoop to do so

and

that

more

to be

is

gained by graceful sacrifice than stubborn reliance upon reserved


rights.

CXVIII. The second purpose of marriage


Spaces

its

essence

infiltration of soul,

is spiritual.

whence

it

the peopling of the

is

In true marriage there

happens that nature,

is

a mutual

in slowly

mould-

ing each to resemble the other, proclaims that marriage real and
true

but not

the ceremonies on earth could fuse a couple of

all

If these likenesses are not observed,

natural antagonists.

pretty sure sign that there

and

homeside,

still

is

but

little

love coursing round that

flowing through

less

is

it

channel

the

of their

lives.

We

do not want

to find ourselves

growing away from each other

but in fusing natures and blending

coalesce with our

to

spirits,

opposites, effecting a chemical union, admitting no separation, and

the only solvent of

which

the grand Alcahest

is

the marriage be perfect, even death

Reader

don't be a fool

but never acts


heart

of

is

it.

I,

is

don't lavish your love

the author of this book,

some empty,

on one who

tell

all

him

it,

if

it.

you

talks,

that if your

the greater danger

bladder-like being, with your

sphere, then falling desperately in love with

the dreadful sleep to find

unable to change

overflowing with affection, you are in

first filling

Death And

own

soul's

waken from

only to

or her a diabolic sham, and yourself

wrecked, ruined, prostrate, helpless, broken-hearted, deserted, and

wretched beyond description.


Love, and
till

then

when you

find

Prove

all things,

especially proffered

real, give rein to your soul

it

But

not

CXIX. When

a couple are alike, equally choleric, mental, physi-

cal, frigid or the reverse

passive, positive, magnetic, electric,

slender, fat, active, indolent

tall,

then such are constitutionally, tempera-

mentally, and in most other respects, non-adapted to each other

and
than

if

they are not careful, there will be more

its

opposite, in that family.

down

than up, discord

But, where such persons have

already cast the die of what passes current in these days as mar-

wisdom in seeking to create or build up an artificial


harmony, which care and time will render habitual, natural and
riage, there's

Affect'tonal Alchemy.

143

permanent; because Habit becomes even stronger tnan nature, as


witness the use of narcotics, which all arc disgusted with at fiiM.
If

people will but attempt

making

thus

in

second nature, the

barrenness, usual in such cases, will be obviated, as well as the

premature

senility

effects are

often

and impotence resultant;

owing

any other medical

such causes

to

for

both

that

these

as

clcarlv established as

fact, albeit the sufferers are

not always aware of

is

the reason.

CXX.

In

human

males of the

all

charms of woman, based upon


round which

rise.

She takes

moral, spiritual

manhood

awaken

such cases he

is

better, nobler, higher

for

and only

woman.

thereto at

Her

love

love never

his social, mental,

lapse of time, fre-

the realization of the

to

and uncounted thousands there are

from the

all

man who

an unwise

after the

awaken

quently a whole year, does she

never

His

to the better side first

purely sensuous or passional

who

the central attractive point,

is

Reverse the case

comes afterward.
has that

desire,

desires cluster.

all

species the personal, physical

altar to the grave.

Ifl all

does not by careful and assid-

uous attention, by every delicate and tender means, seek to establish


the natural equilibrium

mant power

CXXI.

by

Prior to the actual

marriage

most intensely and devotedly.


revulsion of feeling,
in

which he

is

amounting

But

him with

woman

Wise

astonishing to herself.

ardor cools, and a

almost sure

to dislike, is

for

it is

he

who

follow

to

then only that

depth and fervor surprising

is

the dor-

husband loves deepest,

the

after that, his

the exact opposite of

she begins to cling to

make

human methods arouse


who shares his lot and life.

all true

in the breast of her

to

him,

then gives her reason

to

that love permanent, solid, lasting, even to the brink of the

grave.

Men,

all

males in

subsequent thereto.
himself
spirit,

at these

It

last the

the

Law.

But

with gloom, dread,

life

all

female^,

man must so comport


to wound her sensitive
fear, suspicion.

First

longest!

CXXII. Man's Love


lie. so to speak,

is

marriage ;

primal interviews as not

or cloud her

impressions

love fiercest before

fa 61,

packs

is
it

never a steady stream, or constant force.

away

in the

presence of other

Business,"

Affectional Alchemy.

144
and gives

it

now and

an airing

and loves right

matter what, her love

mind

tion of her

of the day

life

theme of her

the sole

and she takes good care

and a

kind,

fair return, in

an hour of mortal anguish.


her

start,

reverses

every day and

with man.

he loves,

If

to give

air

it

long months of

toil

awakens

it,

God

It is

own

what wonder

heart and loving

brink of ruin, until he stands toppling on the

whether

to leap or not

of the interfering

CXXIII. Lust

after
;

it,

him

frees

ties

man

him from many

of suicide, doubt-

cliffs

outer walls of

the

to

human

life,

celestial Verities

and divinest

People

gehenna by rushing

plunge

gives

him

But

the freedom
;

and

life

Without love we

truth.

and nervous

arms

extant

disorders

and

perdition

into

and

are

all

but

social

Passional

too often!

Love cures them

are,

headlong

into each other's

excess generates disease


difficulties

thrall

feeds

indeed, poor hermits in the world

CXXIV.

and

a gyve

and

him with the bread of life opens


and admits him to the companionship of

of God's gardens of joy


;

but

and only saved by the Omnipotent hand

God

the gates of heaven

that

to the

keeps him there a prisoner feeding upon the poorest of husks.

Love

for

madness comes, and the wild

that

beating of his heart and throbbing of his temples drive

ful

even so

and

phantom

to find his idol but a

many

for

help her

My God

have loved,

he has been embalming a doll in his


getting no return,

the

eveiy hour

amply repays her

If she fails to get

as

all

the only occupa-

life,

but a lingering, painful, torturous death.

is

all that,

Whatever she may be about, no

at all.

is

woman

but

from the

straight along

time, provided she loves

again

the kidney

the

physical

expression of the morbid and unhealthy states of the love-natures

of their respective victims.

Those who love can never

prostitute themselves or each other, in

any way.
It is just as

impossible to kindle

soul that loves.

But, ah, God,

fact that all this time

with

ice as to

terrible is the

long deceive a

awakening

you have been lavishing your

treasures on a dead stock

or gravid uterus,

how

fire

Then

in

her

case,

to the

heart's best

comes leucorrhcea

not physical ailments, but the outward

sign that

AJjfcctional Alchemy.
love trouble

there's

CXXV.

the soul, and love the onlv remedy.

in

more or

case insanity

less

It is its

train of

ills

In his

pronounced, and enduring.

There are periods when love

moods.

\^

upon

insists

passional

natural appeasement.

If not yielded to, a frightful

are sure to follow, and

madness may end the cruel

scene.

CXXVI.

Jealousy quite as often springs from magnetic incom-

and impotence as from love-estrayal

patibility

heart-pain, dyspepsia, liver


vaginal, ovarian,

and Bright's

and other

fatal

and

it

brings

on

disease, prostatic, urethral,

troubles, long before the allotted

span of years run out.

CXXVII. Doctors tell us


diseases of woman.
But a

that actual

marriage

woman

diseased

not

is

actual marriage in diseased states of either party

The

doctrine

marriage no
underlie
if

good

coarser

it,

well and good

And more

That

is

it is

if not,

fit

is

and

for it;

monstrous!

Magnetism may

and the thing occurs.

then not.

some

It

is

do.

If love

But

disastrous.

Affection that works the miracle, nothing

wives are injured in that manner than sextons

dig graves for

to

a very

"She

poor

sort of love

prated of Love

which always exacts but never


day long, and neglected by one

all

act to prove her truth,"

single

facts are facts,

results follow,

gives'

He
am

But

can find spades

'

nonsense, pure and simple.

is

will cure

is the story of many a man's life.


me but just look at me does love waste one as
My God Let this bitter cup pass from mcl" is

says he loves

wasted?

the daily cry of millions of

Married" ivomcnl

I'm tired and sick of dead babies!

They ought

to

fill

out

the

term of threescore years and ten; but they don't; and those who
escape the sewers, sinks, drains, and being carried out with the

being snugly put away

tides, or

in

the

garden, are

in a cigar-box

mighty uncertain of

and stuck

safe

in a hole

deliverance

from

measles, scarlatina, croup, paregoric, or Mrs. Winslow'.s soothing

Ah, but isn't it


knows no waking

syrup!
that

spring of the
but

many

riff-raff,

a soother?

soothing mam

one

But these dead ones are not


or haul-handed servitors at

hundred of them might

to a sleep

all

labor's

the oil-

shrine;

lav claim to aristocratic lineage

and

have quite enough experience

who wink

or

Alchemy.

Affectional

146

such deeds, are,

at,

of deadly piety, who, behind


dreadful enough to

shame a

who

do,

of them church-goers,

full

to satisfy

many

the

me

that those

scenes, revel

Not

Satyr.

debaucheries

in

a few of

are " Re-

them

formers," in public preaching perfect purity, but in private practising promiscuity, and the very ones

woman

respectable

if

male

with whom no decent,

could be alone with ten minutes, save at the

absolute certainty of being insulted by the most villainous proposals.

my

In

Medical practice, and that of Teacher, three classes of


1st. Wives whose daily
whose "homes" were tophets in petto;

persons mainly sought relief or counsel:

was a
and whose

living death;

life

"

Husbands "

dumb

than they did the

sic? in one respect treated them worse

brutes in barn or stable

poor, waxen-faced

martyrs, worse than sacrificed and slaughtered on the altars of a

low and mean,

legalized sensualism, so

shame
and

the beasts of the field

women whose

found not

selfish,

exacting, as to even

and these wives human

hearts and souls yearned for affection

and which they were denied by those from

had the right

expect

to

it

people

who were

which they

whom

Marriage, as

God

class of callers

of people

guide them to the desired haven

to

intended

it

should be.

3d.

or

whose

and heaven, of

But by

far the largest

had been broken up, or down,

entire gender-nature
until they

women, incapable
Sex and Marriage

had become mere phantom men and

of realizing the sublime meaning of the words


;

and so disordered and diseased that Hope

with folded wing and fouled anchor, perched upon a bleak

O my God

away.

island far

what

to

vampiral depletion

barrenness
heart,

society,

marriages

breath,

vital

its

the

society,

deceit

terrible

with

its

cliff

on

victims

all,

exhaustion; impotentia,

diseases of uterus, vulva, ovaries, kidneys,

lungs, brain

society,

the

nervous and

itself,

and blank

utter horror

despair have I seen gleam from the eyes of thousands

who

and correspondents must be reckoned that vast mass

and demoralized

some

they

either fretting to

death under the awfully galling yoke of a bad marriage

wanted advice

Men

2d.

prostate,

personal hades outgrown from


falses

and shams

and hypocrisy, denouncing the

its

mone)--

Wrong

with

but with act encouraging concubinage, cyprianism,

Affect ion al Alclicmy.


libertinage

and

lv

its

repressions, fashion, stdc. display and airi-

and fostering thereby

ness discouraging marriage,

now

desolating millions, and decimating

all

were

class

third

that

Christian, aristocratic,
this

from

the

fair

make

respectable,

society, not of

Cuba,

civili/ed lands, including

all

percentage of

wealthy,

dignified,

and even reverend Mratns of

country alone, but of

solitary vice

'lie

the fair lands!

solemn statement and declaration that a \crv

the

Chili,

France, Spain, China. Australia, japan and England.

r>ra::il,

demand

fact, the

and

for sex tonics

in\ igorants

enormous but almost universal, and

demand

for

all

common human

the Love-laws of our

medicines speaks

such

in

In

not only simply

is

springing from violation of

Ot course, such a

nature.

thunder tones against the

and equally loud against the private habits of

causes producing

it,

us of the world.

But the

in

147

facts exist

and even the dreadful syphilis

modified form rages in the blood and bones of unnumbered thou

sands

not only of guilty debauchees. who are scarce

but.

alas, in those of

are these half


suffer

innocent wives and prattling infants!

murdered ones

and die

of both

the latter classes

dogs? or are they

like leprous

make desperate

to be pitied

efforts for physical salvation?

to

What
to

do?

reach forth and

If the latter, then

.11

legislators

should at once look to the enactment of laws suppressing

quackery

making

syphilis a criminal offence

squelching " flash" papers, and legalizing


trust

favored

Mormon and

Religious" and

Estate of

nations, that

wrongs

Shame on

it

tyrant's

fen.-,

its

the Public Pre--* should be,

the

champion of

the free

aered tru-t,

its

Calm

in its utterance, in its

Wise

in its

judgment

ju~t.

teaching; uncorru[it and strong,

spread the

Long may

the 1'n.ss

hesitates to launch

Faithful ami constant to

To

and punish-

ri_;ht

it lie

On Freedom's

the First
thunders

and hurl them forever into hades!

just cited,

" Firm in the right

The

punishes polygamy outside the

Perfectionist churches, institutions or bagnios,

Theological."

modern

the class of

now

it

unions based on blind

on one side and villainous libertinage on the other

ing re-unions elsewhere as

all

hanging abortionists

and

to

denouncr the wrong!

ere candor inu-t confess

hordes, a

weak and venal Press

"
!

at

Affectional Alchemy.

148

wrong in
One
apparent.

generally admitted that there's something

It is

but what the cure

or shall be

is

not so

is

society,

class of

people advocate "Social Freedom" as the panacea, whatever that

may mean.

Before

went

to,

at,

and

Chicago Convention, elsewhere alluded

meaning of the terms.

correct

same

are the

to

me

the

of,

knew

the

and therefore look

Spoiled cheese, and cheese

my

nor for

moral grade and

difference in the

thought

to, I

I find I did not

in other directions for the social cure.


spoiled,

day

until the last

can

life

now

see the

status of a cyprian or libertine

on

the pay-rolls, and the same, impulse and passion being the spur and

The

motive.
It

cheese smells equally bad in both cases

wouldn't be a bad thing

M.D.

make it a punishable offence


nicer name of scrofula, thus

to

by the

syphilis

call

to

honest wives, and screening recreant husbands


well paid for their white
the bodies

womb

it

if it

etc.,

For

girls

shape

the

stopped right there, but

don't

it

vaginal itching

as pure as

snow

to the

any

fooling

they are

of Jluor alius,

The

evil is

because, in the

creates

morbid

first

desire,

almost dead certainty of

and salacious scoundrel

falling victims to the first graceful, smart,

that comes along, a scoundrel and victim

if

for

days that scourge burns

in these
in

even

inherited from infected mothers.

brings on pruritis,

and subjects

unspotted virgins,

complaint,

bad enough
place,

of

lies

too,

it

may be

of the

same

inherited-fluid ruin coursing like streams of fire through his swollen

veins

In the second place, these girls are to become wives and

mothers

these boys husbands

and fathers

thus the curse

is

injected

into the veins of myriads of the yet unborn children doomed before

birth to endure a

know

life

of perpetual ill-health and morbid unrest

nothing of real happiness from the breast to the tomb

which

latter

repeat Syphilis

CXXVIII. Love
will endure

to

to

they are likely to be rushed prematurely by suicide,

resultant from insanity begotten by the beings

Again

and

struck; but the

is

is

a crime,

who

parentcd them.

and should be held

multiple in form and mode.

suffer long.

"dying"

At

others

it

as such.

Sometimes

it

will die as if lightning'-

sort of affection

is

not worth tying to!

Sever
Irish

Love

is

gallant, but non-lasting,

and

is

more

affectional or

Affect tonal Alclieniy.


Xcgro Love

amicivc than anient and amative.


Oriental Love

sensual.

ous,

Love

tender, but not enduring.

ierman Love

parental, maternal,

is

It

no hill-tops crowned with glittering sheen.


lascivious, and,

ficial,

of

English Love, like

fact.

Scotch Love
felickc

brutal,

and never tender,

uncertain, changeful,
ficial,

American

of

Western Love

its

Ohio,

is

know

hint little

like that of

is

downright

Yankee Love

is

and dimes, dash and

cool, calculating,

display.

what

The

manly.

men

of

my

is

earnest, devotional

in

(and he was descended from a French family, born

in

ject to fevers,

never met but one

life;

old

man

such

more

or less troubled with


arteries,

muscles

Embolism.

all

the viscera,

chalkv, carbonaceous, calcareous refuse of the body

as the organs cannot get rid of;

a cessation of physical jovs

Embolism

from

he should change his amative for amicivk ardor;

old people arc

limy/,

free

should be very careful of the intimacies of

a clogging of the veins, nerves,

with the

Thev have less sharp intellect,


but more Soul ; hence, while sub-

amative weakness thev are

CXXIX. An
all

and devoted, genuine and

mean man among them

perhaps, than the northern people,

because

volcanic, chivalrous, gallant, true, ten-

Limerick, or the Cove of Cork).

wedded

saw

well-bred Southerners are the true ladies and gentle-

America
life

Love

when

and seldom drives

victims to suicide, because only the heartful sink to despair

dcr, jealous, safe

fitful,

engrossed in the one grand

all

about, and, judging from

extremes.

moody, seldom more than super-

dollars
deep

solid, lasting,

is

periodic, poisonish, often

passional,

life

super-

is

has no

hut

Northern Love

delicate, or refined.

so-so-ish, not

Lastly. Southern

all

have,

to

because the Yankee faculties are

object

in

good

scratchy,

cattv.

French Love

gone, a tiling of memory, not

is

domestic, but mcalv.

is

no great joys

food and architecture,

its

life-prolonging,

nourishing,

the

when youth

filial.

has no Italian heights;

no mountains or valleys; no anguish

Spanish

consuming;

scorching,

terrible,

domestic dead-level, and mainly physical.


no sunbursts

vague, skvcv,

not keen, or passional.

Init

impetuous,

ardent,

iierv,

is

dilTiishe. hilari-

is

sad-cved, dreamy,

is

heavenly, divine.

poetic, rapt,

149

and the accumulation means

and vigor, and ultimate death.

prevails to a considerable extent, the

orgasm

is

'When
danger-

Ajfectional Alchemy.

150

ous thing for that man, and death stands close by whenever he

body of

acid

such

if

on

-will insist

first

get rid of the Embolism, and cleanse

all superfluities in

the shape of phosphates, alkaline or

being foolish, they should


the

But

no longer a youth.

forgets that he is

dissolve the clayey refuse, and evacuate

time he may, in repeating youth-like

follies,

it

some

at once, else

so shock and shatter his

nervous system as to rob him of what few years remain to him on

This cleansing process

earth.

have elsewhere

quite easy of accomplishment, as I

is

and while

stated,

And this point suggests another


CXXX. Self-venery is more

alive,

and broken.

All that

often a disease than

necessary

is

ready to instruct about.

closely connected with

In either case the fault or habit

crime.

is

is

it

a vice or

is

it

easily corrected, cured,

to exhibit

medicines that will

amative appetite, and for awhile seal up the ducts.

repress the

The waste being

stopped, of course strength accumulates, for the

rich, vital life is retained, assimilated,

brain,

am

and the diseases of nerves,

and pelvic viscera disappear before the returning march of

vigorous and triumphant health.

CXXXI.

cannot

resist the desire to repeat

my

warning against

the ruinous and suicidal policy of " conjugal frauds," that


the

marriage

reasons.

to a point short of

They

are these

least ten times greater in


its

dreadful counterfeit

habit, that the

nervously.
the brain

In

all

natural office

The shock

nervous system

to the

never saw a case where

rite,
it

at

had been a

not terribly injured, cerebrally as well as

almost beyond the power of reparation.

must be naturally
is

is

or even

such cases Sanity was a diminishing ratio

vessels of the pelvis

fulfilled, else

so great, that premature impotence


insanity,

brain-softening, spinal disease, apoplexy, and death

what God intended,

and

The

the strain on the blood-

while that upon the cerebral arteries means

realize

carrying

but I have additional

such cases than in the normal

and

man was

injured

completion

is,

ruin, sooner or later,

is

is

sure;

paralysis,

Unless both

the inevitable

In cases where the sensuous equations are not alike, the


more rapid nervous action can be retarded by an effort of the will,

result.

and God's design be accomplished, not


sudden deaths of middle-aged

men

result

frustrated.

from

One-half the

this cause

Alchemy.

Affectional
CXXXTT. Many husbands, by
instead of imputing
fault

Now this

consequence.

He

deeply.
5th.

if

not wholly,

impotent; but

to the right cause, they attribute

it

it

some

to

on the other side of the house, and poor she leads an unhappy

life in

1st.

various means, have so impaired

personal vigor, as to be semi,

their

151

occupy

should

Be much

3d.

Bathe often.

and

potatoes at all;
energies,

in

man

and be a

the

in

Eat

sunshine.

weeks he

four

again

for

was fashioned by

CXXXIII.

often

It

a great deficiency,

part of

some

ladies

the cure quite easy


solus.

2(1.

Drink no

4th.

and

beef,

solid

a passional imbecile, he could not

wife that ever

own chamber

his

6th.

wrong but

is all

unsifted

Breathe
liquors.

no

flour

will recuperate all

his

lost

while he remains a weakling and

be happy with the best and

fairest

hand of Omnipotence

the master

happens that from some occult reason there

is

even to the extent of horror and disgust on the


;

whose

lords not realizing the enormity of such

conduct, lead lives of insistancc, and reap crops of passive, vet

enforced compliance on the part of their

vielims,

Such men should

own power, by

and kindness,

to

realize that

it

in their

is

change the morbid

was shrunk from with loathing,

to a natural state

will, in six

natural and right, and be fully reciprocated

forbearing
oh,

how

trial,

and some patience

delightful!

with

yourself, instead of as before,

you

who suffers so long


CXXXIV. True Manhood, and all

as

you

that

it

do

is

ample

we

and
from

tyrant, bent

on

not'.

implies, proclaims itself

When

nothing so well and fairly as in the tones of our voices.

in

and

as a saviour

a little domestic

mischief, careless

what

so that

a little noble

yet the reward

say?

delicacy

months, be accepted as

that she regards

to feel

shall

arc right in that respect, the sounds are clear, deep, round,

full,

sonorous, melodious, with an underlaver of music ringing out belllike

from our very souls.

the emotive

It

then shows that

we

are right both at

and brain centres of our duplicate being

but

when

thev

are cracked, shrill, sharp, acute, squeaky, false, coppery, gongv,


indicates
sessor

is

little

better

power and
fit

for

Soid

for

it

is

morbid, and

its

pos-

almost anything else than holy, honorable,

God-sanctioned marriage

CXXXV.

less

it

Soul-vigor, and

what

it

implies, depends to

great

Alchemy.

Affectional

152

Lung

extent on

good diges-

capacity, and that generally indicates

tion.

No

great act or mighty thought can originate in, or be accom-

who

plished by, one

manhood.

absolute

ment, that long


heel,

deficient

is

Just so long as

we

are demoralized

we

are morbid in that depart-

head

all over, inside, outside,

to

and soul and body.

Sexive health and purity


it

quality of

the foundational

in

We

the price of power.

is

on any other terms whatever

wherefore Truth

cannot have

one love builds

to

the entire being; while any departure therefrom, any degree of

up

promiscuity,

beats

energies, lays

As

grain.

the

the

to

summer

low, just as

it

wings

soul's

ground,

torrents lay

In nothing

rule

is this

its

low the ripening

most important of

a thinker, I regard that as one of the

all truths.

cripples

more imperative than

in the cases

of such persons as desire to cultivate the inner powers of the being


for

any passional excess or " Variety " as certainly disarms the

seals

up

ruins the capacity for psycho-vision, as that water and


onistic.

It is

same time

fire

are antag-

God and Mammon at


that we cannot cultivate

said that one cannot serve

and

and

better

soul,

power of perception, and

the spiritual eyes, blunts the inner

equally certain

is

it

loftier

powers resident within

us,

and

at the

the
the

same time

give a loose rein to the carnal passions of our nature.

CXXXVI. The

force of Genius

are the force of Destiny

is

No man

the force of Gender, and both

or

woman

unless their amatory natures are well developed

my

In

medical practice

eases myself,
firstly,

I first

and then taught

my

secondly, and lastly, getting

man

is

full

cured people of innumerable


pupils

them

how

to

hills

much

after

of health

of vigor he scorns to do a

because he feels himself so

MAN. You

dis-

do likewise, by,

right sexively

dear old Nature carried them straight up the

When

can be truly great

which

mean

pick out

thing,
all

the

scoundrels and drivers of hard bargains, and that portion of their

nature will be found missing

mean

to live

the other hand,

when

their being

On
lar,

she's

too

mighty apt

to

no color

in their faces,

no manhood

in

too miserable to die

a lady's periods are sweet, pure, regu-

be very pleasant company

to

whoever

Affect ional Alchemy.


chances

by

to pas*

way and

tliat

from heaven

straight out

her very smile

But

ami

woman

should forever he held apart and sacred, for she


of -.-ifclincss at such times than

a ray of sunlight

is

soon as the firms

just as

appear, she begins to sour right away

153

in

lancJics

cither state

no more capable

is

the weanling craw ling on the

is

Whv, every one can see at a glance.


CXXXVII. Death is but the beginning

floor.

trouble

body

and marriage

else's

before

perverted

is

so

for there's

much

some people's

Such can

remain so afterward.

marriage, anil

real

of every-

morbidity afloat that people are

never avoid slander, scandal, backbiting


to

of

commencement

generally the

but take thereto as ducks

water, because the foundations of nobility are sealed up; and

neither

man

woman

or

thus characterized can live at peace with

any other of God's creatures on the footstool.

Such wives
them.

Such men neglect


Xo\v

supreme.

make home

either fool their lords, or

if

and general chaos reigns

their wives,

such would but take pains

the true instinct, the road to happiness

too hot to hold

to revive

would open

and

cultivate

straight before

them.

CXXXVIII. When
and flabby,

it

or uterine trouble

of chronic discontent

Let

affection.

is

loose

a sure sign of three things: kidney, bladder, vaginal,

is

urethral, brain,

turbances

of the face, hands, arms,

the skin

originating in aflectional dis-

and of the need of cure by

be done, and they

this

who would

love and be loved

breathe deeply, and the physical ailments will disappear.


cuity can never

do

have heard doctors recommend

it.

Promisit;

but

ilk who contend


human toads bent
any sane man to love

have no patience with them or with that other

"Variety

To me

Love."

in

they are but

hesliming the morals of mankind.


wife

whom

he

knows

by their mutual troth

genuine

this

in

man

which ought

or

for
011

the

shares with another favors to which he alone


is

entitled

Public opinion

against such doctrine; and although

wrong, vet

defy

it

woman

is
is

it

is

sets in

unquestionably right:
willing

to.

to lie exclusively their

lings advocate the doctrine;

but

it

or eapahle

own.
is

strong tides

sometimes pig-headed and


because no true,

of,

sharing the love

Lecherous human

always on

halt-

tlicir side ot

the

Affeciional Alchemy.

154

house, at the expense of some one else's wife or daughter

simply monstrous and impossible for healthy people


" Variety."

CXXXIX.

who have no

People

to

It is

be happy

in

who, by

charity toward those

pressure of circumstances, place, opportunity, or magnetism, step


aside

and commit a

social fault, will

upon

analysis be found not

overly sound at heart, secretly unprincipled, and wofully lacking in


the basic elements of genuine

man

Prudes are not perfectly clean

or

womanhood.

in all corners of their souls.

Those who demolish bagnios are usually bagnio-patrons


and

libertines

say a good

have

word

mercy than

less

their opposites

ones

for the fallen are the

Rakes

while those

who know how

who
is

it

themselves to be spat upon, maligned, lashed, scorned, neglected

and that too by those unworthy


they

who

to latch their shoestrings

while

hate the opposite sex give proof positive of foul personal

habits within the secrecy of their

CXL. Men

own rooms

often like their wives, as household conveniences, yet

never really husband them

wants but don't get

and

that's exactly

as a general

rule

what every woman

Now

if

there

one

is

fool

it is either the wife who submits to such treatwhen she has her remedy in the exercise of the three prinnamed elsewhere in this book or the husband who expects

greater than another,

ment,
ciples

that a neglected wife

can really love him, and honestly be sorry

when he dies
CXLI. Virtue,

its

not

When

is

normal

the

is

were born wrong,- and

The

we have

inherit tendencies not

must

yields to passional breezes


it

Most of

souls.

good

for us

still

us

in the

a never-failing remedy.

heart's allegiance

fore I hold

man

cumstances than the natural inclination of our


cultured will

state of

what we crave and yearn for and finding


we go astray it is more from the pressure of cir-

Affection, not passion,

are blest.

opposite,

first

be turned aside before the body

blowing from off the home-shore

better to not try to break the

where-

bad connection by

force,

but by the applied will rewin the straying one to love's arms again.

CXLII. The essence of Marriage


publish the fact

wherefore

it

is

consent.

Ceremonials merely

should be the law of every land that

Affect ion al Alchemy.

who

he

finds a

act alone,

woman worth

he compelled

seducing, and docs

The fad

man

that a

Such

is

the

way

in

l>v

that

law-

to

which

look at

and

it;

claim

has done such an

should in law bar him from marriage with anv other

act

woman.

would but
and some millions
society

if

adopt the idea there would be fewer libertines,


of ruined girls and forlorn prostitutes.

less

who

.She

woman

robs a

of her husband

fiding girl merits a season in


it

sure

to take, the

respects

more he

is

It

if I

natural for

is

So

them

the beginning of folly

is

him

in

uj3 tottering

known them

to

be

better half

which

Modesty and

I say these things here,

meet her with

a storm of coarse

in

marriage away over

woman must

than continued

life.

try to

of

in the

But then such

and

their

over there where

if

sweet

and

to

long

affection

dis^ustincr

is

her
she

marrying

Ami how

for nihility rather

are begotten of her

as have
sleep.

restful

there

upper Land

states

capable of such yearnings are immortal


us believe

itself,

be a Budhist and long

deep unrest, causing them


eternities

sensitive

long for death, and dread even heaven

such a

dis-

because

to

and giving

cir-

true.

the base idea of which must be perfectly withering


Poor She one of thousands how ardently must

soul.

whole

wed-

often ends in the

passion,

their,

who

own and each

What a pleasant thing it must be to a sensible and


woman to have, whenever her heart prompts her to express

her

man

Their opposites bring

loves.

respect and finally dissolution.

have long

one

to despise

their

divorce courts, the brothel, bagnio, or the grave

cumspection build

j^crmits a

either side blunts the edge, takes

the peach, lessens

and

woman

also within the sacred pale of

immodesty on

first

bloom from

other's eyes,

who ruins a conwere BraMr would

or he

sure to undervalue her, and the less she

and honors him.

the very

Tophct, and

familiarities a single

allows too great freedoms.


lock

CXLIII. The more

the

should,

waive her undouhted right

to

("it

and hold him as a husband.

get
b

it,

maintain and acknowledge her as

to

ful wife, unless she sees

15c;

But

ere

now

then

for

women

will survive death, and. let

longings will be appeased, their pangs assuaged


it

is

certain

they, like

myself, will

at

last

be

Affectional Alchemy.

156
understood
is

too late to

seldom are on

for such

hope

to

be while

odd,

have practically adored

too,

bod)',

and worshipped Lust and Fashion, openly or sub-rosa

until

some

decimating scourge, originating in Lust, shall

earth

as

it

denizens, the

will within a century

same wild worship

CXLIV. How
yet nothing on

it

wars of Troy, and from her down

women

lane of ages, men, and

at thirty

in the flesh.

Helen, a loose one, caused the


the

and

this earth,

of

six-tenths of

and

sweep the

human

its

will continue as before.

very seldom married people praise each other

earth goes

so

far

toward rejuvenating a waning

regard, as the expression of gladness at each other's points, acts,


trials, victories,
is

industry, perseverance

practically ignored

yet

we never get the


we toil like abject

slightest token

though

slaves

ought

it

mere empty words.

come crowding

at

bill

If

it

to

show

does not,

our fireside

to

of appreciation, even

deserve

If

it.

of an anxious heart

something better than

itself in

They paralyze

exists

whole troops of discontentments


broken prom-

for neglected duties,

love

magnetic, or passional attraction, will not

ises, lip affection,

good

for

and while others are praised and cheered to

the echo,

between couples,

power

all this

fill

render us cross,

us,

selfish,

That

non-ambitious, careless, hopeless, solitary, and despondent.


affection

which words

veils the world, is not

itself

by

riates all

males

and snores when Night

daylight,

worth an hour's purchase.

seldom gets entirely well again

Palsied affection

and non-reciprocal marriage

and too many wives make not the

on the

coffin of their happiness,

and

infu-

slightest effort

toward mutuality; and by so neglecting one of the


duties, clap the lid

the

first

of wifely

and hurry

their

after thus

committing marital

cide, they

their lords

do not

feet to

as of yore, in the halycon days of

joys to an untimely grave

weep and wonder that


worship and idolize them

courtship and the

honeymonth

has found the lace

all

likes either of these

is

down

at their

not realizing that he, poor fellow,

paper, the diamonds

She

fall

sui-

not wise,

all

who

securely unless one of her strongest cords

paste

and

no man

expects to hold a
is

every husband has a right to expect and realize

reciprocation,
;

man

which

and every wife, by

Affection al Alchemy.
ner vow.

bound

i.s

157

Otherwise their union

to culture anil accord.

is

but a mockery and a sham.

She who habitually

fails

who occupy

the

husband

as

females

society her

woman

strange

is,

that wifelv dutv helps to support the

in

palaces

of

sin

hold

him not

man

keep a

combat with the world

in

neither of

good training

The
which

for his constant

who

good man

ever seeks what can never be

sanctioned except by mutual love; for


divinest sanctities of the

man who can

whose

to

while the honorable wife

expresses frigidity, horror, indifference, or disgust


arc well calculated to

gin.

"they sav." driven bv her coldness.

simulates accord

at least

and

human

soul

it

a profanation of the

is

and he

a poor specimen of a

is

seek solace in a cyprian's arms, or revel in passional

debauch bought with current coin cither


nothing but Love can ever justify an

Under

immortal soul into being.

in or out of

act

wedlock;

for

which may launch an

marriage

these holy conditions

generates glorious thoughts, noble resolve, courage to endure; gives

and hold on,

a better zest of,

Under

and

are,

That

to

roll

off into

curse, they deserve

especial

for

at

it
it

any moment

who, with

power and

emotion

some time have been,

ability to

besides brutalizing

and

if

there

their eves open, as

violate

and " Variety" are death to true affection,

of the

God

the false condition every participant rests on the edge of

Hades, ready

now

fortune, goodness,

life,

is

an

mine

that sacred law.

and also destructive

experience any but coarse and gross

human

nature, destroying nobleness of

character, they totally unfit us to

become parents of pure children

and good ones

as.

passion-tides

but only of such

adown

the stream of

every inch of the dreadful

way!

born of passion,

life,

shall rush

But true

antagonizes, and finally destroys, lurid, baneful

love,
lust.

thank Heaven!

The twain

incompatible; but the angel slavs the fiend whenever thev meet

combat on anything

So be

it

forever

like

even terms.

on

cursing their progenitors at

Thank God

for that

are
in

again

CXLV. There

are too

many

without, the pale of matrimony

million outrages inside, as well as

when both sides


human nature even-

but these wont be.

understand and obey the law which underlies

Affectional Alchemy.

158

Men

where.

too excitable, hence unreasonable


sively,

and

Wives

yield

The

at

first

when

it is

clear that

most

and

from

No human

before,

after,

two being ovarian

of

offen-

concerned.

all

season occurs oftener than thrice

and midway, of her lunar period.

may

maternity

when motherhood
Here

but soul-blending the divine resultant.


tion of Sex,

are

ought not, and

ill-health they

seasons,

her periodic soul-season,

latter is

life

are apt to obtrude

far too frequently, for the best interests

cannot without injury.


a month

by reason of wrong

are chronically inflamed

impossible,

is

new

another

is

The

result.

and the statement of a law discovered by

revela-

carefully

noting hundreds of cases in a medical practice of nearly thirty years

and

it

is

one that ought to be conformed

because

to,

prevent innumerable child-murders that else would

ignorance of

it.

In announcing this law

woman

and save many a

from

risks they

it

from

result

do mankind a

may

will yet

service,

not wish to en-

counter.
It

is

modern

held by some

physiologists to be a law, that

the

if

wife reaches the natural demise of marriage before the husband,

and conception occurs, the


will resemble her

own

far

more than

it

will her husband's

the father anticipates, the product will be feminine

more

like

him than

mother.

its

Thus

human being can be predetermined by


all

that

is

essential

is

the agreement as to

Before ending this section,

and

vital law.

morally,

It is this

I desire to

the

if

when

but

if

but she will be

Omnipotence of Will;

what

it

shall be.

re-impress the great truth

Where husband

by them,

the gender of an inchoate

or wife

or in any other way,

emotionally,

assuredly remedied

whose nature

resultant will be a boy,

that

is

mentally,

ill,

illness

can be

lying by each other they will

but place their hands on each other's breasts, and will an inter-

change of

vital life.

It will instantly

pass and repass, affording an

exhibition of soul-power that shall astonish most people

and

this

mutual impartation becomes not merely a physical-nervous joy, but


a most powerful magneto-vital, health-engendering force
rant of the

most wondrous potency

certain to be honored

loving

God

a direct

an invigo-

and holy prayer,

and answered by the everlasting and very

Affect ional Alchemy.

CXLVI. Couples

in

fail

159

being happy or rendering each other

from muscular flabbiness, and consequent pulpiness


but lift

if tliev will

and two on

retiring,

thev can, gradually increasing the weight of

all

the bags of sand, or

whatever

else

it

may

be. five

minutes before

arising, while in night-dress, ovarian, uterine,

and prostatic weaknesses will

vaginal, kidnev, bladder, testicular,

vanish like mists before the morning sun

and with the increase of

muscular strength will come an accrement of Love and


thus dispensing with the aphrodisiacs

months

now

this course will revolutionize a

its

cognates,

so largely used.

In three

body

Embolism

and

CXLVII.
love

is

constitutional

weakness

necessary

all

will

prevent and cure

a prolonged

nobler pleasures.

all its

Love-starvation

not at

it

clear the channels

the great impotence-creator, and will give

lease of life

which

remedy

Because

household.

give the soul a better vehicle to operate through

of the

Now

brain.

<>f

so,

is

a terrible thing to endure, but one

for

by posi)ig the soul

by -filling and decreeing

it

for a

mate or a

as a system, the love-power will

go out from you and centre on your adaptation, just as surely as that

you make and persevere


to

The same

in the effort.

principle applied

amative disorders will repair the impairment.

CXLVIII. Accursed
either conjugal frauds,

abomination.

They

They

forever must he, she. or they be,

condanuism. or any other destructive social

are

seldom anything

lead to abortion, t/iat

is

murder

than

else

and

murderous.

perpetrators, non-

its

should be paraded through the streets on a

professional,

"

back, placarded
killers

who counsel

Ahortionists

"

mule's

while the professional babv-

should swing by the neck to the nearest tree or lamp-post

Another

class of

wretches need legal attending

to.

refer to the

makers and advertisers of peculiar stimulants, because they are

compounded of
dead-sure to

and

land the takers

upon the bleak

There

shores

of sterility
sex-tonics,
essential to

harming even

tional,

agitate for a while, but are

wherein

impotence.

the restoration of amative

of

which

and direct aphrodisiac agents are absolutely

hopeless

invigorants,

villainous drugs,

are

cases

and general health, but such are incapable

a child, because their action

and not sudden,

fiery, lust-begetting,

is

tonic

and constitu-

and destructive.

Affectional Alchemy.

160
There are

plants, essences, tindlures,

hands of good physicians, are

and

extracts,

which, in the

purposes sought,

effective for the

while utterly non-dangerous, and free from harm.


used, or none at

all.

Elsewhere, herein,

have alluded to a paper upon the esoteric

part of the grand topic of this volume

which form

tery, in

deem

called

the Ansairetic

Mys-

have opened up certain knowledges which

quite essential to the complete education of every true adult

Concerning

person.

when

Let such be

it,

my heirs,
my works.

dead, to

lishers of all

The End of the

while

I live, letters

and those

Vision.

who

will then

promised

can be addressed

become

me

to

sole

pub-

to give the sequel to the

The

curious Vision, related in the forepart of this book, concerning

Woman

and the Man.

It

i st.

thized with
at times I

remembered

will be

my

was

an amazing magnetic extent that

friend, to such

in absolute

and sympa-

that I sincerely loved

rapport with

his entire soul

and

at

one

time, believing the vision to have been true, I pitied him, and the
millions

who have

sailed in the

same

boat,

and been wrecked upon

the rocks of treachery, adultery, and deceit.


vision

was not

true, for the lady

snow-flakes winging their

two with a

woman

way from

of the world,

man had

question upon which the

brooded

then,

But she had, prior

floating in mid-air.

or

was

But

in this case the

and ever

after, as

pure as

space to earth, while

still

to leaving, associated a

day

who had

suggested the strange

long pondered and morbidly

and his loneliness, and her long

silence,

had strengthened

which suspicions he had imparted to me, and


full sympathy with him, believing just as he did.

his evil suspicions,

had entered

My

2d.

and

into

friend

ties of that

them was
from a

was an

artist

of wide celebrity

character were easily formed by

often as fraught with

sensitive soul,

were

very magnetic,

him

and

to sever

agony as would be pulling

that possible

teeth

hence he was quite easily

vampirized by unprincipled women, just as I have been a score of


times, in as

who,

many

attracted

by

the dear mother

lands, in

my own

strange

life,

by female

leeches,

the magnetic fulness of the nature inherited from

who

bore me, came to feed upon

it,

and deplete

my

Affectional Alchemy.
very soul
guilt

<5f

this,

be

known, being possible without

it

a sensual character, for such

attraction of the vital

one.

It

was from

round me, that

my name

life

of a

soul by an

full

empty cormorantic

because, being foiled

in

went

off

cyprians, vampires, ghouls, all!

without

far

and near, right and

who came to learn


knew all the higher,

penniless adventuresses,

single

of

me how

brooklets for the information they


did not, impart, but dismissed

knew

I alone, if I

them empty

chose,

as they

who

would not

made him,

God

extorted nearly
before.

The

turned upon

peculiar
"

"

My

came.
ever

made

Those

whom

for

me to Massillon, after the Boston fire, finding


him how to be a greater scoundrel than Nature

me

intended, perjured

all

old "

what

soul he had, and thereby

had saved from the

Man"

fiery

to the tune of

as in the

Curious Life

"
;

wreck two months

of the Letter and young girl notoriety, also

The Ranks

for identical reasons.

done"

ilk,

It is a

the mystical secrets adverted to above

are thickly strewn with unprincipled males,

have been "

which

invited

instruct

or

to victimize

the hart after the

my life that the worst foes


The people to whom I lent money and, 2d.

the fellow

white, as well as the


like

curious circumstance of

I refused to initiate into

la

left

exception!

and they panted

black, magic,

itself to

and took sweet revenge, a

me

ist.

clustered

game and

desperate

their

Mrs. Potiphar, and scandalized

were,

who

time a scmi-libcrtinish odor attached

for a

mankind, because I

the slightest

not always essential to the

is

the abundance of these she-fiends

diabolic intent, they generally

lower, and

161

La Hue

and

and females,

too,

and

thousands by adventuresses of that


case detailed in the book

the case of "

in

of " Reformers "

La

called

Blondctte," of the

Woman's Book."
So much for victimization through magnctitmc mauvaisr,

to say

nothing of another instance where, through a cleverly morphincd


pint of ale

relieved of

some hundreds of

'

Bitter beer "

and acknowledge a

fact

it

proved

mv mother's

only son was

dollars; compelled to execute a will,

which never

eloquence of a six-barrelled revolver

existed,

in the

by the persuasive

hands of a male, and a

four-barrelled one in the pocket of a thieving shc-zingara.


fore

could pity the Man.

3d.

If

you turn

to

there-

the section of the

62

Affectional Alchemy.

Mirror Vision, you will see that


to be followed by a calm

About

fact for the time.

it

and

also that I

the

same period

woman,

in the trouble about the

had prophesied coming

had

utterly forgotten the

my

which

in

that trouble

was
was enhanced and
friend

exacerbated by the arrival of a female from California,


crossed the continent expressly to lay seize

She was strongly sensuous of

passions.

who had

heart and

his

to

presence

fine

trouble,

voluptuous,

sharp, keen, practical, and totally devoid of honor and principle

yet fearfully, desperately in love with

him

powers bearing on him, the man was

when from

too, at a time

and very negative

cast,

fancies

himself was half daft, and

till

was

thy,

in full

rapport with him.

between

so that,

entirely distraught

other causes he

he, therefore,

was

ill,

and

his

He

that,

wretched

his friend, through

4th.

the

morbid, down-

had brooded on
I,

all

sympa-

had entrusted the

absent one with certain very important financial business, which


she, in thoughtless

consequently he

mood, had

was angry.

excessive loneliness, mental

of which combined, threw

and

his injuries

did,

which
!

He

5th.

and

my

me

and

ill,

totally neglected

me

with the constant

tired,

worn

out with

financial embarrassments, all

into a very

morbid physical

state

absurd fancies took the dreadful form they

state of soul

the

toil,

and

wearied

of his troubles, while I myself was

recital

dead

utterly ignored

was taken advantage of by

the teaching

viewless powers of the empyrean, to inculcate tha

most solemn, if most painful lesson he or I had ever learned fos


there was not, and never had been, the slightest ground for eithej
;

jealousy or suspicion

for their object

was

as pure as the sweetes*

who flits in glory about God's eternal throne


The lesson cured two of us of jealousy in the first

angel

him

then,

and me, shortly afterward, of

whether from California or elsewhere.


nearer to those to

whom

yearning, for the bread of

all

3d.

place.

2d.

vampiral influences,
It

brought

us both

our hearts went out in craving, longing,


life

Womanly

affection.

4th.

led us

It

to

bend our stubborn

It

taught us the mighty lesson of God-reliance and self-control.

Taught us the
7th.

It

folly of

Rio

souls at the shrine of the forgiving

God

5th.
6th.

indulging even in occasional bibulant habits.

opened the road-way

to a

higher possible

life,

though the

Affectional Alchemy.
lesson

a terrible one

it,

taught us the folly of unjust suspicion,

of

pardon, while extending charity

to ask

and
ask

was

163

all. to

hand had brought us face

to face

human duty, until


way peered into our

by that

humble rooms, beheld us there on bended knee,


pleading for

full

again, they sent a message

Moral

its

it

flow,

Never

Pray

let

2d.

"

fall in

" Behold

for deliverance all the time, else

body and soul

separate you

They

permit

to

Love" with your own

you are sure

till

from your mate.

5th.

give and forgive, and trust ye each other.

to saturate a

spheral emanation.

lees,

4th.

it

embodied and viewless

very

to the

you when the certain Horror comes

seeks to

souls

If you are magnetic, take care to

and do not allow yourself

leeches will sap your


at

God

to

your love be drawn out

should be.

vampire, and then


3d.

home

Reader, go thou and do likewise

1st.

right that

restrain

contrite

redemption, and, turning their holy gaze heaven-

Reason justly !"

it is

to

with truth and

the glorified beings flitting

at last

ward

and

all,

too, of that good and compassionate Lord whose chastening

6th.

and then laugh

Trust no one

who

Bear and forbear,

Never be

jealous,

no matter what the proofs be, so long as your two bodily eyes do
not sanation

Remember my Lessox

it.

husband and wife as


be holy, pure, and

Upon good

7th.

Fulfil the part of

both stood on the verge of death

if

fully, truly

Human

so shall ve

physical conditions, soundness, health, normal

play

of electric, nervous, magnetic, and passional forces, depends, un-

much

questionably,

of the weal or woe. happiness or misery, sanity

upon us

or insanity, attendant

many

experience of
all

methods extant

years, in

in

many

our journey through

An

life.

me

lands, has familiarized

with

for creating the best conditions of vital health

combating obscure diseases of the nervo-vital organization, and

overcoming the

effects

That experience,
to not

of both

travel,

excess

and violated natural law.

experiment, and observation enabled

only found, but firmly establish a Ni:\v

embracing

all

that

is

am

nearly at the end

as a practical Physician, but desire that

may

survive to

Systhm

my

of Medicine,

and

my

weary soul

my

<>f

methods and

bless and relieve mankind, when

hillside,

me

good of Homoeopathy. Water Cure. Magnetics,

and a dozen other methods.

beneath the

for

mv body

shall sweetly

s\

career
steins

shall rest

sleep near

Affectional Alchemy.

164
the Throne

my Redeeming God, the

of

hand has brought me

half-century of

life

wherefore

One, whose

me

out of the deeps, and given

my

victory at this end of

Ineffable

crown of

propose to

teach others a part, or the whole, of the magnificent System evolved

during

all

these years of toil

for desiring to

Very many
Country, as

is

do so

and struggle

and these are

my

reasons

of the large-brained, active-minded People of this

same

the case with the

class in Paris,

London, Berlin,

Vienna, Constantinople, and other large centres of population, labor

under some form of Nervous disease, caused mainly by cerebral


exhaustion from mental overwork.

Another large

class, including

both sexes, suffer the same troubles, but from different causes,
distressing

symptoms being

with the means

at

difficult to alleviate,

much

my

hand, for the reason that until

the

less to cure,

discoveries and

improvements there was no absolute medical agent, or Pharmaceutical

preparation in existence, capable of meeting such cases suc-

cessfully

and since

my

preparations

during

have proved their unexampled power over


nerves, brain, lungs, kidneys,

25 years of

trial

diseases involving

all

their

and sexual organization,

larity,

without the adventitious aid of advertising, paid-for

cates,

and other modes of puffery, demonstrating

proud

to say, the field of their usefulness is

this fact,

popucertifi-

am

wholly unchallenged by

the products of the Pharmacopoeia of the civilized world.

In the experience of every Physician worthy the name, numerous


cases present themselves,

which may be generally defined

magnetism, depletion of magnetic force


Exhaustion

as loss

of

in

other words, Vital

to cure which, thousands have resorted to the various

hypophosphites, preparations of Lyttae, Valerian,

etc.

some of

which undoubtedly afforded temporary relief; but all of which are


impermanent, and, as Dynamic remedies, and no other, are adapted
Patients
to that class of troubles, wholly and utterly unreliable.

who

need and resort to such remedies

self-apparent may be

Vigor

classified as, First, those

life,

too

constant mental

involving loss of lung-power,


are bleached

in vain, for reasons

who,

forgetful that

of God, have exhausted the brain and nervous sys-

is the gift

tem by indoor

and

out.

and

The Second

class

application,

of

course

hence, like plants in a cellar,

have lived too fast ; and late

Affect ional Alchemy.

1^5

and personal excess have stranded them midway of


the Nerve fountains arc run dry ; vital energy is sapped

hours., ivine,
life's

sea

and gone

and existence

insipid.

wholly

feverish,

dull,

is

Third class have led such

and

spiccless,

vexed, and trouhled

fretful,

lives that,

without intentional error, they have nearly extinguished

the fire of

life.

from ten years

Fourth

embracing both sexes and

class,

become inverted, and bv

have

neglect or other causes,

habits (not to be mentioned, but

whose

their flesh

become

is

changeful,

unreliable,

news

fdgety,

now

are

gloomy,

angular,

drained their

vitality,

now

then the opposite

wholly unfitted for

life's

crooked, wild,

easily affected

morose,

suicidal, secretive

gentle,

solitary

scary,

by the weather,

vapory,

most solemn duties

dreamy,

discontented,

tender, then coarse

shiftless,

fretful,
;

and callous
worried

easily

disquieted themselves,

and estranging their best friends; they have become worn

down with

exhausted, and, in the case of females, loaded


that
in

would

morbid

tencc,

kill

men

half the

state of

living

mind and body


There

and worse trouble.

wasted and reduced so that there


at all

desirable

follows.
tions,

fits,

is
is

frighful

out,

troubles

often, in their cases, resulting

and

in

men

a Fifth class,

scarcely

life

resulting in I?npo-

whom
enough

and a morbid melancholy, almost

They have

anger

till

waxy, nerves unstrung, brain softened: they have

aimless, suspicious, lonely, nervous

bad

a.Ljes,

consequences must

terrific

and conquered), have sapped and

be met

all

of those unfortunates who, by

to threescore, consists

Disease has
to

make

utter despair,

dreams, flashes, headaches, palpita-

and angularities without number.

hysteria,

it

Sixth class have gone to waste, impotence, and senility, at 30, 3^.

and 40 years of age,

who

threescore years and ten

The above
are

list

with a

little

care could retain

full

embraces,

exhausted by mental

1st.

AH

that vast

labor and

sedentary occupations

2d.

All

who

arc

passionless,

attractive, non-attracted, or, if attracted, hopelessly so.

responsive ability

who

temperamental, gloomy,

till

mass of people who

from various causes arc angular, excitable, nervous, and,


unaccountably morbid

vigor

who

at times.

cold,

non-

from lack of

arc unsettled, uneasy, subject to mental,


lonely,

and passional storms;

y\.

All

1 66

Alchemy.

Affectional

who have

half-ruined their minds and bodies, sapped their health

and vigor, and are now crooked and


excess,

Who

can doubt

that, in reference to

very

perverted, excessive, or abused Physical


tion
is

No woman

so

despondent by passional

fretful,

normal or otherwise, or from any cause whatever.

is ill

whose natural

many

Love

of these troubles,

lieth at the

whose Nervous apparatus

sound

is

founda-

no

man

appetites and brain are strong and vigorous.

Life and power, strength and force, beauty and love, talent, genius,

endurance and longevity,


vital-nervous organs, for

must and does

suffer,

all

depend upon the normal health of the

when

these are disordered the whole being

and nine-tenths of

all

the diseases of "Civili-

zation " originate in the disturbances of that portion of the

human

economy.

The
energy
vital

remedials I propose to teach


lost

power

how

to manufacture, will revive

from -whatever cause, for they are nervous force and


in tangible form,

invigoration,

restoring

and

act, not

stimulation, but

dynamic

and

magnetic

nothing else on earth can do

by

power,

by

when

it.

Physicians and others are hereby given to clearly and distinctly


understand, that in no sense whatever are either of these preparations empirical productions, or

ery opens a

new

"Patent Medicines."

era in the curative art.

but dynamic agents

tion,

it is

Their discov-

are not Medicines,

have been thoroughly tested in France,

England, and 35 States of this Union


tered or taken,

They

and, where properly adminis-

doubtful if a case exists of Incipient

Consump-

Wasting, Nervousness, Hypochondria, Hysteria, Nervous or

Vital Prostration, Leucorrhcea, Sterility, Brain Softening, Dyspepsia,

Mental Wandering, General Debility, Whole or Partial Weakness


from Nerval Exhaustion, that they will not speedily and radically
cure, because of their extraordinary

dynamic power.

In the Medical Profession, the great want has long been that
of a powerful, positive, certain, yet harmless Nervine-Invigorant,

capable of direct action upon the brain, nervous centres, and pelvic
apparatus
late,

an agent that will allay morbid inflammation, yet stimu-

exhilarate, tone

up, and

supply nervous energy, correct

permanently strengthen
all

morbid

action,

that will

and furnish the

Affectional Alchemy.
material lost or wasted by excessive mental

onanism, and other forms of

tion,

amount of

of any reasonable

167

toil,

venery, masturba-

vital prostation.

Every Phvsician

practice frequently has cases of

weak-

mental and physical, demanding the exhibition of peculiar

ness,

tonic stimulants

and aphrodisiacs, that

This want

or reactionary.

non-irritant

remedials, beyond

Marasmus, or Wasting,
in

in effect, yet

generally met

is

to all cases of

my

in

all

Female

disease,

anaemic cases, and those morbid states

all

Hysteria, Despondency,

Suicidal Depression,

be certain

question the most perfect vitalizing agents

all

known, and hence peculiarly adapted

resulting

shall

Melancholia,

and

Insanity,

of which result from Uterine, Ovarian,

Cerebral, Nervous, Prostatic and Seminal Exhaustion in either sex


respectively.

cases

of

all

To meet and

by no one but myself;

Lucina Cordial,
for

Hope

my

list

14 Formulas, embracing

viz.,

for

Barosmyn,

Protogene, 3 for Eye diseases, with instruments,

Poisoned wives).

and

effects

are supremely

only perfect cure on

(these formulas are the

discoveries,

to pre-

of remedial agents, hitherto prepared

"accidental" complaints, but whose

terrible

how

such, I propose to instruct suitable persons

pare and use the following

conquer, especially, severe and stubborn-

earth,

In short, I purpose to teach the best of

Parchment

to give

purchaser has actually been

instructed

certificates

to

Prove the

my

and

"my system

in

formulas.

Through
and barren

these remedials

women

many have

regained health

men

old

have become happy parents, and patients stand-

ing on the verge of death have been rendered strong and vigorous,

of course not alone by medicines, but by the course laid down


their guidance,

Prolongation of

for

my Pamphlet on the
called " The Golden

especially those set forth in

Human

Life and Power,

Secret."

Where

Parties expressly desirg

it,

the above system will be sup-

plemented by a Series of Esoteric instructions, involved mainly

in the

Ansairetic Mystery.

Those who have read

my Works,

years, be told that, as an expert,

genital systems,

my

fame

is

need not now,

at the

end of 30
and

in diseases of the nervous

too well established to be successfully

Affectional Alchemy.

68

contested

by any man, men, or

in the land are glad to accept

party, nor that the ablest Physicians

my

teachings and improvements upon

During the past year

original discoveries.

have by a new discov-

By

ery revolutionized the entire treatment of such diseases.

the

it

physician and patient need no longer "guess," but go at once to the


cure of the case.

The

discovery

imparted to practitioners,

those who wish

human

treating that class of

make

to

Terms by

ailments.

are not born with a given

gives us

new

up

to

death

amount of

but that

Life

we

we can

every direction, thus preserving our

but

sum

and here

is,

that

exhausted,

its

duration,

and expand

it

in

beauty, vigor, energy,

fire,

And

not only

mighty discovery that

the very

an unlimited degree.

indeed a

is

source of exhaustion,

to

of

total

intensify, deepen, broaden,

magnetic and personal force,

car-

that, con-

is

a principle

when

which,

The

mail.

can not only accrete and gather in

life, and thus add long years to the

but also that

that,

it,

itself is

will be

a specialty of

dinal principle of both the treatment and remedials,


trary to all the " schools," I hold that

we

and

entirely original,

is

properly understood, the actual fountain

of perpetuity, endurance,

long' life,

moral, emotional, and magnetic.

and power, mental, physical,

In a word,

hold

it

possible to

almost wholly rejuvenate ourselves and become young again in


spirits, vigor,

loss of

life,

that

mental power, and endurance,

and that both can be

restored.

loss of love is

These things

teach,

and among others give much practical knowledge of inestimable

on the observance of which depends the happiness of

value,

wedded

couples, and ignorance of

which

fills

murder, suicide, divorce, and wretchedness

knowledge

is

will be sent to

My

incalculable.

down in the large work, " The Master


one " Good News," Tables of Contents of

any address on receipt of postage thereon.]

instructions will prove of inestimable value

and importance

not only to Physicians, but to other men, and especially to


for a great

[This

broadly laid

Passion," and the greater

which

all

the land with vice,

many

women,

reasons which I do not choose to set forth

herein.

Lastly: this book will inevitably call attention to the B. O. E.

(Brotherhood of Eulis)

the

Hope

of the world and Sheet anchor

Affectional Alchemy.
of Mankind.
will

169

All such are informed that a handbook of the Order

be issued from

Grand Lodge

this

plication for information should be

made

to the officers of

and

to

which ap-

no other authority,

save myself, until death.*

My

address at present

is

Toledo, Ohio

when

notice will be given.

it

is

P. B.

changed, due

Randolph.

See second note below.

There are quite a number of exceedingly important and inexpressibly holy and
delicate questions connected with the subject-matter of this work, which, although

have not been openly and freely discussed herein, for self-apparent
These things relate to the inner mysteries of the human being and of
Eulis, (or the Philosophy of Love, Agape, not stogu,) and are only to be given
under the sacred conditions of Patient and Physician or Teacher and Pupil.
How long I may remain to teach of course I do not know, only this I do know
that I have suffered much and am weary
but while able I shall take great delight in clearing up the doubts and mysteries besetting those about me
and all
who need such counsel as I am capacitated to impart, are hereby freely waralluded

to,

reasons.

ating the distresses of

bear the burdens of

all,

it,
assured that I will do my best toward allevibody and heart, Soul and Spirit; and although I cannot
still I have done somewhat of good in that line, and am

ranted in asking or writing for

ready to continue so doing while

life lasts.

In March, 1874,1 organized a society, provisionally, down in Tennessee


"TheB. O. E." to which it was my intention to teach all the occult branches
of esoteric knowledge, constitute it my literary heir, and through it spring many
*

lofty truths

upon the world

but

" The beat laid plans of mice or men


Aft gang aglee
!

And

so did

mine with reference

to that society; for owing to irreconcilable


became absolutely necessary to dissolve the provisional
society as the B. O. E., and to utterly decline to permanently organize it, owing
to the presence in it of a person with whom it became impossible for me to break

misunderstandings

it

bread and taste

salt
things which no man of Eulis or Rosicrucia will ever do
under unpleasant conditions. Consequently, hereafter as heretofore, I shall do
what good I can, single-handed and alone
yet not alone, for God and I are a
clear majority.
I'll help myself and others, and He will help me.

June

30,

1874.

PART

II.

IMMORTALIZATION.
-{<>

"Philadelphia, Sept.
"

Dear Sir,

am

deeply interested.

thing of your Publications except the

page of that work, under


itals

the

same thought

thirty years
sir,

'

else

XIX.,

have never read any-

New

in

it?

the 6ist

I find a single sentence in cap-

have been inclined

Have you

On

Mola.*

to believe for

All People Do Not Have Souls

do you mean

somewhere

Sedition

30, 1873.

'

more than

My

dear

more about

said something

your publications ?

this

Oh, do you guess

how my soul hungers in viewing the table of contents of the extraorand you will guess I
dinary Works published by your House
HAVE A SOUL ?
" Praying that your valuable life may be long preserved, and that
you may continue to enlighten the millions as only you can,
:

"

am, your true

friend,

MERRILL,
308 Walnut Street."

E. B.

E. B. Merrill, Esq.
is

Sir:

The

following Paper, in substance,

the reply to the questions involved in the "

In response to your interrogatories, allow

Mola

me

"

to

and your
say that

letter.

All

things are generally reputed and believed to reproduce their kinds.

That

is

regarded as a determinate rule, and

of nature.

But

because there

and

floral

is

it

is

strict,

unswerving law

not wholly true, nor an unchangeable law,

a law of spontaneous generation both in the faunal

departments of nature,

both vegetable

and animal

life

produced by other than seed germination, some of which have, and


* See notice at end of Vol.

Immortalization.
power of reproducing

others have not, the

which arc altogether too numerous


for

which had

various

the

instance,

to

nomenon of lizardesque beings


dark, moist cellars

and

their kind

instances of

need special mention

to

an

originating from salted cabbage in

which occurred
So

Carolina, but a few years ago.

generally

true, that things

In the case

is

by

not always strictly, albeit

methods and processes

the

few years ago,

in a

sally discredited, for the

it

pregnant

in

Charleston, South

in

reproduce their types and species.

of man, his origin

"universally believed

flint

further, the occasional production of

still

instance of

as,

white heat; and the familiar phe-

the low-type baboon, by the arrestation of gestation

negresscs,

produced from powdered

acarii,

been calcined

first

171

is

now

Science of To-day rejects

demonstrated accordant with

Law

almost as univerall

that cannot be

and the human being

is

proved

have been a gradual, and by no means a sudden or miraculous

to

Volume

[See the

creation.

Pre-Adamite

MAN,"

Published by

House.]

this

It is

animal

type,

determine the precise point

difficult to
left off,

the highly

and the purely human began.

human

type

and ape-like forms, shapes, hands,

mankind

at

every turn

human being

at

which the purely

Every recession from

an approach toward the Simian, or ape-

is

mouths, and features meet us

the

'

among

all

facial angles, faces, noses,

races, colors,

and classes of

while embryology clearly demonstrates that

in utero passes

through every stage of the world's

animal growth and products, from the jelly-point to tadpole,

monkey, up

to

man

the

more

the

Simiana are

and the farther each gestativc stage

perfect the resultant child.

cerebrum, or

not,

The lower

is

fish,

pushed,

types and forms of

cannot be, immortal, bv reason of paucitv of

fore, top, brain,

and redundance of back, low, brain,

or cerebellum.
If a

man

tality is a

is,

as science

growth

also,

proves he

is,

a growth, then his

and not a miracle or

gift,

sudden force applied either physically or metaphysically

must have ascended from

new

immor-

or the result of any

non-immortal ancestrv.

and he

We

need a

exegesis of early scripture, for in the light of the daily resur-

rections of the remains of

dead nations and obsolete civilizations

of

Immortalization.

172

the constant exhumations of the remains of Prehistoric races,

of which, reckoning from geologic data, date back not

from three-quarters of a million


impossible to accept the

it is

used to hold and believe that

to

less

some
than

two whole millions of years ago,

literal

account as

we

'

find

People

it.

mankind were the progeny of an

all

original pair of Protoplasts, the autochthones or primal couple

Adam (Kadmon)

fair

Eve, his rib-originated compagnon du

But that dogma

or wife.

vie,

and the

brown, white, yellow

is

dogma no

races, are all as clear cut

Black,

longer.

and

distinct

from

each other as are grayhounds from poodle dogs, or bantam fowls

from

headstrong,

long-spurred,

do-or-die

game

nor will

one

even by admixture, produce a perfect specimen of either of

race,

the others.

In these days science explodes the fables of antiquity, and has


already gone far toward dispensing altogether with the Edenic
couple,

insisting that Tartar, Caucasian, Indian,

and the Nigritian

race

came from

rists

hold the reins and drive straight from Palace to cavern

man

in pride

diverse centres and sources, and Darwinian theo-

and pomp,

red-rear baboon

and that

ape-monkey or baboon,
he

is

upon

man

his ancestors

from

to

be a natural out-

were some

sort of superior

nschiego or chimpanzee

gorilla,

and that

himself a grand improvement, by natural and sexual selection,


his progenitors,

who

slowly advanced from monkey-hood to be

cave-dwellers and weapon-users

and

fire

the cousin of hairy chimpanzee and

and she demonstrates him

growth of nature

to

fighting,

half-civilized

centuries,
;

for

who

monogamy and

wearing, and who, developing


thousands of

grew

gradually learned the use of

mating, hut-building and clothesstill,

to

finally,

through the lapse of

be what he

is

now

generally,

he yet hangs, beheads, cruelizes his kind, and

at

best delights in carnage, drums, war, glory, gibbets, jails, Alcohol,

Tobacco, Robbery, and Force, meat food, and

fiery drink, still laying

claim to survive the ordeal of death, in an etherealized form, but with


out knowing really how or why
Holding firmly to the belief that hi?
:

on earth

but the prelude to his music of perpetual being


beyond the grave, while all nature chants the low, sad requiem of
life

all

is

other sentient forms, the totality of

which topple over

into their

Jm morializalion.
and arc no more

original dust,

while

Nothing

Doubtless

far as

it

but

goes,

it

of

Darwin and

fails to

go

far

others,

enough.

and the same

purpose by those

who

ment of the grand

No

it

utterly impossi-

arc mainly interested in the firm establish-

They ask

idea.

shall present

it

Why?

but no logical reply

contends that monkeys, either large

of,

or small, are capable of overriding the billows of Death, and

that

safely to the etheral

power

much

quite as

but an improved ape,


the higher simia will,

Proof

which

some men do), yet man


fact has a singular

and the offspring of Hottentot

in this: viz.,

dwarf peoples of

the

But

it

captured and

does not follow

monstrous progeny thus generated are immortal, even

is
it

follow that

all

who

are undoubtedly

to exist consciously

tionably

proof

women

doubtful the humanesque parent may chance

power

all

are not thus

human,

subsequent

to

be so

to actual

death

fact, quality, call

it

what you

a result, the principia of

and, so far as

my

fish

which

is

m mortal itv

The bodv

is

just like itself

for

unques-

and there are thousands

who

who

for that

arc no

power,

a development, an outgrowth,

herein purpose to briefly set forth

limits permit, explain.

what the world and mvsclf understand


I

nor does

and

they ate for dinner


will,

as

external

the

pass and repass us in the streets every day of our lives

more immortal than the

if,

are also possessed of

endowed who possess

ordinary characteristics of humanity

term

physically,

is,

and do, inter-breed with the lower human.

impregned by the giant apes of Nigritia.


that the

swim-

shores beyond, (they probably deserve


as

the tailed "Men" of Namaqua Land

gorilla-land,

is

here and now.

am aware

one, that I

ming

life

immortality upon the materials furnished for that

ble to predicate

given.

class of persons find

is

It is

eminently unsatisfactory to every true thinker and hoper for

beyond death

and heautv go out forever?

development theory

this

mainly true so

life

a sad

is

it

bevond the grave but man alone;

sentient

other forms of

all

Individuals, but only survive in

This belief gladdens him, yet

their respective species.

thought

as

173

And

first

let

me

define

as the true definition of the

supposed

head,

to contain

within

itself

an electrical form

eyes, brain, tongue, arms, legs, sex-organs

Immortalization,

174

form escapes the body, and goes to spend


heaven or in hell that it can die no more, but

that at death this y^real

eternal years in

its

lives, loves, suffers, thinks, enjoys, in that

in all respects a

human being

other

life

and that

is

as

good

strong

the

This brief definition

still.

it

is

as one occupying a hundred pages.

Now

man

if

is

and

affirmative

the

descendant of any sort of ape, existent


millenia

if

he

now

proofs

or extinct for a hundred

immortal and the ape-parents not

is

that those advanced specimens of the Simiada?

the

first

are

from

so,

clear

is

it

whom

sprung

immortal human beings must have conferred on their

spring a power and quality themselves had not

off-

so that at death the

progenitors returned to dust, while the progeny exulted in perpetual


life,

and renewed existence

immigrated

Vault, immortalized beings, but with

them on

other worlds in the

parents to meet and greet

the lands beyond the swelling


the
and, undoubtedly, such was actually the

the farther shore

kingdoms

Sea

o'er the

Of

case.

rjo

to

course these

flood,

were not of the high and

first fruits

fine

grades subsequently developed on the earth by dint of time and

Logic

better physical conditions.

two of error does occasionally


finer truths.

Now

is

fall

a good sieve, even

either the parent-apes

is

were capable of conferring

which equivalent
an absurdity on very

what they had not themselves


the greater from the less

a grain or

if

through the meshes among the

is

its

to extracting

face,

or man

not immortal by right or dint or reason of birth, and must, there-

fore,

reach that condition, or attain that quality in some other way,

by some other method, through some other rule or Law


children must have the quality conferred upon them at
instant of generation
at

must acquire

some other point or moment of

some mysterious
fairly understood.

or miraculous

But

it

is

it

that

is,

the very

during the gestative period

their career, or, finally, gain

it

manner not generally known

in

or

sheerly preposterous to believe, and

impossible in every way, that an immortal thing could, or can,


derive

its

common

death-defying nature from that which

prey and victim.

but a river from a gallon

To
is

is

itself

take a gallon from a river

impossible, yet not

more

death's
is

easy

so than to

predicate the immortality of the offspring of apes as a derivative

Immortalization.
Yet

quality.

hold that a non-immortal

generate immortal offspring

human

ye

may

couple

but then that comes of the magnetic

undtion and appulsion of the parents,

who therein- impart the immortalizing hias, which bias or tendency the subjects
may cither
increase or destroy, by methods hereinafter explained
and set
forth.

Now

let

be distinctly understood that

it

we

of Elt.is hold that the

general purpose of the material universe, the end for


which

does not follow that


than that
the

human

all

exists,

it

the immortalization of Soul

the crystallization of mind,

is

but

it

beings are death-proof, anv more

the countless myriads of seeds produced every


year in

all

departments of nature are* endowed with reproductive


vitality
for by far the greater number is wholly inert,
while others
possess but weakling life, and even if they do germinate
soon perish
and decay. Transfer the view to the animated world and it will
be
seen that the union of the genders fails of one of its
purposes
reprodudion five thousand times for every single success, taking the
floral
;

lower planes of

life

as offspring

concerned,

for

is

only

while in the case of man, the union, so far


nine hundred and ninety-nine times

fails

every single successfully implanted germ.

Again:

Every healthy man

of

course excluding libertines,


debauchees, habitual passional transgressors, and all injured
persons

in fair spirits

generates from one-quarter of an ounce to an ounce


and a half daily of the three forms of fluid life
semen, prostatic
lymph, and the exudation of Cowper's Gland
and even- normal
evacuation thereof will average half an ounce, containing, as
I have

repeatedly demonstrated under a powerful microscope


(one magnitimes) from nineteen, the lowest number, to seven

fying 35,000

hundred and eighty-three, zoospermes, every one of which


was
capable of being developed in utcro to perfect human
proportions.

Take
ceeds
is

the
;

first

case,

and

it

is

clear that eighteen

and seven hundred and eighty-two

fortunate

enough

mother's bosom.

dred and

fail if

one suc-

lose their chances

if

one

reach the ovum, and become incarnate in the


But, the chances are billions to one against even
to

one of them effecting a safe lodgement; and


every successful

must

human union

we conclude

that for

there are not less than nineteen hun-

fifty-seven billions of

human germs doomed

to

quiescence,

Immortalization.

176
if

not to perpetual death, taking the adult population of the globe to

Another thought right here

be about thirteen hundred millions.

Nature

fittest to

selects the

and most

perpetuate species

and the strongest

zoospermes always override the weaker, and reach

active

the

ovum, dooming, thereby,

too

must perish

all

there be no

if

the rest

ovum

but

to invite

is

it

clear that they

Precious few

them.

ripe zoospermes reach the ripened ova, because deprived of the

element time, essential to their perfection, the consequence of which


is,

that the great majority of people spring

and remain unripe from the cradle


profound secret of generation,
in

to the grave.

at,

It is this

hereof has no
it

to

results

[Here follow the

but of such a holy, delicate, and private

The

nature as to be only impartable by words or ink.

part

you a

I will tell

whereby the most magnificent

that line are producible at will.

glorious truths hinted

from unripe conditions,

desire to exclusively retain

it,

such noble souls as can appreciate

and

publisher

will, therefore, im-

These principles

it.*]

alone can redeem the world, and clinch the rivets of Immortality.

Nature makes many attempts, but only few successes, and as


with trees and grasses, shrubs and flowers, so also

She

kind.

and

tries,

succeeds in doing

it

tries

is nihility,

as

Chinaman from

for individuals

man, generally,

is

ment theory
rate

is

is

it is

and

it is

with man-

is it

as easy to pass along

immortal, he

good and true

is

The

truth

not universally so.

to a certain limit, but


to

the

accounting for the existence of Soul.


its

whose

to select a negro, Indian, Hottentot, or

crowd of Digger Indians.

wholly incompetent

astonishing that

is

hard, to immortalize a species, but only

the streets and pick out those of Perduring souls from those
future

it

it

The
at

John

that while

is,

develop-

any stage or

tremendous achievement of
It

chief priests have

needs improving

and

it

is

never even attempted to

demonstrate man's immortality, but rather have studiously evaded


contact with the troublesome question.

Their theory

fails

them

from the moment they reach the psychical and metaphysical phases
of the grand subject.

They

take no cognizance of soul

per se

whatever, because fully aware that they cannot give a reason


Souls should be at

all.

The

fact

is,

why

that immortalization could not,

* See the .Asian and Ansairetic Mysteries

Passim.

Im morta liz a tio n


cannot, be at
sity)

not a

is

it

on

all

their hypotheses.

It

is

nor the result of

gift,

177
not inherited (of neces-

or

fiat

miracle, but

is

process, an evolution, the principia of which arc as clear and plain


as one, two, three, or

a, b, c.

Three brothers may


of Death

live

one of them

the second shall die forever, as that specific Person or

Individuality

and the third one having once been possessed of the

elements and conditions of immortality


like

shall survive the process

may

lose

them and go out

an extinguished taper or snuffed candle, by reason of

his

repeated violation of either one of the fundamental or organic laws


of his nature

boon,

do not

if

but

while a fourth brother

boon

may

some believe

brother,

the total

nearly lose

it,

the

great

and millions of others

by prompt

pernicious,

his

all

and habits

fractions of the

as

fourth

this

abandonment of
practices

be,

it

action, the

instant

soul-wasting, mind-dwarfing

and persistent avoidance of

all

in-

fundamental love-laws of his being, and a steady,

manlv course and demeanor, may regain what he has

so

rashly

jeopardized and imperilled.

Some human

infants

are

born immortalized, death-proof, and

from the moment they were conceived

indestructible

while others

require long years and terrible disciplines and experiences ere they

reach the coveted goal.

For thousands of years the followers of

Gantama, the Budha, have considered what we

call

immortality as

an unmitigated curse, and continued existence as the most terrible

and tremendous

evil that

can possibly befall a

human

They

being.

regarded Narwana, or the final cessation of existence, as the grand


desideratum,
aspiration,

the

who would

life, its

to

having reached the power

changed

possible

human

hope,

[Time was when the penman of


sham Philosophies and Philosophers
but,
accept the doctrine of Budha
through the extraordinary means re-

gladly cease to be.

these lines, disgusted with the

in

all

pains and penalties, there are millions of

of the age, actually tried

counted

Thule of

and endeavor.

Dissatisfied with

us

Ultima

Part

III.

of glimpsing

the mystical states beyond, he

his faith, and raised his hopes, and

all

the

more

so by

Immortalization.

178

reason of his discovery that Nihilism and immortality alike are


reachable through the continued exercise of the

The
are

human

discovery alluded to in the bracketed sentence

two kinds of immortality:

A man may

1st.

will.]

is this

There

survive death, and

escape the thrall of his physical form, and maintain his ethereal

while

state for a

yet

he shall not have received the proper and

love-impulsion before birth, or else have subsequently

essential

developed love, he

go back
be

if

to the

as certainly

is

monadal

at the

again

all

beyond the

fade, dwindle,

He

a law.

will

end of a pipe-bowl, which only

grow smaller by degrees

requires to be let alone in order to


is

go out,

to

state, as that gravitation is

huge soap-bubble

like the

doomed

until

it

within the rim of the bowl, and then bursts forever

possibility of reparation.

Since the advent of the modern phase of Spiritualism, there have

been thousands of people

who have

commune with

sought to

deceased acquaintances, but wholly unavailingly.

because their friends thus sought have ceased to

may have
it

may

but very expressive phase

likened unto this

one

is

such a good

The two kinds

it,

which

seen no more forever.

spreads, blooms, flourishes, triumphs,

are, also,

was

that of exploded

or

light,

soon withers and


in the

gayly,

same

soil

waxes

strong,

itself;

yet the

That of the brute


both of whom are doomed to

powder, or extinguished

Narwana,

1st.

cessation of being as complete as

can exist no more forever

nihility, rest, divine

but

rock

wherefore, that plant

and perpetuates

two kinds of Nihilism:

total extinction

soil,

the soil.

and the brute homos, or brutal-man


sudden and

may be

of solid, arid

much for a while, but it


The other seed, planted

with plenty of water and root-room, grows


seeds were alike, and so

good rich

as a seed planted in

defies the roots to spread

looks well and promises

There

A man

send-off as to be

of immortality

only an inch or two deep, with a hard pan

is

2d.

enter the ethereal lands with, to use a

able to continue on forever.

beneath

exist.

Simply

received the proper impulsion before birth, or have gained

afterwards, and he

common

Why?

their

light,

which, as powder

and, 2d.

state infinitely

truly

human

harder to reach

than any phase of adtive immortality, whether transient or per-

Immortalization.
manent

the

man

179

dies with a celestial strain or note of divinest

harmony and seraphic melody ringing sweetest music through every


avenue, vault, and chamber of his being. Now observe, and mark

Narwana

well this definition of

On

earth the longest duration of

any single musical note never exceeds a few moments

Note of which

taneous rapture
It

speak, this Sunburst of celestial music, this instan-

unchangingly Forever, and

lasts

unaltered, the sound, the music, the

is

but this

without an interval

man,

FOREVER!

eternally the same,

suggest even the idea of monotone

to

It

an

is

melody, struck on an Eternal harp, enduring forever and

infinite

aye

Narwana of the good


The other, the
and imperfect. Thus death has three Gates

Such
evil

is

the

opens on Night
fields

I,

who

what

extinclion

total

on

the golden one

are to believe

one

lordly

who

and wretched

service over

is

life

knew were under

the

us

if

and

is

given of a hoary-headed " man," of nearly

by absorbing

that of a third

own

young

mis-

girl,

having already performed the burial-

two prior victims

growth of

whom

Elsewhere, in the volume of which this

he

extinction, unless saved

that old

man

is

doomed

to absolute

by repentance, physical regeneration, and

affection within him.

urged him to prolong his

It

own

was not passion or

only

lust

existence at the cost of others

out his wasted years by the awful crime of drinking the

to stretch

scious

tells

to

sought, and expected, to prolong his

one of sixteen years,

young

we
am

Seership

loftiest

within the year 1S73. met people

seventy years,

that

and

Immortal

thus believes.

a chapter, an account

the

one

the Iron

the Silver one, on

What Gods may well aspire

ban of the bad Nihility.

erable

Nihility of the

life,

and wrecking a child of so few summers; but the con-

and unconscious want of love was what urged him on

deadly, selfish deed

he

felt

the need of the great base

immortality must be builded, or not at

all.

Many

to the

upon which

such as he there

are.

But

it

does not follow that the monadal point, spark, or germ,

constituting, underlying,

of his ilk

and animating the old lecher, and others

the detestable

crew

in

whom

lust reigns

supreme

the

180

Immortalization.

infamous " Hullites" of the year I873

and the

still

more infamous

who

ravished

does not follow,

I repeat,

followers of the example of the thrice-dyed scoundrels

young

children,

and were burnt for

that the germs, or

monadal

their demise, cease to

it,

it

points, basing their existence, will, at

be forever

but they will only cease to be

those particularly villainous and vicious personalities

while the

may appear and reappear here again and


again, clothing themselves with new elements, and, of course, for
that reason, running new careers.
No one can go to the heavens
germs basing

he shall have gotten

until

him

their being

and not

till

of good the earth or earths can give

all

he has undergone the

incident to material

life

full

ordeal and disciplines

can he reach that golden supra-immortality

whereof modern thinkers, outside the pale of us few, have never even
yet dreamed, imagined, or surmised.

Nothing organically imperfect can ever enter and remain


superlative

go back

and

to the

ineffable land of pure Souls.

domain

of chemics and matter

The
;

in the

imperfect must

nor can they, with

hope, knock at the doors of the golden temples of Eternity, except


they be

full, fair,

pure, free, and good, even though their discipline

extends through a billion of ages

and the greater the

gifts or talent,

genius or innate power one has, the heavier shall be the price paid
for all accorded unto

him.

It

may be

can be no peace in high places,

well and truly said that there

for storms, hail,

and tempests,

hurricanes, fierce lightnings and crashing thunders play and break

around the mountain's brow

and he who would win the game of

triumphant immortality must do so by loving well and much.

But

to return to

the subject

clearly that a different

Darwin and

genesis of

man

his co-thinkers

than the usually assigned

one was imperatively demanded in presence of the


eries constantly
tion, and,

so

saw

startling discov-

being made, and they adopted the theory of selec-

far as

externals went,

were right

but instead of

immortal souls, originating in, among, from, or by, the Simiadae, it


was only the soul-case, the mere physical body, the outer form that
was thus developed, thus grew up through the slowing ages, while
the inside, the works of the grand watch, the imperial soul

originated otherwise and elsewhere.

itself,

Immortalization.

Now

by soul

here meant the thinking, conscious, knowing,

is

hating, loving, aspiring principle

whose

much has been

body, so

that mysterious something

perdurability

nature,

origin,

propose herein to

or

waging

settle the

about

with

co-perishability

and written,

said, sung,

generally have got by the ears, while


lectual battles.

iSr

the

philosophers

until

the fiercest of

all intel-

controversy, or at least

to indicate the clear road to such settlement, being perfectly confi-

dent and

conscious that herein will be found

method and route


thinker to have

to the final adjudication.

much

of Soul and Spirit

only possible

the

It

hard

is

for a

true

patience with those whose highest conception

from

that of a rarefied gaseous ether evolved

is

gross substance as light and heat radiate from glowing coals of


in a

wintry grate

because such a conception

is

fire

wholly untrue,

seeing that no possible refinement of solid substance or matter can

ever approach the state of even the magnetic yEth of Space,

which we

less that diviner thing of


,

matter does not think

are treating.

It

Soul does, therefore Soul

is

much

clear that

is

one thing,

matter quite another, requiring a bridge to span the gulf between

them, and that bridge


Soul be evolved from
for

Soul

remain

it

was from

it

subtle

past Eternity

or condensed, or in

remain matter until


senile

form of magnetism

nor can

by any process of rarefaction or refinement

all

it

is,

is

and such

it

while matter, either

will

in its

or fluid states, will

far-particled

its

its life

all

soul

come

to all possible eternities to

solidified

become

some

is

exhausted, and Deity shall have

and decrepit from the weight of Time and lapse of

hoary centuries

We
so

know, can know, but

many people
One

Him

and furthermore, that he

scintillas,

is

as

of development into perfect

unparticlcd

and

is

itself,

clear

is

man

I,

every reason to believe the

the writer hereof, so believe

Sun, emitting countless billions of

every instant and

every one of which

While God

we have

yet

be pure Soul

to

beams and rays

concerning God, notwithstanding

claim to be quite intimate acquaintances, and on

familiar terms with


Ineffable

little

that each contains myriads of

an embryon. or soul-germ, capable


or

womanhood

Soul, matter

yet emitting and

is

pure body

one

is

unit,

irradiating, besides the countless

Immortalization.

ig 2
sparks

scintillant

monads

or

alluded

just

to

aroma, aura, a portion of his divine Life, which


to all these

monads, and

universe.

Soul, like God,

all else that exists

tell

change, and
Erewhile

that

is

is

the

we

conclude there-

much

less millions

heterogeneous, divisible

the quintessence of Death

of

we

for

ages
Spirit

its

is

itself.

spoke of the menstruum wherein floated the rain of

soul-germs, and I gave

which

life

indivisible,

what "eternal" means,

cannot clearly grasp a thousand years,


is

the breath of

homogeneous, unparticled,

is

no one can

Matter, on the contrary,

is

glory-sphere,

within the radius of the

necessarily death-proof, in itself considered, and


fore Eternal, albeit

it

of All,

life

a name.

the

now

give

it

celestial influence of the

In beasts, apes, et ccztera, this viviflc force

LOVE

another,

Eternal One.

In some

diffused.

is

human beings it is condensed and crystallized. In some it is not.


The first is immortal. The latter not so. Beasts, apes, Low-grade
people, have instincts, attachments, magnetic attractions, and affection
tal

Man, true

man

lives

on

men

but

share their fate and

and

nostrils,

human

i'

soul

have love!

its

Immor-

Beasts die.

be more beast than

and as that

lot,

th' air, until

human he must

specific individual dies out,

consciousness, escapes, and once

God

and

more

once more breathes into some man's

again becomes not a quiescent, but a living, active

it
!

man

if

the divine spark, losing


floats freely

alone

If he be

more man than animal he may challenge

Death, defy ruin, laugh at destruction, snap his fingers in the face of
the grave, and ride triumphant and victorious o'er the

of worlds and countless starry universes


But, as

have already hinted, there

human, not only


direction.

If a

in

man

the line

is

mazy wreck

such a thing as being ultra-

of Narwana, but in quite another

reaches that mystic plane, then he comes

beneath the sway and rule of supra-human, and ultra Law, and
attains

a destiny better, greater, higher than

ordinary immortality, which gives

and

for

which he

What

him

so painfully yearns

so

and sighs

afforded

is

much
!

the destiny, state, condition, better something

yet ready to inform the world

hood of Eulis

to impart.

but

may

by the

care and trouble,

leave

it

is,

am

not

for the Brother-

Immortalization.
There are

unexplored thought toward which

limitless regions of

that fast-increasing multitude,

who

mere

selves to the

outside,

think as

/. c.

They

they rate us soundly.

not

soul-facls

believe a few things as do they, but not

push

I do,

though

do many of the supcrnalists,

as

183

all,

nor do we,

confine

our-

universe.

We

of the

that they do, for

all

which

rejoice in the physical demonstration of

the reappearing dead, but are not quite sure always that the mani-

powers are really

festing

their departed ones, for they

have not, as

have we, the means of establishing identities through an unmistakable

agency alluded to elsewhere.

Spiritualists

scandal,

Nihility

tips,

all, the

quarreling,

misrepresentation,

we occupy ourselves in
what happens to man after his
while

or to the upper spaces of the blue

across the borders of death-land,

the Spiritualists,

all

we

because

it

into

libel,

but not

over the river of death to that mystic state alluded to

Narwana and
ean.
At and

class

things of earth

and inquiry

actual research

with

of,

concern themselves mainly abo,ut raps,

mutual vituperation, backbiting,

" Social Freedom "

flight

Vast numbers

mental vinegar, acrid as

wine

while

we

Empyr-

strike

hands

and there part company with some of them,

know more

seek to

we

to

they are content to drink fourth-

gall, flavored hell-aciduously,

waters of

quaff* the

life

and

call

on the very brink of the

mighty River.
Just so far do

we go with

cheering Darwinism
to stay until

we

the cold, hard", dry, materialistic, un-

a system which

lands us in the grave, there

turn to grass, trees, beans, pineapples, or bananas

according to the locality where death overtakes and trips us up


at that point

we

separate from

system ignores Soul altogether.


the

modern

bill

of human want

Darwin completely,

We

and because

is all

it

no warmth, fervor, ardor, religion, about

make men

better,

but solely because

development theory as opposed


origin, yet fails to tell us

immortality became a fixed

to

but
the

are not wholly content with

spiritual dodtrines, seeing that they fail to


;

because

the

it;

it

fill

the great

head and no heart


not because

affirms

it

fails

has
to

and accepts the

genesic account of man's

how, when, where, or by what agencies


fa6t.

It

no valid or adequate reason why.

accepts the dogma, but gives


It

originates no thought, but

Immortalization.

184

boldly borrows and appropriates the mental stock of others.


lands

man

depends upon, and bases

it

whom

whom
the

tell

it

all

teaches

same

story,

George, Peter, and Thomas, communicating

or see facts alike.

Medium A,

through

on media,

its faith

no two of

to accept as oracles, yet

In

have no recollection of com-

in latititude 16,

municating yesterday with the same party through medium B, in

We,

latitude 17-30.

and mystical
tion,

in our investigations of the recondite, occult

ay, even in matters of mere finance, such

as specu-

buying, selling, contracting, or even in purchasing tickets in a

lottery, prefer the better


lies, falters,

thing, to

agency of a surer power

prevaricates,

all alike,

and

it

ever

tells

no matter what the

But stop we here ?

Oh, no

for

the

because

same

never

it

same

story of the

may

latitude or longitude

be

by the same instrumentality we

enter the Slumber of Sialam, and with keen glance and quickened

consciousness, scan, and leisurely survey realties denied to " Media,"

and with sure and rapid gaze trace the awful and majestic rush of
worlds
hurricanes of glowing galaxies, the wintry storm of
lamps of God flickering the Vault starry eyes glimpsing down
the Deeps pregnant earths waiting patiently
be delivered
falling

in

into

to

of the

Humanity

gestating in their bosoms.

and modern,

Seers, ancient, mediaeval,


that the supernal country

the

is

peopled by

low and brutal barbarian

which,

if true,

to the

alike,

all

inform the world

grades of persons from

high and polished

civilizee

proves that intellectual power and capacity

passport thither, nor a perquisite of immortality

myriads nqt
tribes,

merely of people but

and nations dwelling

for

not a

is

there are

of armies of savage races,

in that starry land.

for no amount
"
of that alone will warrant success, or prove the
Open Sesame " to

Moral goodness

is

not the touchstone or key either

the farther gate of the grave, nor be potent


safe arrival at the

dacious people

enough

all

pullers of the

on the authority of those

who

longbow

claim to

know

all

man's

to ensure a

golden portals of disbodied glory

of

for of all

men-

perfected liars

about

it

the

disem-

bodied ones are champions, able to give long odds, and then heavily
discount

all

embodied

denied his Lord,

falsifiers

down

from Judas

to the level of

Iscariot,

who you

and Peter, who


like.

It

is

not

Immortalization.

185

race, nation, or complexion, that determines a title to supra-mortal

existence; for there are people of

Sangs

arid

JWelees,

kinds there, even

all

lots of them

too, vivat

and

"Niters"

the dark-hned

Southern and Oriental races and peoples outnumber the Northern


and

ones

fair

in the ratio

besides excelling

them

of about twelve thousand to one hundred

same degree

in the

power of

force of character, and

general rule, occupy, according to one


as "

known

Diakka-land

in

mind,

love,

knowledge,

The white Yankees,

soul.

A.

J. Davis,

as a

large tract

" while but few dark-hucd beings can be

found there, because they constitute the population of the heavens

proper,

long remove from the stormy realm and imperfect

people alluded to and

hued races help


It is

to

named

above, albeit myriads of the Light-

people these choice abodes of spirit-land.

not age or sex either

because,

reliance can be placed

if

the statements of investigators thousands of infants

and people of

both genders are continually demonstrating that they

and

lie

Nor

is

really constitutes the passport to the

we

above the earth

who

live

and counsel

express,

on?

love

so

the

then,

return

evince,

faith

of us,

hold that, and that alone, to be the great sine qua non, the

grand desideratum, without which


death as

would be

it

a pocket-pistol

which man
grave

that the*y

were as impossible

it

to shoot out the centre of Donati's

This establishes one pregnant

are deathless have love at the core

the

who

All

confirm

live

beyond and

ethereal worlds

Reply:

and

still

What,

or social status.

genius,

talent,

it

upon

sails o'er

and thus

tunity to

it

assuredly, ay

love, waste soul

to abide the

is

All

who

the life-boat in

and remorselessly follows


[see further on],

chances

monad

life

and will
or state,

patiently waiting for an oppor-

begin a better and a fairer race on earth toward the

glittering, golden,

How

fact, viz.,

alone,

assuredly dwindle back to his or her pre-existent


there

comet with

sounding seas to triumphant existence beyond

Whence
who waste
!

It,

to survive

large the

sunny, shining shores beyond

number of

those

about the immortality of the Soul

who
;

have written and preached

and yet not one of the whole

vast host, with a single exception, has ever attempted to give a


scientific

reason

why man

is

endowed with

the

power of death-

Immortalization.

86

survival, for

which reason
world's

time in the

first

problem here, and

attack the

history give

literary

the

for the

reasons why,

enlarging somewhat upon the theory advanced years since, from


the

same

source, in the

book now

called " Soul

The Soul World,

as " Dealings with the

and Homes of the Departed," then known


Dead " and I now proceed to state the argument

the propositions, that

No

Apes

are Immortal

and

Man

start
is

with

an im-

Ape therefore man is not immortal by reason of descent.


But some men are immortal they ascended from Ape-ancestors

proved

man, conspired

therefore apes possessed the elements which, in

produce immortality.
death-proofness,

No

it?

How?

If

Then where

qualities.

he obtained

it

must have two ends.

If

did he get them, or

may he

not

his immortality?

subsequent to birth,

If his origin is purely mortal,

lose it?
stick

apes being immortal, or endowed with

follows that his Simian ancestry could not have

it

endowed him with such


and

to

man

whence

begins as a soul, what hinders

him from coming to a full stop a final cessation for commencement not only implies, but inexorably means, End also ? If he is
death-proof in part, or totally, what is the rule and law underlying
;

the tremendous fact

Now

all

it

gainable ? losable

phantom men
little

mind,

individuals

less "

who

been born so

or, as

may

are only so in

Man

and Manhood.

in civilized

life,

why?

attainment of supra-mundane existence

but will never even glimpse the "


off,

steadily declined

In the

apparitional or
;

who

traits,

have

which

Such may have

may have worn away

jewel, and deprived themselves of the very

blossoms afar

call

seeming

Soul," and none of the higher, nobler

associate with the terms

first essential

people

Summer

who

talk

to

the
the

about,

Lands," or scent

their

because they have wasted their substance, and

from the

first,

exhausted soul,

fore Love, consequently are not true


at best

If either,

of these are fair questions, worthy of fair reply.

place, there are what, in one sense, I

first

we

Is

become but

spirit,

body, there-

Men, but mere phantoms, who

the sentient vehicles for the exploitations of dis-

embodied wags.

Some,

so far as immortality

some work, or mechanism

is

concerned, die in bringing forth

laboring without

recuperation, until

Immortalization.
the ability to build

injured

the

up soul

forever and forever lost

is

kidneys,

heart-valves,

supra-renal

gland, and seminal vessels, rendering


either to

proper congenital impulsion

lime

may

acquired

who

or

reserved

for

per

Soul,

His existence
is

it

is

know

gratifying to
life

is

whom we

that such

beyond the grave

to the sub-

believe to be, not because

man existere ergo sum

to all past Eternity


nities to

have

that magnificent future


mankind the Peers, princes, and

we

demonstrable, but because

is

who

Supreme Deity

Soul, so

or

hold to be Eviternal, Sempiternal, and Eternal,

se, I

just as is that

efforts,

noble souls,

awaiting the choice spirits of


starry skies

them

for

too faithful worship at the altars of

But

or Onan.

and by stern resolve and persistent endeavor, aspire


destiny

prostate

never received the

since birth

it

escape nihility, and gain enduring

Powers of the

God

wholly impossible

our midst

in

power by

or wasted the

Mammon, Venus,
aye,

capsules,

body without which immortality can

There are very many

not be.

even

it

they having

propagate their kind, equal their former mental

elaborate the electro-ethereal

lost

187

come, and

is,

and probably will


one orbit

its

is

It

cannot help
has been from

Now

from

be,

the grand

it,

for

Now

to all Eter-

Eternal year.

Of

come a moment in the far-off aeons when matter


will have yielded up all its electric, magnetic, and ethereal life and
essences, which it will have contributed to form the electric bodies
course there will

of the Imperial hosts of the dead

been incarnated, and no more

new

when

the last

its

will have

souls will be launched into being,

and the mighty armies will migrate into space


prepare to again renew

monad

forms in

loftier

the refuse of Matter

moulds

the second act

of the transcendent drama be ended, the third begun, and the true and
real

purpose and meaning of the vast universe begin

and understood
Soul

is

as not Now

be realized

an Empire, or rather a Republic of States with a central,

controlling, governing
all

to

power.

space, yet central at

Home,

but mostly in a tiny point


scious at all points
that vast Brain

So

is

just as

Deity

man

at the centre

a sun

radiant through

lives all over his

of his brain.

Deity

body,
is

con-

but supremely and infinitely so at the centre of

whereof

stellar galaxies are

but tiny convolutions.

Immortalization.

188
and

astral nebulae

mere nervous

fibrilia

Soul

a radiant, invisible,

is

and Light located topographically,

crystallized globe of white Fire

so to speak, in the middle of the head

and metaphysically,

at the

centre both of the conscious being, and that other existence of which

we

and never will

see the effects, but are not,

be, conscious.

All things whatever emit a sphere, aura,

So does man

phere peculiar to themselves.

said before, His nervous fluid, or sphere,

other fluids,

air,
;

is

Love, which,

governed by Wave-motion, not

is

Love

netic affection.

Love

feed, for

ways

First,

is

their

is

for

it is

a love

electrical passion, not

the effluence of God's

life,

When

it.

body

We

upon

and they derive sustenance from

it

it'

is

magsouls

in

two

from the yth-Love pervading the Empyreal Vault

that universe-life

which flows out from God.

and supplied

fabricated by,

genital apparatus of the

of each gender

chemical

it,

like all

Proof:

linear.

are suffused with love, not merely penetrated by

sharp and cutting, beware of

aroma, or atmos-

so does Deity, and, as

is

it

Second, upon that

through, the nervous and pelvic or

human frame

for that entire organic system

but a mighty, powerful, intricate, yet wonderful

whose

laboratory and electro-magnetic battery,

function

giving us pleasure, comfort, peace, and while


elaborate matter's highperforming the strangely esoteric task
and

office

it

joy,

is

to

est, purest, subtlest

essences from food and drink, and absorbed im-

ponderables, and send

it

to the central brain,

Material

whereof

Soul fashions the deathless lining of the fleshly frame, the

body within and beneath

that of clay,

and which

spaces where gross substances are unknown.


that this great end

variety of ways,

and aim of Nature may

some of which

I will

be,

it

will

Now
and

wear

defeated in a

point out, and thus this mono-

graph may be the means of saving many a being from


total, eternal,

and complete.

injuries, disorders, or

injurious effect

upon

And

first

ruin, utter,

It is clear that all diseases,

misuse of the sexual apparatus have a direct


the soul,

and may, and do, often bar

building the silver-hued body intended for eternity, and

doom one

Why

to

in the

easy to see

it is

is,

electric

Nonenity

the

it

may

from
thus

equivalent of complete Annihilation

Because no mechanic, not even Nature, can perform perfect

work without good

materials and tools

and

if

the Prostate

and

Immortalization.
Cowper's glands

and vaginal

testes

the spirit-building

189

the uterus, ovaria, and supra-renal capsules


fibrilia
is

which

are the implements with

body than a good brick-house can be

such a house would tumble in the

would crumble the half-formed


Light

Thus

it

man's

a nail to a

is

first

but, alas

in

desired elect-

its

built without

mortar

for

gale, while the touch of death

atoms

spirit into

literally true that

coffin

which

are not sound, active, healthful,

accomplished

normal, non-inflamed, the soul can no more erect


rical

the

than sparks of

finer

everv excess and debauch adds

more senses than one

It

is

from the source named, alone, that the soul obtains the materials

and elements whereof


finest

to

construct

an ethereal body

from

the

essences of matter held in absolute coalescence by the highest

law, and, therefore, proof against death, division, decay, or dissolution

tion

within
and completes

by processes analagous

fleshly one,

its

it

subsequent to the facl of physical death


In

my

day

human

driven

whose

as the vehicle

true use only begins

The problem

beings of both sexes

blamable

many long

years, in

who

am

man whose

certainty, that

have elsewhere alluded

few

it

is

lines

is

too few bricks

to,

utterly im-

above, or

can by any possibility have

There was something lacking

it

that

it

craved;

attainable

that

too

Love was

Such

since.

beings are semi-conscious of their lack of elemental soul


is

nor did they receive the proper im-

mortalizing impulse before birth, or have acquired

was and

that I

criminal longing for the lives and vitality of

been rightly formed en utero.

much mortar

study for

know, with more than mathematical

girls I

were quite as

sure

made such cases an especial


very many lands, the result of which
and

possible that such beings, as those described a

young

Solved

is

have encountered thousands of Lust-fired, passion-

pitiable as

the old

to that of gesta-

that

it

a grand Fact, but not theirs

alone could satisfy their longings, and confer the boon they
that

young

girls

were generally

over-full

animation, vivacity, and were easily drainable

soul-conveying vehicle or fluid

that

of soul,

magnetism

and they rushed headlong

life,
is

to the

conclusion that possession of such would, in some nnsterious way,


cause the young

life

to pass to the old frame,

upon them what themselves had not

renew

it.

and conter

the power of death-survival.

Immortalization.

190
Such beings

for

sense of lacking

alone

Men

they are not

beyond the grave

life

for,

and

power which

the magnetic unction and inner

of,

the assurance of ethereal

is

have a secret craving


;

and

this

half-conscious sense constitutes the impelling spur and motive to the

unhallowed wish, and the diabolic and detestable crimes

Furthermore

mand, and

My

powers

investigations with all the

accordant, led

facilities

and deeply solemn religious

me

belief,

it

at

leads to.

my

com-

to the irresistible conclusion,

nay, absolute knowledge, that

no confirmed Onanist, or correspondent transgressor of the other


gender,

immortal, for reasons set forth elsewhere herein, and

is

which cannot be repeated

in this chapter,

mechanical, vegetable, tree-like

loss of

Soul

leaving nothing but a mere humanesque

itself,

show

automaton behind

to

longer, an immortal

human being

tion of Spiritualism,

of

what once was, but

the world

is

no

Familiarity with, and investiga-

proves beyond

all cavil,

that while thousands

other sorts of debauchees claim to reappear and manifest, yet

all

that not one single

Onanist has ever been known

They are Dead! just

soul

inevitably die

begin the salvatory


the

of the insane from that abom-

life

and most accursed cause, absolutely demonstrates the lapse

inable

and

except to observe that the

to

demonstrate.

must and will

as all such transgressors

and body, unless they turn right about and

life

recommended

as

in this

and other works by

same author.

Attraction, gravitation, selection, are regnant and unbending laws


alike of Soul, Spirit,

Mind, and Matter.

neither can the floating

Oil and water

germs or monads

wont mix,

be attracted to, or be in-

haled by, any non-human being now, because that possibility exists

Apply

no more.

why

for they

scious

life

fairest

law

and you will see the reason

can only be breathed in by, and come to active, con-

but,

by

by the

progenitors of
natural,

which

man
is

strongest, bravest,

duced beings a great deal


selves.

just stated,

within, brains of the very highest bimana.

The Simian
tality

the

did not

endow him with immor-

sexual, selection (of the finest

and most

intelligent)

at length pro-

finer, superior, higher, better,

Their parental affection enabled gestation

to

and

than them-

advance a step

toward perfectness, and the consequence was superior bodies, and

Immortalization.
affections,

"Cowpcr's" and

young.

their

in

were developed, enlarged, perfected

were the

as

the prostate glands

and nervous systems of the females; and.

uterus,

an organization existed of

power, that these organs


selection were enabled

such

to evolve

ovaria,

testes,

for the first time,

potent, magnetic, and

chemical

the course of generations

in

gi

still

by

and elaborate that which coalesced

with the animal life-principle, elevating that specimen of the pre-

human,
type.

was enabled

until it

Thus

it

to inhale

monads of

her,

God breathed into his


and man became a living,

true that

is

nostrils the breath

of

life,

the strictly

which, being competent to evolve the finer essences,


talized the

Now

its.

human
their,

conscious soul,

once immor-

at

being

Magnetism

take notice.

is

the

power of man.

It is

and mental, or of the body and the

kinds, physical

of two

One

soul.

may abound in the first, and have nothing whatever of the other,
else would we expect to see men of strong build, firm health, any
amount of physical, magnetic plethora, capable of being
the very finest specimens of the

human

not the fact, but quite contrary

for they only

emotional, soul-magnetism, are

human

breed of

beings.

species

fathers to

notoriously

is

who abound

in mental,

Again, Magnetic strength

The

first is

one thing,

is

material

the second

the results of one are superior physical specimens of the

those of the second, mental

but such

capable of generating a superior

magnetic unction quite another.


psychal

race

scale of soul-weight

and moral giants

puny people, with

large

and

spiritual

in the

souls

and

magnetic unction, will produce children a myriad times superior to

Bear

the other.

problem before
ficient to

power

me

plant the
his

to

wherefrom
electrical

this in

to

on

for

hangs the solution of the


have not love-unction

germ of immortality, bv bequeathing

offspring,

body

it

for if the breather

how

essential thereto
its

And

if

he does not then endow

back

present identity and individuality be


to

strong love-

spirits? or force to elaborate the

soul will dwindle

escape into the spacial yEth.

suf-

have a starting-point

can that child

go toward the land of

his babe, at death


its

mind,

to the

lost,

monadal

and the

be again breathed

favorable auspices, until at last success crowns

its

in

state

monad

will

under more

efforts

in

the

Immortalization.

19 2

process of immortalization.

This

often, very

awaken

these reincarnate souls frequently partially

sense of their then pre-existent states

often, occurs

and

to a vague,

dim

and this explains in a fewwhat has been an insoluble problem all along the ages, from
Budha to our own day and it is the only satisfactory solution ever
;

lines

given to the world.

Were Darwinism

all true,

and

man

merely a developed Simian,

there could be no such thing as destiny or Fate.

men

But there

is,

and

are cast to a certain lot and career as positively as that they are

born, and are compelled by a resistless

power

to

move

in given lines

and grooves, hopelessly, and are as certainly and solidly bound to


the wheel of a peculiar fortune, for good or ill, as was the fabled

Some

Ixion.

hopeless

effort,

doomed

are

and disappointment,

perpetual

to

from the nipple

to the

disaster, ruin,

happiness,

joy,

success,

fail in all things,

stalk

by

their sides,

Love, wealth, fame, comfort,


them, and

elude

all

struggle, poverty,

they

and defeat

turn whithersoever they will or may.


rest,

strife,

grave

apparent

if

triumphs come, defeat invariably ends the game.

Other people do

or say with impunity things that are sure to bring

down

storms of

obloquy and pain upon their devoted heads, and sorrow and agony
is

their lot forever

exactly opposite

earth.

On

whose every

step

on the

the other
is

transforms everything to gold, money, fame

them
till

like a rolling tide,

life

and they revel

on earth closes on them

hand there are those

a triumph, and
;

whose touch

success flows in upon

in delight without a

in a blaze of

shadow,

wealth and glory

yet

these people are not half as able, good, noble, true, as the other

Now all the

class.

the solution

is

Darwinism on earth cannot account

easy.

The

successful class are those

bodied for the first time, and


class

on

man.

earth,

The

all their

others, the failers,

for this, yet

who

are

ranks can not furnish a

emfirst-

have undergone prior existences

and are either paying penalties

for former transgressions,

or are undergoing ripening disciplines preparatory to special sunbursts of usefulness, joy, and glory on the further shores of time.

Weigh

a soul of each class in the scale of actual worth,

Failers touch ground while the victors on earth kick the

one of the former

is

of

more

real value to earth,

life,

and the

beam

and

God, and the

Immortalization.
universe, than scores of the others.

It is

193

as the Atlantic to a brook-

let.

Children begotten without love are not necessarily immortal

may

proper culture of their better parts

but

make them so.


They who do generate offspring by loveless marriage commit a
crime against nature and the Deity for all human beings have a
a

easily

moment

right to receive the immortalizing impulse at the

generation

and also

to that culture

of their

and training thereafter which

make assurance doubly sure in respect to this, the most


important of all human matters.
They who become parents under Love's sweet influence at once
give the required impulsion to the new being enable it to survive
death's ordeal, and help God Himself to empeople the starry homes
alone can

of the dead
It

low, harsh, crash,

follows that the

ungenerous people are not entitled

hard, crusty, dry,

nor without ]'cry strenuous

self-redemption from the lot of beasts, can attain, immor-

effort at

much

tality,

to,

selfish,

less the other

and vaster glory reserved

for greater souls,

mainly those who, themselves abounding in love, yet languish unto


death without return.

Of

course a child receiving Love's impulsion will ride triumphant

over death's dark tides, even though


or glimpse this world of ours

Many and many

bodily eyes never open upon

its

a full-grown

man

or

woman, stepping

grave at ripeness of years, only step out of

monads

They who

more immortal than the ox which

falls

per contra, mvriads of savages,

couth of

all

races, ages,

and climes,

of the love and love-generating


lies at

again as dwindled

it

and when reborn they too have vague, shadowy reminis-

cences of the, to them, foretime.

while,

into the

the foundation,

and

is

are loveless arc

no

beneath the butcher's axe

Indians, blacks, and the un-

attain to immortality, because

power within them

the sole process of

for that alone

attainment

its

or

Immortalization.
In conclusion

Let

all

who wish

for

immortality learn

and cherish the better feelings of the human heart


to preserve, regain,
J

and cultivate

affectional, amative,

to

Love,

take good care

and psychical

Immortalization.

194

Where

Health

restore

it

the nature

injured take immediate

means

thus the point will be gained, and goodness reign.

no one despair

while there's

for

dark the outlook, don't for a


that the darkest hour
silvery linings,
isolate,

is

and

and alone,

is

moment

just before

that,

day

hope

there's

life

forget that
;

Let

and, however

God

still

lives

that the densest clouds have

though love-lorn and wretched,

still

We

to

may be happy yet

friendless,

PART

I.

CONCERNING SOUL-SIGHT AND MAGIC MIRRORS.

add

gratify the

pressed
in

chapter to the present

this

me

for

two reasons

To

st.

for five years past,

have

To

give,

something on the points involved

and, 2d.

and condensed printed form, information which

would be wholly impossible

is

for

hundreds of correspondents who,

a concise

of those

work

who

ask

necessary to be

of me.

it

known upon

the subjoined article

me

for

to write out for

even

one-fiftieth

This and " Seership" contain


that occult subject.

But

it

that

all

first I

quote

The

far east must ever lead the world in the practice of necromancy.
All the
and mechanical ingenuity of the most expert prestidigitateurs of Europe or
America cannot produce a single exhibition which will compare with the feats of
the commonest Indian juggler.
The Japanese have taught us the greater part
of the slight-of-hand illusion which is now paraded before staring audiences in
this country and in Europe
but the necromancy of Japan is as boys' play compared with the mysterious jugglery of the nether and farther Indies, and especially
of Siam.
In the latter country there is a royal troupe of jugglers, who perform
only at the funerals and coronations of the kings, and then only in the presence
of the nobles of Siam, or those initiated into the mysteries of the religion of the
country. These necromancers do not perform for money, are of noble blood,
and it is seldom that a European sees even their faces. Last year, however, an
English surgeon, who was in the country, performed a somewhat remarkable cure
upon a princess, who had been treated in vain by all the physicians of the country.
Great was the gratitude of the Siamese court at the doctor's performance and,
as a reward commensurate with his great service, he was permitted to witness
the performance of Tepada's royal troupe of jugglers. This exhibition was
given in the sacred temple of Juthia, on the ltith of November, the occasion
being the coronation of the young king. The surgeon's narrative, stripped of a
large amount of description, and materially condensed, is given below
skill

"in the temple or juthia.


" Woun-Tajac

called me very early, and lie and his father's cousin, a jolly, fat
old gentleman, called Soondatch-Tam-Bondur, set to work to prepare me for witA white turban was wound
nessing the performances in the great pagoda.
around my head; my skin was stained the color of new bronze; my mustache
ruthlessly trimmed down, blacked, and waxed till it had the proper Malayan
dejected droop and tenuity; my eyebrows blacked; and native garments furnished me, over which I wore the long white robes which, I was told, were

105

The Glyfhcs Bhatteh.

196

peculiar to the ' initiated.' The pagoda of Juthia is more celebrated for its
sacredness than its size, or the splendor of its architecture. It is, nevertheless,
a building of some very striking features. It is situated without the city, upon
a broad and commanding terrace, elevated considerably above the level of the
river-plains.
It is approached from the city by a long, brick-paved avenue, wide,
straight, and imposing.

" ADMIT ONE.


" Soondatch and "Woun-Tajac, each holding me by an arm, now directed me
toward one of the doorways of the temple. It was guarded by two men, with
drawn swords, and very fierce aspect, who stood in front of a heavy drapery of
red cloth that concealed the interior of the temple from outside eyes. At a triple
password these men admitted my companions, but crossed their swords before my
breast.
Soondatch whispered in the ear of the elder of the two; he started,
gazed at me intently, but did not withdraw his barrier. Woun showed him a
signet.
He took it, and reverently placed it upon his forehead; yet still he
refused to admit me. There was a controversy between the doorkeeper and my
companions and, at last, the elder guardian whistled shrilly upon a bone-pipe
A tall man suddenly appeared, I could
tied about his neck with a strand of silk.
not see from whence. He was middle-aged, athletic, and had a most peculiar,
cunning, self-possessed look of person and intelligence.
;

" TEPADA

'

exclaimed both of my companions at once ; but the man, who was naked, except
for a breech-clout, took no notice of them.
He put hi* band heavily, but not unkindly, upon my breast, gave me a piercing, long look, and said in excellent

French, * Are you a brave man?


Instantly, without another
Try me
I said.
word, he bandaged my eyes with a part of the long white robe I wore he
snapped his fingers suddenly, whispering in my ears, 'Not a word, for your life
and the next moment I found myself seized in the hands of several strong men,
and borne some distance along a devious way, ascending and descending several
times. At last I was put down the bandage was quietly removed and I found
myself squatted on a stone-floor, between Soondatch and Woun-Tajac, who, with
bowed heads, and faces partly shrouded in their white robes, squatted like statues
of Buddha, their knees and shins close to the ground, their haunches resting
upon their heels, their hands spread palms downward upon their knees, their eyes
deflected, and a look of devout reverence and abstracted meditation in their
countenances. The light was dim to my unaccustomed eyes, but all around, as
far as I could see, were white-robed worshippers crouched in the same attitude
of silent reverence.
'

'

'

"a weird

scene.

" By degrees, as my eyes grew used to the dim gloom, I began to look about
me. The place was a square vault, so lofty that I could not see the ceiling, and
I should say not less than a hundred paces long and wide.
All around the sides
rose gigantic columns, carved into images of Buddha always, yet with a thousand
variations from the central plan, a thousand freaks of fancy, a thousand grotesqueries, through which shone, the more effectively for the departures, the
eternal calm, the stagnant, imperturbed ecstasy of apathy of Buddha's remarkable
face, with the great pendant ears, and the eyes looking out beyond you into the
supreme wistlessness of Nieban
a face that once seen can never be forgotten.
By degrees I came to see the plan of this evidently subterranean vault, and to
look with wonder upon the simple grandeur of its massive architecture, which
was severely plain, except so far as the carving of the great columns went. At
the farthest end of the hall, resting against the columns, was a raised dais or platform, covered with red cloth. This stage was raised between three and four feet
above the floor of the vault, and was about thirty-five or forty feet deep and one
hundred and fifty broad. Behind it a curtain of red cloth hung down from the
capitals of the towering columns.
In front of the stage, just about the spot

The Glyphce Bhatteh.


where the pulpit of the orchestra

in a

Greek theatre would

197
he, -was a tripod-

broad censer upon it, in which was burning a scented oil,


mixed with gums and aromatic woods, that diffused through the whole vault a
pungent, sacramental odor.

shaped

altar, with a

"THE OPENING CEREMONIES.


"Suddenly there was a wild and startling crash of barbaric music from under
gongs, drums, cymbals, and horns
and with wonderful alertness,
the stage
and a really indescribable effect, a band of naked men came out from behind the
curtains, bearing each a scented torch in his hand, climbed the columns with the
agility of monkeys, and lighted each a hundred lamps, strung from the base
almost of the columns sheer up to the apex of the vault, which, I could now see,
rose in a lofty dome, that doubtless pierced far up into the interior of the pagoda
The illumination from these multitudinous lamps was very brilliant;
proper.
too soft to be dazzling or overpowering, yet so penetrating and pervasive that one
missed nothing of the perfect light of the day. The din of the horrible orchestra
increased, and a band of old women came out from under the stage singing (or
The red
rather shrieking out) the most diabolical chant that I ever heard.
curtuin fluttered a little, there was a dull thud, and there, right before us, alongside tlie censer, stood a very old man, but wrinkled, with long hair and beard,
His finger-nails were several inches long, and his sunken
white as cotton fleece.
jaws were horribly diversified with two long teeth, yellow and ogreish. lie was
naked, except for a breech-cloth, and his shrunken muscles shone with oil. Ho
took the censer in his hands, and blew his breath into it until the flame rose
twenty feet high, red and furious; then, with a sudden, jerking motion, he tossed
It shot toward them a
the burning oil toward the crowd of squatting spectators.
broad sheet of terrible flame; it descended upon them a shower of roses and
Turning the censer
japonicas, more than could have been gathered in a cart.
bottom upward, he spun it for a minute upon the point of his long thumb-nail,
then flung it disdainfully away toward the audience. It struck the pavement
with a metallic clang, bounced, and rose with sudden expanse of wings,

"A

SnRIEKING EAGLE,

frightened horribly, and seeking flight towards the summit of the dome. The
old man gazed a moment upward; then, seeing the tripod upon which the censer
had stood, he sent its legs apart, with a nervous hand, straightened them against
his knee, and hurled them, dartlike, toward the eagie.
They glanced upward
with a gilded flash, and instantly the eagle came fluttering down to the pavement
in our midst, dead, and three horrible cobras coiled about him, and iitting their
hooded heads defiantly, and flashing anger out of their glittering eyes. The
music shrieked still wilder, the snakes coiled and plaited themselves together in
a rhythmic dance, lifting the dead eagle upon their heads, and, presto right in
our midst there stood the tripod again, with its flickering flame, and its incensesavored breath. A more perfect illusion never was seen.
" That is Norodom,' whispered Vv'oun-Tajac in my ear.
Another actor now
came upon the scene, whom I recognized to be the tall athletic, Tepada. Behind
him came a smaller man, whose name, Woun-Tajac informed me, was Minhman,
and a boy, probably twelve years old, called Tsin-ki. These four began some of
It is
the most wonderful athletic exhibitions that can be conceived.
!

'

"impossible to believe,
I am not going
unless vou saw it, what work these men put human muscles to.
to provoke the incredulity of your readers by attempting to describe the majority
In one feat Tepada seized Norodom by his long white beard, held him
of them.
off at arm's length, and spun round with him until the old man's Kirs were
Then, while they still spun with the fury
horizontal to the athlete's shoulders.
of dervishes, Minhman sprang up, seized upon Norodom's feet, and spun out a

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198

horizontal continuation of the ancient


and when Minhman was firmly established, the boy Tsin-ki caught to his feet in like manner, and the tall athlete,
every muscle in him straining, continued to whirl the human jointless lever
around. At last, slowing slightly, Tepada drew in his arms till the old man's
white beard touched his body ; there was a sudden strain, and the arm of men
from being horizontal became perpendicular, Norodom's head resting atop of
Tepada's, Minhman's head upon Norodom's feet, and Tsin-ki's head on Minhman's
feet.
pause for breath, then the column of men was propelled into the air,
and, presto ! Tepada's head was on the ground. Norodom's feet to his, Mihnman's
feet upon Norodom's head, Tsin-ki's feet on Minhman's head.
Each had turned
a summersault, and the column was unbroken
;

" METAMORPHOSES.

" One trick which Minhman performed was a very superior version of the
mango-tree feat of the Indian jugglers. He took an orange, cut it open, and
produced a serpent. This he took down into the audience, and, borrowing a robe
from one, cut the snake's head off and covered it with the robe. When the robe
was lifted again, a fox was in the place of the snake. The fox's head was cut off,
two robes borrowed, and when they were raised there was a wolf, which was
killed with a sword.
Three robes, and a leper appeared it was slain with a
Four robes covered a most savage-looking buffalo, that was killed with
javelin.
an axe. Five robes covered in part, but not altogether, a lordly elephant, who,
when the sword was pointed against him, seized Minhman by the neck and tossed
him violently up. He mounted feet foremost, and finally clung by his toes to
the capital of one of the columns. Tepada now leaped from the stage and
alighted upon the elephant's shoulders.
With a short sword he goaded the beast
on the head until, shrieking, the unwieldy animal reared upon its hind feet,
twined its trunk about one of the great columns, and seemed trying to lift itself
from the ground and wrap its body around the great pillar. The music clashed
out barbarously, Ncrodom flashed forth a dazzling firework of some sort, and
the elephant had disappeared, and Tepada lay upon the stage writhing in the
folds of a great boa-constrictor and holding up Minhman upon Iris feet.
" During three hours the exhibition continued, feats of the sort I have described,
each more wonderful than the one that preceded it, following one another in
rapid succession. I shall content myself with describing the last and culminating
;

wonder of the

startling entertainment.

"the beautiful luan prabana.


" A perfectly formed and most lovely nauteh girl sprang out upon the stage,
and was hailed with universal exclamations of delight, everybody calling out her
name, Luan Prabana, as if it were a word of good omen. Her only dress was a
short petticoat of variegated feather-work. A wreath of rosebuds crowned her
soft, short, black hair, and she wore a pearl necklace, as well as broad gold armWith a brilliant smile she danced exquisitely for some minutes
lets and anklets.
to the accompaniment of a single pipe, then she knelt and laid her head on old
Norodom's knee. The boy fanned her with a fan made of sweet-fern leaves,
Minhman fetched a lotus-shaped golden goblet, and Tepada poured into it from a
quaint-looking flask a fluid of greenish hue. The old yogi-like Norodom took
the goblet and blew his breath upon the contents till they broke into a pale blue
This Tepada extinguished with his breath, when Norodom held the gobflame.
let to Luan Prabana's lips, and she drained the contents with a sigh.
As if
transfigured she suddenly sprang to her feet, her face strangely radiant, and
began to spin giddily around in one spot. First the boy, then Minhman, then
Tepada tried to arrest her, but they no sooner touched her than

" SHE REPELLED THEM WITH A SHOCK


Spinning
that thrilled them as if she had imparted an electric spark to them.
constantly, with a bewildering rapid motion, the girl now sprang off the stage and

The Glyphce Bhatteh.

199

down

the hall, along by the foot of the columns, Tsin-ki, Minliraan, and Tepada
In and out among the crowd they spun, the three chasing.
Tepada seized hold of the chaplct that crowned her; it broke, and as she was
whirled along, a spray of rosebuds was scattered from her brow in every direction.
Anything more graceful never was seen. And now a greater wonder. At
the extremity of the hall the three surrounded and would have seized her, when,
still revolving, she rose slowly into the air and floated gently over our heads
towards the stage, scattering roses as she went.
At the brink of the stage she
paused in mid-air; then with a slight, wing-like motion of her arms, mounted up,
up toward the loftiest nrch of the vault overhead. (Suddenly old Norodom seized
bow and arrow and shot toward her. There was a wild shriek, a rushing sound,
and the dancer fell with a crash to the flags of the floor, and laid there an apparent bloody mass.
The music burst forth into a wild wail, and the chorus of old
in active pursuit.

hags came tumultously forth and bore her off in their arms.

"was
"Now, from

a miracle.

it

behind the red curtains came a dozen strong men, bearing on

their shoulders a great leaden box, which they laid upon the front part of the stage.
As they retired the old women came out bringing a low couch, decorated witli

and gold-embroidered drapery, upon which lay Luan Prabana, decked


and sweetly sleeping. The couch with its sleeper was
put quietly down upon the front of the stage, and left there, while Xorodom and
Tepada went to the leaden box, and with hot irons attempted to unseal it.
That is Stung-Tieng's coffin,' whispered Woun to me; 'the old saint has been
dead more than half a millennium.'
"Quickly, eagerly it seemed to me, the two men broke open the fastenings of
the coffin, until the side next the audience falling out at last, a teak-box was discovered. This was pried open with a small crowbar, and what seemed a great
bundle of nankeen taken out. Tepada and Norodom commenced to unwind this
wrapping, which was very tight. Yard after yard was unwound and folded away by
Minhman, and at last, after at least one hundred yards of wrapping had been taken
off, the dry, shrivelled mummy of a small, old man was visible, eyes closed, flesh
dry and hard,
dead and dry as a smoked herring. Norodom tapped the corpse
with the crowbar, and it gave a dull, wooden sound.
Tepada tossed it up and
caught it
it was still as a log.
Then he placed the mummy upon Norodom's
knees, and fetched a flask of oil, a flask of wine, and a censer burning with some
pungent incense. Norodom took from his hair a little box of unguent, and,
prying open the mouth of the mummy with a cold-chisel, showed that the dry
flowers

forth in bridal garments,

'

tongue could rattle like a chip against the dry fauces. lie filled the mouth witii
unguent and closed it, and anointed the eyelids, nostrils, and ears. Then he and
Tepada mixed the wine and oil, and carefully rubbed every part of the body with
it.
Then, laying it down in a reclining position, they put the burning censer upon
the chest and withdrew a space, while the drums and gongs and cymbals clashed
and clattered, and the shrill, cackling treble of the chorus of old women rose
hideously.

" A LA LAZARUS.

"A

mummy

breathless pause ensued


one, two, three minutes
and the
sneezed, sneezed thrice, so violently as to extinguish the flame of the censer.
A
moment later the thing sat up, and stared, blinking and vacant, out around the
vault
an old wrinkled man, with mumbling chops, a shrivelled breast and belly,
and little tufts of white hair upon his chin and forehead. Tepada approached
him reverently, upon his knees, bringing a salver, witli wine and a water-cake.
The old man did not notice him, but ate, drank, and tottered to his feet, the
In another moment he saw the
feeblest decrepit old dotard that ever walked.
nautch girl slumbering upon her couch he scuffled feebly to her, and, mumbling,
With a glad cry the maiden
stooped as if to help his dim eyes to see her better.
waked, clasped him in her arms and to her breast, and kissed him. IncompreHe was no longer a nonagenarian dotard, but a full-veined,
hensible aiagic

The Glyphce Bhatteh.

200

who gave her kiss for kiss. How the transformation was wrought I
have no idea, but there it was before our very eyes. The music grew soft and
passionate, the chorus of the old women came out, and with strange Phallic songs
and dances bore the two away
a bridal pair. I never expect again to behold a
sight so wonderful as that whole transformation, which, I may mention, my
learned Jesuit friend, to whom I described it, regards as a piece of pure symbolism. His explanation is too long and too learned to quote, but he connects the
ceremony with the world-old myth of Venus and Adonis, and claims that it is all
a form of sun-worship.
" BACK TO THE TOMB.
fiery youth,

" The show went on for some time longer with many curious feats. At the end
of an hour the Phallic procession returned, but this time the Bayadere led it, a
strange triumph in her eyes, while the youth lay upon the couch sleeping. The
Phallic chorus sank into a dirge, the youth faded visibly
he was again the
shrivelled dotard ; he sighed, then breathed no more.
Luan Prabana retired
sorrowfully Norodom and Tepada wrapped the corpse again in its interminable
shrouds, restored it to the coffin, and it was borne away again. The attendants
climbed up to and extinguished the lights. I was blindfolded and borne away
again.
1 found myself once more at the doorway of the temple in the broad
sunshine with my friends
as the mystic ceremonies of the great temple of
Juthia were over, it may be for many years."
;

" With strange Phallic songs and dances bore the two away
a
" Venus and Adonis
bridal pair."
a form of sun-worship."

"

The

Can anything be plainer


or more direct in confirmatory proof of what I had written in this
book, than this excerpt from a newspaper, dated April n, 1874,
months after this book was completed,
but the appearance of
which necessitated a brief additional page or two ? There is no
need to go to far-off Siam to witness such marvels, or to learn their
strange principia, for I have not only witnessed displays of High
Phallic chorus sunk into a dirge."

Magic

in this country, quite as marvellous, but different

from the

above, but have myself performed the feat of Fire-drawing, and

came very near destroying


and but

rite,

for the

the

quick,

For

fifteen

and not

less

loftiest

the

self-sacrificing

action of Dr.

the aereal spaces

have been

till

March, 1874, did

was

slain

by principles known

years I sought a female of the right

brother-in-law's [he

of

assisted at the

woman would

European or American Luan Prabana


tress]

woman who

of a

brave,

Charles Main, of Boston, that

drawn down from

life

by
to

fire

me.

organization an

[the Fair and Virgin invocaI find her.

a Pupil] lack of decision,

Her
and

Self-will,

his

and

weighing

than three dollars' expense against the possession of the

Magic

true

earth ever saw, determined

material

which,

it

is

me

to seek elsewhere for

needless to say, I have

found

The Glyphce Bhaiteh.


my own

again in

The

personal circle.

Mysteries are

through the Phallic, Discal, Yoni Principles,

known

and the highest, nohlest worship

whom

with all

one of them

course,

have

saw

or

gain,

sure

parti)-

The

man.

to

taught in this land

opportunities

is

purity,

great trouble

that they

Wherefore, of

The Phenomenal magic recounted

all.

the extract given above, together with the equally startling

of Egypt, Negro-land, Japan, China, Tartary, and India

approached by the

tantly

seen in the case of

is

and the

like, as

the Baltimore negro and others, together

concerned, but secondary

glimpse behind the scenes of


further

To

side.

the

observing, ere

will neither

life,

compared

trifles

that

to

do

so, that I

my

hope these things now written,

be scattered to the winds, or seized on in the interests

of either dollars or lusts

worshippers of either

cannot help utterly despising the

for I

Mammon

absolutely certain, and this

it

One

or Priapus.
is

No

but success

sure to eventually

is

thing, however,

one can succeed

branch of high magic whose spur and motive


;

transcendent

that

devote this concluding chapter of

I shall
I

and note what transpires on the

consideration of

special

phase of high magic,

above

only dis

system of the far Orient, whereby persons are enabled to

loftier

book

in

tiling'-

of various persons, myself included, are, so far

will) the air-floating

as real use

Fire-tests, materialization

Hume,

not

chance of

brilliant

Passion.

gratify

to

wrought

all

unsullied

in

anything nobler than the

dropped them

201

is

such as

crown the

in

is

either

deprecate

efforts

of the

persevering student, whose aims are goodness and the acquisition


of

power

for noble ends.

For many ages people have sought


the veil

which

han<rs

to penetrate through, or

lift,

between the world we inhabit and that vast

realm where causes reside and principles

exist.

To

that

end,

recourse has been had to drugs, such as opium, cannabin, and cam-

phora

and

in

to

mesmerism, "Psychology,"

later

methods;

all

the student
before.

Not

times to
of which,

circles
in the

disks, magnets,

and various

so-called

methods, because

persons can
all

are

not

marvellous

end, have proved imsatifa( c to'y. and

and searcher has been, by them,


all

and fasting;

reach

the

possessed

left

interior

worse

off than

sight

by

of the essentia]

such

organic

The

202

Glyfihce Bhatteh.

attributes, or constitutional bias

To

and tendency.

such there

all

a surer, better, safer, and grander road, and that

is

is

self-develop-

ment, by means entirely within the reach of every one, and which
are within their will

and control

and which require but the

ments of Time, Patience, Assiduity, Persistence, and periodical


complete success in soul-sight, then

to ensure, if not

effort

in those other

human

char-

spirit-glass or lens,

not

powers, and attributes essential to perfect

qualities,

ele-

acter.

That agency,

I hold, is

some form of the

Urim and Thummim," or metallic breast-plates used for


purposes of divination, and worn by the priesthood, as recounted in
"

the

the Bible

nor the stones and crystals of later days,

but

the per-

fected spirit-seeing or magic-glass, formed of materials prepared in

the Orient,

and

fitted for

use in Paris, France.

These are of two generic kinds, and


sensitiveness, focal

made

for,

power, and magnetic planes,

and adapted

different lines

eight inches

And

by

also of diverse grades, sizes,

to,

The common kind averages about

seven, and

which they have

The

difference

those

one line of use, are not so well suited to

First.

is

a true ./Ethic

ordinary ends, such as invoking the dead


for

because

for ages

mirror adapted to

and the other purposes

been used.

between the

spirit-seeing

mirrors, such as are

described in " Seership," and the methods and materials of their


construction therein set forth, and those hereinafter described,

common

the difference between a first-class gold repeater, and a

cylinder

escapement

vastly superior to the other.

mirrors are quite dissimilar


inafter described, is

Both are time-keepers, but one

watch.

The

materials of the

polishing, heating, bathing,


that renders

them valuable, and adapted


weighing

demanded $4,000

in gold coin,

even at that price.

toil, in

cleaning,

and magnetic manipulation, and

crystalline mirror,

it

classes of

and the labor expended on those here-

from hoary antiquity they were intended.

with

is

simply enormous, for after they come into the

hands of us of America, they cost an immensity of

it is

two

is

less

to the uses for

this

it

which

have seen a very small

than a pound, for which the owner

and was not

Second. The

at all

larger

anxious to part

and

finer

ones of

The Glyphce Bhatteh.


the same sort

but which of course are far better, stronger, more

and have a great deal wider range.

perfectly magnetic,

there

were

five

203

sizes of this class

could be depended on

as the rest

but

it

was found

were extremely

Formerly

two

that but

liable to fracture

by reason of the great climatic ranges of temperature

Western

in

Europe and North America.


This

were

class

seers

ficient

also found better suited to beginners than to pro-

who, not content with the limited

especially those

ranges of the ordinary ones, were anxious for a perfected instrument


of greater sensitiveness, magnetic calibre, focal range, yEthic basin,
or magnetic reservoir, and of a capacity equal to the solution of

almost any subject capable of demonstration by such means


fore that

form was superseded,

such things in that line

in 1S74,

oval

fine

where-

by the ne plus ultra of

all

magnetic polar ones, with

deeper, broader, larger basins, or magnetic reservoirs, presenting a

deep-sea

nearly

surface,

absolutely

nothing to wish for in any respect

perfect,

and

almost

leaving

and

beautiful, clear ovoid,

of size, focal length and calibre seldom equalled and never surpassed.

They go

in grades, sizes, ranges,

and cost according

to their illumi-

nant power.
In January, 1S74, I received a few from Paris, and

my

chamber-wall

to

charge and

and there they remained

till

fit

them

for their

became suddenly illuminant, and no grander

owner,

morning of Feb.

the

hung them on

sight ever

lady

when

8th,

was beheld

by human eyes than was presented on that memorable morning


the

whole

starry galaxies

rolling world-systems

congeries of stellar constellations

cities afar off

they

of nebula.'

on the earth

for

vast

and

scenes never before beheld by eves of this world, were displayed to

such a grand, sublime, and amazing extent that the soul panted with
the weight of the transcendent Phantorama.*
*

They

are, every one

the

Markets

'.)

(from the plain surface mirror, to the magnifienormous 40-inch ones


for a Lodge
capable of mirroring correctly and beforehand ton

of the world.

or the

fit

'.

Here

is

a strange

test,

whose

avouch
A pregnant lady and such are ever the most favored in
magic,
on the morning alluded to above-*- Feb. 8, IsTt
:

as these

of litem

cent, golden-edged, Beauties

worth a king's ransom

Such mirrors

truth

all lines

gazed

solemnly

of cele-tial
into

one of

The Glyfihce Bhatteh.

204

would
ling,

they were mine

treated judiciously,

psychic marvels than

all

if

kept free from promiscuous hand-

and rightly used, are capable of more

the mesmerists on the globe

Very few of

any grade are imported, save when expressly ordered

the risk of

breakage in crossing the seas and by inland carriage being too great
to

admit of larger consignments, even were

which

it is

it

possible to have such,

not.

Full directions for their general use and care are given in the

book

called " Seership," a

work devoted

exclusively to the subject.

But those of the superior grades require suplementary advisements


concerning their treatment,

ist.

They should

when not

be kept either with face to the wall in a dark place,

else

in use,

be covered

with a board or plate (usually furnished with them) so as to exclude


every ray of light.
to the full

But about once

month they should be exposed

blaze of the sun for at least an hour

moon

exposure, but of longer duration, to

increases their power, and quite often adds

while a similar

or starlight, invariably

new

ones.

The

larger

ones

may be used by

fixed

immovably, and the people arranging themselves so that each

room

full

of persons at the same time

being

can see the broad white-black river flowing continually across the
surface

but no one, save the owner, should either touch, or

stand closer than from four to seven feet or more

sit,

or

and when the

word should be spoken, no movement made and


to the Most High, while special
it
invocations, for any given purpose or purposes, may be made to
Those which are now in this country
lesser potential intelligences.
are of an extraordinary character and degree of power their illumiseance begins, no

ought

to

open with a prayer

nant surface has never been equalled

while their true cuspic-ovoid,

demanded to know the sex of her unborn child. The reply


the king-seer of five
came instantly
"A Boy and a great one a vast soul
THOUSAND TEARS "
The result, so far as sex was concerned, was absolutely true and there is but
This same lady was the only true
little doubt that the rest will prove equally so.
mystic of her sex I ever saw in America. She was the best mirror-manipulator
on the earth, and owned
still owns all the genuine ones on the continent.
Through her I have obtained specimens of such rare value, that to part therewith
was like the loss of the right eye.
,

the mirrors, and

The Glyphce Dhattch.


depth and breadth,

who

favored ones

most

is

admirable,

205

appreciable

arc true seers and born mystics, as being inimeav

urably superior to anything of the kind seen since the days

magi on the plains of Chaldea

for great

beneath, on which

itself

their

highest art

material, the

mode

of

preparation, season-

its

and magnetic manipulation, and not upon the

brought

and

crystal-shield,

glass

the

albeit

bear in the making and shaping of the

to

in the construction of the

The Glypii.e-Bhattaii,

are mounted.

material

the

to

beauty and excellence wholly depends;

is

the

<>f

pains have been taken

with the glasses, which act as protccting-shields

ing, application,

those

1>\

frames

in

which they

or Mirror surface

the true, and well-factured bhatt from India,

whence alone

itself is

it

can be

procured even by the Mystic Brotherhood of Paris, France, where


the mounting

Due

care

which end
flannel,

is

done.

is

essential that they, like a child, be kept clean

is

soap and

fine

the

first

step

warm

ual

to

from the mouth, are the three ingre-

the second for the sake,

magnetism

water, applied with silk or soft

followed by a similar bath, whereof cologne,

fresh beer, or liquor spurted

dients

soft

1st,

of the spirit

2d, of the individ-

and, 3d, the symbolism embodied in the ritual

palpably as not to need further explanation.

so

Write for other

information on this delicate point.


" But why are these black-white, cuspic ovoids magnetic or magi-

why may not we of Western


Europe or America fabricate the same?" To which the replv is:
You cannot because you know not how to mingle the materials
any degree?

cal in

or, if they are,

even

if

you knew them, which you do not

into the mysteriously sensitive substance

covered, and

which alone

which and

which

to

that

enter as elements

wherewith the shields are

constitutes the magnetic or

magic

film, of

the lava-glass and frame arc merely protective

covers.

People of the West (Europe,

same extremes of passion

know

not either

its

they dwell far more

have

less

America)

(sexive)

as

awfid intensity, or

its

arc

arc not subject to the

Orientals

and hence

terrible penalties, because

in the Brain than in the gender, wherefore they

verve 'elan, and passional power than their brown brethren

206
and

The Glyfhce Bhatteh.


sisters

of the far-off eastern lands

as a general rule, with occa-

sional exception, they are unable to reach the magnificent goals of

soul-vision

and magic power

of Sachthas and Saiva

easily attainable

by the sallow devotees

and therefore cannot

realize the

intense

passional furore, essential both to the successful invocation of corre-

spondent yrial Potentialities, and the charging of mirrors with the


divine spiritual reflective powers

which characterize them.

I here

alluded to a profound mystery connected with their construction,

known

only to the

subjoined quotation

laugh

initiate,
;

but which

mystery

provided they sense

at

is

which

nature, but

its

vaguely hinted at in the


dolts and
which higher

fools

may

souls

must

reverence, honor, and adore.

Says Colonel Stephen Fraser, in his glorious volume

entitled

Twelve Years in India," a magnificent book, which was kindly


lent me by Mr. W. G. Palgrave, of London, who called on me in
"

August, 1873, while on his overland route to China, via San Francisco,

and

whom

had known

England

in

fifteen

years before, as a

polished gentleman and scholar, and one of the deepest mystics on


the globe outside of the Orient

We joyfully, gladly went, five of us,

"

a tour of military inspection, the toils of

her Majesty's Officers, on

which were

likely to

be

rewarded by an opportunity of witnessing the dance of Illumination,


of the

Muntra-Wallahs,

strange miracles,

or Magic-working Brahmuns, whose


worked apparently by the triple agency of Batta-

sahs (rice), Gookal (red-powder), and, strangest of


of oval glasses or crystals, but black as night, in

some very strange things were

to

be seen.

witness skilful jugglery, for which the

renowned, but

which

by means

all,
it is

reported,

We were all prepared to


residents of Muttra*

fully resolved to ascertain, if possible,

how

it

was

are
all

done, rejecting, of course, everything claimed to be either supra-

mortal or hyper-natural, so far as the underlying principles were


"

Muttra, a town in the province of Agra (India), on the west bank of the
Jumma, in latitude 27 deg. 31 min. North; longitude 77'deg. 33 min.
East;
a place famous for the manufacture of Magical apparatus; and one of
*

river

the only two places on earth where the Parappthaline gum is prepared, wherewith
the adepts smear the backs of these extraordinary mirrors, so celebrated by the
various authorities named in the text."
Twelve Years in India. Vol 2, p. 286.

The Glyphcs Bhatteh.


concerned

was sheer

It

pean could pretend

to equal

how

yet

skill,

our names, ages, place of birth, and

207

but such as no Euro-

the sleeping girl could

tell

other true facts, she never

fifty

because the dust of Jubalpore was


upon our clothes, we having been but one day
Muttra, was

having seen either of us before,

in

still

problem not

They

easily solved.

she passsd into

by gazing

it

call

the Sleep of Sialam, and

it

dark glass.

into a

"After reading Lane's story about the Magic Mirror


'

Modern Egyptians

de

la

'

what De Sacy

religion des Druses

Mamelukes
what
Asiatique
Vi&or L'Anglois,
;

the

'

Von Hammer

Makrisi's account in his

'

in

'

'

Revue

Defremeny

d'Orient

Magicians

the

'

'

'

W. H.
Magici

and innumerable other unquestionable

possessed by these

'

when speaking

Sahib,

it

'

ride

Well,

'

brought us

We were

we

all

Magic
was far
visual power
into

it

and

ages,

all

chicanery and lucky

our Wallah, next morn'


;

now

and

Mirror Bridal-fete of a

determined to go

to a plateau in a

not too

late,

view by the Sheikh,

a man

and a three-hours'

mountain-gorge of the Chocki

and were kindly

Nights

renowned Brotherhood of Mystics, Philosophers, and Magicians]


no doubtee

Lespanola

of

'

of the exhibition of the previous day

[the

Journale

Taylor's

authorities,

all to

it

'

Dr. E. Smith

of some occult

true,' said

you go see Sebeiyeh dance

s'pose

of both sexes,

mirror-gazers,

diversity of culture, than to attribute

guesswork.

'

History of

Travels in Syria

Youetfs Researches

less difficult to believe in the existence

ing,

Gesta

'

'

his

Exposition

'

'

the

in

Carl Ritter

'

Hist, des Sasseins

Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses

Arts,'

says in his famous

Potter affirms as truth in his

in his

with Oriental

Catafago and

J.

'

'

in

offered vantage

hills.

ground of

25 years of age, judging


from the fadl that his grandchildren were white with snowy locks

of at least

The two

and beards waist long


circle

pots

followed by the two grooms,

we

Mahadcs

Deccan

all

brides entered the

four bearing large earthen-

of a black, smeary, tar-like substance, which, on inquiry of

full

the Sheikh,
the

that

learned was the product of the Volcanic springs of

hills,
it

in

the

far-off

province of Gondwana,

only flows in the month of June

and boys wl.o are

virginal,

that

is,

is

in

the

collected by girls

before puberty

and must be

The Glyphce Bhatteh.

208

prepared for use within the ensuing forty-nine days, by similar


persons on the eve of actual marriage, as
properties of a magical nature attach to

Of

persons under such circumstances.


habits of thought

which seemed

course

when

my

and the other with the same


and reserved the empty

first,

to hold

both in

The

is

western

my

to

after

had a

me two

and

yet,

it

parts of the

one with the crude

fill

had been prepared.

shell for the other, taking care

hand well wrapped up

circle

at this,

sceptical views to the old

in a

brown bandana.

pile of stones in the centre,

were brightly burning; and over

coals

way,

me

and requested

shell of a large nut,

material,

my

with

I,

and gross a superstition

I expressed

Sheikh, he laughed, shook his head, handed

did the

supposed certain

is

it

when handled by such

and European education, could but laugh

so very palpable

strange to relate,

it

this

which

the Eternal sacred Fire of the Garoonahs,

allowed to go out from one year's end to the other

from a tripod of betel rods a coarse earthen

upon which

which,

fire

was

vessel, into

by the
is

never

suspended

which

the

four expectant marriagees poured about one-fourth of the contents

of the simla gourds already mentioned

tom-toms or native drums

and wild,

upon

amid the din of an hundred

clarion-like bursts of the strangest, and, shall

most

Briton, confess it?


fell

the clashing of rude cymalos (cymbals)

my ears,

or

soul-stirring

moved

man

the

of India,

the

within

me

After this

coiled the stuffed skins of the dreadful


terrible

inverted cocoa-shell, and


initiated as

Naga, or Cobra

two others

symbolizing the Linga,

principle of Deity

powers or

Perpetuation
nite Fire

the

which

is

fire

of

Brahm

hooded snake

understood

repre-

the tripod emblematizing the

to

Love, or the

Infi-

And now began

flutes,

fire

Creation Preservation
five

hundred singing

devotees of that wonderful Phallic, or sexual religion

mellow breath of cythic

by the

male emblem, or creative

below corresponding

the Life of All

was

around

while on top was an

a strange, weird dance, to the wild melody of

the

fire,

while the suspended vessel over the

qualities

the

at its base

sented the Yoni, or female principle


triple

a staid

and weird music that ever

done, the Sheikh's servitors erected a pole near the

which pole was

I,

mingled with

the beating of tambours, the

The Gtyphcc Dhatteh.


thrumming

of various stringed instruments, and an occasional

leet. or rapture-shriek

women and
and who gave

from the

lips of

whose enthusiasm was unrcstrainahle.


wild movements of their graceful and supple
might be heard long miles away,

cries that

awakening the echoes of Space


slow, voluptuous, rhythmic
the

brown

r'

vent to

in

it

from heaven

like voices

Advancing with

to toe. the crirls

as berries, agile as antelopes, graceful

feet

aired

alone, bit of

about

fifteen,

as gazelles: lovely,

with barbaric splendor, as an Arab's ideal houri


bent, advanced

voting

bodies, and in shrill

movement, not of the

whole form from crown

zi: a-

they

swaved,

by twists and curves, by nameless writhings, by

sweeping genuflexions, by movements the very poetry of


but passion of soul far

more than of body, with

j^assion.

suffused faces and

emblem, round which they

moistly gleaming eyes, toward the taller

slowly whirled and danced, ever and anon stirring with a silver

This

spatula the dark substance contained in the vessels they bore.

"While the two youths, bearing similar vessels, performed

by turns.

movements about

corresponding

Nature

in

lott in a

her productive aspect

maze of astonishment

to express

which

vessel

the

we

until

at the capacity

symbolized

Europeans were

five

of the

human frame

mutely, but with more meaning and eloquence than a

thousand tongues could convey, the amazing heights, depths, and


shades of passion, but a passion totally free from vulgarity or inde-

cency

and as pure

as that of the

ocean billows when they kiss each

other over the grave of a dead cyclone

my surprise,
whispered:

the old Sheikh touched

'Sahib,

power on earth

That alone

Ardor

either for

mother alike of

all

the

good or

good

Observing

arm, and in purest Bengalee

There

begat the Universe!

the spring of all

is

my

but Passion underlies

ill,

human

action,

Godhead

its
!

halo alone can

The

man

It is

the golden

divine ma^ic

power

for

<

>.

human
Sahib,

keep closed the eves of the soul

and

sense the ineffable essence of the

materials in the vessels are charged with

with the very essence of the

it.

and the father and

and evil on the Earth

key of Mystery, the fountain of Weakness and of Strength


through

no

is

soul,
it

ami

is

in

hence with

life.

celestial

and

only lust and hatred that


the crystaN

whose backs

The

210

we

Glyfthce Bhatteh.

cover with the contents of these five vessels, the earnest seeker

may

what takes place on

behold, not only

and

transpires on other globes,

Gods

we

'

ber,
'

for

and

of the
tell

this is the

only true Bab,

Sakwalas

(Door)

West magnetize people, who,

us amazing'

no two of them

Why

the

in

'Lies!
the

tell

'

he

earth, but also

.'

what

of the Sacred
But,' I rejoined,

'

in that mysterious slum-

said, interrupting the sentence,

same

tale or

behold the same things

Because they explore the kingdoms of Fancy, not of Fact,

and give you

tales of

imagination and distorted invention, instead of


!

I acquiesced,
But wait
what a&ually exists Beyond
and turned once more to the dances of the Aleweheh, who by this
time were movii^g in a more rapid manner to the quickened strains
Three
of the more than ever wild and fantastic music

recitals of

'

of them began stirring the contents of the cauldron, into which

all

had now been poured murmuring


and the fourth, the
strange, wild bursts of Phallic song the while
taller maiden of the two, stripped herself entirely nude above the

the material from the gourds

waist and below the knees


her matchless form
tions, lively

peach-blow

her long raven hair streaming around

form of such superlative contour, proportint,

and rounded beauty, as made

for the imperfections of the race that

violent exertions of legs and arms

mothered me

me

blush

There were no

not the slightest effort at effect

none of the gross motions in use in the West, on the stage or off it
whose palpable objea is the firing of the sluggish blood of half-

blase speftators; but a graceful

half fear, half invitation

movement, a

delicious trembling,

quivering, semi-longing, semi-reluc-

rippling streams
bosom, form, eyes even
of most voluptuous motion billowy heavings and throbbings of soul
through body, so wonderful, so glowing, that one wished to die

tant undulation of arms,

immediately that he might receive the reward of centuries of toil in


ay even the first
the ravishing arms of the houris of the seventh,

paradise of the Ghillim, and the resplendent Queens of the BrahminAnd yet there was absolutely nothing suggestive of
ical Valhalla.
coarse, gross, animal passion in all this transcendental

hyper-sensuous motion

by the waist, drawing

his

on the contrary, one

felt like

sword and challenging

melody of
seizing her

all earth,

and

hell

The Glyphcc Bhatteh.


away, or disturb her tranquillity of celeMia!

to boot, to take her

shall

I call

it r

am

" Presently both

dance

me

name

lost for a

the

wh.it

joined

girls

mystic

the

sensuous-ma"ic

and one of them seized me suddenly by the arm and draped

the central vessel, saying. -Look. Sahib, look

to

'

but instead of a black mass of seething boiling gum,

did so,

beheld a

cauldron bubbling over with the most gorgeously pink-tinted froth


that imagination ever
at the singular

flower.

dreamed

phenomenon
amaranth,

lotus,

drew nigh and

said,

of:

and while

stood there marvelling

even bubble took

for

violet,

lily

Rose

the form of a

the

Sheikh

old

now's the time!' pointing

'Sahib,

bundle containing the empty shell and the one already half

Acting on the suggestion,

the

to

filled.

held forth the empty shell; into which

the girl ladled about a gill of the contents of the swinging vessel

and the Sheikh produced two perfectly clean ovoid glass

plates, over

which he poured respectively the contents of the two


held both over the
to

me,

said,

'

and dearest

two

shells,

the

"lass

handed

to

divine

vour heart

till

to see

meanwhile,

Albion

singular

the

and

is

power, and you

imperial

will

me

credit

my home

The

and people

man

old

will

scarce

with anything

first

the mystic-

a true Bhattcyeh

glanced into the other, and

Western reader

nearest

substance

a minute.

willed to see

look at the other one, which


light

is

looked into the hollow face of

but nothing appeared.

whatever

Internally I laughed, but he took the

'

and while he held them,

me, and gazing steadily about half

to

finished,

and then handing them

dry.

zvill,

which was covered with

far-off

'Now

a minute,

Look, and wish, and

dance going on
in

fire for

and

shells,

smiled.

full

Before

'

of

he

hoping that the

loftier

than a vivid

imagination, fired almost beyond endurance, by the lascivious sur-

roundings

in

which

the midst of

distictly affirm,

nevertheless clearly and

pale, white light,

like a

Majesty's service, that

in Iler

and

was.

on the hitherto unsullied honor of an English gentle-

man, and a colonel

rious disk,

flit

lowing

and every item of which

saw

wave of

cloud-shadow over the face of the myste-

in the centre of that light a

trees, houses, lands,

cattle,

landscape, composed of

and forms of human beings; each

recognized as the old familiar things of

The Glyphce Bhatteh.

212

my
my

ere the fires of ambition

boyhood and youth, long


face

toward distant India.

whom

sister,

had

left in

ance very, very sick,


faithful servitors,

had turned

beheld the simulacrum of a dear

perfect health.

saw her

to all appear-

the physicians, nurses, troops of

gathered round her; she

was

friends,

and

dying'! dead!

saw the funeral cortege set out for the cemetery, and I marvelled
by the iron

greatly that they buried her

when

I left,

ribs of a railway

native town.

read the inscription thereon

heard of!

was one I had never


Sheikh, who was eying me with

but the surname

looked up at the

strange interest and intensity, as

if to

ask an explanation

only smiled and repeated the one word,

'

See

my

and

'

my

their utter astonishment, beheld a

the

shadow,

my

native

if its

heart would break, over the prostrate form

who

lay there dying from a rifle-bullet through

elder brother

the groin,

but he

my European

an exact image of myself, standing near the well-curb of


manse, weeping as

Instantly I turned

eyes to the ovoid again, as likewise did three of

friends, and, to

of

the silver plate on her coffin, and most clearly and distinctly

saw

my

my

no road of that kind ran through

because

result of

an accident that had just befallen him

while in the act of drinking from the swinging-pail or bucket!

Now

came

the most astonishing

three friends

who were

phenomena of all,

for

each of the

looking with me, started in surprise, and

uttered exclamations of undisguised astonishment, for each had seen

things beyond the range or pale of trickery or the play of excited


fancy.
uncle,

the three forms of his dead father, sister, and

One beheld

the

pointing to a

latter

inscribed the words,

The

'

Dead

home

at

across

which

tery: Paris:

and on the

struck

promotion.

waging

in the

The

Punjaub, and

Much more we saw and

became necessary

occupants, of the old

third

Lot-

man saw

his senior officer

a shot in the side, thus opening the road to his

of diablerie, portions of which


it

Go home

ith.

'Jem and David's winnings

June 18th: 10,000 Pounds!'

down by

its

on which was

table lay a large pile of gold coin,

lay a legend thus:

battle or skirmish

packet

Will heir Oct.

other beheld the drawing-room, and

house

But

sealed

own

noted in that wonderful scene

shall detail at length hereafter.

to attend to other matters.

did so (as will

The Glyphct Bhaitch.

213

be hereinafter cited), and then accompanied the Sheikh

where the marriage was celebrated


wonderful secrets

reference

in

and

me

told

lie

his tent,

there certain

further preparation

the

to

to

strange material composing the reflective surfaces

the

<,f

of the

curious

Bhatts, which, while exceedingly mystic and effective, at the hands

and

of the newly married people,

offices

yet of so singular and

is

delicate a nature as not to be admissible to these pages; for while


really of the

most holy and sacred nature, yet the miscducation

certain vital respects

and knowledges

of

in

the civilized Teutonic,

Anglo-Saxon, and Latin races, would render the matters

which

to

allude subjects of either not well-based blushes or outright mirth.*

Seven long months


ences,

parted with three of

my

after these

memorable

experi-

then comrades, and, accompanied

by two others, embarked on one of the steamers of the Mcssagcrics


Imperiales, from Bombay,

my

had sold

friends

homeward bound.

commission

his

heir to an uncle's estate,

who,

in

I left,

one of

consequence of having fallen

had died

the letters of recall stated,

England, on Oct. 10th, and not on the


stated

Before

in

nth, as the ovoid had

had actually taken the differences of Latitude, and was

It

The second man, on

an hour I

correct to

arrival

England,

in

proved the truth of the mirror, for Jane, not 'Jem' as the glass
stated,

and Davison, not 'David'

of rupees

a lottery-fortune of over a lac

was promoted

other officer

cousins

of his

in

India

the result of a shot in the loins, not the side.

my

widow
Her

people

in

months before
and though

whom

He went down

hood

she died, and

Exactly the reason


in the

U. S. A.

money

on

The

my

had

my
in

left for

which event was

Arrived

at

younger

of Capt.
first

home,

sister,

II

the
.

of

time only a few

India five years before.

brother-in-law's family, yet ice

one of the new crack iron-clads

The awful news occasioned premature mother-

trial-trip.

had often heard of

on her

adapt

for

she had met for the

their marriage.

had never met.

deep mourning

after a wifehood of less than a year

Majesty's Navy,

fallen

consequence of the death of his

in

lieutenant-colonel, in a skirmish in the Punjaub,

found

had

her

why

P.

remains were deposited

have been unable

B. K.

to

in

find a single

the hilbidc
true adept or

The Glyphcp. Bhatteh.

214
vault, skirting

traffic

month

eight months

which was a railway


or

two prior

after

my

became

my

abdomen while climbing


Every

at a well.

shown

literally

questions

as

my

but

full in

just previous

I,

asked

was proved

the

my

to

some

old Sheikh

and learned that the material on the crystal surface

we saw

was but partially prepared,


but some which he placed on a
recollect.
and which had been fully prepared, the

the strange miracles

readers will also

glass just before I

left,

finishing process being a secret one

wedded couples by

a peculiar process

a mistake while in

my

servant having

same

so mysteriously
so.

departure from the strange bridal,

wherein

Within

a fence for a drink at the brookside,

fact

though not

strangely true,

our family-

to

brother by a charge of

Mirror showed

shot, not a bullet in the groin, as the

and not

Lastly

male heir

sole

property in consequence of the death of

the

equipped and opened for

marine disaster

to the

return I

just

possession

shown

and conducted by the newly

and nameless never made

for I confess I lost

boastingly to a gypsy,

it

it

who

from a

silly

stole

that

it

night, through the

most

adroit bit of scientific burglary I ever

The

loss,

however, was not irreparable, for I

heard or read

of.

have since found that these strange Muntra-Wallahs, as they are


contemptuously called by their Islamic foes in the Carnatic (but
true

magi

in the opinion of better informed people)

and correspondents

in nearly every country

China, Japan, Vienna, and even our

have brethren

on the globe

own London

a regular Lodge in Paris, of some of

whom

Brazil,

while they have

the

and

initiated,

favored ignorants even, can and do obtain occasionally, not only

well-charged and polished Bhatteyeh, but actually,

gourd

full

which

of Moulveh-Bhattah,

reflects

all

in the ordinary

save that the latter

but

matter and the living, while the former sometimes

at all times, or to all people, or to

reveals only

die !

Heaven help

either,

mercury does

and the two are alike in

sions

for

magician

in

spirit
all

that matter

the successful seers on

and the dead,

whom

then, a

the strangely mysterious substance

constitutes the seeing surface, as

looking-glass,

now and

ay, and things that

a Muntra-Wallah hates

unless

all

that love be

not

occa-

never

or loves

returned

for

one case will bring up the hated one's shadow,

the

and

The Glyphcc Bhattch.

215

then strange horrors will seize him or her; and


well, strange?- tilings

happen,

that

in the latter

case

all.' "

is

Thus much hy way of information. Those who have read the


works of Mi'ndt, IIargkavk Ji:win<;s, Lawkik. Pai.okavk,
Moriki:, Lank, need not he told that these Bhatts have heen
imitated often, hut without avail

There

even can he seen.

for,

unless they he true, not a cloud

another secret about

is

and

only be revealed to such as have

use them

the;//

which can

and

.'

not then

they shall have proved worthy of the knowing.

till

Now

wish right here

appointed

in such,

hecause

ground, or hidden money,

all

mysteries of the heavens, or gold

The

highest

scendency

is

lofty

and

but

I sat

and gazed upon


in

the

way

I
it,

dis-

in

the

never
await-

of visions or

and immcasurahlv lowest

their negative

is

to sit

was vouchsafed

ing patiently for aught that

This

were not at once revealed.

etc.,

used one for any such purpose

phantoramas.

some persons have heen

to say, that

use.

gazing until the gazer shall pass into a tran-

most

interior

state

absolute,

unequivocal

supra-clairvoyant condition, and then, ah, then, as mvriad glories

unfold and roll before the Soul's eyes the seer

queen, and can laugh this

and
at

life

and world, and

infinite littleness to utter scorn,

life,

death, and their copula

positive use of a

The
sight,

facts

of

and, as

it

is

everv inch a king or

all their trials,

troubles

were, snap their fingers

circumstance.

And

this

is

the

good Bhatteyeh.

Somnambulic

Psycho-Vision, Mesmeric lucidity.

and Clairvoyance, so

well authenticated in

this

animal magnetism and

its

called, are too

numerous, palpable, and

The

age to be questioned.

marvels

<ravc

way

to

old

what was

time
called

"Electrical Psychology," which in turn receded before the advance

whom, howgave way before the

of what were called " Seeing Mediums," but few of


ever, could see the

same

facts alike;

and

all

better method of developing the inner vision; by a roval road the


"oal is reached in these davs, and that too without the dclavs
&
o
dangers, and uncertainties heretofore attending all methods ot "atuin-

in rr that strange soul-sight

world.

But

wherewith

not a few have astonished the

a higher, broader, deeper clairvoyance

is

now needed

The Glyfthcz Bhatteh.

216

and demanded by mankind,


riff-raff

by the

far superior to that displayed

pulings of half-crazed fanatics

of " Fortune-tellers " infesting

all

the money-grabbing hordes

large

cities

the " Biologists,"

The

" Psychologists," and others of the same order and genera.

new has become


development

and the old new, and a better method of

old,

found in the revived practice than in

is

self-

the others

Upper Egypt,

In India, China, Japan, Siam,

singly or combined.

all

Arabia, Central Nigritia, and on the far-off plains of Tartary and


Thibet, the old usage

and

shells,

crystals,

still

survives

and the seers divine through

and diamonds, emeralds, or the plain and

expensive dark-ovoid,

wholly surpassing the boasted

less

clairvoyance

of France, England, and America, and in the same identical lines


too,

albeit

some uses thereof

are perversions from the true and

as by the rising

and the

white or yellow cloud or spot on the mirror's

sui-face,

normal, whether for mere financial ends,


falling of a

indicative

of

similar

movements

in

precious

correspondent

the

the floating or the sinking of a fleece for " stocks " the
;

metals

rising or lowering of a stalk or sheaf of wheat, declarative of the

course to be taken by that cereal in the markets of the world,

sometimes, weeks ahead

objects, purposes,

or whether the

for,

and

ends sought pertain to the higher, broader, or deeper ranges of

human thought and


of dealing with

speculation.

the

Unquestionably

this ancient

mode

dead, and rafforting the mystical worlds

above, beneath, within, and around us,

as superior to

is

modern

"Circleism" as gold in beauty outvies rough iron; hence students

and explorers of the mystical side of the human soul


of opening the sealed doors of strange

somewhat of

the tremendous

merely "Progress;" and

to

new

those desirous

worlds, and realizing

problem of Being, must develop, not

such the process of self-culturement

by me considered absolutely indispensable, and worth more


anxious, earnest, light-seeking, yet not impatient soul, than
"circles,"

and

magnetists

on the four

continents;

to
all

is

an
the

because the

man or woman grows Character; the "progressed"


merely memory and tacl: and to be an Independent Seer is to

developed
ones,

become an absolute Power on

the globe

whereas

all

forms of

automacy, magnetic or otherwise, are but forms of serf-dom and

The Glypluc Bhattch.


Slavery to />oiccrs incapable

<>/

217

identification* and

tut

tliat

reason

doubly dangerous

But

many

the question arises with

'
:

Can any and

No

evers one suc-

cessfully use the Blialts

one can sec

but every one can develop In ll.em the Nine

them

in

"

and the reply

is,

Yes!

'.

Nut every

characteristics of perfect man and womanhood Will Attention


Concentration
Persistence
S elk-restrai NT
Rei.IANc
Magnetic Energy, and Ai lection, by an hour's steads use per
:

day, and thus develop soul, thereby growing the

and ensuring immortality.

survival

not see in

them

after fair trial,

at all, or

may

rest

1;

For

power of death-

hold that those

who

produce clouds, or other magnetic

can-

c fleets

assured that they lack the great essential to

immortality, and unless they cultivate soul and strive for

when

it.

death lands their bodies in the grave their inner selves will dwindle

back

to the

monadal

from

weeks

six

play.

known

have

outnumber them

not at once, then in periods varying

if

one year

to

grander will be the power

cesses

blank Nihility.

state or

Others can see in them,

and the slower the development, the

when

culture shall have brought

few utter

failures

with them

work on

that

were on

written no first-class Bhatts

few, and they


five to

may

may

obliquely.

In

persons, should
wall,

upon

be used

one hundred persons.

be gazed

at

" Scership."

subject,

in a

lodge, the
sit

in

But when

this continent

When

nuw

glowing

Let

face.

all

was

there are a

circle of

is

from

presented edgewise, or
it

be few or

many

the mirror leaning against the

and the glare of a bull's-eye lantern be thrown


its

that

used by a single one the front

company, whether

a semicircle

but the suc-

referred to the

company, lodge, or

but a glorious surface

into

the ratio of five hundred to one.

at least in

Those who would learn more of these matters are


special

it

be

still

full

ami n.uud

and motionless, and then

carefully note the result.

To
of

conclude:

do not approve of the use of them

magnetizing the opposite sexes,

easily done, vet

aflectionally

think Love thus gained

is

for

purposes

for

although

not apt to be enduring,

too ardent and too often passional character,

b\ reason of

its

cannot fully

satisfy the

needs of the

human

soul

yet

hence

do believe

it

The GlyphcB Bhatteh.

218
good

medicine for the

to stir the

the ovoid, for


divinest

by such means

with the finger,

sick,

Basin of

in the

can be quadruply charged with the

it

and most loving, therefore healing

effluence of the tremen-

dous soul of man.

Many will suspect from our true


Concluding Paragraphs.
name
Brotherhood of Eulis that we really mean " Eleusis,"
and they are not far wrong. The Eleusinian Philosophers (with

whom Jesus

is

reputed to have studied) were philosophers of Sex

and the Eleusinian Mysteries were mysteries

thereof,

just such as

the writer of this has taught ever since he began to think, and
suffered for his thoughts, through the unfledged "Philosophers" of

the century, amidst


real reasoner

Through

whom

now and

only

then can a true thinker or

be found.

Night of time the lamp of Eulis has lighted our

the

Before

path, and enabled obscure brethren to illuminate the world.

Pythagoras, Plato, Hermes, and Budha, tue were

systems shall topple into dust,


youth, because

we

drink of

we

life

will

still

and when

flourish in

at its holy fountain

pure, healthful, and normal sex with

immortal

and restored,

uses to and with us

its

their

means

Restoration, Strength, Ascension, not their baleful opposites, as in


the world outside the pale of genuine science.
tions hereof

on

this continent

we were

Up

to the publica-

indeed secret, for not one-

tenth of those tested and called " Rosicrucians," knew of the deeper,

yet simpler philosophy.

But the time has come

doctrines because the age


difficult barriers,

but

shut out the world

ripe.

affiliate

with

all

now we open

true searchers of the Infinite,

all

We

have determined

accept

all

worthy

instruct, upbuild,

We no

is

accept Truth, no matter what garb she

to spread the

longer put up

who are broad enough to


may wear. But till then we

our hearts and hands to welcome

all

seekers after the attainable.

to teach the Esoteric doctrines of the

aspirants, initiate

and

initiate

new

others,

yEfh

them, and empower them

forming

lodges

if

so

to
to

they

please.

The

doctrines and beliefs are broadly laid

down

in the series of

books published from the same source as the present

but especially

The Glyphce Bhatteh.


in the

volumes noticed herein.

the

who
Soul, may
and

(or

Those who wish

further and private

and

instructions,
etc.,

219

to obtain information, conditions, secrets, writings


o"i
purpose to cultivate the esoteric and mystic powers of

correspond with that objeft with the publisher hereof

his official

when dead) who

successor

possesses

certain

keys which open doors hitherto sealed from man, but which are
read}- to swing wide when the proper Open Sesame " is spoken by
those

worthy of admission.

Lastly.

"Canst

Yes! by teaching

that

thou minister to a mind diseased?"


mind the nature and principles of its own

immortal powers, and the rules of their growth

For centuries we have known what the world


that all the multiple hells

the love, affections,

otherwise.

finding out

just

is

on earth originate

not

in trouble,

unease, of

and passions, or amatory sections

of.

human

and that Heaven cannot come till Shiloh does in other


words, knowledge positive on the hidden regions of the mighty
world called MAX. Hence this partial uplifting of the veil between
us and the people of the continents.
FALL
DIE
nature

MEX

THROUGH FEEBLENESS OF WILL


too

much

This

we

passion, none at

intend

NEVER FAIL

to

all.

correct.

AND

Women

and absolute, cruel

We

shall

succeed

viscera,

Duverneyan lymph,

and named them

prostatic

for

True

Men

and which

is

the only one

all

and

exuvia-,

fluids.

semen,

now

call

more important than

far

common

refer to that colorless, viscid, glairy

lochia,

and Cowperian

attention to another, different from


either,

love-starvation.

have already
secretions normal of the

herein called attention to the various


pelvic

from

Conclusion: The Lvmphication of Love.

human

perish

to

both sexes alike.

lymph, or exudation which

I
is

only present under the most fierce and intense amative passion in

man

either

or

and regarded

Thev sought
to

its

This lymph has been noticed by M.D.'s,

woman.
as

a vaginal or prostatic

for its point of issuance, but

secretion, but

found

escape, per vagina and male urethra,

but the liquid


just as

is

common

it

is

it

is

neither.

not. because, prior

it

not a liquid at

all

the resultant of the union of three imponderables,

water

is

the

result of the

union

o!

two gases and

220

The Glyphce Bhatteh.

an

Just so

electric current.

electricity,

is this

When

fusing in the localities named.


sacred

rite

Power

then

of the child that then

or

woman,

terror,

of

little

which

a dozen

the union of magnetism,

may be

lives

is

is

strikes

begotten.

If

ganglia and

vital

present in wedlock's

deep root in the soul

it is

absent, the world

mean, small, contemptible thing

use to

him

or herself, and none at

and

suffering,

man

partial
all to

through

is

human

in

others,

law the

Wherefore the imperative

entails horror, crime,

it

or stalking crime and pestilence, a

the world, or God.


tion of

Love

reigns and

sure to receive a selfish,

shape, a

lymph

and nerve-aura, each rushing from the

viola-

at least

Absolute self-mastery in certain respe6ts unless

the presence of this divine fluid

is

God's permit for the holiest of

all

human enjoyments and duties. It is often present when it ought


not to be, and when so, many a man has forgotten his manhood and
triumphed over a similarly tempted girl and many an honest girl
;

woman

and

has fallen to rise no more.

dantly secreted the only safety

When

this fluid is

in instant flight, for,

is

abun-

unappeased,

it

begets an insanity and furore too dreadfully intense and imperative


to

be successfully resisted even by an archangel, much

weak, erring sons and daughters of men.

and the leakage goes on, Soul


Horror

at his

gorgon

side,

takes his or her place

Barren, or Insane.
tary,

It is

waves

among

many

readers but

If flight do not take place,

wasted, and Madness, with

his cruel baton,

and another victim

the awful ranks of the Impotent,

the loss of this through personal vice soli-

and from the reading of

that so

itself is

infernal

books and plates of damnation,

rush into bagnios and the madhouse.

visit, as I

less poor,

Could

my

have done, the magnificent Institution for the

Insane at Nashville, Tenn., most ably presided over by Dr. J. H.


Callender, a man who knows more about Madness and its cure than
all

others in the world combined, and witness the soul-harrowing

spectacle of splendid people reduced to drivelling, soulless idiocy,

wild mania, or absolute dementia from sex perversions,


that

no one would allow himself or herself

presence of a temptation which,


destruction to the

human

soul.

lender, for the world will need

if

to stand

successful,

May God

him and such

am

sure

an instant in the

means havoc and

long preserve Dr. Calfor centuries to

come,

The Glyphce Bhaiteh.


until the race shall learn that

and whosoever

infracts

its

' ;

Love, indeed,

quoted,

my

and

fundamental law; and

up and carry on

work, ''The

such,
sion

after

the endeavor u,

in

who had

ministering to those

in

others will take

hands

life

my

New

Mola,"

death, or at once,

and other means, the great

may be put

a stop

to,

the

that

I trust

good work.

desire to leave
if

suli'eied

need he

if

from vio-

system

I trust that

evil of love infraction

measurably,

just

when 1 am gone
As will he seen in

mv

and

awaken

a realizing sense of the real meaning, the words

to

lations of that

my

licth at the foundation."

laws must pay the dreadful penalty.

have spent the hest years of

mankind

221

good

in

through

and perver-

So may

not altogether.

it

be.

P.

B.

RANDOLPH.

Toledo, Ohio, yune, 1S74.

Note.
dissolved
1874.

The Provisional Grand Lodge of Eulis established in Tennessee, was


by me

the creating, appointing and dissolving power on June

13th,

intend to re-establish Eulis in organic form before I pass from earth, and

as soon as the Brethren of over one year's standing, constituting the C. S.

Lodge, shall assist

me

in codifying

its

The Supreme Grand Lodge

laws.

Grand
is

re-

transferred to these head-quarters of the Order, and Eulis has none other on the
globe.

P. B.

Supreme Grand Master of Eulis

RANDOLPH,

Pythiana? and Rosicrucia and

Hierarch of the Triple Order.

my thanks to the Brothers Lumsden for aid in issuing this work


purchase of part of the edition; and to Ernest A. Percival, Esq., who
after others' promcame to the rescue, and contributed toward completing it,
And yet God reigns andfmy book
ises, solemnly made, were ruthlessly broken
saw the light despite the blows aimed at me and it by the rule or ruin policy of
The Book Survives and Thought Prevails.
Never mind
I here tender

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Divorce Sharpers.

'"Passional

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Passione.

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Whoever cannot weep is Lost! Why Libertinage


can never satisfy or pay. The death-blow to " Free Love." The
Home argument 1 A Love Pang worse than triple death. Jealousy.

Marriageists.

From

about Parentage.

Theories of Soul-origin.

Parent to Child.

curious thing

Strange Mystery of Fatherhood.

Secret and

Mysterious cause of Adultery.

Chap. IV.
loses

Necessity

who wins

Who

of returned Love.

a soul wins

all

wins a body

a strange, but mighty rule of

The Vermicular Philosophers. Why Free Lovers always


come to grief! The nth and 12th Commandments. Passional
" The long and short of it." Moments
dangers of Eating-houses
of very strange, wonderful, and mystic beauty in all women. The
Love

mystery of Vampirism,

woman.

love-laden

Why

The

revelation

terrible

True Womanhood, and

Men

woman's Love.

cannot call out love

its
;

three things essential to call out

Picture

of a

A true

counterfeit.

but can

kill it

woman's

love

quickly.
!

human soul. The


The Solar Law of
sunbursts of Love in the heart-reft and lonely
"
Something."
The Bridal Hour,
The
Better
Love. A Vampire.
Chap. V.

strange, weird

Power

of the
!

fearful "

and the
feit

afterwards."

An

unsuspected, terrible counter-

Legend of the Wandering Jew, and Herodias,

of Love.

mate.

" Circles," " Sorosis," and the Circean Sisterhood.

tection

from Vampire

Life leeches.

Parents not loving each other.

How

his

Pro-

these are created

by

Singular fact and a Plea for the

woman. Actual Vampirism, a case described. Spiderwomen. Kidney troubles indicate Love troubles also. The triple
The kind of Love that sets us
a new revelation.
form of Love,
fallen

crazy

Love

Friendship,

tides

the

difference.

grand
Love-Truth.
o
New
Chap. VI.

./Ether

and animal

Eternal Affmityism dissected.

definitions

of

Origin of Vampire Life,


life.

Why

Marriage,

how

Love

The Law of

Social Joy.

Why?

A
fluid

they destroy plant

loving wives and husbands

Genius, Love, and Passion go together.

producing Law.

Love and

Proof of Love-adaptedness.

fall.

Test.

The Genius-

chapter

full

of re-

List of Works.
demptive counsel

for those

wrecked on Love's storm-lashed rocks.

Vivat

Chap. VII.

Love's

Chemistry, 'very

Love's double nature.

grand

the

Passion!

Attraction of Passion.

mortalization.

What

Strange.

Chap. VIII.

Knowledge

is

woman

to

is

How

and Marfori, her lover.


from their loving.

Head

How

His

Why

Isabella of Spain,

"Monkey-origin of

are

ill,

War

resulted

Man"

on

trial.

but should not be.

An

Drugged Candy.

About woman's

dress, as

Love

Con-

unsuspected rock on

Mental Sex, not physical,

lovers are wrecked.

love most.

A Mystery.

the Franco-Prussian

the

women

fectionery and Love.

which

Women.

versus Heart

Love requires but one

A Hint to Parents.

acquittal.

Chap. IX.

Brain versus Heart!

Singular fad about a woman's Magic Photo-

Darwin of

graphic power.

Power.

power!

deadly Hatred.

to

To Husbands

never to be forgotten by cither.

Goodness alone

strength, not

change

Im-

female existence.

never forgets or forgives.

Grooves, Moods, Phases of Love.

second

very true.

l)iit

and Fevers of true Affection

Chills

Difference between male and

Words

and Lovers.

curious,

Magnetic, Llertric, and Nervous bases f


Law .,f Tidal Love. The Poison flow.

what men

is

creators.

mistake

women which most men make. Another word for


" Strange Woman." Why women complain, and why wives
about

Freeism.

Extremes: Shakerism

early!

Chap.

X.

Old Friend

Divorce

in a

New

Why

girl infants.

Caution

Hereditary Bias.

Why

Dress.

The

Camp-meeting

People

who

and

boy-babies are kissed more than

Ball-room

are Love-starved.

The

Loves.

.Another Mvstcrv.

Affection-Congress.

Love may
at

the
A

Con-

splendid

Facts for the Married.

Chap XL A New Discoverv


To a husband! To a Lover!

cide

An

Love-cure.

ductor, the Train, the Passengers, and the Arrival.

recover

die

to all.

girl-babies reverse the business after the second

year.

series of

the

exist

stage,

is

zcorsr

Love, and a great

run-

Jealousy exists without

without Jealousy.

when Love-exhausted.
anv

in

Gems
adult

How to
Whv Firti-

of rare truth.

Beginning of Souls.
than

too!

Love!

Murder!

Freezing

of

List of Works.

vi

The Sad Story

Affection.

of a Heart

What

Persian Poet's plea for "Free Love."

man

said about

it.

Rome

Its Refutation.

before the Cassars.

" The age of Brass."

Chap. XII.

Why

Woman

Why

Why

very seldom thought

Life,

Selecting Partners

the

wife bore a Christ-like Infant

novel idea of
better

how

method of

Wife versus " Kept Miss."

"

Keep

Great

Did ever a woman forgive

How

cool.

nonsense

infernal

be Passed

An

Men

and

Women

Why

Heaven,

in

new and

idea of a

"Complex Marriage"

divorce.

Pre-nuptial

Amativeness, tame and wild,


is

may

Eternity

Why

curious notion.

Husband

Eternal Affinity

effects.

Something concerning

bad rule and the good one.

Marie and her "

Familiarities.

Man

of

of.

A Piece of a Man

Chap. XIII.

their

no

The Origin

can respect a " Mistress."

cannot be happy!

a "Mistress"

Wedded

"

recognizes Genuine Manhood.

" Organic " Love.

Evil."

Why Mutilates cannot Love

are often Sensualists.

Can

a man's preference of a Rival.

she?

Chap. XIV.
Dimity

vs.

Divinity

Penny's Worth of Wit, and what came of


!

The Piggitude of Husbands "


about Love-making

Love Her 1 1
Its

answer

All are Beautiful

Homage.

Men

No

phar's Wife.

( ?)

What

Wives Beware

its

How

Chap. XV.

said

make Him

to

to

Why?

Woman.

Why

Conquer by Stooping.

What Sappho

said

on Love

Old Maids

her Poem.

The Long-haired Philosophers on Love

land and Miss Green.

Ascent, Descent

Poti-

a Coarse Per-

son can Resist Temptation better than a Fine one.

Old Bachelors

Woman

fruits.

one can Seduce a Loving

How

a Sensible

The Great Question Direct.


No Ugly Women.
to Make Her Love Him 11
Home and
Demand
somehow ! All Women

Denial,

How

it?

One-sided Love, and Single-sided Marriage.

a Great

New

Mr. BoarTruth

for

Wives and Husbands. How the Coarse Feeds upon


the Stronger on the Weaker one. Who are Strictly Human, and
who are not. Anatomy of several grades of Professional Love-ists.
Strength,
Definitions
Honeymoonness versus Settle-downity
the Fine,

Force, Energy, Power, Esteem, Friendship and Passion.

Unless

List of Works.

vn

you love you can't be threat, or even good. IIjw tu Reconstruct a


Wife. Love and the other,
in ancient Pompeii.
Chap. XVI. Antagonisms. Stormy Love its uses. A 1 ), fence

of

Adam, premier. Who

Skeletons in People's Closets,

Worship,

Love by Love must RKcand our own. Copv-ists. Hcro-

Falls

liy

Why?

Folly.

Anatomization of a Hero
I'm aire
Husband " Why Lincoln was a great Man. St.
Peter and Paddy O'Rafierty
What befell an Affinity ist in SameCompany. James Fisk, Jr. His Love-power and Career. I lis

of a

its

Modern

"

The Grand Secret of his wonderful


Feronee Lady said about Fisk, Vanderbilt,

Parentage, Nature, Character.

What

Success!

the

Butler and Forney.

Chap. XVII.

Woman's

Eyes, and how to read them.


The
Winning a Woman. Her rule of Safetv,
The Grand Magnetic Law- The Rule and Law of

curious conditions of

Powerful.

Ruin;

also the

graphs itself

The

How

Rule and law of Right.

and

the

Party

in

her eve

a false step photo-

an

Egyptian Secret!

The deeper meanings


" The mother-inlaw Curse." Admiral Verhuel
The
the father of Napoleon III.
Louisiana Belle and what befell her! The Male and Female
Worlds distinct. JVczv Fact
Woman's rights destroys marriage.
" Who's been here since I've been gone?" Chemical Love. Se-

of

and

distrusts of Love-life,

Love

their causes.

Descensive and Ascensive Passion.

cret of absolute love-power.

Chap. XVIII.
cubinic

Sham!

rejected.

''Spiritual

or Mediumistic marriages," a

Madame George

Personal

Earthquakes

Sands'

and

Consuclo Love-theory

Periodic

Love renders us malaria-proof -Singular Fact!


the Parasites that attack

them

Why

con-

insects

Excesses.

True

Debauchees and
and beasts prefer

human prey to all other A Stuaxce and vast discovery!


and howLest produced ijy ammai.cul.e. Another Discovery
to make
II<w
in
Europe!
the
War
some little worms brought on
Home happv a new recipe. Want, and what it does! The
A Woman's St<>ry, and a sad one. The i-t. ^d,
Seducer's Wiles.

and

last

grand dutv of every husband

Chap. XIX.

living.

How meat hurts our souls

at

times unless properly

List of Works.

viii
slaughtered

which

seldom

it

is

a wicked cook magnetically injures our food.

Love.

An

How

fact for Legislation

Extraordinary Love Mystery

Ethereal action of

How

revealed.

Sloven-

The New DepartAbout Relationship, very curious


ure.
Touch
Good women
get the worst husbands Bad men, the worst wives. The general
mixed-upness. Boy and Girl love. Something for everybody.
Chap. XX.
The Girl and Bride of the Period. What's up?
Why Honeymoons turn bitter so quickly Curious causes of Fe-

liness kills affection

The

Suffrage Problem.

Whims

male

and Oddities.

The Seven

Love Key.

Scarcity of real

Eli's

Marrowy

The

The King Passion. Amative


Woman's Grand Power. Ben

Devils.

Love Passion beyond the grave

Friendship.

letter.

Chap. XXI.

Dead-level

Tiffs

love.

neglect and

Rules, which husbands

and

spats.

for

doing

pay

Husbandic
Married

it.

Blondes and Brutheir relative love-power and value as Wives


nettes
A very
curious analysis worth much to those concerned 1 1 Black Eyes,

More about Eyes.

Angularities.

celibates.

and the "

in both cases.

Have
its

they

answer

one only,

all
!

Sewse-Subduing

Fire-Packed

Blonde
are,

Souls

one time.

at

Its intensity.

startling fact

Little

Dead-Loves.

Plow

to

win a

true

man!

have advantages.

How

Loftier Gospel.

parative deaths of

children live longest

Chap. XXII.

Blonde-love

the wives of

and Why

How we sigh

Brunette love,

Their relative im-

widow's and widower's chances

women
?

Brunettes

Brunettes never

of marriage better than those of single persons

Cotton-Aids.

question and

Their relative love and

Soul-Subduing

love,

and a

munity from varied diseases

pires.

The

Disadvantages of the Ruddy.

Blondes

Why,

Astounding theory concerning Brunettes

A Brunette's love.

better than

within quicker than Blondes.

Blondes love more than one

their

'

from

outward pressure

resist

Black man's blood in their veins ?

superior delicacy.

vampiral.

fall

Singular

revenge power
its

Blondes

De'il."

Brunettes

Brunettes.

Curious reasons.

" Case."

Why

Male Vam-

Reconstruction of

New England Love

light

and dark men.

ComWhose

for the old loves

Prodigal Wives

List of Works.
and

IX

Meddling " Friends."


Dangers of unrequited
The Awakening. Never Make your loves Public
Watch-

Husbands.

Love!

ing a wife

and

his

and

trousers

what came of

What

it!!

The

proud

and

Cniii.,r

while watching his wife! The place of


The "All-Right"

touching story of '"Lost Souls."

exploded.

Mr.

befell

Evil! a

Social

sigh-,!

fallacy

chapter of which the Author

is

his readers will he glad.

Chap. XXIII.

Prc-nuptial

Complaining Marriages.

Deceptions sure

to

he found out!

Necessity of loving some one.

Direction

The Upper Faith. The Dog Nature.


The True
Bad Marriage-horrors
The Migic
dress.
Wife-neglecting husbands. Woman's love
a

of an Atheistic Libertine.

Temptation.

Power of
Poem.

Bill.

Evidences of high civilization from a savage's point of

A rebuke to

view.

Wedded

acceptances.

Ignorant

the 19th Century.

Impure

Licenses

brides,

The Married Rights of Man. What a Turk told


Women New, and very good! How the great

How

little.

No

Hard "Case."
ciatcs.

Atheist a

No man can endure


male one!

powerful

rewin the wife's love

A story and

The

jealousy.

"

fight,

Author about

arc fooled bv the

offish at times.

on inappre-

fixed

A powerful female advantage

husbands!

splendid resort

and what came of

Only once

a lover trust a

Brigands

neglect.

and

Hopes

man.

full

Stingy

act queer

the

Discovered.

How

that

their own worst

it.

Singular

won't count much!"

woman who

husbands can

sermon concerning " the animiles what went out

to fight."

Can

women must

the best

and foolish

offers,

deceives her

fact

about

Won't

husband?

for

it?

Social

Why? A bit of the author's life


Human Responsibility. Vastncss ot

foes.

What love is like.


the human soul!
'-She was all the world to Me!" A Heart
Poem. No libertine can evoke real Love. Modern Love! Senhistory.

sitiveness

its

the cost of the

The seven
every woman.

advantages.

book

to

Points

this alone

Something

for

Offices of

'-When her soul's at work!" The


woman's Being. The human Telegraphic

wonders.

Sexburg and Scoundrelton.

for

husbands.

portunity."

Tiije

rkaj.

kiss!

Its

worth

wives; do.
distributive

system.

Counterfeit kisses.

mi:amng.

is

(ocwd!

Its

Op-

When

List of Works.

Vive L' Amour

truly love.

A Poem.

rain "

" Like a gentle summer

Joys.

Sweet Home!

Home!

"Bitter Beer!"

friendships fail!

Its

The twain who

Finis.

Y.

THE FIRST REVELATION OF SEX. LOVE:


DEN HISTORY. TWO VOLS. IN ONE. A

ITS HID-

Book for
Woman, Man, Wives, Husbands. The Loving and the
Also Female Beauty and Power. Their
Unloved.
Attainment, Culture, and Retention.
" Hearts?

Who
Post

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Of

this

Hearts?

speaks of breaking Hearts?"

free.

volume, reprinted from the large octavo edition, nothing

need be said

for

"Seventh Edition"

tells its

preceding work, and

entirely from the

own

story.

It differs

covers totally different

grounds.

CONTENTS.
Chapter

I.

"Fall."

curious cause

She stoops

thereof!

Vampires

Love.

Love.

Jealousy.

her

Tom

to

conquer I

life-teachers.

Suspicion.

II.

kiss.

The

wedded

Abortionists

The

Why

Prudery.

the

TEN

young

disagree

the

infamous

great Rules and

Laws

Dress Silence as Powers of


Soul-devourers.

When woman

wife's great

bear him!"

fault

woman's idea of Love.

and the Monkey boy.

frauds.

Love a desperate

Life and

Why

is

is

Test of True

divine,

and

how

to

so.

Chap.

The

unsuspected

of us born with a

not love, but love

is

counterfeits.

its

Magnetic Love.

and

All

Passion

Love's Hidden Mysteries.

tribe

Reply

Love?

in us.

True Love and

game.

make

is

"Free Love" Infernalisms.

Passion!

girls

What

amount of Love

certain

Why

Adultery.

Doggish husbands.

Love an Element.

Why

Blind

she " can't

Divorce.

"Spirit-medium"

" Dragon's blood."

The Heart Song.

he "hates her!"

" Love powders."

and oversight.

List of Works.
Barn-yard Love Philosophers.

Men

and Women.

Sunshine.

Song

xi

again

- I've fallen

"

Passion in

Laughing Scandal.

Forsaken.

the

,,f

Sugar-life.

Chap.

Perverted

III.

Magnetisms.

Magnetic Poisons.

Uter-

undreamed-of causes of such. Complaints of women.


Love dependent on victuals anil drink. The

ine diseases;

Vulgar natures.

Song of Wedded Misery.


Marriage

What

it is,

Vicarious Love

and

Real

Love-song

Meddling People.

not!

is

Wretchedness.

of the Soul

Chap. IV.

Power

supreme joy of
creator

Love and provender


Mankind is
Woman

tween.
of

Babies.

Consumption.

ering candle.

Chap.

V. Origins

Affection

The

Air;

truth.

startling

Oxygen!! a

the

Love

Nellie and the flick-

sad, sad story.

Love

secret sin

the difference be-

The Proper Study

of the Black, Red, and White races.

" Blue

between the Sexes.

ferences

Curious, but true!

life.

The two

of words

Pill

for

Dif-

Breaking Hearts."

Unwelcome Love no Love at all. Forced attentions and other


Poisons.
Dark people healthier than light ones. Why ? Modern
marriage not a Bed of Roses. Why? The wonders of a woman.
Nuts for married people. False Divorce. Helplessness of woman.

Men

of lofty soul love simple

riage

means reciprocateness.

man

a dark

women best. Why? Actual MarWhy a woman who bears a child by

can never thereafter bear a light one.

Transfusion.

and how
Magnetism. Mingling.
Chap. VI. How
win a husband's
The Three Oriental

Temptation

to resist

it.

love.

to

Love
Will

The

Secrets.

but

Free

will.

John and

Tides of Passion and Love.

each other.

Vampires.

woman.

"

mournful

tale.

how

When

author's

The

human

The

Why

the Sultan goes to Ispahan

"
!

he

other

When

relations

Seven Laws

love.

experience.

loves

it!

Mis.

the wise.

Social Evil.

Why

cure

to

"Animality."

Incompatibility.

Physical basis of

The

Sally.

Magnetic

revelation.

strange,

to

dark" a

ous.

excellent,

and Love Power.


Love Starvation and
Seven Rules for husbands good ones

Grundy.
side.

An

it

is

hate-

o|

Love.

pretty

Funny, but

mgcr-

List of Works.

xii

Woman

Chap. VII.
Dimity versus

is

Love Incarnate, only men don't


Hearts for sale

Divinity.

her Power.

Love, an Art.

Love-cure.

Mother-in-law

Wonderful law.

the

Love not

Chap. VIII.

to

How

teaches.

The

Insanity.

An

The Christ-imaged

How

attack wins, and

be forced on either

Gozlan said about women.

Once

they make.

to

child.

subdue

why.

side.

What Leon

broken

The Lesson

off.

French " Girl's " curious Prayer.

Beauty

invaluable Chapter on the arts and

means of

in

"Infernal fol-de-rolisms," "Legal"

Love-matches are

ing Female Beauty

it;

know
The

fails to

very strange.

Love-storms, gales, tempests.

Woman's second

wild husbands.

violence

trouble

Lola Montez.

whilish love of husbands.

Woman

The Magic Ring

realize

translated

its

it

laws.

increas-

from the French of Dr. Cazenave.

Special instructions for beautifying the skin, hair, eyes, teeth,

in

Adornment of Women.
Home. The true life. Heart verThe Woman condemned to be strangled, and how she
The three Lessons. A latter-day Sermon
Text:
a hard road to travel." The Castaways.
Singular.
Scandal and Gossip. What Echo said. The Baby

short, the Perfect

Chap. IX.
sus Brain.

was

saved.

"Jordan

Good-Humor.

is

Magdalen.

World.

splendid

Poem

thrilling

Sermon by

reformed Prize

Fighter.

Swinburn.

Chap. X. "Eternal Affinityism," and Chmch-ortion. Honeymoons versus sour Syrup. Marriage in 1790- O ne happy man;
the curious reason

of

its

mighty Power.

gamy and Amative

Cyprians not
Stimulants.

Propagation of Heroes

Index of Character
cure in a

Love.
Sexive.

new

how

phase.

all

The

it is

Gray, Blue,

Sex in Nature.
Three

" Doctors."

why.

Science

bad or

a wonderful

lost.

finest race

Why

upon the Planet.

Gossiping.

Marriage of Light and Matter.

Women.

Mono-

The Eye as an
Hazel, Black eyes. The Laughaccomplished

Matrimonial career.

classes of

case

Whom

not to

Healthy

Music

is

Wed.

Married Celibates. Friendliness. Fretting. "LipPhilosophy Soul-Marriage! A Fashionable


Boston.

Chap. XI.
Salve."

Lady's Prayer.

Prayer of the Girl of the Period.

Hottentofs

List of Works.

xnr

Heaven.

Voudoo John, and Female Subjugation by Black-magic


Arts.
Brcastless Ladies.
How Wives are Poisoned
Chap. XII. The Fountain of I.ove. How to remedy vital
!

What

exhaustion.

Woman.

Her

Sweetness reigns
out.

Ankles.

ally

Wretched

Faults in

to eat to

child.
in

Excess.

Woman

Couples

of

When woman

Jealousy;

how

to

avoid

cause and

its

concerning

after

why wives

wedded misery, and

unloved wives.

to

Sex and passion

Childless

cure.

Power, or Genius.

Singular causes of

Hint

Singular Paper upon

we

its

Gusty Love.

The stormy

has most conquering power.

magnetic attack.
hood, and

special articles

hint to mothers.

him

pick

to

the Talents are gener-

cause and

its

Human

When

Singular fans, and Singular

Fault-finding.

contains

also

hate their husbands.


cure.

and

of a Loving

Love."

and how

Why

Bitter Experience.

Causes Cure.

The book

man

half

Marriage State.

in the

Women.

The Rule and Law

cure.

"

Power

Promiscuous

Genius and Wedlock.

Xon-reciprocation

Incest.

gain Love-l'o\ver.

life.

The

Old-maid-

are dead.

it

VI.

THE MYSTERIES OF THE MAGNETIC UNIVERSE.


Seership. New Editiox. A wonderful series of discoveries
for

self-development in

the

astonishing agency of

all

branches of Clairvoyance, including

MAGIC MIRRORS

and how

to

use them.

CONTENTS. Part
Somnambulistic
right.

merists

Two

lucidity.

Genuine clairvoyance

sources of light, astral

fail to

produce

Clairvoyance

Psychometry and

is

not spiritualism.

trance.

The

passion on
Oriental

difference.

the

"

its

subjects."

The

seer.

Mesmeric

Mesmeric coma

Ellect of lung power.

Dangers

to

women who

European, and American methods.

Vinegared
Specific

and the

false

birth-

Win* mes-

production.

intuition are not clairvoyance.

Ei^ht kinds of Clairvoyance

a natural

and magnetic.

clairvoyance in their

water, magnets and tractors as agents in


rules.

I.

true.

circles.

and magnetic

Effect of amative-

are

mesmerized.

The mirror

ot

ink.

List of Works.

xiv

How

The

stool.

away from

insulated

The bar magnet.

Why

Phantasmata, Chemism.

take subjects

The

looking-glass.

magnetic battery.

electric or

horse-shoe magnet.
said to

common

mesmerize by a

to

magnetizers.

The

" Spirits " are

Black

Curious.

Voudoo ("Hoodoo") spells, charms, projects.


Very
"
Strange!
Love Powders." The sham, and the terrible dangers

Magic.

How

of the real.

concerning Voudooism

Tennessee.

in

conches, the triangle, the herbs, the

wonderful

White

result.

the Doctor, and the

The

Chief.

love,

and money.

how

The

Proofs.

test,

science baffled

Voudoo

degrees of Clairvoyance, and

power,

Astounding disclosures

they are fabricated.

cock,

the

the spell, the effect, the

by black magic.

Mrs. A.,

Explanation of the mystery.

The road to
Mesmerism in ancient
them.

to reach

Self-mesmerism.

Egypt, Syria, Chaldea, Nineveh, and Babylon thousands of years

Testimony of Lepsius, Botta, Rawlings, Horner, Bunsen,

ago.

The Phantorama.

Champollion, and Mariette.

Advice

to seekers

after Seership.

PART

II.

The

Magnetic Mirror and

Dr. Dee and his magic mirror.

Magic Mirror

Strange things seen in

The Count

George Sand.

spiritual juggle.

or Spirit-Seeing glass.

St.

Germain, and the

On

his

Magic Mirror.

American Mirror

Dr. Randolph, in April,

Seers.

than

method of holding
of mirrors.

The

Crystals.

in,

Theory.

Constructors

but above

Chemistry of mirrors.

The

Why.

it.

to

Dangers of "

of magic

The

Past, Present,

there can be no future

pictures seen in

Two

and

kinds

a magic mirror are


Facts.

Failures.

Success.

Dream, and the

Street of

Future are actually

Omniscience.

use

Better and

Spirit control."

mirrors.

Life of

men

Extraordinary

a psycho-vision steady as a picture.

not on or

Chances.

Their singular magic.

magnetism.

animal

'69, predicts the

Business

Its literal fulfilment.

mirrors to forestall the markets.


effective

Cagliostro,

Frederick the Great Crystal-seeing Count.

Gold panic of September.

more

Curious

fire.

things of the outside world, and divine illumination.

and

Not a

it.

Jewels used for the same

Hargrave Jennings (the Rosicrucian)

purposes.

its Uses.

The

future

now, because

embosomed

in

List of Works.
the Ether, and he

womb

the
all

who

who

can penetrate that can scan unhorn events

coming time.

of

Basil's son

Benvenuto

The

real

husband from

love.

rival

is.

//>-.:

theory

spiritual

use

and

sight.

Statement of the seven

wife rcwins her straying

rival

from

principle.

a wrong-doer.

polar

blonde

rival.

law of

love.

Magic

Egyptians.

Mrs. Pool and Mr. Lane's testimony.

discovers a lover a

The
adven-

a strange

Theory of

The antagonal

singular

l>v

magic glass by

Its

the same.

a brunette

Caressive love.

Backthrown

lie

Absorption.

The blonde

magnetic laws of Love.

mirrors.

death really

things.

in

Salvcrtc, Iamhli-

to his father in a

What

Bellini.

Ma^ic and magnetic, one and

Polarites.

done, and will

David Brewster.

Sir

Platonic theory of vision.

meaning.

is

Mr. Roscoe's account of

phantasmagoria of

brunette

done,

he-

magic mirror seance extraordinary.

brought

is

Theodore Santa Baren.


ture of

can

It

have the right sense.

chus, and Damascius.

Emperor

xv

How

maiden

Awful magnetic power

Oriental widow finds


of an injured woman's " magnetic prayer."
--The
never having seen him.
having seen him
a husband

Master Passion."
rors.

"After death."

How

to clean

De

Xovalis.

Master,

crystal globe of

Rules and laws of magic mir-

and charge them magnetically.

The

celebrated " Trinius" Japanese

magic

San Francisco, Cal.

The price of this work has been fixed


only work on the subjeft now extant in
incontestable'

The Grand

excels

either

at three dollars.

It is

the

the English language, and

German, Arabic, Syriac,


upon the same topic, and is,

the French,

Hindostance, or the Chaldaic treatises


probably, the fullest and most perfeft compilation and exposition of
the principia of the sublime science ever penned.

extraordinary character

from

my

is,

indeed, rare.

It

work

of this

can only be had dirccl

office.

VII.
The whole,

instead of a part, of the quite Extraordinary

ANSAI-

RETIC MYSTERY
ing

Human

Sex. and,

Concernthe fourth Rosierucian Revelation


most ^.oumling
as thousands can testify, the

appeared
that has ever yet

anywhere on earth; and while

there

is

List of Works.

xvi

not a word or line or suggestion in


that favors anything that could

the very foot of the subject.


a portion of

them read

"

it,

or in the third Revelation,

make an angel

blush, yet they go to

Said a celebrated agitator, on hearing

What

do you charge for that astonishing

writing?" alluding to about one-fifth of the whole.


" Five dollars
as it is hard work to write it out."
!

Why,

dollars

it is

worth

to any one on earth with an ounce of brains, or a thrill of

$500

Man

"Five

or

Womanhood

left in

them

"

Well,

looked up the Orien-

MSS., and copies can be had of me, and if the mighty things
things not even dreamed of in these cold, practical lands
therein
tal

are not found to be worth ten times the sum, then the sublimest

world ever held must wait another century

secrets the

for apprecia-

tive souls.

To

whose orders

those

hereafter reach $5 at one time, a fine like-

ness of the author, by Poole, of Nashville, Tenn., will be sent as a

premium, and the Ansairetic Mystery

when requested

without any charge whatever, but only

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Two

Oath!

of

Publishing House, Toledo, Ohio.

THE CURIOUS LIFE OF


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in letter

with return stamps.

remitta,7tce

Address

given gratis, and

will be

RANDOLPH

P. B.

" The

Man

A Revelation of the Rosicrucian Secrets The


Strange Theories Very. His Birth,
Initiation!

Souls

Their

"

Blood, Education, Adventures, Secret of his Power!


The Scandal and Sensation
and Their Shame

His Glory

The Bright Side. What the People say.


Part II. The Ordeal. The Accusation. His Experience. Behind the Bars. He loses all he has made in a Life-time
Part III. The Charge and Trial! The Witnesses. Curious
Part

I.

Speeches of the Attorney against Randolph, and SelCaution to Masons, Odd-Felden's, the Free-Love Champion.
(See Part 3.) Randolph's Delows, and other Secret Societies.

Testimony.

fence,

and Address

to the Jury.

He makes

a Clean

Expose of the

are undoubtedly the

These three masterly efforts


strongest and ablest ever delivered for and against Free Love.
The Verdict Startling Disclosures " The Mysteries and Miser-

Whole Thing

List of Works.
ics

of Love."

females.

Love!

Why

Talk about Novels and Rumana-s!

tame nothings beside


romance.

xvn

The

this

man's

ami career.

life

strange oaths of

reads like a

It

Kosicrucians

the

they are

regarding

all

Extraordinary comparison between A^apism and Free-

The Rosecross

initiation,

the

officiating girls

and what

"Do&or"BAY

they do.
and his ''BUG" theory! When the
Band Begins to Play!" What was said concerning Randolph's
Book about Love and Women, Alleetion, the Sexes, Attractions,

Vampirisms,

Infatuations,

Soul, Lost Love,

Dead

Friendship,

Affection, and

Passion,

its

Beauty,

resurrcctivc law,

Heart,

True and

False Marriage.

One of the first writers in the country, when asked his opinion of
the MSS. from which it was printed exclaimed: "All I can say to
and
Price only 75 cents
the people of America is Buy the Book
!

that will tell the

whole

strange story

"
!

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