“So they called forth a form
From the Deep dark abyss
To embody their evil desires.
Obedient it came
From the realms of the dead,
Arrayed in its magic attire.
As it passed o’er the earth
The fair flowers fell dead,
Indeed From its breath of poisonous fire.”
Indeed, so thoroughly has this poisonous fire of self-interest permeated the world, the fair flowers of disinterestedness are almost entirely extinct species.
Should the real state of unselfish of unworldliness of the true Mystic become known, he would be either regarded with pity as non-compos mentis,” or else looked upon with suspicious as acting from motives much more subtle than those which govern the ordinary mortal.
The manner in which this dark magnetic energy projected from the satellite to the earth is inversive. The rulers and magical hierophants make use of this force to distort and corrupt truth in every form as it struggles to become manifest upon the Earth. The powers and influences attributed to certain races of the Astral, belong in reality to the rulers and principalities of the Dark Satellite. They mercilessly distort every arcane truth into theological dogma of partial error, thus causing it to assume to the human mind the delusive form of the externals of truth and logic.
But the delusive form is, after all, only a very flimsy sophistry when subjected to the keen searching eye of the Soul. Consequently, it is always those who are half informed of nature’s mysteries who fall into the snare. Herein is seen the occult truth in the old proverb, “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”
Just as the Dark Satellite was at its perihelion, these inversive brethren achieved the greatest theological and metaphysical success by the relaunching forth throughout the world of the doctrines of “Reincarnation,” “Karma,” and “Disembodied shells.” These were formulated and taught by the decaying priesthoods of the dreamy orient. Viewed in its true light this gigantic movement of the inversive was aimed as a death blow to the rapidly spreading Spiritualism of the Occident Such a movement, however was doomed to the ultimate failure as there were certain absolute truths connected with this spiritualism. This truth was there notwithstanding the ignorance of its expounders and the many errors and gross impostures.
These truths were neither to be suppressed by inversive magic, nor smothered by any oriental theory.
These truths were well expressed in the book of Yetzirah, which states:
God is the matter and form of the universe. Everything exists in Him; He is at the bottom of all things and beings, which carry the symbols of His intelligence. The Whole, God and the universe, perfect unity. The uniting bond in creation are the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the first ten numbers (expressed by the first ten letters). These two types of signs are called the thirty-two marvelous ways of wisdom, upon which God has founded His name. They are identified with thought rendered visible, and they are superior to bodies and substances. God’s breath is in the Hebrew letters. They are equally of man and of God.