Light-bearers of Darkness

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THE OVERSHADOWING POWER

In his Traité méthodique de magic Pratique, Papus, the well-known occultist and cabalist, Dr. Gerard Encausse, writes:

"A learned initiate and encydopædist, Hoëné Wronski, in a work which is almost unobtainable to-day, L'Apodictique Messianique, has given an analysis of magic and its origins, as well as its results, which merits a dose study on the part of serious inquirers. We hope therefore to render service to such by reproducing the whole of the section devoted to mysticism and magic."

Briefly, Wronski states that the aim of Mystic Associations is " Participation in Creation," and the physical end is "Direction of the Destinies of the Earth." This mysticism "consists of the mystic limitation of the absolute reality (universal life-force or energy), forming in general the neutralisation of this negative and positive energy," a form of magnetic polarisation, creating the etheric link; for this reason these societies cultivate supernatural sentiments and arts such as "Hermetic Philosophy, Alchemy, the Great Work or Stone of the Philosophers, the Panacea, Magnetic-healing, Regeneration, etc., and certain mysteries of physical generation, etc." Being unable to discover scientifically, by reason, the destinies of the earth, they profess to foresee it by a "Cabalistic interpretation of the traditions of the Holy Scriptures"; then they seek to direct these destinies by means of special missions given to chosen men in all ranks of society.

Secret Societies. - He says:

"As the supernatural efforts made by the Mystic Association to take part in creation can neither be practised nor discussed publicly --- and being equally debarred from openly directing the destinies of the earth as Governments would oppose it, this mysterious association can perforce only act through Secret Societies. Thus actually it is in the heart of mysticism that all secret societies, which have existed, and still exist, on our globe, are born, and which, controlled from this mysterious source, have dominated and, notwithstanding Governments, continue to dominate the world. These secret societies, formed when needed, are detached into groups distinct and apparently opposed, professing respectively and in turn the most contrary opinions of the day, so as to direct, apart and with confidence, all parties, political, religious, economic, and literary. They, in order to receive common direction, are again united to an. unknown centre, where this powerful source is hidden which seeks thus invisibly to control all earthly scepters ... and without doubt all these secret societies are themselves, through the skill of certain of their chiefs, controlled and directed according to the ideas and orders of an Unknown Supreme Committee who governs the world." Freemasons, Applied or Political.

"Pure or speculative masonry is properly only the great nursery from which all mystic associations choose their high chiefs (cpoptes). --- Also the grades of initiation are so arranged that the great part of Freemasons, far from doubting the aim of their affiliation, see in it only an object of mutual pleasure and good-will. Only those who have been tested are admitted into the higher grades, and it is from among the latter that the different branches of applied Freemasonry are formed, whose aim is manifestly to realise, by deeds and according to circumstances, the librral mystic speculations of Freemasonry. Thus in our day have been successfully formed the Nocturnal Chapters of Ruel and Passi, the Lodge of the Contrat-social, the Philadelphes, the Carbonari, the Tugend-Bund, the Burschaften, the Comuneros, etc." (This does not apply to British Masonry.)

Reciprocal Influences between the Visible and Invisible World. (Etheric Link.) The Illuminati (Illuminism).

"The name Illuminati (not Wissende) ... appears to have been introduced only about 1775 by the secret society which was founded by Weishaupt, and developed, it is said, by Baron Knigge. But, ... it must have existed from the greatest antiquity. And actually the mystic affiliations under the Pyramids of Egypt, the esoteric sect of Pythagoras, the astrologers or mathematicians of Rome in the time of Domitian, the House of Wisdom of Cairo, the Ismailis or Assassins, Companions of the Old Man of the Mountain, the Templars, the Rose-Croix --- appear to form but an uninterrupted chain of these superior affiliations --- under the name of Illumines."

Also their branches of "Stricte Observance, or preparation for Illuminism," including "eclectic Lodges or Egyptian Masonry, such as the Lodges St. John, of Melchisèdeck, the Souffrants, Royal Priests, Masters of the Wise, and the Chercheurs." The Asiatic Brethren, either with these or the Illumines.

The Directing Power - the Invisibles or Earthly Beings (Masters working on the Astral).

"Once only have these Invisibles shown themselves to men, that was when, at the terrible Secret Tribunal - seeing that all the powers of earth, ministers, princes, and even sovereigns themselves begged the favour of being admitted to this formidable affiliation-these invisible Chiefs believed that at last they had conquered the earth, and they dared, so to say, to give away the secret by openly showing the way in which they intended to govern the world. ... These earthly beings do not appear to-day, but it is they who form the Supreme Committee from which emanate the orders which rule all secret societies, and- in this Committee the ancient Book of Records ever remains open. --- "(Here we have the "Supreme and Invisible Hierarchy of Cabalistic Jews")

Here is the Oath administered to the Illuminati:

"In the name of the son crucified (the Pentagram, the illuminised man), swear to break the bonds which still bird you to your father, mother, brothers, sisters, wife, relatives, friends, mistresses, kings, chiefs, benefactors, and all persons to whomsoever you may have promised faith, obedience, and service. Name and curse the place where you were born, so that you may dwell in another sphere, to which you will attain only after having renounced this pestilential globe, vile refuse of the heavens! From this moment you are free from the so-called oath to country and laws: swear to reveal to the new chief, recognised by you, what you may have seen or done, intercepted, read or heard, learned or surmised, and also seek for and spy out what your eyes cannot discern. Honour and respect the Aqua Tofana as a sure, prompt, and necessary means of purging the globe by death of those who seek to vilify the truth and seize it from our hands. Fly from Spain, Naples, and all accursed land; finally fly from the temptation to reveal what you may hear, for the thunder is no prompter than the knife, which awaits you in whatsoever place you may be. Live in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (This is the Trinity of Illuminism - Cabalistic and Gnostic. The Father - the generating fire; the Holy Spirit - the Great Mother Nature, reproducing all things; the Son - the manifestation, the vital fluid, the astral light of Illuminism. It is a perversion of Christian symbolism.)"

The reason for Wronski's exposure of these sects was to show the appalling spread of Illuminism at that time and its diabolical plan of destruction.

Mrs. Nesta Webster, in her Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, tells us how about A.D. 872, an Ismaili, Abdullah ibn Maymün, brought up on the doctrines of Gnostic Dualism, a pure materialist, formed a sect known as the Batinis, whose project was thus described by Dozy in Spanish Islam.

"To unite in the form of a vast secret society with many degrees of initiation, free-thinkers --- and bigots. of all sects; to make tools of believers in order to give power to sceptics --- to build up a party, numerous, compact, and disciplined, which in due time would give the throne, if not to himself, at least to his descendants. --- The means which he adopted were devised with diabolical cunning.. . . It was ... not among the Shi-ites that he sought his true supporters, but among the Ghebers, the Manicheans, the pagans of Harran, and the students of Greek philosophy; on the last alone could he rely, to them alone could he gradually unfold the final mystery, and reveal that Imams, religions, and morality were nothing but an imposture and an absurdity ... but he took care to initiate devout and lowly souls only in the first grades of the sect.