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Zanoni

CHAPTER 1
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CHAPTER 1.VIII.
To know how a bad man will act when in power, reverse all the doctrines he preaches when obscure .-- S.

Montague.
Antipathies also form a part of magic (falsely) so-called.

Man naturally has the same instinct as the animals, which warns them involuntarily against the creatures that are hostile or fatal to their existence.

But HE so often neglects it, that it becomes dormant.

Not so the true cultivator of the Great Science, etc.
-- Trismegistus the Fourth (a Rosicrucian).
When he again saw the old man the next day, the stranger found him calm, and surprisingly recovered from the scene and sufferings of the night.
He expressed his gratitude to his preserver with tearful fervour, and stated that he had already sent for a relation who would make arrangements for his future safety and mode of life.


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