Salt Lake Herald | 1899-12-31 | Page 45 | A School for Black Magic

A School For Black Magc eW York TImes Three Parisians neil known In pseudoscientific pseu-doscientific and 1er circles abroad Mr Band Papus and Sedlr have founded a curious school in the French capital which just now Is the talk of salons of a certain social Infu once The school Is to initiate Its pu pits Into the mysterIes of occults or black magIc I has ben established for the benefit 01 persons who would folow in the footsteps of Paesus ar d Trisegsus These persons the founders believe are more numerous thin Is general supposed and for them has been provided a complete course of instruction In sorcery and wlchcraf of astrology and the other hermetic sciences The prospectus of the institution contains con-tains thIs legend The Initiated In virtue ot the powers transmitted them by the masters reign In heaven com md on earth and are feared In hade The perIod of initiation extends ex-tends over three years yet the time the looked may bo shortened provIded loked for result are achieved before the end p Hb plho to V LUU V w L uu During the fir year the student Is required to acquire a much Hebrew as Wilt enable him to comprehend the books of the old alchemIsts He begins be-gins too study of the constitution of man and of his hIdden forces The second year Includes a continuation of the studIes of the previous year together to-gether with the learning of Ssrlt I and exlrclses In hypnotsm and somnambulism som-nambulism In this year the student I also Is presented to the mysterIes of spirit phenomena and teams the practical adaptation of the various arts of divination And finally In his third year the student Is made acquainted ac-quainted with the acton 01 human thought en the invisible and with many other obscure maters the comprehension com-prehension of which depend upon the care that he has devoted to his previous studies I