presence even of Frater Perdurabo; how much less in that of 
The Master Therion ! 1 
Of ail the créatures He ever met, the most prominent of 
English spiritists (a journalist and pacifist of more than European 
famé) had the filthiest mind and the foulest mouth. He would 
break off any conversation to tell a stupid smutty story, and could 
hardi y conceive of any society assembling for any other purpose 
than “phallic orgies7’, whatever they may be. Utterly incapable 
of keeping to a subject, he would drag the conversation down 
again and again to the sole subject of which he really thought — 
sex and sex-perversions and sex and sex and sex and sex again, 
This was the plain resuit of his spiritism. Ail spiritists are 
more or less similarly afflicted. They feel dirty even across the 
Street j their auras are ragged, muddy and malodorous; they ooze 
the slime of putrefying coprses. 
No spiritist, once he is wholly enmeshed in sentimentality and 
Freudian fear-phantasms, is capable of concentrated thought, of 
persistent will, or of moral character. Devoid of every spark of 
the divine light which was his birthright, a prey before death to 
the ghastly tenants of the grave, the wretch, like the mesmerized 
and living corpse of Poe’s Monsieur Valdemar, is a “nearly liquid 
mass of loathsome, of détestable putrescence.” 
The student of this Holy Magick is most earnestly warned 
against frequenting their séances, or even admitting them to his 
presence. 
They are contagious as Syphilis, and more deadly and disgus- 
ting. Unless your aura is strong enough to inhibit any 
manifestation of the loatïily iarvae that hâve taken up their 
habitation in them, shun them as you need not mere 
lepers! 2 * * * 
1. Even the earliest Initiations confer protection. Compare the fear 
felt by D. D. Home for Eliphas Levi. See Equinox I, X, “The Key of 
the Mysteries”. 
2. It occurs in certain rare cases that a very unusual degree of personal 
purity combined with integrity and force of character provides even the 
ignorant with a certain natural defence, and attracts into his aura only 
intelligent and beneficent entities. Such persons may perhaps practise 
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