"Will you do the same?" asked the Rosicrucian of the "Angular Character," who had told his own story in disguise. The latter saw that his secret was out; yet his heart was touched, for, as a great tear-drop rolled down his cheek, he said, with smothered breath, the holy words--"I'll try!" "Amen!" said the Rosicrucian. "Amen!" said we all; and then, turning to his auditors again, the story-teller said: "Friends, go thou and do likewise; and so long as you live, I charge you never to forget the Rosicrucian nor his story; nor IT, the Shadow; nor Hesperina, the Light; nor Otanethi, the Genius of the Hour; nor the silver-girdled Hermit, and his Crystal Globe in a forest wild; nor, above all, the little window at the foot of the bed, whose upper sash was down."
A day or two afterwards we reached Panama, and after that we saw but little of our entertainer; but before I finally lost sight of him he told me that he was about writing some Rosicrucian stories, the MSS. of which he would send to me when ready. I have received some, and they will be published by me as soon as I can spare time to attend to it, which will be--
"When this cruel war is over"
P. B. R.
UTICA, _November, 1863_.
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Contents:--The Strange Man.--The Legend.--Prexistence.--Double Life.--The Haunted House.--The Mysterious Guest.--A very Strange Story.--Evlamba.--A Son of Adam and a Daughter of Ish.--Napoleon III. and the Rosicrucian.--An extraordinary Sance in Paris.--Spectra.--Phosphorus and the Elixir of Life.--The Magic Mirror.--Who was he?--What was it?--The Secret of Perpetual Youth!--The Priest of Fire.--The Magic Slumber.--Strange Revelations.--Confession.--The Magic Pictures.--"And several other Worlds!"--Very curious.--An Astounding Chapter!--Singular Experiment.--"A Man goes in a Cab in search of his own Ghost!"--A Strange Wager.--Mystery thickens.--Deeper and Deeper.--Murder will out.--The Devil in Paris.--Diablerie extraordinary.--"The Saucer on the Floor." What some Folks believe are Spirits!--_An Astounding Disclosure!_--The Grand Secret.--A Theory demolished.--Ravalette explains.--The Sleep, and a Revelation of the Destinies of Nations, a chapter so extraordinary that it alone is worth the price of the whole book.
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TOM CLARK AND HIS WIFE; THEIR DOUBLE DREAMS, AND THE CURIOUS THINGS THAT BEFELL THEM THEREIN.
_Being the Third Thousand of the celebrated_
ROSICRUCIAN'S STORY.
III.
PRE-ADAMITE MAN:
Demonstrating Human Existence 100,000 years ago, and that Adam was not the First Man.
"When the gude Laird was making Adam, even then the clan Grant was as thick and numerous as the heather on yon hills."--Bailey Grant.
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"DEALINGS WITH THE DEAD."
The Human Soul--What it is; whence it came; its location in the body; its passage through death; whither it goes after death; what it does; how it lives! Marriage in the Soul-world! Offspring there! Eating, drinking, sleeping after we are dead! Do Souls occupy space? Does a Soul feel heat, cold, get wet in a storm? What becomes of dead children?--of idiots?--lunatics?--premature births? Heaven! Hell!--their nature and location, with scores of equally important and profound questions, are all answered in this most extraordinary and entirely original volume.
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