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Nedoure: Priestess of the Magi, or Blazing Star – An Historical Romance Based on Records Elucidating the Conflict Between White and Black Magic; Together with Much of the Teachings and Practices of Both. A rare find, this book discusses secret freemasonry symbolism and magick teachings in a detailed, coded text.
From the Introduction:
I am what may be called a “globe trotter,” was forty-one years of age last month ; am also looked upon as a rather eccentric bachelor. In fact, I have shared the fate of many others who, being neither rich nor handsome, pass through earth life in comparative solitude.
At the age of twenty-two I had the good fortune of being remembered in the will of a deceased uncle, whom in life I had never met. One day a large business envelope arrived from his attorney containing notice that I was sole heir to his estate.
My uncle, John McKay by name, had worked hard the greater part of his life. By rigid frugality during a lifetime of about seventy years, he had been able to amass the modest competency of forty thousand dollars. This sum was invested in United States bonds, and a ranch of three hundred and sixty acres in the western part of Kansas, near the Colorado state line.
As I had no inclination at that time to become either a rancher or vaquero, it was soon disposed of for a fair price. This enabled me to cultivate a long-cherished desire for travel and study. My attention had for several years previous been directed toward the occult, and, as the reader may have realized, when once this science is undertaken, the investigation is rarely if ever relinquished until we are ourselves liberated from the physical tenement.
Nineteen years have now elapsed since I began my still hunt for knowledge, or, as may be expressed by that illustrious man who in passing, exclaimed, “Light, more light.”
During this time I have given silver to the fakirs of India and the fortune-tellers of China. I have a speaking knowledge of seven languages, and my face is well known in most of the old book stalls and curio shops of both the new and the old worlds.
At the age of twenty-two I had the good fortune of being remembered in the will of a deceased uncle, whom in life I had never met. One day a large business envelope arrived from his attorney containing notice that I was sole heir to his estate.
My uncle, John McKay by name, had worked hard the greater part of his life. By rigid frugality during a lifetime of about seventy years, he had been able to amass the modest competency of forty thousand dollars. This sum was invested in United States bonds, and a ranch of three hundred and sixty acres in the western part of Kansas, near the Colorado state line.
As I had no inclination at that time to become either a rancher or vaquero, it was soon disposed of for a fair price. This enabled me to cultivate a long-cherished desire for travel and study. My attention had for several years previous been directed toward the occult, and, as the reader may have realized, when once this science is undertaken, the investigation is rarely if ever relinquished until we are ourselves liberated from the physical tenement.
Nineteen years have now elapsed since I began my still hunt for knowledge, or, as may be expressed by that illustrious man who in passing, exclaimed, “Light, more light.”
During this time I have given silver to the fakirs of India and the fortune-tellers of China. I have a speaking knowledge of seven languages, and my face is well known in most of the old book stalls and curio shops of both the new and the old worlds.
About seven years ago, while looking through a collection of old books and manuscripts in the Quaides Grand Augustin, Paris, I found stowed away in one of the dusty pigeon-holes, a roll of papyrus, which showed unmistakable signs of great age. It was written in the Pali-Sanscrit, a meagre knowledge of which enabled me to decipher, at the beginning, the word “Nedoure.”
Curiosity tempted me to purchase it and love of knowledge caused me to seek an old Hindu and bargain for its translation. Thinking it may be of interest to the modern brotherhood and lovers of mysticism, both ancient and modern, I give it here as translated, with the exception of a long letter of warning to the un-initiated, who might read it, and several of the mystic rites of the Magi.
Curiosity tempted me to purchase it and love of knowledge caused me to seek an old Hindu and bargain for its translation. Thinking it may be of interest to the modern brotherhood and lovers of mysticism, both ancient and modern, I give it here as translated, with the exception of a long letter of warning to the un-initiated, who might read it, and several of the mystic rites of the Magi.
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