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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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Frères St. Jean de Dieu is twice mentioned
in it.

On May 1st I read for the first time in my
life Sar Peladan’s Comment on devient un Mage.

Sar Peladan, hitherto unknown to me, overcomes
me like a storm, a revelation of the higher
man, Nietzsche’s Superman, and with him
Catholicism makes its solemn and victorious entry
into my life.

Has “He who should come” come already in
the person of Sar Peladan. The
Poet-Thinker-Prophet—is it he, or do we wait for another?

I know not, but after I have passed through
these antechambers of a new life, I begin on
May 3rd to write this book.

May 5th.—A Catholic priest, a convert, visited
me.

May 9th.—I saw the figure of Gustavus
Adolphus in the ashes of the stove.

On May 14th I read in Sar Peladan: “About
the year 1000 a.d. it was possible to believe in
witchcraft; to-day, as the year 2000 a.d.
approaches, it is an established fact that such and
such an individual has the fatal peculiarity of
bringing trouble to those who come into collision
with him. You deny him a request, and
your dearest friend deceives you; you strike him,

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