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1890 he wrote to me about a book which I then
published. He had fouud points of contact
between my ideas and those of the theosophists,
and wished to hear my opinion of the Occult
Doctrine and the priestess of Isis, Madame
Blavatsky. The aggressive tone of his letter
annoyed me, and I did not conceal this annoyance
in my answer. Four years later I published my
Antibarbarus, and received at the most critical
juncture of my life a second letter from this
unknown friend, in which, in an elevated and
almost prophetic style, he foretold for me a
future fraught with suffering and glory. At the
same time he explained to me that he had
resumed this correspondence, because he guessed
that I was just now in the throes of a spiritual
crisis in which a word of comfort might be
opportune. Finally, he offered me material aid,
which I, jealous of my miserable independence,
declined.
In the autumn of 1895 I resumed the correspondence
by offering him my natural history
studies for publication. From that time we kept
up the most intimate and friendly correspondence,
with the exception of a small disagreement
which occurred, when he once took upon himself
to instruct me in an insulting way about
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