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and the police station, and disappears behind
the St. Louis hospital, after it has torn up iron
gratings for fifty yards round. Regarding this
cyclone and the one in the Jardin des Plantes,
my theosophical friend asks me, “What is a
cyclone? Is it an ebullition of hatred, the
eruption of some passion, the effluence of some
spirit?”
It must be a coincidence, or rather, more than
a coincidence, that in a letter which crosses his,
I have asked him as one initiated in the occult
doctrines of the Hindus, “Can the philosophers
of Hindustan cause cyclones?”
I began to suspect the adepts in magic of
persecuting me on account of my gold-making
or my obstinacy, and of wishing to bring me in
complete subjection to their society. In the
German Mythology of Rydberg and in Wärend
och Widarne of Hilten-Cavallius, I had read that
witches were in the habit of appearing in a
storm or in short and violent gusts of wind. I
mention this to show my mental condition before
I fell in with Swedenborg’s teaching.
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