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43. Eugen Lennhoff and Oskar Posner write: '... he appears to have been a freemason.' Freemasons Magazine and Masonic Mirror presents him in 1861 as an authority in a Masonic question.' In: Internationales Freimaurer Lexicon, Amalthea Verlag, 1932, 1980, page 973.
44. Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch-okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart, Teil II: Geschichte ihrer Lehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz,' 1978, page 351.
45. Frick for instance writes mat Bulwer-Lytton's connections with contemporary occult, Martinist, Masonic and Rosicrucian circles remain largely unknown and are speculative at best. In ibid. page 352.
46. Tautriadelta, 'Un Magicien Moderne,' Le Voile d'Isis, no.46, October 1924, page 673, Alec Maclellan, The Lost World of Agharti, the Mystery of Vril Power, Souvenir Press, 1996, page 89.
47. Patrick Curry, A Confusion of Prophets, Victorian and Edwardian Astrology, Collins & Brown, 1992, page 40.
48. For these novels, see: J.M. Roberts, The Mythology of Secret Societies, Secker & Warburg, 1972, pages 4-7.
49. ibid. page 7, also Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy, Rider, 1989, page 108.
50. Christopher Mcintosh, The Rosy Cross Unveiled, Aquarian Press, 1980, page 124.
51. John Hamill editor. The Rosicrucian Seer, The Aquarian Press, 1986, page 22. It is argued elsewhere mat from the brotherhood of the swastika the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor sprang forth. In: Joscelyn Godwin, Arktos the Polar Myth, Phanes Press, 993, pages 147148.
52. ibid. pages 22-23.
53. ibid. Also Patrick Curry, A Confusion of Prophets, Victorian and Edwardian Astrology, Collins & Brown, 1992, page 49.
54. Ellic Howe, The Magicians of the Golden Dawn, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972, pgs 26, 32.
55. Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart, Teil II: Geschichte ihrerLehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz, 1978, page 350.
56. Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual, translated and annotated by Arthur Edward Waite, William Rider & Son, 1923, page 151, also Eliphas Levi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, tome premier, 1855, Felix Alcan, 1903, page 281.
57. Paul Chacornac, Eliphas Levi, Renovateur de l'Occultism en France, Chacornac freres, 1926, pages 143-160, dates this visit in 1854. Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart, Teil II: Geschichte ihrer Lehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz,' 1978, page 352, and Arthur Edward Waite, The Mysteries of Magic, Redway, 1886, page XV, date this visit in 1853.
58. Paul Chacornac, Eliphas Levi, Renovateur de l'Occultism en France, Chacornac freres, 1926, page 194.
59. ibid.
60. Arthur Edward Waite, The Mysteries of Magic, Redway, 1886, page XV.
61. Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart, Teil II: Geschichte ihrer Lehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz,' 1978, page 262.
62. ibid. page 296.
63. For an elaborate description of these rituals, see: Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic, Its Doctrine and Ritual, translated and annotated by Arthur Edward Waite, William Rider & Son, 1923, page 151, also Eliphas Levi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, tome premier, 1855, Fe1ix Alcan, 1903, page 281, Arthur Edward Waite, The Mysteries of Magic, Redway, 1886, pages 309-313, Paul Chacornac, Eliphas Levi, Renovateur de l'Occultism en France, Chacornac freres, 1926, pages 143-160.
64. Paul Chacornac, Eliphas Levi, Rinovateur de l'Occultism en France, Chacornac Freres, 1926, page 194. Chacornac cites Arthur Edward Waite, The Mysteries of Magic, page 8 as me source; however, there is no such anecdote in Waite's book.
65. ibid. pages 194-195.
66. About Levi's concept of Astral Light, see: Arthur Edward Waite, The Mysteries of Magic, Redway, 1886, pages 74-79, Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual, translated and annotated by Arthur Edward Waite, William Rider & Son, 1923, Eliphas Levi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, vols. 1 & 2, Germer Bailliere, 1855, 1861.
67. Fred Gettings, Encyclopedia of the Occult, Rider, 1986, pages 28-30.
68. Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart, Teil II: Geschichte ihrerLehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz,' 1978, page 352.
69. Arthur Edward Waite, The Mysteries of Magic, Redway, 1886, page XV, Paul Chacornac, Eliphas Levi, Renovateur de l'Occultism en France, Chacornac Freres, 1926, page 198.
70. Richard H. Laars, Eliphas Levi, der grose kabalist, 1922, page 25.
71. Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race Tauchnitz, 1873, pages 52-54.
72. ibid. page 64.
73. ibid. page 89.
74. ibid. pages 131-132.
75. ibid. pages 136-137.
76. ibid. page 73.
77. ibid. page 79.
78. ibid. pages 194-195.
79. This novel was Beneath Your Very Boots, published in 1889. See: Curtis C. Smith editor, Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, St. James Press, 1986, page 370. Novel also treated in: Alec Maclellan, The Lost World Of Agharti, The Mystery of Vril Power, Souvenir Press, 1982, 1996, pages 18-20.
80. On the Tesla-Bulwer-Lytton-connection, see: Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, page 65. Also in: Steven R. Elswick, editor, Proceedings of the 1990 International Tesla Symposium, The International Tesla Society Inc., 1991, pages 1-36-138.
81. H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, J.W. Bouton, 1877, pages 125-126.
82. ibid. page 126.
83. Thomas H. Burgoyne, The Light Of Egypt, 1889, 1963, page 97.
84. Guenther Wachsmum, Die Atherischen Bildekrafte in Kosmos, Der Kommende Tag, 1924, page 4.
85. 'Keely And His Motor,' Evening Bulletin, August 22, 1887.
86. H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, T.P.S., 1888, vol.1, page 555.
87. W. Scott-Elliot, The Story of Atlantis, T.P.S., 1896, page 53.
88. Peter Bahn, Der Vril-Mythos, Omega Verlag, 1997, page 47.
89. Michel Lamy, Jules Verne Initii et Initiateur, 1984, 1994, Editions Payot et Rivages, page 191.
90. ibid. page 132.
91. Sykes writes: 'The description of air craft powered by Vril would indicate mat Lytton was aware of the inventions of John Worrell Keely, the first public announcement was made in the same year as The Coming Race was published. I cannot as yet find any written evidence to confirm this but the similarity of ideas makes it highly probable.' In: Egerton Sykes, "The Nature of Vril,' Disc Digest, vol.1, no.l, April, 1964, page 15. The article was a reprint from Pendulum, vol.13, no. 12., February 1964. However, in 1972 Sykes wrote: 'At the time he (Keely) must have been influenced by the work of Reichenbach in 1862, and of Bulwer-Lytton in 1871.' In: Egerton Sykes, The Keely Mystery, Markham House, 2nd edition 1972, page 8. Gettings states Sykes' first theory as a fact without referencing it. In: Fred Gettings, Encyclopedia of the Occult, Rider, 1986, page 6.
92. See for instance: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, Regnery, 1969, pages 9-10. Cites as his source Montfaucon's, Comte de Gabalis, 1670 edition, page 297. My source was a 1742 edition, where me story appears on pages 167-169 of vol.1.
93. 'Mrs. Moore Dies Broken-Hearted' The Times, January 6, 1899. Also: 'Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore Dead,' New York Times, January 6,1899.
94. 'Her Anxiety Brought Death,' Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1899. Also: 'Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore Dead,' New York Times, January 6, 1899.
95. 'Keely's Secret,' The World, May 11, 1890.
Also in Clara Bloomfield-Moore, 'Robert Browning, written by request to be read before a meeting of the Massachusetts Browning Society which is to be held at Mosely Homestead, Westfield, Lippincott, 1890,' text on Sympathetic Vibratory Physics Homepage, Internet. Browning by the way met with theosophist Olcott in 1884 but it is unlikely that the two would have discussed Keely and his discoveries during their meeting. In: Sylvia Cranston, The Extraordinary Life & Influence of Helena P. Blavatsky, Putnams, 1993, pages 257-258.
96. Clara Bloomfield-Moore 'Robert Browning, written by request to be read before a meeting of the Massachusetts Browning Society which is to be held at Mosely Homestead, Westfield, Lippincott, 1890,' text on Sympathetic Vibratory Physics Homepage, Internet. On mis matter see also: Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, pages 295-296.
97. 'Count Von Rosen Talks Of Keely,' The Evening Bulletin, March 15, 1899. According to a J.E. Wright, an electrician who had visited Keely's workshop, Bloomfield-Moore 'believes in the theory of the control of mind over matter.' In: 'An Expert On Keely's Motor,' New York Herald, January 19, 1896.
98. A photo of the plane with the swastika's is kept in the Tikkakoski Air Musueum, Finland.
99. Peter Nicholls, editor, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Granada, 1981, pages 282283, 229, 312, 494. Bloomfield-Moore quotes a passage by Hinton. See: Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 329-331.
100. George M. Eberhart, UFOs and the Extraterrestrial Contact Movement, The Scarecrow Press, 1986, vol.2, page 1123.
101. See: Equinox, vol.III, no.1, page 22. Crowley comments: "The textbook on this subject.'
102. 'Mrs. Bloomfield-Moore Dead,' unspecified London newspaper, January 5, 1899, Sympathetic Vibratory Physics Homepage, Internet.
103. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., 1893, page 190.
104. Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, John P. Deveney, The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Weiser, 1995, pages 428-429.
105. Karl R. H. Frick, Licht Und Finsternis, Gnostisch-theosophische und Freimaurerisch okkulte Geheimgesellshaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Wege in die Gegenwart,' Teil II: Geschichte ihrer Lehren. Rituale und Organisationen, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt Graz, 1978, page 263.
106. Sylvia Cranston, The Extraordinary Life of Helena Blavatsky, Putnam, 1993, page 145.
107. R.A. Gilbert noted mis in his, 'Provenance unknown, a tentative solution to the riddle of the Cipher Manuscript of the Golden Dawn,' page 84. The word appears in Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, vol.1, page 19.
108. Sylvia Cranston, The Extraordinary Life of Helena Blavatsky, Putnam, 1993, page 361.
109. Lewis Spence, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, George Roudedge & Sons, page 388.
110. Cheiro, True Ghost Stories, The London Publishing Company, no date, page 163.
111. Paul Begg, Martin Fido and Keith Skinner. Jack the Ripper A to Z, Headline Book Publishing, 1994, page 445. Stephenson's pen-name was 'Tau Tria Delta,' under which he wrote about Bulwer-Lytton's occult doings. As he may be considered an early source about Bulwer-Lytton's more darker side, one must treat these strange anecdotes accordingly. Stephenson never divulged the origin of his highly curious nom-de-plume, although he hinted at some profound occult significance. For an example of his writing: see this chapter, note 46.
112. ibid. pages 447-449.
113. Lewis Spence, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, George Roudedge & Sons, page 388.
114. Marc J. Seiffer, Wizard, the Life and Times ofNikola Tesla, Birch Lane Press, 1996, page 164.
115. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 186. She borrowed this quotation from Blavatsky's article 'Kosmic Mind,' Lucifer, April, 1890, page 89. More on Edison in ibid. pages 197198.
116. In the letter with which Edison returned the signed forms, he wrote: 'Please say to Madame Blavatsky mat I have received her very curious work and I thank her for the same. I SHALL READ BETWEEN THE LINES!' (Edison's capitals). The 'very curious work' was Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled. Letter in the Edison Archives, Madison, New Jersey. Copies obtained through
Dale Pond. See also: Sylvia Cranston, The Extraordinary Life and Influence of Helena Blavatsky, Putnam, 1993, page XX, pages 183-185.
117. Sylvia Cranston and Joseph Head, Reincarnation, The Phoenix Fire Mystery, Julian Press, 1986, page 419.
118. Gregory Little, People of the Web, White Buffalo Books, 1990, page 10.
119. Helena P. Blavatsky, 'The Blessings OfPublicity,' Lucifer, no.48, August, 1891.
120. 'Is Keely The New Mahatma?,' New York Times, April 29, 1896.
121. 'Is It The Vibratory Keely?,' New York Times, May 5, 1896.
122. Henry Steel Olcott, 'H.P.B. and the Keely Force,' The Theosophist, Vol. XX, no. 11, august 1899, pages 687-688.
123. Henry Steel Olcott, Old Diary Leaves, The Only Authentic History of the Theosophical Society, Third Series, 1883 -1887, T.P.S., 1904, page 386.
124. Dr. A. Marques, Scientific Corroborations of Theosophy, The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1901, revised and greatly enlarged edition, 1908, pages 85-86.
125. Helmut Werner, Lexicon der Esoterik, Fourir, 1991, pages 188, 567.
126. James Webb, The Occult Underground, Open Court Publishing, 1974, pages 93-94. More biographical details in Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism, the Aquarian Press, 1985, pages 24-27.
127. Leopold Engel, Mallona, Der Untergang des Asteroiden-Planeten, Turm Verlag, 1961, page 13.
128. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely's Secrets, T.P.S., 1888, pages 25, 33-34.
129. Joel Rost and Jacques Ravatin, Les Desintegrators, editions L'Originel, 1994, page 272.
130. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely's Secrets, T.P.S., 1888, page 23.
131. ibid. page 34, also pages 33-35.
132. Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, John P. Deveney, The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Weiser, 1995, page 429.
133. Thomas H. Burgoyne, The Light Of Egypt, vol.1, 1889, 1963, page 116.
134. Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, John P. Deveney, The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Weiser, 1995, page 419.
135. Emma Hardinge Britten, Ghost Land or Researches into the Mysteries of Occultism, Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1897, page 10 of the catalogue at the back. The advertisement slogan on page 358. The identity of the writer of Ghost Land has never been established; rumor has it that Burgoyne was the writer. See also: Joscelyn Godwin, Christian Chanel, John P. Deveney, The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, Weiser, 1995, page 57.
136. Sylvia Cranston, The Extraordinary Life of Helena Blavatsky, Putnam, 1993, page 124.
137. W.J. Colville, 'Autobiography of W.J. Colville,' in: Universal Spiritualism, Spirit
Communion In All Ages Among All Nations, R.F. Fenno & Company, 1906, pages 15-38.
138. Leslie Shepard, Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, Gale Research Inc., 1996, pages 307-308.
139. W.J. Colville, 'Autobiography of W.J. Colville,' in: Universal Spiritualism, Spirit Communion in All Ages Among All Nations, R.F. Fenno & Company, 1906, pages 15-38.
140. William J. Colville, 'John Worrall (sic) Keely. A memorial address, delivered Sunday, Nov. 27, 1898, in Casino Hall, Thirteenth Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn.,' Banner of Light Publishing Co., 1899, page 5. On his lecture: short, unreferenced clipping in George Canby, 'Keely Motor Scraps,' no.2, not published.
141. ibid. page 15.
142. '.. .whose interest in the Occult had been cut short by his untimely death by drowning through the loss of the Titanic,' Cheiro notes. In: True Ghost Stories, the London Publishing Company, no date, page 34. On his account of his meeting with Blavatsky, see: Cheiro, Mysteries and Romances of the World's Greatest Occultists, Herbert Jenkins, 1935, pages 170-180.
143. Cheiro, True Ghost Storie
s, the London Publishing Company, no date, page 219.
144. Helmut Werner, Lexicon der Esoterik, Fourier, 1991, page 125.
145. Cheiro, True Ghost Stories, the London Publishing Company, no date, pages VII, 90. On his refusal to join the theosophical society, see: Cheiro, Mysteries and Romances of the World's Greatest Occultists, Herbert Jenkins, 1935, page 179.
146. Richard Cavendish, Encyclopedia of the Unexplained, Magic, Occultism and Parapsychology, Rainbird Reference Books, 1974, page 55.
147. Cheiro, True Ghost Stories, London Publishing Company, no date, pages 228-231.
148. The short story is part of the collection written by Cheiro, True Ghost Stories, the London Publishing Company, no date. Citation appears on page 235.
149. ibid. pages 239-240.
150. ibid. page 239.
151. ibid. page 236.
152. ibid. page 238.
153. ibid. pages 240-241.
154. ibid. page 245.
155. ibid. pages 245-246.
156. ibid. page 251.
157. 'The Keely Motor,' Ledger And Transcript, December 25, 1895.
158. ibid.
159. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely's Secrets, T.P.S., 1888, page 25. See also Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 250.
160. Dumas Malone editor. Dictionary of American Biography, vol. VII, Scribner's, 1934, page 199.
161. James Webb, The Occult Underground, Open Court Publishing, 1974, page 293.
162. Sylvia Cranston, The Extraordinary Life & Influence of Helena P. Blavatsky, Putnam, 1993, page 134.
163. Clara Bloomfield-Moore, Keely's and His Discoveries, Aerial Navigation, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893, page 92. It is possible that Pancoast and Philadelphia cabbalist Meyer knew each other, both being deeply involved in cabbalistic researches. But while we have established that we know not much on Pancoast, we know even less, which amounts to nothing, of Meyer. In 1888 Meyer privately published the book Qabbalah, The Philosophical Writings Of Solomon Ben Yeduda Ibn Gebirol or Avicebron and their Connection with the Hebrew Qabbalah and Sepher Ha Zohar.. .Also an Ancient Lodge of Initiates, translated from the Zohar & an Abstract of an Essay upon the Chinese Qabbalah, contained in the... Yih King. The book was based upon early 19th century French translations of 12th century Hebrew versions of the main work of the Spanish-Jewish philosopher Ibn Gebirol, who introduced neoplatonic thought in the west. Possibly Meyer's cabbalist activities explain why it is alleged that Meyer held information on Keely while nothing was found, perhaps later writers have confused Pancoast with Meyer since both were cabbalists. It is inviting to speculate mat for instance Pancoast's huge library held files on Keely, but Pancoast died before Keely and it is not known what became of his library and private documents. It also is possible that Meyer became interested in Keely's researches through Pancoast. I have studied Meyer's book - the only documentation on him available to us now. Almough published at the time mat Keely was well known in Philadelphia, the book is a treatise on the cabbala and there is nothing at the surface that is pertaining to, or hinting at Keely in its pages.