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Apollonius of Tyana,” an Admirable Edition of Philostratus’S Work, Translated by Mr THE ROMANCE OF SORCERY BY SAX ROHMER WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS METHUEN & CO. LTD 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON First Published in 1914- V-* Is \ Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine PDi.cft se. Xpert icy de, fria lou ch e, '"Pour tan oncer la, Verite', JY m a prediction te, touche 'Pleads a/'ace, a ja PD evinitej, , <~s V , f*Otu CjCulr NOSTRADAMUS FROM AN lCNGKAVING liV J. SAUVl'l < I PREFACE LTHOUGH would-be explorers of the occult continent may be numbered only by the em­ Aployment of seven figures, it is notable as a curious fact that the world’s master Magi have been neglected by popular biographers. Lives of all the great sorcerers there are, certainly, from Zarathustra to liliphas Levi, but without exception, so far as I am aware, these are designed for the use of the student: they are not for every man. Fictionists have dipped into the magical pages, but lightly and warily. If we except some of the novels of Lord Lytton (who was an initiate, deeply versed) and the stories of Mr. Algernon Blackwood, to whom we are indebted for an account of a ((Witches’ Sabbath ” little short of clairvoyant, I believe there is no piece of purely imaginative writing which can be regarded as the work of an Adept, or even of a serious student. In the following pages, then, I have endeavoured to bring out the red blood of the subject, and have treated the various episodes with which I have had to deal in the same manner that I should treat the episodes of an ordinary romance. Whilst those curious to learn more of the arts of sorcery have not been neglected, above all I have placed, and have aimed VI THE ROMANCE OF SORCERY at satisfying, the reader who opens this book in quest of entertainment. The section “ Sorcery and Sorcerers ” will be found to contain some passages from Francis Barrett and from Dr. Wynn Westcott’s valuable translation of one of Levi’s most extraordinary works. Neither of these authors will be familiar to the general reader, and I have borrowed freely in both directions. Their writings are illuminative, and should be considered, if only in brief, by any one who hopes to comprehend the aims of the sorcerers, as set forth in The Romance of Sorcery. It may be asked of me why certain characters have been included here and others omitted. I can only say that I have sought for variety. To my decision to include a life of Nostradamus I was guided, in some degree, by the existence of a very general misappre­ hension regarding this great and wonderful m an; also by the fact that hitherto no complete life has appeared in the English language. Madame H. P. Blavatsky I have introduced, after much considera­ tion, because certain phenomena associated with her activities come legitimately within the scope and limit of sorcery. I have dealt with these phenomena, but have not attempted, in so limited a space, even to outline her whole career.1 At the time that I was engaged upon the section “ Apollonius of Tyana,” an admirable edition of Philostratus’s work, translated by Mr. F. C. Conybeare, M.A., was added to the Loeb Classical Library. This 1 Since the above was written, a prominent theosophist, toward whose views I entertain profound respect, has taken me to task for discussing Madame in a work devoted to sorcery. My defence will be found in Webster’s definition of the word. PREFACE Vll lightened my labours, for the only other English version is that of E. Berwick, published in 1809. The freshness and freedom of Mr. Conybeare’s rendering make quite delightful reading, compared with the severely staid manner of the former writer. I have to acknowledge the generous assistance offered to me by M. Homolle of the Bibliotheque Nationale, and the untiring labours of M. Lejay Jean, of the same institution. Not only has M. Lejay ajided me in my quest of material, but he has completed those inquiries regarding Cagliostro’s house in the Rue Saint Claude and other matters which lack of time forced me to abandon. A portion of the chapter “ The Elementals ’' (“ Sorcery and Sorcerers ”) is included by courtesy of the Globe, and at this place I must also acknowledge indebted­ ness to my friend Dr. R. Watson Councell for the freedom of his library. Of inestimable assistance, too, has been the exact knowledge of old French, and of old French history, which Mr. Fred W. Winter has placed at my disposal. The sections “ Nostradamus ” and “ Sorcery and the Law,” in particular, owe much to his scholarly attainments. Finally, the adept guidance of Mr. Arthur N. Milne has been as that of a pharos in a night-storm, lacking which I could scarce have hoped to make safe har­ bourage. S. R. Herne Hill, January 31, 1914. V/ CONTENTS PA.GB PREFACE . v I SORCERY AND SORCERERS . i II APOLLONIUS OF TYANA 62 III MICHEL DE NOTRE DAME, CALLED NOSTRADAMUS 106 IV DR. JOHN DEE 143 V CAGLIOSTRO 180 VI MADAME BLAVATSKY 235 VII SORCERY AND THE LAW 264 VIII CONCLUSION 311 INDEX 317 IX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS N ostradamus ....... frontispiece (From an engraving by I. Sauv6) facing page T he Cabala ......... 14 (From The Magus) E vil Spirits ......... 48 (From The Magus) “The Man of T yana ”— B ust of A pollonius in the Capi- tolini, R ome ........ 80 (From a photograph by Anderson) D r . John Dee ......... 146 (From a painting in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, by permission of the Keeper) Magical Implements and Circles . .164 (From The Magus) “ The Grand Copt ”— Cagliostro ..... 182 (From an old print) T he Countess de Cagliostro . .198 (From a rare French print by permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall) “ T he Magician’s Staircase ”— No. 1 R ue St . (Claude . 220 Madame H. P. B lavatsky . .256 (By permission of the Theosophical Publishing Society) T he B lack Sabbath ........ 268 (From Oufle’s Imaginations Exlravagantes) T he F rontispiece of Matthew H opkins’s “ D iscovery o f Witches,” 1644 ................................................................. 286 XI 1 THE ROMANCE OF SORCERY SORCERY AND SORCERERS I. THE VEIL There was a Door to which I found no K ey ; There was the Veil through which I might not see : Some little talk awhile of m e and t h e e There was— and then no more of t h e e and m e . O-DAY is notable for a curious change in Western thought, or, properly, in a phase of T Western thought, more appreciable by church­ men, theosophists, and other students of the. Unseen than by the laymen. I refer to a growing discontent with, and a falling away from, revealed religion. It is an age of groping ; and whereas one who stumbles onward in the mist nearly always strays from the broad highway into the bypaths that lead to the meres, some may strike a fair and narrow road and emerge upon the mountain top. Of guides to these divers fairways there are many, some of honesty unimpeachable if poor pilots, others masters of their craft but slaves to greed. Apollonius of Tyana was one of the former ; Cagliostro, possibly, belonged to the latter class. No man who has pro- 1 2 SORCERY AND SORCERERS claimed himself potent to raise the Veil has ever lacked disciples ; no man tendering such a claim ever shall, certainly not in this miracle-hungry century. “ What seek ye ? ” demands the Adept. Comes a chorus from poor purblind humanity: “ To bridge the gulf ! ” But over this gulf floats a mist, beyond the mist hangs a Veil. Has any man, braving the mist, ever thrown a bridge, however frail, across to the shadow bank ? Honest weighing of the evidence would cer­ tainly make it appear that so much has been accom­ plished. With what result ? With the result that the intrepid explorer has obtained a closer view of the Veil. Now, all exploration of this kind unavoidably leads us into the realms of magic. These are extensive, certainly, and offer prospects more startlingly dis­ similar, as we look to right or left, than any tract in nature, not excepting the famous Yellowstone Park. And modern occultism has not made more easy the way ; it has accomplished little beyond the coining of a number of new terms. Sorcery, I think, covers them all. Father Henry Day, S.J., speaking at Manchester, advanced a similar opinion, but classed all magic as Black, when he said : “ The Church condemns the new form of modern spiritism as she condemned the old superstitions. They are identical with devil-worship, with black magic, with the necromancy of the past. Whatever may be said of the pretensions of the spiritism of the day, the Church regards it as the continuation of Satan’s revolt against God.” His words are characteristic of the unchanging attitude of the Church of Rome towards magical THE VEIL 8 practices ; and, in so far as they warn would-be dabblers to refrain from sorcery, they are of value. The dangers of magic are not chimerical, but very real. Magical arts in the modern mind are curiously asso­ ciated with the East— and particularly with Egypt. An inspection of the advertisements of the large body of professional seers will enable you to bear me out in this. Every nation has its superstitions; but, excepting the African medicine-man, and his counter­ part among almost every primitive people, for the practising sorcerer proper we must go East.
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