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THE ROSE CROSS ORDER 
 
 A short sketch of the History of the Rose Cross Order in 
 America, together with a sketch of the life of Dr. P. B. Ran- 
 dolph, the Founder of the Order. 
 
 Also a short history of his persecutions and prosecutions, 
 which resulted in giving him greater freedom than he had before, 
 and which trial proved that the things of which he had been 
 accused were absolutely false. 
 
 HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF 
 
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 Introduction and Notes by Dr. R: Swinburne Clymer 
 Copyrighted 1916. All Rights Reserved. 
 
 Published by 
 
 THE PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO. 
 
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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF 
 
 AN INTRODUCTION 
 
 In the wonderful and remarkable story, "The Mysteries of 
 Myra." Wonderful, because it seems impossible that a sup- 
 posed authority on a subject should be able to bring so many 
 inconsistencies into so short a space, and remarkable, because 
 it seems impossible that such an inconsistent story, would be 
 seriously considered by mankind in general; however, there is 
 at least one true statement in it. In speaking of the Black 
 Brotherhood, the author of the story, Hereward Carrington, 
 made the following statement: "The order is one of the most 
 ancient origin — thousands of years old, I have been told. The 
 order had been virtually wiped out in Europe because of the 
 great war, but the master intends starting branches throughout 
 the United States within the next few weeks. If he succeeds, 
 heaven help the hapless country." 
 
 The reason the story by Carrington has been accepted, is 
 because it is, on the whole, accepted only as a story, and as 
 containing but very little truth, but these people who accept the 
 story, forget, that no lie can be told, unless there is a foundation 
 of truth in it, and few of the thousands who are reading the 
 story, would really believe that the one statement quoted is an 
 absolute truth, as I propose to show throughout this article. 
 
 Herewith, I will give extracts from a letter received but a 
 few weeks ago by an editor of a magazine published in Chicago. 
 This editor has been fighting the blacks for some years, and 
 many victims have written to her, giving their tale of woe, but 
 most of them have been afraid to reveal their names, fearing this 
 arch-fraternity to that degree. 
 
The Rose Cross Order 
 
 I use these extracts, because it is upon them that I will base 
 my introduction, and because i" have in my possession, under 
 guard of the Inner Circle, the letters which will prove every 
 statement made, and in case some of the leaders of these blacks 
 should succeed in making good their threat, of sending me to 
 the "Beyond" before my time, that all these proofs will be in 
 good hands. And it is for this reason that I write this at this 
 time, for, should they succeed in giving me the undesired, but 
 not unlooked for, send off, both the Order I represent, and its 
 work will be defended and protected. 
 
 In the letter, marked "not for publication," which begins 
 with a reference to an author who is now in the limelight, the 
 writer says: 
 
 "She was a Fellow of the Theosophical Society, for some 
 years unknown to the writer, until the year 1898, when Katharine 
 Tingley changed the Theosophical Society into the Universal 
 Brotherhood, at the Chicago Convention. She was in 1898 what 
 one would distinctly call a medium. She afterwards, the year 
 not being known to the writer, joined a Society, a so-called 
 Rosicrucian Society, called "Golden Dawn," whose hierophant 
 was then, and is now. the Kaballist, Liddell McGregor Mathers. 
 
 "Some hints in regard to this secret organization ar egiven in 
 the "The Equinox." The editor of "The Equinox," one who 
 called himself "Frater Perdorado," but who is known as Aleister 
 Crowley, is one of the most evil, and probably the most degraded 
 creature in the world. 
 
 "No member of this infernal organization, ever met by 
 the writer was anything but a lying psychic, or a potential devil." 
 
 There is one mistake made in this letter, and that is, that 
 Crowley is not a member of the Rosicrucian Order, of which 
 Mathers is the Hierophant. 
 
 A history of the trial in the Court of London is now before 
 me, in which it was not only clearly proven that Crowley had 
 been made a member of the Mathers Rosicrucian Body through 
 
The Rose Cross Order 
 
 misrepresentation, or some other fraudulent scheme, but that 
 he had also been debarred from the body, because of the un- 
 speakable life that he had led. 
 
 But this man Crowley was not satisfied with his evil deeds, 
 and by upholding publicly the most revolting practices, such 
 as were aired in the Courts of India, but he had gone a step 
 further, and attempted to expose, through his filthy sheet, the 
 inner work of the Rosicrucian Order of which he had formerly 
 been a member, and for v/hich he had been expelled from the 
 order. 
 
 The "Order of the Golden Dawn" is, so far as we can learn, 
 not the child of Mathers, but that of Crowley, and we under- 
 stand that Crowley, the arch-evil worker, is now in the City of 
 New York, where he has, or is attempting, to start the "Order 
 of the Golden Dawn," and, being evil incarnate, and the 
 charges of immorality was uncontradicted by him when he sat in 
 the Courts of London and listened to these fearful accusations, 
 is no doubt teaching these evil practices to those who fall vic- 
 tims to his distructive and degrading philosophies. * 
 
 Eut this is not all, this man has no right to any of the 
 Rosicrucian teachings that he may have, because no right, as 
 was proven at the trial in London, had ever been given to him 
 by the Rosicrucian body, nor has he any right whatever, to the 
 title of "Order of the Dawn" or "Order of the Golden Dawn." 
 These titles forming part of the Corporate power of an American 
 Corporation, incorporated some eight years ago. 
 
 Of this man too much cannot be said. Or, one might say, 
 too little cannot be said of him, since he and his work should 
 be forgotten. During the trial in London it was clearly shown 
 
 *Those desiring complete information concerning people, 
 teachings, etc., should write to "The Looking Glass," 149 
 Fleet street, E. C, London, England, and get copies of issue 
 Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec, 1910, and May 6th, 1911. 
 
The Rose Cross Order 
 
 that he upheld the most revolting practices, practices which work 
 to the destruction of not only the Occulist, but the destruction 
 of any man or woman who is unfortunate enough to fall a victim 
 to them. 
 
 The only reason we mention this man Crowley is because 
 he is a great possibility for evil; he is in New York City, and 
 is attempting to establish in that great city lodges of the most 
 deadly and destructive evils. Evils such as put White Slavery 
 to the blush. In other words, without passing judgment, but 
 according to the testimony of men in the London trial, he is 
 worse than a moral leper, if there is such a thing. 
 
 This brings us to another phase of the great controversy, 
 namely, the work of some members of the Theosophical Society, 
 though I wish it to be clearly understood that this article is not 
 indicting the Theosophical Society as a whole, but only certain 
 members thereof who have no sense of honor. 
 
 In the year 1858 the Rose Cross Order was started in 
 America by Dr. P. B. Randolph. It is not my desire to give a 
 history of this Order, as it is fully given in other books. 
 
 Dr. Randolph taught the Rose Cross Doctrine and prac- 
 tices, many of which are outlined in books. He founded Lodges, 
 which were secret and in accordance with the rules of the Society. 
 Moreover, many books were published during his life, as records 
 show, and never for a moment did he give up the work of the 
 Order. 
 
 But some years ago, some of the leaders of the Theosophical 
 Society saw that the Theosophical Society was loosing ground, 
 and, being exceptionally shrewd, they also saw the progress that 
 the Rose Cross Order, as founded by Dr. Randolph, was mak- 
 ing. They furthermore found, that through long years of hard 
 work the Rosicrucian School of Philosophy had become well 
 known. 
 
 What then was the plan? A very simple one though very 
 dishonest, but what is honor to men and women who have been 
 
The Rose Cross Order 
 
 openly accused of deeds that are foul? Their plan was to es- 
 tablish Temples of the Rose Cross throughout the country, to 
 admit men and women to them upon the payment of a fee, and 
 the passing of a ceremonial Initiation. 
 
 Absolutely no account was taken of the fact, that the Rose 
 Cross Order had been long and honorably established. That 
 ceremonies were the lesser part of the Great School, but, on the 
 contrary, it was a great school of thought, and of Spiritual 
 traning, ceremonial initiation being the end of the Great Work. 
 All these facts were cast aside, all they considered was the fact 
 that the true school had, through its good work, made the Order 
 well known. 
 
 When the head of the Order in America protested to the 
 leader of the movement, she replied, stating that the Rose Cross 
 was an old Order, and anyone could establish a body by that 
 name. * 
 
 What can one do to meet such an argument ? These people 
 forgot that only one body of a given name can be established in 
 a country, and even the State laws recognize this fact . 
 
 They either did not know, or did not care, that the Rose 
 Cross had been established for the express purpose of teaching 
 men and women the true, the exalted and the refined life; and 
 while ceremonial Initiation binds men and women together as a 
 Society, it has little to do with the reformation of mankind in 
 general. In other words, they either did not know, or did not 
 care, for truth, for law and for order, all they cared for was 
 their own purely selfish aim, and it was immaterial to them 
 whether they, who profess to be spiritual teachers, would break 
 every law in the spiritual catalog, so long as their object could 
 be attained. 
 
 Although these leaders thought they could accomplish won- 
 ders through the open steal of this honorable, and honorably 
 
 *See Exhibit A and B at end of Notes. 
 
3 The Ros e Cross Order 
 
 used title, they have no doubt found that to the people a Lodge is 
 simply a Lodge, no matter what its title may be. Therefore, 
 they must be greatly disappointed in having sacrificed so much 
 honor of manhood, and of having received so little in return for 
 the sacrifice. 
 
 But, it is the history of the Sublime Order, that time and 
 again should its name be deliberately stolen, that time and 
 again should its leaders and its teachers be persecuted and pros- 
 ecuted. This has been the history of the true Order, but always 
 and forever, were those who persecuted and who stole defeated 
 in the end, and died an ignoble death, "History but repeats it- 
 self." 
 
 Looking backward, we find Dr. Randolph, in Boston, in 
 the year of 1872, persecuted and up for trial, through the 
 machination of the worst trio that ever lived, a trio similar to 
 the one that is now attempting to ruin the true Order. It was 
 then that the prosecuting attorney, the Attorney for the State, had 
 to pay this tribute to Dr. Randolph : 
 
 "Over twenty years ago, Dr. Randolph was known to be a 
 Rosicrucian, and in that period he ascended the steps of that 
 mystical brotherhood, outstripping the thousands and rushing 
 past hundreds of gray-beards in the mental race, until he at- 
 tained the chieftainship of the true Rosicrucians in America and 
 the Isles of the Seas, and finally to the supreme High Priesthood 
 of the Order, and the Grand-Mastership of the combined Lodges 
 of the earth likewise, reaching the double office through his ab- 
 solute defiance of poverty and wealth, and persistent pursuit of 
 ideas alone ! ,y 
 
 This is from the records of the case, and it is well for my 
 reader to impress this upon his mind as he reads this record, 
 because it will help him to understand the work of the Black 
 Brotherhoods, who, driven out of Europe, are now in this coun- 
 
The Rose Cross Order 
 
 try, and would steal the honored name of an honored body. It 
 will also be well to bear this fact in mind when passing judgment 
 on the body, born in the Theosophical Society in another coun- 
 try, and fostered upon the American people as the true Society. 
 
 In 1897, Dr. Paul Tyner in an article called '"The Tem- 
 ple," wrote these words: 
 
 "Rosicruciae is spiritual, not material; a Fraternity rather 
 than an Order. Its members are gathered from the East and the 
 West, from among the lofty and the lowly, the learned and the 
 unlearned, wherever there are free souls, and sympathetic and 
 aspiring natures. It embraces all ages, races and climes, and 
 reaches from the visible far into invisible realms of being. 'Si- 
 lence, secrecy and unpretending good works are its characteris- 
 tics, and one member may pass his life next door to another, and 
 neither be aware of the bonds between them unless some stress 
 of need draw the curtain aside.' The law of Silence is particu- 
 larly emphasized, obedience to the injunction to 'enter unto the 
 closet and shut the door' being imperative on all who would have 
 access to the sources of power." 
 
 This was published as part of the book, "The Rosicrucians ; 
 Their Teachings," because it formed part of a Rosicrucian Man- 
 ifesto and was authoritative. I wish to call the reader's special 
 attention to the part which appears in Italics. 
 
 About eight years ago, a man who may have been a 
 student of the Theosophical Society, or of one of its members, 
 came to this country, and deliberately conferred upon himself, 
 not to use a harsher term, the title of Rosicrucian. He published 
 under copyright of 1909, a book proporting to be Rosicrucian, 
 but which is directly opposed to every doctrine of the true Rose 
 Cross Order, and is, in reality, a compound of Theosophical 
 teachings of German Mysticism. Bear in mind, my reader, I am 
 not condemning the philosophy therein, because all men have a 
 right to their philosophy, I simply call attention to the deliber- 
 ate use of a name, honestly belonging to a body long established. 
 In that book he makes the following statement: 
 
10 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 "It is possible to live under the same roof and on terms of 
 closest intimacy with an Initiate of any school, yet his secret will 
 always remain hidden in his breast until his friend has reached 
 the point where he can become a Brother Initiate." 
 
 Might we not call this the "Deadly Parallel?" Is this 
 simply a coincidence ? Possibly his Masters, of whom he speaks 
 so much, told him to use the title, and to copy, with but slight 
 changes, that which has been written and published, years before. 
 It may be that it was these same Masters who told certain teach- 
 ers in India, of a certain large Society, to teach boys the "un- 
 speakable practices." No wonder the world in general con- 
 demns all Occult Societies, for the world is not in position to 
 form judgment, knowing only of the evil practices, but nothing 
 of the good which is done silently by the true Order. 
 
 But let us go a step further, on Page 516 of the same book, 
 in the 1909 edition, and just on the opposite page, there appears 
 this statement: 
 
 "His very name is an embodiment of the manner and the 
 means by which the present-day man is transformed into the 
 Divine Superman. This symbol, 
 
 'Christian Rosen Kreuz' 
 (The) Christian Rose Cross, 
 shows the end and aim of human evolution ; the road to be trav- 
 eled, etc." 
 
 In the year of 1904, or about five years before the publica- 
 tion of this so-called Rosicrucian book, my book, "The Rosicru- 
 cians; Their Teachings," had been published, and, beginning 
 with page 187, under the title of "First Rosicrucian Manifesto" 
 I give a complete exposition of Christian Rosicrucian, under the 
 sub-title of "A Mystery Solved," and therein show that: 
 
 "As an Initiate, and at variance with the established 
 Church, and these pseudo-orders and imposters, he sought for 
 a way to save these symbols from the curse that was sure to fall 
 upon them, after a more sane age had set in; and it is a fact that 
 
The Rose Cross Order 11 
 
 even to this day all orders of this day are looked upon with 
 mistrust by the German nations as a whole. 
 
 "There was a way open to accomplish this, but in order to 
 do so it was necessary for him to expose these pseudo-orders, and 
 give the real meaning of Alchemy, Initiation and these symbols. 
 This he could not do as he had taken the oath of 'Silence' even 
 before he became a neophyte. He, however, perceived another 
 way to accomplish this end, and this was by giving to the world 
 a radical treatise that would throw ridicule on the so-called 
 Alchemists, and others of that ilk, and at the same time give 
 great and 'Inner' secrets to the world in a veiled language, and in 
 such a way that it would draw the people away from these im- 
 posters and arouse their curosity. This he could not do under 
 his own name as it was necessary to reveal some secrets which he 
 had learned, and at that time the true Order was very strict; 
 he, therefore, sought for a nom-de- plume, and as the Rose 
 Cross were the most powerful and universally known symbols of 
 that or of any other time, even as they are at the present day; 
 furthermore, as both of them are symbols of Esoteric Christian- 
 ity, he took the name — the "Christian Rose and Cross," and in 
 order to make an individual name out of it, he changed it to 
 Christian Rosencreutz, and under that name as a nom-de-plume, 
 he wrote the now famous "Fama Fraternitatis." 
 
 I presume that if this other book had been issued in 1904, 
 and my book in 1909, it would have been a pure and deliberate 
 steal, but as this other book was five years after the publication 
 of my book, in which this mystery was first explained, it must 
 have been given to this man by his Masters. Possibly these 
 Masters had imbibed a little too much, and had read the mys- 
 tery in the published book, but thought they had read it in the 
 Astral lights. 
 
 But this man was not satisfied with this triple act, or what- 
 ever you wish to term it. He had to go a step further. 
 
 In the year of 1908, the series of books and lessons, known 
 
12 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 as Soul Science, were first started, as International Copyrights 
 will show. At first, it must be admitted, this was a difficult 
 proposition. But, as explained thus far, our good name having 
 been deliberately taken and used to palm off goods which were 
 not what they were called, we thought it best to allow the name 
 Rose Cross to be in abeyance, and to use our own coined title of 
 Soul Science, at least, until such time as mankind would learn 
 the truth. 
 
 Though, as stated before, the Soul Science work, being new 
 to the public, it was a difficult task, but gradually the good work 
 that was being accomplished through Soul Science became 
 known, and it was an easy matter to reach the public with the 
 work under that name. 
 
 But early in the present year a member of the Inner Order 
 sent us a marked copy of a magazine, in which he found that 
 this same man had deliberately used the title as coined by our 
 School, but had prefixed the word "Christian," evidently he 
 thought it would protect himself against a protest of steal. 
 
 Immediately we sent him the following letter: 
 • « e 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 One of our Soul Science teachers has just mailed me a copy 
 of your magazine, February issue, and has marked the second 
 advertising page in the magazine. 
 
 I, of course, know that you have taken to yourself, without 
 any right or authority, legally or otherwise, the "Rosicrucian" 
 title, knowing, as you must have known, that the Rose Cross Or- 
 der has been founded and been teaching in America more than 
 sixty (60) years, believing, that as the people learned the truth 
 of the matter, results would prove to you that you had attempted 
 to accomplish an impossible thing. 
 
 "But I now find that you have also seen lit to add to goods 
 which are not yours the title, of 'Soul Science.' This title was in- 
 vented by myself, I used it for the first time, in my literature and 
 
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 the Copyrighted lessons. I claim that no one ever used the title 
 before I used it, and had it copyrighted. Therefore, by legal and 
 divine right it is mine, and belongs to our Hierarchy. 
 
 Of course, you have prefixed 'Christian' to it, but I refuse 
 to admit that in doing so you have the right to call any teachings 
 of your own 'Soul Science.' 
 
 "Though you may not be a Rosicrucian, nevertheless, I 
 cannot understand how any man, professing to teach the Occult, 
 can stoop to the position of deliberately taking a title honestly 
 belonging to another, and use it to label his own goods. 
 
 "I am now taking up this matter with our Copyright At- 
 torney and will try my best to learn whether there is absolutely 
 no justice to be had, even from those who claim to teach Sacred 
 things. 
 
 "Very truly, 
 "R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 
 
 "Beverly Hall, Quakertown, Pa., Feb .4, 1916." 
 # # # 
 
 Needless to say, no reply was received from this man, and 
 I have not been able to learn as to whether he still continues to 
 deliberately deceive his followers. 
 
 Thus, we have considered two of these Orders, which we 
 call clandestine, but there are several others which need our 
 careful consideration, because, considering all that Dr. Ran- 
 dolph suffered) and what the U. S .Prosecuting Attorney said 
 of him, it is necessary that we should have a complete record. 
 
 We now have what may be considered the most deceiving 
 attempt to give to the people, under the name of Rosicrucianism, 
 that which is not Rosicrucian, made within the last year, by peo- 
 ple from New York City, who claim to have authority from the 
 Rose Cross Order, whose headquarters are in Paris. 
 
 A lengthy article appeared in the "Pittsburgh Sun," dated 
 Jan. 21st, 1916. We immediately wrote to the editor of the 
 paper, sending him booklets in proof of our statements, but have 
 never had a reply from him. 
 
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 The booklets mailed were several of which were issued in 
 1908, and some of later date. A copy of "The Rosicrucians ; 
 Their Teachings" was also mailed to the Editor . 
 
 The folowing letter is self-explanatory, and gives in de- 
 tail the stand taken by this Fraternity : 
 
 • # * 
 
 Editor "The Pittsburgh Sun," Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 My Dear Sir: — In your issue of "The Pittsburgh Sun" of 
 Jan. 21st, I believe, there appeared an article entitled "Rosicru- 
 cians Trace Order to Thutmose III," which is so absolutely 
 false that it cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged. 
 
 Under separate cover, I mail you booklets, these are marked 
 "Exhibit A," "Exhibit B" and "Exhibit C." I will call your 
 attention to these as I proceed. 
 
 The statement that "after approximately 3,500 years, has 
 just taken form in Pennsylvania state lodge of the Order, with 
 headquarters in Pittsburgh" is a statement that is without foun- 
 dation and with not a single shred of truth. 
 
 If you will give the booklet "Exhibit A" but a hurried 
 reading, you will find that the first Grand Lodge of the Rose 
 Cross was founded in America, at San Francisco, in Nov., 1861. 
 (Page 13, Exhibit A) and that in the same year, a San Fran- 
 cisco citizen, recognized Randolph as a Rosicrucian and voiced 
 his sentiments in a Boston, Mass., newspaper (see Page 7, Ex- 
 hibit A). 
 
 On page 13 of "Exhibit A" you will find the line of suc- 
 cession of the Rosicrucian Order in America. Propaganda be- 
 gun in 1857. First Supreme Grand Lodge San Francisco, Cal., 
 Nov. 5th, 1861. Second Grand Lodge, Boston, Mass., 1871. 
 Third Grand Lodge formed at San Francisco, Cal., 1874. And 
 the fourth and last Grand Lodge formed at Philadelphia in 1895. 
 
 At several periods it was found necessary for the Grand 
 Lodge to dissolve on account of treason in its ranks, just as 
 there is treason at the present time, though not affecting the 
 Grand Lodge. 
 
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 From the article in your issue of date given, it would ap- 
 pear, that in order to justify her conduct, Mrs. Hogin would 
 lead the world, and more especially her followers, to believe 
 that there had been no Rosicrucian Order in America prior to 
 1915, but published and Copyrighted books prove that the 
 Order has been in existence, and continually working, for more 
 than 60 years, and at this time it is working in every state of 
 the Union, in its original states and under its original Charter, 
 and that any body of men attempting to start another Order, and 
 giving out the statements of this new body, founded within a 
 year, as is admitted in the article, must be clandestine. * 
 
 A further proof of the falsity of the statement that the 
 Rosicrucian Order has but just been founded in America, is the 
 fact that more than four years ago the Fraternity held a Grand 
 Conclave, and that members now living in Pittsburgh were 
 present and received the Rites of the Fraternity and signed their 
 names as members upon the face of the original Charter of the 
 Order. 
 
 Should it be desirable or necessary, I can refer you to these 
 members and of this Conclave there are in existence photo- 
 graphic evidence of both the meeting place, and the Delegates, 
 of members present from many states of the Union, including 
 California, the original State, and even from Canada. 
 
 We challenge anyone to show any books, manuscripts or 
 Charters that were issued before Randolph started this Order 
 in America. We further challenge any one in this country to 
 show any books, bearing the Rosicrucian title, or pretending to 
 be Rosicrucian works, even as far back as twenty years, which 
 did net eminate directly from the body first founded in America 
 more than sixty years ago. 
 
 The booklet "Exhibit A" was issued and Copyrighted in 
 1908, which is seven years ago. Does this indicate, that a book 
 
 *See Exhibit C at end of Notes. 
 
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 which gives full details of an Order, then in existence, had actu- 
 ally no existence then, and has just been started in this country 
 by an entirely different set of people, who have no authority from 
 this original body. 
 
 The booklet "Exhibit B," which is mailed to you, was is- 
 sued eleven year ago. This gives more details as to the teach- 
 ings of the Fraternity, and is mailed to you merely as a proof of 
 the work done in America many years before this clandestine 
 body is organized. 
 
 "Exhibit C," a text book of the Fraternity, was first issued 
 in 1905, and is now in its second edition. The first edition was 
 practically all sold before the end of 1906 and the new edition 
 prepared. 
 
 A hurried glance through this book will give you the Man- 
 ifestoes just as they were issued by the Order since its founda- 
 tion. These manifestoes were issued and distributed during the 
 years as given in the book, and utterly disprove that there has 
 been no Rosicrucian Order in America until 1915. 
 
 It is true that the Order which Mrs. Hogin and her co- 
 workers are attempting to organize had no existence, but, accord- 
 ing to the Laws of most States, it is utterly illegal for them to 
 use a name of an Order, or a Society, which is already in ex- 
 istence, and according to these Laws such an attempt is clearly an 
 illegal act. 
 
 I challenge Mrs. Hogin or any of her Co-workers to show 
 any book or paper, by any of her co-workers, and printed prior 
 to my book "The Rosicrucians ; Their Teachings" or "Brother 
 of the Third Degree," by Garver, which mentions the fact that 
 Napoleon had anything to do with the Order, and I further 
 challenge them to show any book, or paper, showing copyright 
 prior to the publication of my books, which mention Lord Bulwer 
 Lytton in like connection. 
 
 I do not desire to play on empty words, the only proof that 
 can stand before God and men, or before Courts of Law, are the 
 
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 books and papers in actual print, bearing Copyright stamp of the 
 
 year issued, and to be found in the Library of Congress. 
 
 I regret that this letter to you has become a necessity, but 
 
 it is a question in my mind whether it is not as great a crime to 
 
 allow a wrong to go unexposed as it is to commit the crime, 
 
 especially when such a wrong is liable to lead thousands into 
 
 error. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 
 
 "Beverly Hall," 
 
 Quakertown, Pa., 
 
 Jan. 28th, 1916. 
 
 • * * 
 
 At the same time, a copy of the letter mailed to "The Pitts- 
 burgh Sun," together with the following letter, was mailed to 
 
 the Secretary of this so-called Rose Cross Order : 
 • •**•• 
 
 Thor Kiimalehto, New York City, N. Y. 
 
 Dear Sir: — It was on March 11th, 1915, that I had a letter 
 from you anent the Rosicrucian Order, and at that time I an- 
 swered you fully, giving you the necessary information to prove 
 to you that, legally and otherwise, the Rose Cross Order has 
 existed in America for more than 60 years and for that very rea- 
 son, no other Order by that name could be instituted in America 
 legally. 
 
 You ansv/ered me and stated that you were placing the mat- 
 ter before your Chief "across the water," but since then I have 
 not heard from you. 
 
 Naturally, you must be aware, that any charter from 
 "across the water" has no more authority here than a charter 
 from us would have in any foreign country where the Rose Cross 
 Order existed previously. That is a natural, reasonable, com- 
 mon sense view, and is legally true. 
 
 I have now before me your magazine in which you pro- 
 
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 pose the "Ancient and Mystical" Order Rose Crusis and I hold 
 that the use of the words "Ancient and Mystical" will not (le- 
 gally or otherwise) cover the issue, for it has been held by the 
 United States Courts, that where an Order of a given name had 
 been instituted, another of same name, or a name similar enough 
 to it that would be likely to confuse the ordinary person, could 
 not be instituted legally and was held as clandestine and fraud- 
 ulent. I hold that the use of the name "Rose Crusis" is con- 
 fusing to the ordinary mind. 
 
 But this is not what I want to especially place before you, 
 but the absolutely untruthful statements given out by a Mrs. 
 Hogin to a Pittsburgh newspaper, and which I have taken full 
 steps to refute. 
 
 I herewith inclose a copy of my letter to this Pittsburgh 
 Newspaper and I believe this needs no further explanation, ex- 
 cept to say, that these facts had already been placed before you 
 nearly one year ago, and when all these documents are placed 
 before the American people, possibly before the U. S. Courts, 
 the public will draw its own conclusions. 
 
 Moreover copies of all these letters, including this one, will 
 be placed before all of our own people, together with the in- 
 closed letter, which will be mailed to everyone of our thousands 
 of correspondents throughout the world. 
 
 When a man steals our good name, or our goods, we call 
 him a common thief, but what is the man who sees that we have 
 made a success of a work under a given name and who delib- 
 erately and knowingly takes that name and uses it to label his 
 own goods, and especially that which concerns the most sacred 
 things known to man — Spiritual things ? 
 Yours truly, 
 
 R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 
 
 "Beverly Hall," 
 
 Quakertown, Pa., 
 Jan. 28th, 1916. 
 
The Rose Cross Order 19 
 
 Letters by the Ambassador-General of the Order for France, 
 were at once written to the head of the Rose Cross Order in 
 France, answers were received from the Grand Master there, 
 stating that this body had no real authority, and that the so- 
 called Degrees could not be had from the University of Paris 
 except by a very few, he pronounced it a fake, pure and simple. 
 
 These letters are on file at Headquarters and may be seen 
 by any one in authority. 
 
 Letters written by the Ambassador-General for Spain 
 brought the same reply. That no such Order existed there. 
 
 The question was then taken up with England, only to 
 receive a reply stating that the authorized Body in England had 
 granted no authority to these people. 
 
 All of these letters are on file at Headquarters, and were 
 carefully considered by the Executive Council of the Order at 
 the 68th Annual Convocation. 
 
 In the last issue of the magazine published by these people 
 they made the following statement : 
 
 "Dr. Clymer operates the Philosophical Publishing Co., 
 of Allentown, Pa., and sells reprints of some so-called "Rosi- 
 crucian Books," written by one Dr. P. B. Randolph, who never 
 had either the right or the privilege of writing for publication 
 any Rosicrucian secrets. In fact, Dr. Randolph was looked 
 upon with displeasure and disdain by the A. M. O. R. C. in 
 France, because of many acts — principally the selling of so- 
 called 'secrets' which were no secrets at all." 
 
 First of all, it is a deliberate falsehood to say that I ever 
 reprinted, or offered for sale, a reprinted book by Dr. Randolph. 
 This statement is on a par with every other statement made by 
 these people, and, judging from letters I have in my possession, 
 I am led to believe that all such statements were with the delib- 
 erate intention to deceive. 
 
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 I should be only too glad to republish the books by Dr. 
 Randolph, for I freely admit over my own signature, that I 
 consider his books the greatest ever written by any man, and 
 which, if faithfully followed, would save humanity much of its 
 suffering. However, all these books are controlled and sold by 
 Mrs. Randolph. 
 
 He also mentions a book of 49 degrees which we published 
 and sold. This is true, and when I finished this book, and sent 
 it to the students who had ordered it, it was one of the proudest 
 moments of my life, because I knew it would do a vast amount 
 of good. 
 
 But, I must say, the hardest moment of my life was when 
 I learned that one who had taken our most sacred obligation, had 
 deliberately broken his vow, and entered into the work with the 
 Editor of the magazine in question. Traitors are the bane of 
 civilization, but as a rule they get their just reward for being 
 such. 
 
 Another statement made, which is also a deliberate false- 
 hood, is: "After Randolph's death, Clymer — as a printing ex- 
 pert — undertook to reprint and resell the old books of Randolph, 
 and so successful was he in promoting Randolph's plans for 
 some sort of a Rosicrucian Fraternity (whose 'Grand Lodge' 
 disbanded a number of times) that he wrote several books of 
 his own concoction." 
 
 That I consider the most contemptible statement printed in 
 the said magazine, although there are many others. As before 
 stated, I never printed, or reprinted a single book by Dr. Ran- 
 dolph, though I would be very proud had I been able to do so. I 
 did write books of my own, some forty of them, whether or not 
 they are concoctions I will be glad to have others judge, but I 
 wish to say here and now, that practically every statement made 
 by this man is a deliberate falsehood, and have come to the con- 
 clusion that they were made with the intention of concealing his 
 
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 own act, in deliberately taking a name that had been honorably 
 used in America for more than sixty years. 
 
 But let us consider the statements made by this Editor in 
 his magazine, and compare them with a statement, or two, made 
 in his official publication number two. 
 
 On page (x) of this booklet, after making several other 
 statement, he says: "This is why the attempts of Dr. Randolph 
 and one or more other Rosicrucians of foreign initiation to 
 establish the Order in this country within the past hundred 
 years have always failed. The necessary papers, co-operation 
 and privileges cculd not be secured, even regardless of the fact 
 that Dr. Randolph was one of the foremost men of the order who 
 ever lived in this country and was at one time Grand Master of 
 the R. C. Lodge in France, which was attended by one of the Na- 
 poleons." 
 
 Just consider that statement and compare it with the one 
 made in the magazine, which has been quoted. 
 
 In the magazine Dr. Randolph was in disrepute, of no ac- 
 count, and was held persona non grata by the brethren in France. 
 But in the official booklet, knowing that he could not put Dr. 
 Randolph in the background, admits that he had been Amer- 
 ica's foremost Rosicrucian, and a Grand Master in France, and, 
 yet, his books were not Rosicrucian books, and of no account. 
 
 "Ye gods and little men" how Blacks do reason. Truly 
 theirs is the logic of the Masters (sic). 
 
 But that is not all, let us go a step further in this sublime 
 new system of reasoning. 
 
 In the same booklet, but on page (viii), this man says: 
 
 "It (The Rosicrucian Order) has naught to do with any 
 religious sect but vests its power in God and in the Grand Mas- 
 ter." 
 
22 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 And there you are, dangerous admissions, every one of them. 
 First of all, All power is vested in God and the Grand Master. 
 Now then, God not being present, it follows that all power is 
 vested in the Grand Master. As a consequence of this, the 
 Grand Master, possessing all power, is not responsible to any 
 man nor to any member. That is fact number one, and boldly 
 stated by Mr. Lewis. 
 
 Fact number two is of greater importance. That is, Dr. 
 Randolph was, on the admission of Mr. Lewis, the greatest 
 Rosicrucian America ever had. Moreover, and never forget this, 
 Dr. Randolph was a Grand Master in France, as a Grand Master 
 he had all power, and did not need any necessary papers. Co- 
 operation or privileges, for all these were vested in him. Mr. 
 Lewis admits all this. 
 
 Fact number three. Clymer, as a printing expert, went 
 after the work strong and follows Dr. Randolph, and — if you 
 will excuse the slang, there you are. Who is the fakir ? 
 
 But these facts are true in the main. Dr. Randolph was 
 the Grand Master. As a Grand Master he had all-power. He 
 did not care to remain in France, and as a Grand Master, he 
 appointed his Successor for France, and he left for America. 
 
 In America, there being no Rose Cross Order, he possessed 
 his power as a Grand Master, and he started the work. That 
 work continued during his life, and is still progressing, as the 
 68th Convocation, held in June of the present year at Beverly 
 Hall, proves, and we say, in spite of all contradiction, that the 
 body founded by Dr. Randolph is the true Rose Cross Order, 
 and all men using that title in order to palm off their teachings 
 are simply clandestine. 
 
 And, bear this in mind, I have as authority, the speech made 
 by the Attorney in the case of Dr. Randolph, where he freely 
 admits that Dr. Randolph had been a Rosicrusian and Grand 
 
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 Master of the Order of the world for twenty years prior to that 
 date, which was 1872, or date of his Rosicrucianism 1852, 
 though we date only from 1858. 
 
 Thus we have dealt with the facts according to the state- 
 ments of those who have, first of all, defamed Dr. Randolph, and 
 then, secondly, have stolen his works and his honored title. 
 
 While the Conclave of the 68th Convocation of the Rose 
 Cross Order was still in session, the following letter was re- 
 ceived : 
 
 June 20, 1916. 
 Mr. R. S. Clymer, Quakertown, Pa. 
 
 Dear Sir: — This is to infrom you that since you have not 
 seen fit to take to Court, as you indicated you would do, the 
 matter of your legitimacy and the illegitimacy of our Order, but 
 prefer to write libellous and incriminating letters, we will take 
 the mater up with the Federal Government, through the Post 
 Office Inspectors, unless you immediately cease writing such 
 letters and making such charges. 
 
 Your representative, a Secretary in Buffalo, N. Y., has 
 written letters in your behalf which no sane business man would 
 permit to pass through the mails. They not only libel and 
 blacken members and officers of our Order, but they make 
 charges and statements which will cause considerable trouble 
 for you and for her in any Court. Her magazine articles, too, 
 are false in many statements. 
 
 Therefore, I advisedly write to warn you that we are now 
 prepared with sufficient documentary evidence to proceed legally 
 and will do so unless you withdraw your false statements, such 
 as you made to the New York World Editor and others who 
 have investigated and found our statements correct and yours 
 not only wrong but libelous and serious in a legal sense. 
 
 If your charges against us were true in any degree you 
 would have been warranted to take the matter into Court as vou 
 
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 threatened. But you failed to do so when we were ready. 
 (Signed) H. SPENCER LEWIS. 
 
 The following answer was immediately mailed : 
 
 Executive Council 68th Convocation 
 
 Quakertown, Pa., June 22nd, 1916. 
 Rose Cross Order, "Beverly Hall," 
 H. Spencer Lewis, New York City, N. Y. 
 
 Dear Sir: — Your letter of the 20th inst. has been received 
 by Dr. Clymer and was immediately placed before the Council 
 for careful consideration. 
 
 We, including Dr. Clymer, shall be highly pleased to have 
 you place the entire matter before the Federal Government, 
 through the Post Office Department, as you suggest. 
 
 We assure you that copies of all letters written from Head- 
 quarters will be ready to be placed before the Postal Department 
 for inspection, moreover, it might give us the opportunity to 
 place before that Department the letters written to Dr. Clymer 
 and others, as well as the absolutely false letters written by your 
 Mr. Saunders. Furthermore, it would be a pleasure to place 
 before that department the letters now in our possession from 
 the Police Department of Spain as regards the school from which 
 you claim to hold papers, as well as letters from Headquarters 
 in France and England. We welcome such an opportunity. 
 
 As to Mrs. Morey, we believe that she is amply able to take 
 care of herself, and believe that she knows what she is talking 
 and writing about. No doubt most of her sisters of the Eastern 
 Star who have known her for years, would be willing to agree to 
 this, for, bear in mind, she was a student years ago, even when 
 "Modern Miracle" was published in New York City. 
 
 Any evidence you may have you are at perfect liberty to 
 use at any and all times. We shall be ready to back up every 
 assertion that we make, moreover, we shall direct Dr. Clymer to 
 answer all letters honestly and to the best of his knowledge, and 
 
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 we shall certainly instruct him to continue to quote your own 
 writings in defending Dr. Randolph and his work cf 60 years 
 ago. 
 
 We are, however, ready to "back-up" any statements that 
 Dr. Clymer may have made to the "New York World" and 
 would instruct him to repeat such statements should the neces- 
 sity arise at any time in the future. 
 
 The New York World has been invited to send reporters or 
 representatives here at any time during the session of the Order, 
 for we feel that we have nothing to fear from a careful investi- 
 gation, but have much to gain. 
 
 Your letter has been considered by the "Executive Coun- 
 cil" now in session and is signed by the members of this Session 
 of the Council. Countersigned by all the members present. The 
 copy of signatures is at the command of any Government official. 
 
 (Signed) DR. HENRY J. FRANK, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 This letter was signed by the members present. See the 
 "Roll of Honor" as it appears in the book "Fundamental Law, 
 or The 68th Convocation." 
 
 Needless to say, no further letters were received from Mr. 
 Lewis, but the Executive Council was not satisfied with simply 
 mailing this answer to Mr. Lewis, but in Executive Session, 
 passed the following: 
 
 The Executive Council of the 68th Convocation, held June 
 22nd, 1916, at Beverly Hall,m oved that Dr .Frank act as Chair- 
 man, motion seconded by Mr. Peterman. 
 
 The first subject to be considerad — a letter received from H. 
 Spencer Lewis, June 20th, 1916. Letter read. Moved that Dr. 
 Clymer answer same at once. 
 
 The answer to foregoing letter was read in our presence 
 and we immediately advised Dr. Clymer to forward same by 
 first mail, a copy of which is to be placed on file at Headquar- 
 ters. 
 
<T1 III It*— »— — «—— — — — i i — -- 
 
 26 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 Dr. Henderson moved that all Officers and those present 
 place their signatures at the bottom of this letter. This was done. 
 
 Mr. Ackley moved that a copy of the letter and reply to 
 same be sent to the "New York World." This was done. 
 
 It was also moved that a copy of the Lewis letter and the 
 reply be mailed to the Post Office Inspector of New York. This 
 was done. 
 
 Dr. Henderson moved that the copy of the former letter 
 written to the "New York World" be read to the Council. This 
 was done. Letter was endorsed by the Council. 
 
 Extracts from Lewis booklet was then read and carefully 
 considered, same conclusions reached as given in the forepart 
 of the Introduction to this book. 
 
 Mr. Ackley moved that any further correspondence which 
 comes to Dr. Clymer relative to the subject matter, after this 
 meeting, shall be handled by Dr. Clymer at his own discretion. 
 
 Signed and sealed by the Officers of the Council and those 
 present. 
 
 The members of the Council felt that, being members of the 
 true Order which has been in existence for nearly seventy (70) 
 years, they had nothing to fear and for this reason mailed copy 
 of Lewis letter and copy of the reply to the "New York World" 
 and to the Post Office Department at New York City. 
 
 Possibly the most noteworthy attempt to deliberately take 
 that which belongs to another, and claim it as their own, was 
 made in the April number of the so-called "Rosae Cruris" mag- 
 aizne in 1916. 
 
 In this number of the magazine is shown a photograph of 
 one William B. Hodby, and in the write-up following the in- 
 sertion, it is stated that he is the Grand Master, Pennsylvania 
 Jurisdiction Lieut. Commander "Knights of the Rose Cross." 
 
 The Degree "Knights of the Rose Cross" is the Official 
 Degree of the "Order of the Illuminati." This Order has been 
 
The Rose Cross Order 27 
 
 working in America for more than 18 years, in its present form. 
 We filed in the U. S. Patent Office, Copyright Department, 
 February 28th, 1913, the following emblem, which, as will be 
 seen, is the official emblem of the Order. 
 
 c*«^ 
 
 INNER CIRCLE 
 
 TEMPLE ONLLUMiNATI 
 
 The reason for doing this was because we had found that 
 several people had already taken and were using titles and 
 terms, which we had made famous through our books, therefore, 
 we concluded that it would be best to protect these emblems and 
 titles of the degrees. The one given above, being one of these. 
 
 But it seems that even the registration of such emblems and 
 titles does not protect them, from those who care nothing for 
 honor, nothing for Law, either Divine or Natural. 
 
 However, many of these people forget that in the State of 
 Pennsylvania, there is a Law of the Statute books, which recog- 
 nizes as the legal body, any order of a given name, which has 
 been established for ten or more years prior to the passage of 
 such a Law. 
 
 However, in order that no injustice be done to any one in 
 the publication of this book, the following letter on the official 
 stationery of the "Royal Fraternity Association, Inc.," was 
 written to Mr. Hodby : 
 
 "Beverly Hall," Quakertown, Pa., July 31st, 1916. 
 Mr. William B. Hodby, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 Dear Sir:— In "The American Rosae Crusis" magazine of 
 
28 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 April, 1916, your photo is shown, stating that you are the Lieut. 
 Commander "Knights of the Rose Cross." 
 
 Are you aware of the fact that the "Knights of the Rose 
 Cross" dates back far enough to be covered under the Laws of 
 the State of Pennsylvania governing Secret Organizations, and 
 that the emblems or the Order, including the name, was register- 
 ed in the U. S. Patent Office, Copyright Department, in 1913 ?" 
 
 I should be very glad to hear from you as this information 
 is to appear in certain papers. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 
 
 We regret to say that up to the date that this MS. went to 
 press no answer had been received from Mr. Hodby and we will 
 therefore allow our readers to draw their own conclusions. 
 
 But a few brief words need be said, then we shall rest our 
 case. 
 
 Besides the cases mentioned, there is at the present time, in 
 the city of San Francisco, a woman who has founded a Rosi- 
 crucian Order of her own. She is Pastor of a Church called 
 the "New Civilization Church," but if the new civilization is to 
 be presided over by people of this class, then God save the new 
 civilization. 
 
 In Washington, D. C, there is another lady, one who, 
 through her work, became very prominent a few years ago. She 
 is working a Societas Rosicrucis, which is from a so-called 
 Plummer school. Needless to say, this school has no more au- 
 thority than any of these other schools, and we boldly say for 
 the protection of the true seeker, that not one of these schools 
 can teach the the true Rosicrucian Philosophy. 
 
 We now come to the Degree or Order of Melchizadek. Since 
 we have undertaken this work we have been informed that a 
 man by the name of Raleigh, who became intoxicated in the 
 home of one of his friends, while in Chicago, is traveling the 
 
The Rose Cross Order 29 
 
 country professing to be a Master and claiming the right to 
 confer the title of member of the Order of Melchizadek. In 
 connection with this we wish to state, and also to have it placed 
 on record, that the title of "Priest of Melchizadek" belongs 
 only to the Initiated members of the Inner Circle of the Coun- 
 cil, or Order of the Magi, and that no one has a right to teach, 
 or to confer this Degree, except the Grand Council in Convoca- 
 tion convened, and this Order is under authority of the Royal 
 Fraternity Association, Incorporated, for its protection against 
 the black brotherhood. 
 
 A word as to the Black Brotherhood and their organization 
 and work. "In the Mysteries of Myra" a fairly good idea is 
 given of their methods, and the sincere student finds much of 
 truth therein, but much more to smile at. 
 
 For instance, Mr. Carringtcn is said to be an authority on 
 things psychic and magic, but think of his arguments. For 
 instance, in the first installment of the story we find that the 
 Black Brotherhood just about succeeds in "getting her" through 
 their All-powerful Evil Magic, but they miss it. But think of 
 the second installment. In that the author admits the total un- 
 worthiness of this Black Magic, because, instead of using the 
 evil forces against the pure girl, they use poison balloons. Lord 
 save us ! Think of a powerful band of degenerates, using pow- 
 erful Magic, but whose Magic, is so weak that they must resort to 
 poisonous gases, evidently a method from the armies across the 
 seas. 
 
 Then in the second installment, we have more of the dia- 
 bolical Magic, but again their ceremonials are too weak, and 
 they resort to a flower they have poisoned, but are foiled again. 
 
 In another installment, we have the wonderful magic of 
 getting rid of an enemy by dynamite, and by the knife. Truly 
 these are wonderful men, wonderfully made, and the author 
 thereof is a wonderful writer, but one who neither understands 
 White Magic or Black Magic, but who does understand human 
 
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 nature enough to know how to gather in the dollars, by throwing 
 an illogical, unreasonable and totally untrue mess at the people. 
 
 The fact remains that the members of the Black cults are 
 men who, through unspeakable vices have degenerated to such 
 an extent that they cannot think of anything healthy or good, 
 and their thoughts and acts are as they are — degenerate and 
 loathsome. 
 
 And the antidote for these evil influences. Ah! these are 
 simple. A healthy body, a clean mind, and a good heart. Have 
 these, and you need not fear the Black Magician, the impossible 
 story of Carrington, nor all his imps of satan. 
 
 And how shall you know the Black Brotherhoods? That is 
 easy, when you see a man or a woman wearing the triangle with 
 the two points up, then you have a member of the Blacks. The 
 two points represent the earth, the one point the Spirit. To see 
 the triangle worn with the two points up, means that man has 
 steeped his soul in the earth, that he has perverted his forces, 
 and degeneration has taken place. 
 
 Do not take my word for this, look up the old Masters, such 
 a Levi and others, and you will known. 
 
 R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 
 
 "Beverly Hall," 
 
 Quakertown, Pa., 
 July 15th, 1916. 
 
 By order of the Executive Council of the Rose Cross Order 
 at the 68th Convocation. 
 
PART ONE 
 
 HOW IT CAME ABOUT— INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 All the world has heard of P. B. Randolph, the celebrated 
 subject of the subjoined brief sketch; but all the world does not 
 really and truly know the man! and save as facts and thoughts 
 gleaned from his writings posted the people, perhaps they never 
 would have known him but for the extraordinary occurrences 
 wiiich culminated in his arrest, and afforded a fine opportunity 
 for pen-drivers to ventilate their cheap and lean wit and humor. 
 The case is quite extraordinary; for a man is arrested and jailed 
 like a common felon, not for what he did say, do and write: 
 but for what he did not say, do and write I It is not the gross- 
 ness or enormity of a charge brought against a defendant which 
 does the damage to his name and repute, but those that are 
 proven. Remember this as you read this curious sketch of a 
 curious man's life. 
 
 The materials of this brochure are culled from various 
 sources: the biographical part of it was copied from Mr. Ran- 
 dolph's own manuscripts, and portions from published sketches 
 of his career that have appeared from time to time in various 
 journals of the country. 
 
 The whole tale of his life is truthful, and its moral is, that 
 genius has a rough road to travel, as well now as in the days of 
 poor Dick Savage, Cornelius Agrippa, Crichton, and our own 
 Edgar A. Poe, — men to whom, in very many respects, P. B. 
 Randolph bears a very striking mental likeness. 
 
 As, on Sunday, Feb. 25th, 1872, the accused man stood 
 fretting behind the dungeon bars, — to which, for private ends, 
 not the cause of public morals, he had been consigned; as he 
 stood there friendless, unvisited by a single living human being, 
 — of the thousands who knew it, and hundreds whom in better 
 days he had benefited, and fool-like! thought they'd remember 
 him in the dark days; proving again that this learned Theban 
 
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 had not yet developed common sense, else had he known that 
 injuries are graved in steel; benefits written in running sand! 
 for if you harm a person he is sure never to forget it ; if you do 
 him a kindness the memory thereof lasts just as long as does the 
 hole you punch in the water with your finger — after you take 
 your finger out! — as he stood there behind the thick round iron 
 bars, vainly endeavoring to allay with his wet tongue, the keen 
 anguish of his frozen lips — an "accident" that happened to him 
 in one of the two cells he occupied during the time of his im- 
 prisonment; an imprisonment that would have been very much 
 shortened, but for the absence from Boston of "Everybody's 
 Friend," one of the best men who ever breathed, — Lorenzo D. 
 Grosvenor, the reformed Shaker, — who was unfortunately for 
 Randolph, absent in New Hampshire, whither he had gone to 
 perform the last sad, burial office of a departed friend, — had 
 that good man have been within call, Randolph had not been 
 imprisoned an hour, nor compelled to part with the last dollar 
 he owned on earth. 
 
 Well, the people in and of the prison were curious to know 
 why the "Learned Pundit," as he was called, was there, and 
 one of them asked, — through the bars — what was the nature of 
 the offence for which he was there. Being of a veiy nervous, 
 sensitive make-up, suffering keenly, and to a degree not appreci- 
 able by men of coarser mould, — almost longing for death, — he 
 concluded that to talk and tell somewhat of the story of his life 
 would, perhaps, distract his attention from his position and 
 relieve the dreadful pressure, and maybe keep at bay the demon 
 of madness then fiercely tugging at his heartstrings and battering 
 at his brain. So he answered and said: — 
 
 I have loved not wisely but too muchly; and my father did 
 so before me! For this inherited bias I have suffered and paid 
 extremely dear. Yet were may career to be run again I would 
 not have it different; save in that I should follow the counsel of 
 an Oriental friend of mine, who said at parting, "O Genius, 
 Genius, beware of the Beasts !" Now, if I had my life to live over, 
 I should never cease to cultivate affection, but would be mighty 
 careful what and whom I lavished it upon, — that's all ! 
 
 In the early part of my life, I used to cry — for milk, mainly. 
 After that, I wanted cream, but got only sour whey, — as a general 
 thing. In the middle of life I learned to moan, and now in the 
 
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 twilight I'm trying to laugh; but it is hard to do so, just now! 
 Fame and slander, what "they say," are, after all, of but little 
 account to a man, if his heart is true ! Mine is/ Place, position, 
 wealth, are good in their way, but will not satisfy any man 
 alone. We have only ourselves to judge in the final issue, and 
 if we feel that we've done the best we could, it is all well, and we 
 need not fear the rough music of scandalous tongues. This is 
 just as I feel as I begin to give you this rapid sketch of my 
 curious career. 
 
 Of my mother I know little; of my father much less. I 
 love her memory, but never cared a single straw for him. Her 
 name was Flora. She had been the wife of two husbands. My 
 recollections of her are confined to a flogging she gave me for 
 stealing sweetmeats, — a weakness born within me, and of which 
 I never have been cured, and never expect to be, although the 
 kinds have not always been the same; for in youth I loved cakes, 
 candies and preserves; since then the animated kind, albeit I 
 never committed a crime for love or anything else, — and never 
 degraded an innocent member of my mother's sex. 
 
 My earliest recollections are of the Bellevue almshouse, 
 New York city, in or about the year of the great cholera, 1832, 
 I think, to which place my mother was sent with the small-pox 
 from her residence down town. Such was the law, — a wise one 
 too. I went with her, — a wee little bit of a man. The disease 
 blinded her, and one day she died, but not until my strange 
 inner life had already begun. That life I have portrayed in 
 several of my books, — "Dhoula Bel" especially; also in "Love, 
 The Master Passion," "Dealings with the Dead," "After Death, 
 or the Disembodiment of man," in "Soul World," "Waa 
 Oilman," "Ravalette," "The Rosicrucian's Story,"— above all, 
 in "Casca Llanna," especially my affectional life and experience, 
 a very bitter one, — and others ; wherefore it need not be repeated 
 here. I owe my successes, — mental, — to my conglomerate blood; 
 my troubles and poverty to the same source, for I never had but 
 few true friends ; never was loved for myself alone ; yet have been 
 an unwavering friend to others, and have loved to madness all 
 my life long ! It was my nature, and there was a natural reason 
 for it, which will appear as this sketch advances. My mother 
 was once a beautiful sang melee of various strains of blood. She 
 had some Madagascan, French, Spanish, Indian and Oriental in 
 
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 her, all of which I have, and several others besides, as English, 
 Celtic, Cymrian, Teutonic and Moorish, all within a period of 
 two hundred and eighty years, — at least so says the Herald's 
 college of England, — for several of these conspired to form the 
 rather strange and cranky breed of men known as the Randolphs 
 on one side of my line, — how near the truth I do not know, 
 neither do I care, further than to regret the facts ; because not a 
 great sinner myself, yet I have suffered more than fifty male- 
 factors' deaths; whence I conclude three things: that the sins of 
 the fathers are visited upon the children; that mine must have 
 been great rascals; and that I have fully paid their debt and my 
 own to boot, since when, on the eighth day of October, 1825, (2) 
 in the house number seventy Canal street, New York City, near 
 the Hudson River, Flora Beverly Randolph gave me to sorrow 
 and the world. 
 
 When she went to Heaven, my half-sister Harriet took me 
 to bring up. Out of her hands I passed into those of a ci-devant 
 English actress, of Simpson's Park Theatre, New York, named 
 Harriet Jennings, nee Whitehead, and those of her husband — on 
 the Europeean plan! — George Jennings, a high toned sporting 
 character, gambler and so forth. Here I learned the art of begging 
 for I had to take my basket and solicit cold victuals from door to 
 door to maintain the family larder, while he drove her to the 
 sale of her charms to supply the domestic exchequer. Thus at 
 less than ten years old I had become proficient in knowledge of 
 the shady side of human nature, which had better have been 
 postponed to a riper and steadier period of life. Up to my 
 fifteenth year I was cuffed and kicked about the world ; from my 
 fifteenth year to the present time, the pastime has been varied, — 
 that is, I have been kicked and cuffed; and I fully understand 
 what is meant by "grin and bear it." Sometimes I have kicked 
 back, and then got bruised all the more for doing so. 
 
 I am behind these prison-bars on a charge of being an incit- 
 er to free love, and the whole town is agog because they think 
 they have brought "the Learned Pundit" to bay. Were the fight 
 on my side, wholly my own, little would I care. But it so happens 
 that there's a pretty girl in my heart, and I must so conduct the 
 battle that she shall not come to grief and want and dire tribu- 
 lation. "Ah!" said the questioner, "then you really love that 
 pretty little girl ! I'd like to see the female capable of engaging 
 
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 all such a soul as yours." — "Well, sir, you can; here she is," — 
 showing the photograph of a girl of fifteen. "This girl is my 
 daughter, sir, and I'm proud of her; and she is of her father!" — 
 "Ah! Ah!" 
 
 Well, up to my fifteenth year I had attended school less than 
 a year. In my sixteenth year I was a sailor boy: then I went part 
 of one winter to school to a Mr. Dodge, in Portland, Maine, and 
 that completed all the outside schooling I ever had, — but then 
 I have had a deal of underside, to^-side and inside schooling, 
 until now they say I'm a very learned man — just as if all the 
 languages on earth, all the mathematics, ologies, and pathies 
 combined can really educate a man! 
 
 In my seventeenth year I got religion at a revival meeting 
 under the hill, and lost it that same night near the gun-house, 
 on top of the hill; for a pretty girl whom I went home with told 
 me when we reached that locality that "if I was going to be a 
 spooney I must look out for another gal, for she couldn't stand 
 any sich nonsense as that!" hence when I got up the hill as far 
 as the gun-house, my load, like Christian's, fell off, — and stayed 
 off for a long time, — and I lifted up my voice and said, "Susifo, 
 I'll be dod darned if you aint better'n any religion I know any- 
 thing about! — and I'm going to let it slide," and it slid. What 
 I said to that pure, sweet girl, — now in heaven, — I still believe 
 in so far as any religion I have carefully watched the workings of 
 is concerned. Eut I anticipate. 
 
 Of course during my sailor life, which lasted from my fif- 
 teenth to my twentieth year, I had but little female society, for 
 the most part of those I saw in the various parts of the world 
 were professed ladies, lighto' love. And so, too, I early learned 
 the meaning of the term "Free Love." 
 
 In those early days, such women hid themselves by day, 
 and called their trade by its proper name. But since they died, 
 a new lot have sprung up in the land, who shine on Public 
 Rostra, and elevate their calling into a divine art, and tran- 
 scendentally moral institution. So great a difference has time 
 wrought since then, and so marked a change is there between 
 this and that, and now znd.then! 
 
 As I proved a true son of Adam at the gun-house, and gave 
 up Eden for Paradise, just as the old man did before me, if the 
 
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 genesic tale be true, — so have I tried to be in my way, an honest 
 way, ever since. 
 
 I was born in love, of a loving mother, and what she felt, 
 that have I lived, because I am the exact living counterpart of her 
 feelings, intense passions, volcanic, fiery, scoriae; her love, 
 higher than heaven, deeper than death; her agony, terrible as a 
 thousand racks! her hope and trust, fervent, enduring, solid as 
 steel, unbreakable as the lightning, which blazes in the sky ! her 
 loneliness, I have been a hermit all my days, even in the midst 
 of men; in a word, I am the exact expression of that woman's 
 states of body, emotion, mind, soul, longings, spirit, aspirations, 
 when she took in charge the incarnation of the soul of him now 
 chafing behind these prison- bars. 
 
 My peculiar characteristics have usually been attributed to 
 a strain of blood not a drop of which flows in my veins (3) for 
 I, being tawny of hue, am taken for a half-breef Indian, Lascar, 
 East India man, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, and I know not 
 what else. The facts are that on one side directly, the blood of 
 the Randolphs bounds, — a fiery torrent, along my veins; Cau- 
 casian, aboriginal, and the darker strain mingling therewith is 
 the royal blood, fresh from the veins of Queen of Madagascar. 
 Not a drop of continental African, or pure negro blood runs 
 through me. Not that it were a disgrace were it so, but truth 
 is truth. 
 
 Perhaps people who know aught of ethnology will now see 
 why I am what I am. From birth I breathed a rich, voluptuous 
 atmosphere, because I breathed my mother's sphere, and drank in 
 love from her bosom. I was incarnate love, and my thoughts ever 
 ran in that direction. Is it any marvel then that my entire soul 
 was given up to studies of the master passion of human kind? 
 or that I wrote book after book on love, which the world has long 
 since declared to be nearly matchless, so far as the treatment of 
 that grand theme is concerned? I think not, for I solemnly be- 
 lieve I was born on purpose to talk and write upon that one 
 eternal theme; for I began to love nearly a year before I was 
 born, and have kept it up till this very day and hour. Now do 
 not mistake me; I never was low in my tastes; on the contrary, I 
 have been inspired by a lofty love from the hour my mother left 
 me for heaven ! 
 
 The great trouble with me through life has been too ready 
 
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 credulity. On that rock I have often stuck. When a man said 
 he was my friend, or a woman — some hundreds of both — told 
 me she "loved" me, I believed both, and never yet failed to get 
 bit for my "folly." This silly trait of my character has been the 
 cause of nearly all I ever suffered; and yet I could not help be- 
 lieving, cannot even now, in this very bitter hour, for my heart 
 is full of love to all mankind, nor lurks there any revengefulness 
 toward any, — even those who left my side when the storms came 
 down, or the dark phalanx, who blindly cried havoc, and bitterly 
 assailed me. I won't be a hypocrite either, and say I love my 
 foes, for I do not, nor does any one else. On the contrary, I de- 
 sire to see the wrong-dcers punished, — to see this entire set suf- 
 fer as I have suffered, until their own souls shall cry "Hold, we 
 wronged him, and the penalty is paid!" 
 
 How curious a thing is fate or destiny ! I firmly believe my 
 lot was cast where for a time I should be entirely surrounded 
 by cyprians, rogues, and hypocrites, as for the six months prior 
 to April 16th, 1872, — that I might learn, and be ripened, as that 
 the sun shines in the sky; hence I do not curse my enemies, nor 
 turn the other cheek to be smitten. I wish them all in heaven, 
 and the sooner they arrive there the better I shall like it ; or, that 
 while they remain on earth they may experience the delights of 
 having three or more successive mothers-in-law; that would sat- 
 isfy me perfectly. And yet the question comes up, Can any of 
 these men who have wronged me, can any of those at whose hands 
 I have unfairly suffered in this world, ever be happy, dead or 
 alive, so long as my soul — immortal as the eternal's — treasures up 
 the bitter memory, my life blasted by their love of gold and slan- 
 der? I think not; and devote the next ten centuries of supra-mor- 
 tal life to the solution of the very tremendous problem. Certain it 
 is that, knowing somewhat of the laws of mind, soul, justice, and 
 of my own enduring and vehement nature, I don't think they'll 
 enjoy heaven while I am anywhere consciously within the do- 
 mains of the universe. There are about a dozen on wTiat I call 
 my eternity list, who will not be happy till I withdraw the sen- 
 tence, which I cannot before they sorrow for their sin. I believe 
 this to be an eternal principle, imminent, positive, founded in 
 mind. When the world understands it, and governs itself ac- 
 cordingly, the good time coming will be close at hand. Speed the 
 day when it shall be so understood, and abided by! 
 
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 The mother-mark of love within, around, upon and all 
 through my nature was not a bad thing to have, in view of possi- 
 ble eternity ahead; but not so comfortable so far as this world is 
 concerned, because it often made me the dupe and victim of peo- 
 ple whom, in some respects, I felt and knew were not my equals. 
 Thus it happened that much money, which I had worked hard 
 for, easily slipped out of my hands into those of knaves. For 
 instance, a whilom "Telegraph-academy " founder, and ex-pro- 
 prietor of "The Montreal Hearthstone," Thomas H. Churchill, 
 liked me so well, that — before I knew he had ran away from 
 Canada, for Canada's good — he borrowed all my spare cash on 
 a very long lease. And, while that confidence operation was still 
 fresh, I allowed an unprincipled adventuress, from Dighton, 
 Providence, and the "queer" parts of New York, to draw me into 
 another speculative scheme, because she would keep saying, 
 "Je t'aime, je vous aime!" and I, poor ninny, believed her, and 
 lost all the rest of my capital, while she, ah, but sne cut a gorge- 
 ous swell in black velvet and jockey hat along the principal 
 thoroughfares of the centre of the universe — and I dining on "one 
 fish-ball" at Presho's — but he, good man, always gave bread 
 along with it — but she took her quail on toast at Fera's or 
 Stumpke's "Avon cafe." 
 
 This soft spot in my heart struck up and made an equally 
 sofe one just under the crown of my hat. It constantly prompted 
 implicit reliance on man, woman, or child, who professed friend- 
 ship, or something akin thereto; and bitterly has the folly been, 
 not atoned for, but punished. 
 
 At this point, Mr. Interviewer, I desire you to understand 
 once for all, that when I speak of love within me I never mean 
 the mere amative instinct of either the human or the brute, — 
 no matter whether on four feet or but two, — but I do mean that 
 loftier liking, midway between acquaintanceship and blind, in- 
 fatuated adoration. 
 
 Some friends of Mr. Randolph's, on the 12th of Oct., '69, 
 prevailed upon him to be examined phrenologically by O. S. 
 Fowler. The result is here given! but while many poitns are 
 strikingly correct and true, yet the whole is infinitely short of a 
 true and full delineation of one who unquestionably occupies a 
 place in the front ranks of the original men of this or any other 
 age. 
 
 "Impetuosity, sir, is your predominant characteristic. You 
 
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 are built on the high-pressure principle, from the soles of your 
 feet clear up to the end of the top-most hair on your head. You 
 literally go by steam, and with all your might. Be a little careful 
 not to carry it to extremes, for you carry too many pounds to the 
 inch. Your energy is therefore tremendous, partly because what 
 you want at all you want awfully, and must have it, and what 
 you do at all you just do all over, so that success always has 
 crowned your efforts. You have not any lazy bones in your 
 body, and but that you have a good constitution this tremendous 
 energy would soon break you down. So be careful. Your 
 power to with stand disease is really wonderful. You can wear 
 on, when many others would wear out; so pile on the work, for 
 you can endure its wear and tear, and you may calculate to live 
 to a good old age, unless you die suddenly, which is possible. A 
 tendency to extremes is your greatest fault, and your chief vir- 
 tues proceed from the same source. When angry, you are very 
 angry. What you say at all, you say very emphatically ! Your 
 descriptive powers are certainly remarkable. Highly excitable 
 yourself, you excite other people, and of course gather a great 
 many around ycu to sympathize with, and help you; and this is 
 increased by your hearty friendship. You magnetize them and 
 impress them so that they harness themselves into your team, but 
 you rarely harness yourself into theirs. You are fond of chil- 
 dren, and interest those younger than yourself. Are attached to 
 home, and thoroughly patriotic. Have the elements of a soldier, 
 but would be too reckless. Are most intensely attached to the 
 ladies. Your love is of an ardent — extremely ardent kind; and 
 because you carry things to an undue extreme, you will love a 
 woman to death, or else hate her correspondingly, and may some 
 time find your love suddenly turned. So be careful. Your lady- 
 love must be light-complexioned, a blonde, not a brunette; nega- 
 tive, not positive; submissive, not "woman's rights;" not marred 
 by any personal blemishes; not given to fault-finding or scold- 
 ing; very proper in her behavior towards gentlemen; religious, 
 clinging, doating, dependent, reserved, fond of money, close- 
 fisted. In other respects she must consult your own tastes; but 
 she must be of good size, and it would not do for her to be a 
 coquette. 
 
 You are so firm as to be doggedly obstinate. You never 
 undertook anything wherein you did not succeed, and which you 
 did not complete. Perseverance is one of your very strongest 
 
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 traits ; you are even blindly so. You are an out-and-out Radical 
 in everything, and so far in advance of public opinion as to be 
 constantly martyrized. You make a good many friends, but you 
 make some obstinate enemies. You believe next to nothing; are 
 governed by correct motives; endeavor to do what is just... Are a 
 man of genuine conscientiousness. Are hopeless, so much so, 
 that a kind of desperation evinces itself, yet you seem to be one 
 of the most reckless of men. You are the very soul of honor! you 
 let no man trifle with your character. Your reputation is sa- 
 cred. Are not conservative enough. Please remember that your 
 radicalism carries you to an undue extreme (measured by the 
 popular, ordinary standard) — so temper off a little; you are apt 
 to be too denunciatory of those who don't come to your time. You 
 are endowed with a strong, clear, vigorous, original intellect ; are 
 a man in many, many thousands. Are very remarkable for mem- 
 ory of facts and circumstances; but poor enough in memory of 
 names and dates. Abundant in order, — every little thing must 
 be in its own place. Are grasping in your efforts to make money ; 
 but spend it without effort or sufficient care. Ought to have a 
 guardian in financial matters; are not well calculated to take 
 good care of your own money. Need a close wife, who will save 
 up. Need more policy, for you are a great deal too blunt for your 
 own good. You are really great in argument — remarkable for 
 originality and clearness. Are sharp-witted and a natural critic ; 
 remarkable for weaving all the facts you ever learn. Are offhand 
 in everything; as it were, inspired by the occasion and do the 
 best in your offhand efforts. Express yourself handsomely ; talk 
 freely; say in the best manner what you say at all, and are every 
 way calculated to make your mark. Your natural place is as a 
 speaker, and on reform subjects; next to that, writing and pub- 
 lishing; but do what you will, you will make a sensation. You 
 are utterly unfit for anything pecuniary or commercial." 
 
 The last sentence my life has proven to be true ; and I often 
 wonder how it feels to have a genuine love of lucre. 
 
 Why should there be any regrets ? Why whine because my 
 heart was full of kindly love, which some folks said was a lower 
 passion? but I defied the proof! defy it still! True, none but 
 libertines and Free-love Freedom-shriekers, of no sex at all, ever 
 made that gross charge against me! and no decent person ever 
 said or even thought it! There are no regrets in my soul, save 
 
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 that I was sometimes so blind as to love those who knew not the 
 sacred meaning of the word ; and these, when I have refused their 
 wild bacchanals, and loathingly, shudderingly turned from their 
 proffered orgies, have, stung to the quick, sedulously sought by 
 lying tongues to drag my name down to the horrible level of their 
 own. 
 
 Yet, in some sense this affectional credulity, this blind trust 
 in whoever, of whatever grade, degree, sex or calibre, from crown- 
 ed kings on their thrones — and some such have said to me, "I 
 am your friend!" — to Pompey Smash on an African lagoon, has 
 been not altogether a curse, for it has taught me the true value 
 of three true men, two of whom I have named in "Casca Llanna," 
 — which work contains many of the strange results of my love- 
 life. It has been actually profitable — this strange experience — to 
 the soul within me, inasmuch as that it demonstrated the fright- 
 ful difference between Agape and Stoga, — actual love and resem- 
 blant passion ! — taught me what real womanhood actually is, and 
 pictured on my spirit her real sorrows and actual worth, so as to 
 make me champion her true cause everywhere by speech and pen, 
 and in two instances with a different sort of weapon. The con- 
 sequence of which has been that all true women have defended 
 me, and howling dervishes only tiraded against my name, — for 
 reasons just stated above ! 
 
 There's a deal of sham love, friendship, men and women in 
 the world, and to find it out was worth some pain and more 
 trouble. 
 
 At this point the first interview ended. Let us now turn to 
 other scenes of his career, the account of which is gleaned from 
 other sources. In 1861 (4) -Mr. Randolph visited California, 
 and for ten weeks lectured to admiring and constantly increasing 
 crowds of people, frequently accepting challenges from his audi- 
 ences to speak on any theme selected by them, and whereof he 
 was wholly uninformed until the moment it was announced to 
 him or. the rostrum. And he did this wholly and solely by aid of 
 his own mental power. 
 
 Ten weeks from the day of his arrival, he quitted the Gold- 
 en State having resolved to visit the Orient, for the purpose of 
 gathering information respecting human antiquity and ethnology, 
 and treading spots sacred from associations connected with 
 Christ, Plato, Mahomet and other great characters. This idea 
 
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 he carried out, and in 1861-2 (5) successively visited England, 
 Scotland, Ireland, France, Malta, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Pales- 
 tine, Turkey and Greece, — the result being his celebrated book 
 "Pre-Adamite Man," (6) whereof three editions were exhausted 
 in a little over eight months. This volume he dedicated to 
 Abraham Lincoln, then President — at the expressed desire of 
 that great martyr. 
 
 At the President's suggestion, Mr. Randolph, in 1864, (7) 
 went to New Orleans, and entered on the great work of educating 
 the children of the freed people, with what success, let the hun- 
 dreds of grateful parents and children testify. 
 
 The life motto of this man has been and is — 
 "Pledged to no sect; to no creed confined; 
 The world my home, my brethren all mankind;" 
 and strenuously tried he to live up to it. In 1853, he was a 
 very prominent actor in a then new Reformatory party, whose 
 blazon was freed speech, free thought, free men, and yet when 
 he acted upon their motto, was stigmatized as recreant and trait- 
 or, by the very people who declared themselves his well-wishers 
 and friends. One of the leading ones especially for long years 
 proclaimed himself his "friend," yet in every possible way, 
 neglect included, gave the lie to his verbal protestations, even in 
 face of the notorious fact that in the infancy of the movement, 
 Randolph had bravely stood by and helped that very man in his 
 then uphill work. But in the day of dollars, the great leader 
 practically ignored and rejected Mr. Randolph, reminding the 
 writer of that other hero of whom 'tis said : — 
 
 "It grieved him sore, when making Frenchmen die, 
 To any inconvenience to put them; 
 It quite distressed his people he would cry, 
 That he must cut their throats, 
 
 And then he cut them ! 
 "And thus through many a campaign 
 
 He cut and carved, and cut and come again; 
 
 Still pitying and killing! 
 Lamenting sorely for men's souls, 
 While pretty little eyelet holes 
 
 Clean through their bodies he kept drilling." 
 Almost entirely alone stood he for weary years, for there 
 was a tacit understanding among thousands to crush him out. 
 
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 How wonderfully well the "New York Herald's" words fit 
 him: — 
 
 "The greater effort to keep him down only inspired in him 
 the greater energy of will. Regarded by many as of the Don 
 Quixote school of enthusiasts, and fighting windmills, he yet 
 fought with a lustiness of purpose and honesty of determination 
 that elicited commendation of his heroic endeavors, though 
 often fruitlessly expended in what plainly foreshadowed itself 
 as a hopelessly lost cause. Fighting against odds was his ele- 
 ment. No amount of defeats daunted him. Pushed under at 
 one point, he rose to the surface elsewhere, as fiery, impetuous, 
 determined as ever. These remarks apply more particularly of 
 course to the time, so to speak, when he was in the zenith of his 
 reformatory measures. For the past two or three years he has 
 enjoyed comparative obscurity — an obscurity, however, more his 
 own election than the result of the strenuous opposition he had to 
 combat. There was a good deal of the Timon of Athens in his 
 nature. The soubriquet 'The Comet-man' applied to him, was 
 the popular recognition of this strongly dominant trait. Embit- 
 tered like Timon, and his confidence in human integrity shaken, 
 if not wholly lost, he voluntarily exiled himself from the ignoble 
 strife." 
 
 The life-record of such a strange, conglomerate being, is 
 itself a romance exceeding any ever put on paper by ambitious 
 novelist. That of Jean Jaques Rosseau is not comparable to it; 
 for Alexander Dumas, pere, (8) declared that Randolph's (his 
 friend,) life and adventures in a dozen directions, would afford 
 the groundwork of a score of D'Artagnans, Monte Cristos and 
 "Admirable" Crichtons, in everything except wealth. Born in 
 New York of conglomerate parentage, hejs all nations beneath 
 one hat, possessing the brilliancy of many, and solidity of all; 
 for this curious being, w T ho taught himself to read and write, at 
 twenty-five had absolutely mastered the spirit of both science and 
 philosophy, and at that age was anxiously on the lookout for 
 more worlds to conquer. This opinion is finely confirmed and 
 demonstrated by the writer of a letter received by Mr. Randolph, 
 on the twenty-first of March, 1872, an extract of which is here 
 given verbatim, the original being in the writer's possession: — 
 "OSWEGO, N. Y., March 18, 1872. 
 
 "P. B. RANDOLPH: One thing you know as well as I or 
 
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 any one can tell you, that you, as far as the hereafter, and the 
 occult is concerned, are a thousand years too soon for most peo- 
 ple ! They cannot appreciate your or your works. 'Spiritualists' 
 need not be counted out neither, as a general thing. If I could 
 leave I would go to you at Boston, and while away the balance 
 of my mortal life in study, and investigating the occult sciences 
 you treat in your works. There is one thing that must bring to 
 you some sweet reflections on your downward journey to the 
 grave, and that is, when you have passed to the 'Beyond,' you 
 will have the satisfaction of knowing that, among the countless 
 millions that have peopled this globe, there never was found 
 but one P. B. Randolph, and what he did no other human being 
 could do, or could learn to do! — the influence of which will be 
 felt while time and eternity shall last! Rather sweet reflections 
 those! 
 
 "Yours truly, "L. B. RICE." 
 
 Again, about the same time, on this very point of extraordi- 
 nary knowledge, alluding to one of his works, Mr. R. received 
 the following 
 
 HIGH COMMENDATION FROM AN EXPERT 
 "ROOM 61, PENSION BUREAU, 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 19, 1871. 
 "P, B. Randolph, author of Seership — 
 
 "My Dear Brother: I have read the first part of 'The Mys- 
 teries of the Magnetic Universe,' and proclaim it to be the most 
 comprehensive, clearest and best work on clairvoyance, and how 
 to induce it, that I have ever seen. In my judgment, it will 
 meet great acceptance by all who are interested in this occult 
 science. I would recommend it to their attention. You erred, 
 I think, in publishing so small an edition, as it necessarily en- 
 hances the price; yet I would not part with my copy for five times 
 its cost if I could not obtain another. Please send me 'James 
 Fisk, Jr., His Secret, &c.' Enclosed is twenty-five cents there- 
 for. 
 
 "Your friend and brother, 
 
 "GEORGE WHITE." 
 
 This ability sprung from a restless determination to fathom 
 the most intricate subtleties of every subject which his intellect 
 could even attempt to grasp; while as a close, cogent reasoner, 
 few surpassed this concrete man. Tens of thousands there be all 
 
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 over this broad land who have sat or stood for long hours, actu- 
 ally spellbound beneath the flood and torrent of his matchless 
 and magnetic eloquence; and yet he failed to realize the just re- 
 ward for it; and when actually reduced to a pound of crackers, 
 and the necessity of broiling his own herring to eat with it, 
 has been known scores of times to positively refuse to speak for 
 fees varying from twenty-five to one hundred and fifty dollars, 
 "because," said he, "the time hasn't come!" Thus how very 
 true it is that: — 
 
 "Genius, restive, refuses now to fly, 
 And reap rich laurels from the bending sky; 
 But moody sits, disdaining high to soar, 
 And plays with marbles, childlike, on the floor." 
 This trait made foes for Mr. Randolph, for he would not 
 lend himself to speculators. These foes increased in number, 
 and, unlike most men, who lose their power and foes at the same 
 time, he added to both until his ill star culminated in a criminal 
 arrest, and then it set, and it is believed set forever, because it 
 gave his real friends an opportunity of doing him a service in 
 spite of himself. 
 
 The pebbles in our pathway make us more foot-sore than 
 the huge rocks we stoutly climb. And it was the smaller annoy- 
 ances, born of petty spite and envy that mostly grieved the sub- 
 ject of this sketch; but believing, with Lord Brougham, that 
 "The word 'impossible' is the mother-tongue of little souls," 
 Mr. Randolph never uttered or even thought it. "When I wrote 
 my works," said he, "I meant every word I penned, hence de- 
 creed their immortality in advance," and he spoke the truth. 
 During the past twenty-five years, at least a score of thousand 
 of new writers have tried their wings, and most of them, books 
 and writers, have fallen into the deep sea of forgetfulness. Not 
 so with those sent forth by the lone toiler in a garret. Take up 
 and read nine hundred works out of nine hundred and ten, and 
 when you finish their perusal, that's the last of them for you. 
 True there will be many of them which will so impress them- 
 selves upon you that their memory will never wholly fade away ; 
 but take up any one of Randolph's books, and the memory will 
 so haunt you as to compel a re-reading again and again, and 
 every time you do so fresh new thoughts continually flash out 
 upon you from the magic pages. That results from the great 
 
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 mass of works being the labor of skilled talent, while such as 
 Randolph's are the bold, untrained utterances of genius. 
 
 If greatness consist partly in doing and producing much 
 with means which, in the hands of others, would have been in- 
 sufficient, then Randolph possesses that constituent of greatness; 
 if greatness means power and ingeniousness to concentrate the 
 gifts and talents of many on one point, to inspire them with 
 sympathy and enthusiasm for the same end, and to make them 
 gladly contribute toward it, then he was great ; if it is great to see 
 from earliest manhood the main end of one's individual life, and 
 steadily to pursue it to the very end with the highest gifts of 
 nature, then he was great; if it pertains to greatness to soar 
 high, indeed, in the one selected sphere, but to be trivial or 
 puerile in none — on the contrary, to retain a vivid sympathy 
 with all that is noble, beautiful, true and just, then he was great; 
 if it is a characteristic of greatness to be original and strike out 
 new paths, — indeed, even to prophetic anticipations, — but to re- 
 fuse the good of no antecedent, then he was great; if greatness 
 requires marked individuality, which yet takes up all the main 
 threads that give distinctness to the times we live in ; if inventive 
 and interleaguing imagination, which gathers what is scattered, 
 and, grandly simplifying and uniting the details, rears a temple, 
 is a concomitant of greatness, his mind and soul possessed it. If 
 truly great men are not jealous and are void of envy, are full of 
 inspiring ambition, but free from a desire to keep competitors 
 down — Randolph showed no envy, nothing that destroys true 
 greatness. 
 
 No one has ever heard from his lips any indication from 
 which it might be surmised that he shared in that supercilious- 
 ness with which modern philosophers and thinkers not unfre- 
 quently look upon other sciences and branches of knowledge. 
 On the contrary, he took the deepest interest in human society, 
 and all the branches which treat of men and social beings. He 
 never fell into the grievous error of considering matter, space, 
 force, and time of higher importance than mind, society, right 
 and goodness. 
 
 In 1866, Mr. Randolph was a red-hot politician, — he is 
 not so incandescent latterly, mainly, by reason of other pur- 
 suits, — but at that time he was a delegate from Louisiana to the 
 Southern Loyal Convention, held in Philadelphia, and as such 
 
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 helped perform the celebrated ''Political Pilgrimage" through 
 the Northern States to Lincoln's tomb in Illinois. At the end of 
 the affair the Chicago Tribune published the subjoined article on 
 the man who had done so much toward what he regarded as the 
 best good of the land : — 
 
 The art of public speaking is one that thousands of every 
 xace, hue and clime attempt; and many are the failures, few the 
 great successes achieved ; for it is not every man who holds within 
 himself the elements that enter into the composition of a great 
 speaker, for it is equally true of oratory as of its sister Divine 
 Art, Music, that 
 
 "Few can touch the magic string, 
 And noisy Fame is glad to win them. 
 Alas! for those that cannot sing, 
 
 But die with all their music in them." 
 
 It is related of an ambitious aspirant for popular eclat that 
 he prepared a grand oration, which he intended to pronounce at 
 the dedication of a bridge, somewhere in New Hampshire, firmly 
 persuaded that on the success of his efforts depended the weal or 
 woe of present men and future generations. The worthy young 
 lawyer had committed his speech to memory, and had it as the 
 play-house people say, "Dead-letter perfect," for many and oft 
 were the times he had delivered it in the solitudes of his cham- 
 ber, with all its flourishes, beauties, light, shades, graces, intona- 
 tions, gestures and genuflexions, to the intense satisfaction of 
 himself and his shadow in the mirror, the verdict being that he 
 had a dead sure thing, and no mistake. At length the long- 
 looked-for and eventful day came, all bright and sunny, whereon 
 the bridge was to be duly and solemnly dedicated to its future, 
 uses, and the magnificent speech delivered in thrilling tones to 
 the tinkling ears of to-be entranced and captivated thousands. 
 The hour came, and the candidate for laurelled honors stepped 
 forward, and, bowing lowly to the expectant throng, opened his 
 lips, and to his utter horror and consternation, found that he had 
 utterly forgotten every word of his oration, save the introduc- 
 tion. "Fellow-citizens, forty years ago this bridge was a por- 
 tion of the howling wilderness," — and there he stuck, for not 
 another sentence could he utter of the speech that was to capti- 
 vate all hearts. Abashed, crest-fallen, but by no means con- 
 quered, he speedily regained his self-possession, and went on, — 
 
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 ''Forty years ago, I repeat, this bridge was part and parcel of 
 the roaring solitude of the howling, damp, foggy and noisome 
 wilderness. I repeat, fellow-countrymen, that on the great and 
 momentous occasion referred to — namely, forty years ago — this 
 bridge constituted a portion of an interminable waste, where no 
 green thing — as now — reared its head and met the eye; no 
 sounds, odorous, and soul-subduing, or gurgling brooks and 
 limpid streams, combined with the terrific roar of rushing tor- 
 rents, fell upon the startled ear of the wandering hosts of man- 
 kind, or disturbed the savage tranquility of serene and gorgeous 
 nature! Exactly forty years ago this bridge was part of the 
 wilderness, and — and I wish to God it had remained so and 
 stayed there!' and breaking hopelessly down, that orator became 
 totally extinguished, and went out in a blaze of funny glory. 
 
 This country, with its free institutions, newspapers, schools, 
 colleges, popular ballot elections and general diffusion of knowl- 
 edge among the people, has been very prolific of orators, not a 
 few of whom have been indeed great, while thousands of others, 
 just falling short of "grasping the keys of fame," have yet reach- 
 ed high places in the Pantheon of great speakers; nor can there 
 be a doubt that were it possible to put Cicero, Cato, and De- 
 mosthenes side by side with some orators who are native to our 
 fruitful soil, in an effort to move men's pulses, and stir the pop- 
 ular heart with fluent speech and eloquence, in a fair trial, the 
 latter would easily bear away the olive crown and laurel wreath 
 from the men of auld lang syne ; they would, in such a trial, un- 
 unquestionably bear off the palm of victory from their hoary 
 rivals of the olden days of Greece and Rome, great and powerful 
 as they confessedly were. 
 
 Upon the brightest pages of American oratory inscribed 
 are the names of many a noble, and terrible master of speech, 
 among which are the immortal ones of Patrick Henry, Rufus 
 Choate, Daniel Webster, of whom it was said he was "godlike," 
 and that of Wendell Phillips, accounted — not justly — the king 
 of living speakers — for today he has a rival so great that he must 
 look well to his laurels, — and that rival the great Octoroon of 
 Louisiana, "He stands alone." Then there was John Randolph, 
 (9) of Roanoke, — a blood relative of P. B., of New Orleans, — 
 both eccentric sons of Old Virginia, and the speech of either 
 alike doube-edged, sharp as a razor, and which cuts its way 
 
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 through the listeners like a charge of needles power-impelled. 
 But of the two, by those who have sat spellbound beneath the elo- 
 quent speech of both, the Octoroon stands first as an orator, and 
 yields nothing either on the score of intellectual ability, eccen- 
 tricity, or absolute and unequivocal independence of character. 
 Looming up, a giant among men, stands John C. Calhoun, the 
 grand apostate to liberty, but none the less a great orator. Side 
 by side with these mighty men stands Henry Clay, the "Mill Boy 
 of the Slashes," Preston King, and, ahead of all, A. J. Hamil- 
 ton, of Texas, — the magnificent Boanerges of all modern speak- 
 ers, when the thunders of his soul are up. He infinitely sur- 
 passes in force and power the redoubtable orator of Peterboro, 
 Gerrit Smith, — himself a speaker of rare excellence, of the same 
 gigantic physical mould, the same deep and thunderous orotund, 
 — as far as Smith eclipses the last new stumper of Iowa, the last 
 Rackensack roarer that politics has turned up to the surface. 
 
 Even females in this free land have won fame and wealth, 
 as public speakers, and command full houses, at good prices, 
 wherever they go. Nor can these facts be attributed to morbid- 
 ity on the part of the public — a mere idle curiosity to hear a 
 woman speak, that being such an every-day affair as to excite 
 little notice in itself considered, especially since the advent of 
 Woman's Rights. Passing by the mass included in this last 
 category, there are a few whose claims, being based on inborn 
 genius, are not to be disputed. Then we have the pretty Quak- 
 eress, Anna Dickinson, and her swarthy rival Ellen Watkins 
 Harper; a pair so equally matched that, save on the score of 
 youth and beauty — wherein Anna has an immense advantage — 
 it is hard to decide which is the better of the twain. Rivalry on 
 this prolific field is not confined to sect or race, for even the de- 
 spised negro, pure and unmixed, has dared to enter the lists, and 
 of this class Martin R. Delany, Henry H. Garnett, and towering 
 away above all others, physically as mentally, stands Samuel 
 Ringgold Ward, black as night, eloquent as Cassius, and in a 
 fair fight rather more than a match for the mixed blood, Fred 
 Douglass — the latter of whom, at an early stage of the irre- 
 pressible conflict between Slavery and Freedom, got the inside 
 track of all his rivals, and managed to keep it until within a 
 very short period. Everybody has heard or read of D., a man of 
 mixed Caucasian blood, in equal halves, and who, escaping from 
 
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 slavery, became famous in the land, ranked high among public 
 speakers, and challenged a place in the front rank with the best 
 and most finished talkers that were on the stage or rostrum. His 
 case and career are exceptional, for he rose not alone by force of 
 his undoubted talent, but mainly by and through the persistent 
 and powerful aid of not easily wearied friends, wherein he differs 
 greatly from P. B. Randolph, who never had a party, and who 
 burst upon the world solely by force of his own resistless genius 
 — for he is a genius, and that, too, of the first water, as all will 
 concede who have ever heard him, or read his great work on 
 human antiquity, "Pre-Adamite Man," or "Ravalette," or "Tom 
 Clark," or "The Grand Secret," — titles of a few of his many 
 works, all written prior to his thirty-fifth year, and after he had 
 thrice circumnavigated the globe. D. has written one book, a 
 narrative of personal adventure. Randolph has written twelve 
 works, dealing with a hundred sciences and the profoundest 
 problems of philosophy. D.'s friends constituted a party, pow- 
 erful enough after years of struggle, to give tone, shape and color 
 to the entire system of American politics, and had wealth and 
 warmth; while Randolph studied out in the cold, and actually 
 begged his bread from door to door, and all because he steadily 
 refused to follow any leader or be hampered by any party what- 
 ever; firmly believing in himself, he knew his power, and was 
 from the start certain of the result he aimed at — and has reach- 
 ed. These two men are powers among the people, albeit the D. 
 of twelve years ago could discount the D. of to-day; for age, 
 and the long wear and tear of years have dimmed the fire of his 
 eye and heart, and swift, prolific tongue. Supreme among his 
 race for five and twenty years, he can well afford to retire before 
 a greater power, content with laurels such as few men of any race, 
 much less his own, have won on this or any other continent. 
 Plow well do we remember when slavery existed, how D., whose 
 great forte was special pleading, attacked it; with what remorse- 
 less venom he assailed the Fugitive-Slave law, and with gall- 
 tipped lip pierced its heart with fiery shafts, making the wrong- 
 doers writhe again beneath the torture of his sarcastic lash. But 
 slavery is no more. That battle has been fought and won, and 
 Douglas' occupation is gone. True there remains the war for 
 franchise, and he strikes well and strikes home for that, yet he is 
 
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 the General Scott in the contest, and the battle must be fought 
 by younger men. 
 
 D. in his day has been a very strong man, and yet while ad- 
 mired by people, was notoriously unloved by them. He always 
 stood above and looked down upon his fellows with hauteur. On 
 the contrary, everybody that knows, loves Randolph, who, al- 
 though the ablest man among them on this continent, assumes 
 no arrogance of manner, but is equally at home in the squalid 
 cabin of the freedman, and at the garnished tables of crowned 
 kings; hence the former never possessed any lasting influence 
 over them; for great as he was, he never had, even in his palmy 
 days, anything like the mental power, activity, energy and in- 
 tellectual resources of the great Octoroon, who, content to remain 
 in comparative seclusion, patiently biding his time, sprang at a 
 single bound, in the memorable Philadelphia Southern Loyai 
 Convention of September, 1866, not only to the highest place 
 among men, but to the front rank of the mighty minds at the 
 nead of that august body — embracing as it did the highest talent 
 and amount of brain, qualitatively and in volume, of any simi- 
 lar body ever convened on this continent. Such a scene as 
 transpired in that Convention was never before witnessed as 
 when he rushed to the speaker's stand and delivered in words of 
 living fire that immortal speech wherein he announced himself 
 as "the voice of four millions clamoring for justice at the bar of 
 the world!" It was masterly, it was sublime, and as sentence 
 after sentence rolled from his tongue, the effect was irresistible; 
 four thousand people, with one impulse, repeatedly sprang tu 
 their feet and rent the air with plaudit after plaudit, until audi- 
 tors and orator were alike hoarse with vocal exertion. The work 
 was done. Randolph had gained his place, and beyond all 
 question given tone and shape to the practical platforms of 
 American politics. D. sat listening in the hall, and to his 
 eternal credit be it said, was as vehement in his applause as any 
 one present, feeling as he did, that Randolph's victory was his 
 own. Indeed there exists the most brotherly feeling between 
 these two great men, and no one praises D. half so earnestly as 
 Randolph. What an example for true statesmen! D. had no 
 seat in the Convention as did Randolph, because he hailed from 
 the North, for which reason the Louisianian was deputed by the 
 Convention to help perform the memorable pilgrimage to the 
 
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 tomb of the martyred Lincoln, and well did he perform it. Few 
 who were present at the tomb on that beautiful October day will 
 ever forget the solemn scene when a thousand people knelt, and 
 with bare heads and uplifted hands, swore never to rest until the 
 American flag should wave peacefully and undisturbed over 
 every foot of Columbia's soil; nor the sublime spectacel of Ran- 
 dolph, with tears falling like rain upon the sod, kneeling at the 
 door of Lincoln's grave, depositing flowers, tear-wet flowers, at 
 the shrine of the man whose pen had stricken the shackles from 
 nearly five millions of the people, and these flowers he had gath- 
 ered on the way during a journey of several days and hundreds 
 of miles. It was a fitting tribute of an earnest soul to a nation's 
 hero! 
 
 The Louisianian — by the way he is of Virginia stock, and 
 located in Louisiana at the express instance of his friend, Presi- 
 dent Lincoln, (10) to labor in the great educational interests of 
 that State — under the management of Branscomb, the Holyoke 
 lawyer, an honorary member of the convention, who, as Chair- 
 man of the Pilgrimage Committee, determined at the start to put 
 him to the severest possible test, with what motive himself best 
 knew, and, therefore, invariably pitted him on the same platform 
 with the ablest men of that immortal thirty-eight, with Stencil 
 Paschall, Davis and Sherwood, of Texas, Maynard, Stokes, 
 Bokaum, Patterson and Brownlow, of Tennessee; Griffin, of 
 Alabama; Moss, of Missouri; Stewart, of Maryland; Warmouth, 
 of Louisiana; and repeatedly with Hamilton, of Texas, conceded 
 to be the leading orator of the continent, and second to no man 
 now living. And yet the brave little Octoroon never once flinch- 
 ed or declined Branscomb's challenge to try conclusions with 
 the best of them, either on the score of mere oratory or profound 
 statesmanship ; and with what success, the united plaudits of the 
 entire American press unitedly testify; for at every point where 
 he spoke, through nine different States, addressing in the ag- 
 gregate, full half a million people, he never once failed to chal- 
 lenge the closest attention, and command the deepest and most 
 enthusiastic applause, by not merely his wit and resistless hu- 
 mor, readiness at repartee, but by his profound, original, states- 
 manlike, and masterly discussions of the principles of govern- 
 ment, the mighty issues at stake, and his withering rebuke of 
 corruption in high places of the land. 
 
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 As previously remarked, Randolph considers himself as no 
 man's rival, hence an utter absence of all jealousy or envy. In- 
 deed, there is no need of it on the score of fame, for his reputa- 
 tion is world-wide, and in England and France (11) he took 
 front rank as on his native soil; nor on the score of popularity, 
 for thousands flock to hear him at all points, albeit he never 
 fails to make as good a speech, when storms give him slim au- 
 diences, — which is a very rare occurrence, — as when hundreds 
 stand for want of seats. 
 
 As compared with D , Randolph has not the same sar- 
 castic power, or grimace, but excels him in description, word- 
 painting, language, apostrophe, appeal, denunciation, — terrible, 
 swift, merciless and crushing, — and, withal, is an actor of such 
 rare power that the scene depicted becomes real to the audience. 
 Nothing can excell his "Prairie on Fire;" his "Clink, Clink" 
 scene; "The Cobra Copello" adventure; "Democrat in Heaven:" 
 "Descent into the Maelstrom;" "Pat and the Octoroon;" and 
 the inimitable "Bar Fite" away down south in Dixie, at the 
 recital of which people are wont to laugh themselves sore from 
 rib to heel, for his action is ridiculously absurd, while his talk is 
 irresistibly funny. 
 
 When he made his famous Philadelphia speech, which, by 
 the way, was by no means up to his usual mark, even the opposi- 
 tion tried hard to drown the voices of the rest by the most vo- 
 ciferous acclamations of applause and delight wrung from them 
 by profound astonishment at the wonderful power displayed. 
 The "New York Independent" at once ranked him as "one of the 
 first of American orators;" and yet, all these praises and pane- 
 gyrics fell upon his ears like the echoes from a dead wall, and he 
 invariably treated them not as to and for himself, but as the 
 natural and spontaneous recognition and approval of the Right: 
 "I am not P. B. Randolph; I am the voice of God, crying, 'Hold! 
 hold!' to the nation in its mad career! The lips of the strug- 
 gling millions of the disfranchised demanding Justice in the 
 name of Truth — a Peter the Hermit, preaching a new crusade 
 against Wrong, — the Genius of Progress appealing for schools; 
 a pleader for the people; a toiler for the millions yet unborn; 
 mechanic for the redemption of the world." 
 
 Mr. Randolph was the personal friend of Mr. Lincoln, to 
 whom, by the great President's request and permission, Ran- 
 
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 dolph dedicated his famous work on human antiquity, "Pre* 
 Adamite Man," conceded to be an able work, exhaustive of its 
 topic, and now going through its fourth edition. It is a classic 
 of its kind. Being a refugee from his home in t'ne South, by 
 reason of the prominent part he had taken in the Union cause, 
 he made Boston the headquarters of himself and those dependent 
 upon him until the Loyalists' oath is redeemed, and the starry 
 flag becomes respected on every inch of American soil. During 
 the lecture season he will lecture through the States, he having 
 prepared several that are highly spoken of. 
 
 Those who miss hearing this extraordinary man, one of the 
 most remarkable characters of the age, will, to quote a great au- 
 thority, lose a treat not to be had in a quarter of a century." 
 
 The subject of the foregoing sketch cared but little for the 
 fine things said, and less for the parallelisms drawn. They are 
 here given for a purpose not at all apparent at this stage of the 
 writing, but will be further on. Said he, in reply to a letter 
 concerning the material wherefrom this pamphlet is made: — "I 
 do not like to have such things published, — it don't suit me, — ■ 
 and if I do allow them it most assuredly will not be for self- 
 defence or laudation, for I have lived long enough to get cured 
 of that inanity; — nor for the praise of people, — caring nothing 
 whatever for that, as I certainly am not afraid of their censures, 
 — for both alike are unjustly given half the time, and neither 
 are worth losing a night's sweet sleep for. 
 
 Before me, as I write, are three or four large scrap-books, 
 teeming with just such testimonials as the foregoing, and 
 sprinkled here and there with curt, sharp, bitter denunciations 
 and diatribes, false accusations, mainly gotten up for political 
 effect during the memorable political campaign of 1866; while 
 a few are the utterances of fanatics whom I disappointed, and 
 who, failing to be smart enough to mould and use me to their 
 liking, fell to obscene abuse, — always the resort of little people 
 every and anywhere. I think I have done so much good in the 
 world, possibly some evil, albeit never intentionally, — which will 
 be believed when I am dead, if not before." 
 
 The principles underlying Mr. Randolph's life will be found 
 set forth in all his works, and in hundreds of his essays, poems, 
 newspaper articles, songs, letters, lectures and fugitive pieces 
 now floating up and down the sea of literature, translated into 
 
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 five languages, — like shallops of silver on lakes of ink: works 
 too, of a character that ensures their lives long after their strug- 
 gling author shall have winged his way from this valley of un- 
 rest, to the golden country on the other side of time; for they 
 have already given him a lofty place in the pantheon of great 
 thinkers, but not so high a position as he will have a hundred 
 years from now. 
 
 A writer in the "Union Gazette," of Bunker Hill, 111., in 
 allusion to Mr. Randolph's work, "Sequel to Dealings with the 
 Dead," uses the following language: — 
 
 If Dr. Randolph had not been born a melee, he would prob- 
 ably have stood an equal chance with other men. And but for 
 the same ill-luck nobody would think it strange that he should 
 be found disputing with the doctors in the temple, or even bear- 
 ing that title himself. As it is, he must be utterly incapable of 
 giving birth to a single thought, or in any way showing himself 
 worthy of being reckoned a human being. Such is a fair deduc- 
 tion from the premises laid down and reasoned from by those 
 who have long gloried in the title of democrat. 
 
 Of course, those who deny intelligence to the doctor, will 
 find no difficulty in referring the brilliant scintillations and 
 unique thoughts in which his writings abound, to a supra-mun- 
 dane or ethereal origin. We prefer giving this world — bad 
 enough at best — credit for all the good that belongs to it ; and the 
 "ethereans" can hardly expect a recognition of their services 
 from those who are not the immediate subjects of their ministry. 
 P. B. Randolph probably writes, like other men, with a con- 
 scious effort ; and though he may sometimes lose sight of the fact 
 that he is in this world, it is nevertheless a fact; nor is it more 
 true in his case than in that of other men, that the gods help those 
 who help themselves. 
 
 But we took up our pen simply to call attention to the fact 
 that a new and startling work by Dr. R. is being published 
 weekly in a philosophical paper of Chicago, and also in book- 
 form by himself, in Boston, Mass. The title of the work is, 
 "Sequel to Dealings with the Dead." Its author claims to have 
 looked out through space further than most men, and to have 
 penetrated further into the arcana of nature. Many of his 
 statements seem to border on the marvellous, and yet they are 
 no doubt intended by their author for grave and spendid truths. 
 
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 There is an air of romance about the work, as well as many 
 scientific allusions; and being written in a terse style, as well 
 as earnest spirit, cannot fail to give satisfaction to the general 
 reader, the scholar, and to those who look for a philosophical 
 solution of the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" 
 
 Those who desire to read this thrilling narrative, and much 
 other matter both curious and useful, shouldn't fail to send to 
 the author for it. 
 
 A single quotation from the "Sequel," in regard to the fate 
 of genius, may not prove uninteresting, nor without its value as 
 showing the hopeful vein in which the doctor writes. 
 
 "Every genius is ticketed for misery in this life; for there's 
 but an angular, one-sided, painful development. A few advan- 
 tages are purchased at an enormous cost. A short, brilliant, 
 erratic career, more kicks than praises; more flattering leeches 
 than fast friends; rich and joyous to-day, houseless and suffer- 
 ing the pangs of hell to-morrow; understood by God alone; 
 seldom loved till dead; the victims of bad men, and constant 
 dupes even of themselves! Genius is a bright bauble, but a 
 dangerous possession. Invariably open to two worlds, they are 
 assaulted, coaxed, flattered, led captive on all sides, and the only 
 rest comes with death. And although measurably happy, and 
 entirely relieved of many disabilities on the further shore, they 
 have enormous tasks to do. They are compelled to train all their 
 previously neglected faculties to something like consonnance 
 with those few wherewith they startled the world below. For 
 instance: A man who was a great architect, musician, physiolo- 
 gist, painter, sculptor, poet, reasoner, must cultivate all his other 
 faculties until he becomes rounded out: outgrows his special 
 angularities, and be a different man altogether. It is a blessed 
 thing to be able, as I am, to tell all such, and all the other tear- 
 ful, unknown, sad-hearted, weary souls, the unpitied, unappre- 
 ciated wives; the struggling, honest, man who goes to the wall 
 because he cannot pollute his soul by chicanery and low knav- 
 ery, whereby coarser men find thrift — I repeat, it is joy to me 
 this night to be able to pen these lines of assurance that in very 
 truth there's rest, and peace, and sweet sleep, and comfort, and 
 sympathy, appreciation, and warmly yearning, loving hearts for 
 them up there. How some of us will rest, when our year of 
 jubilee shall come, and death shall set us free!" 
 
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 It has long been brought against the Randolph that he is 
 angular and eccentric. When was real true-born genius other- 
 wise? Flora, his mother, was said to have been, as is likely, a 
 woman of extraordinary mental activity and physical beauty, 
 nervous, "high strung," and wilful; a native of Vermont, of 
 mingled Indian, French, English, German and Madagascan 
 blood, — she had not a single drop of negro in her veins, nor con- 
 sequently has her son, the subject of this memoir,. The tawny 
 complexion of both mother and son came from her grandmother, 
 a born queen of the Island of Madagascar. It is not necessary 
 to trace events minutely. Suffice it to say, that the father of the 
 Randolph was William Beverly Randolph of Virginia; Flora 
 died in 1832, leaving her son practically an orphan. The so- 
 called "angularity," and genius with it, of her son, had its origin 
 in the fact that in his veins ran no less than seven distinct varie- 
 ties, or strains of blood, true negro, or continental African not 
 constituting one of them; hence, he is not a mulatto, quadroon or 
 octoroon, as has been stated, but is probably the most perfect 
 specimen of the composite, or concrete man now living, for it is 
 unquestionably this mingling of various nationalities in him that 
 constitutes the source of his peculiar mental power and almost 
 marvellous versatility. It also accounts for his singular cerebral 
 conformation. Given: a mother, — herself a composite of con- 
 flicting bloods, very nervous, somewhat superstitious, poetical, 
 vain, imaginative, aspiring, deeply religious, confiding, stormy, 
 intuitive, spiritual, imperative, imperious, ambitious, physically 
 and mentally active, quick as lightning, exacting, gay and gloomy 
 by turns; now hopeful, then despondent; to-day hilarious, to- 
 morrow plunged in sadness; highly sensitive, refined, passional 
 and passionate, tempestuous ; now stubborn and headstrong ; cold 
 as ice; full of moods; then Vesuvian, volcanic, loving, yielding, 
 soft, tender, gentle, proud, generous, warm-hearted and volup- 
 tuous. And what must the child of such a woman be — but as 
 he is, a genius! 
 
 Thus the mother — a mother who while becoming so, willed 
 her child to be all she was, all its father was — and more! — and 
 that father wilful, egotistic, boastful, haughty, vain, proud, con- 
 ceited, sensual, senuous, ambitious, dictatorial, intellectual, prod- 
 igal, unstable, variable, resentful, imperative; and all these 
 crystallized and condensed, mingled and mixed in their son; it 
 
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 can easily be seen that he came fairly by his angularities, eccen- 
 tricities, personal appearance, talent, power and shape of mind. 
 Add to this that while bearing him, his mother was in trouble; 
 had been ill-treated by so-called friends ; was thrown back upon 
 herself, forced to eat her own heart, and sought that sympathy 
 from disembodied souls denied her here, and what wonder that 
 the Randolph was born a seer ? 
 
 After his mother's death, he was cast adrift on the world. 
 Educated himself wholly, never attending school above a year or 
 two at the outside. Incessant study has made him probably one 
 of the best read men in this country. From his twelfth to his 
 twentieth year he was a sailor, and experienced even more than 
 the usual amount of savage treatment and abuse. A severe acci- 
 dent that befell him while chopping wood caused him to aban- 
 don the sea, and to learn the dyer's and barber's trades, at both 
 of which he worked, while pursuing his varied and extensive 
 reading, especially on medicine, which profession he followed 
 with marked success, until the breaking out of the war for slav- 
 ery, during the first two years of which he visited California, 
 Mexico, Central America, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, 
 Turkey, Greece, Syria, Egypt and Arabia. Returning at the 
 hour of the nation's greatest peril, he offered his services to the 
 government, raised and sent into the field a great many colored 
 soldiers, destined at first for the "Fremont Legion," but who 
 joined other corps. During these labors he published his world- 
 renowned work on human antiquity, "Pre-Adamite Man," and 
 ran it through three rapid editions; after which, at President 
 Lincoln's personal request, he went to Louisiana, and for nearly 
 three years did noble duty as an educator of the freed people. 
 When the school system established by General Banks in Louis- 
 iana went down under A. Johnson and his "Policy," Mr. Ran- 
 dolph resigned his place, and elaborated a scheme for the es- 
 tablishment of a Lincoln Memorial High Grade and Normal 
 School, for colored teachers, and came North in July, 1866, to 
 further its interests. For one month he labored to collect funds, 
 and succeeded in obtaining nearly five hundred dollars in cash, 
 and promises for a great deal more. Then came the ever-mem- 
 orable Philadelphia Convention of Southern Loyalists, of which 
 body Mr. Randolph was a constituent, and by it was delegated 
 
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 campaign it against President Andrew Johnson, and the policy 
 he adopted. 
 
 At the end of that campaign, the leaders of the party whose 
 cause he espoused, and led on to a signal victory, wholly repudi- 
 ated, and even openly wronged him, for the Chairman of the 
 Pilgrimage Committee even took from him the sum of sixteen 
 dollars, which had been given him by persons before whom he 
 had spoken, — on the ground that "all contributions were Pil- 
 grimage funds," and yet this self-same "Loyal" Holyoke lawyer 
 enriched himself from the spoils of that self-same campaign. 
 This experience of Radical politics disgusted Randolph, and he 
 withdrew from the soiled pack, never again to be counted in. 
 
 After abandoning politics, Mr. R. took up his residence 
 in Boston, Mass., since when all or nearly all, his time has been 
 mainly employed in the practice of medicine and publication 
 of various remarkable books now before the world ; he having for 
 a time, if not forever, entirely withdrawn from the lecturing field. 
 
 The originals of the following letters, with hundreds more 
 of like import, are in Mr. Randolph's possession, and fully settle 
 the character of his works, even more fully than do the Press 
 notices, for these last may be interested; not so the purchasers 
 of the works. 
 
 FLORENCE, Kansas, August 12, 1871. 
 
 I have read your "Dealings with 
 the Dead" (before the work "Soul World" was enlarged) ; 
 "The Master Passion," "Disembodiment of Alan" and I wish 
 I could find words to fully express my opinion in regard to them. 
 I was unutterably, profoundly, and grandly astonished. They 
 lifted my soul to the highest ideas of the grandeur and glory of 
 truths of which the world had never dreamed would be seen as 
 they are today, — so simply grand and natural they carry an ir- 
 resistible conviction along with them, which nothing can trample 
 upon, — so entirely original and sublime. The truths loom up in 
 such beautiful and gigantic proportions over those of all the 
 dusty past; shedding a magnificent light over the cloudy pres- 
 ent, and carrying with them a secret and almighty power, which 
 will be felt, and seen, and acknowledged, as bright, burning 
 stars of the first magnitude, when this present age shall be con- 
 signed to a past eternity, and thousands of what are called 
 truths to-day shall be buried in oblivion. No other man can 
 
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 write such books ; no other author ever produce their equals, — no 
 other can, — I will except none. I do not want to read Sweden- 
 borg any more, or any other "Philosopher" on "Life and Death." 
 To me, your wonderful clairvoyant powers have given to the 
 world the nearest approximation to the truths of mysteries of 
 life and death, — of the wonderful origin and destiny of men, — 
 of any one the world has ever seen. These expressions of mine 
 are the sincere feelings of my heart. I am no dissembler or 
 puffer. God knows I believe what I have written. I wish a 
 copy of your works was in every household in the civilized 
 world. I want to get a copy of every other work you have writ- 
 ten. 
 
 With sincere feelings of regard, I remain your friend and 
 well-wisher, WM. MAGOON. 
 
 CHICAGO, July 10, 1869. 
 Dear R. — Good news at hand, — brighter days before you — 
 the peerless Randolph! I have read your "Love and its Hid- 
 den History." It is grand, beautiful. There is music in each 
 idea; there is a Boston Peace Jubilee tone in all your utterances 
 therein. Some of it is transcendantly grand! Go on, I say. — 
 From John Francis, sub-Editor Religio-Philosophic Journal. 
 
 SHELBURNE FALLS, Mass., Oct. 3, 1870. 
 Dr. P. B. Randolph:— 
 
 Heaven bless thee, noble soul, toling for hunmanity, strug- 
 gling to pierce the mists that cover like a cloud, earth's purblind 
 pilgrims! From thine own rich soul-life hast thou wrought 
 works that shall adorn the ages yet to be; crown thy name im- 
 mortal! . . . Beautiful indeed must be the soul 
 from whence emanate such grand and mighty truths; wrought 
 out, as I feel they must be, from the blackened fire-crypts of a 
 disappointed soul's most fervent aspirations. 
 
 O brave and noble worker! I find no words in which 
 to express my admiration for one who has spoken such glad 
 words to my soul and to humanity. Yes, spoken, for while I 
 read, you are beside me, my hand is clasped in yours, and each 
 idea, painted in such glowing words, thrills my whole being as 
 though I listened to the strong, magnetic tones falling in rich 
 cadences from thy lips. Oh, how my heart went out to thee — 
 "lone toiler in a garret" — as I read "Love's Hidden History" 
 
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 and "After Death." Every word seemed spoken to my soul, 
 and I thought, oh, would that it might some day be mine to 
 clasp thine hand within my own, and, like a pure and loving 
 relative, look into the windows of thy unfathomable soul and 
 say: God bless thy grand life! and ever keep ttie rich thoughts 
 flowing from thy pure and lofty soul, O genius rare ! God bless 
 thy strong, true soul! R. A. COMSTOCK. 
 
 DAVENPORT, Iowa, July 25, 1870. 
 Author of Love and its Hidden History: — 
 
 Sir, — I have carefully read this work of yours, and though 
 I have read a great deal, I never yet found anybody that can so 
 truly and fully describe Woman, — her feelings, emotions, and 
 those finer points of her sensitive nature. Believe me, dear sir, 
 I appreciate this book more than all others I ever read on the 
 subject Woman. In all others there seemed to be something 
 lacking — this fills the measure full. Would that I had read 
 your glowing book long ago, and that every woman in the broad 
 West had it. 
 
 Perfectly ignorant of my woman's nature and true mission 
 I blundered into law-permitted pandemonium miscalled "mar- 
 riage," for poor clothes, bad food, and worse home — in a word, 
 I sold myself to an inhuman brute, in the shape of a man, and 
 shape only. Then followed the curse of married concubinage." 
 (The rest of this poor soul's letter is too utterly horrible for 
 these pages, yet her life is the life of millions, a state of things 
 that Mr. Randolph's works are especially aimed against, and 
 which his books have done and are doing more to correct than 
 those of any other author of the age. ) She concludes as follows : 
 — Your book has and will prove a god-send to me. Would I had 
 found it sooner. S. A. DOUGLASS. 
 
 BLACKSTONE, Mass., Oct. 3, 1870. 
 P. B. R., Sir, — Some two years since I met with something 
 from your pen which attracted my attention. While reading it, 
 "Love" and "After Death," I seemed to look upon a soul made 
 beautiful by association with the spirit of truth, love and for- 
 giveness. As by sympathy, I came in closer contact with you, 
 I blessed you for what I thus received. Hope, light and joy 
 folded their glad wings about my sad spirit, in that hour, and 
 whispered to me of a brighter future; as I finished reading my 
 
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 eyes filled with tears. I was glad that you doubted not but that 
 the "good was just ahead!" . . . . . I do hope 
 that the sun of happiness is shining clearly upon your pathway 
 to-day .... At times I nerve myself to scale 
 the glorious heights to which you have attained, yet I often falter 
 in my human weakness, and sometimes fear I shall never gain 
 your summit, whose atmosphere is heavenly peace; yet your 
 words have not lost their power to cheer me on to the endeavor 
 to reach the fruit which crowns the tree of suffering. I studied 
 your work, "Love and Its Hidden Mystery," with the greatest 
 interest. "Silence is power," yet I cannot refrain from tendering 
 to you my heartfelt thanks for thus blessing others with the 
 noble truths which a life's experience have bestowed upon you. 
 I have many times wished to clasp hands with the author of 
 those rare and splendid works — works which will prove the sal- 
 vation of every wife, and the making and ennobling of every 
 husband who reads them. N. A. PALMER. 
 
 Now, when it is remembered that the identical works — 
 hundreds more enconiums upon which can be produced — were 
 made the handle of a bitter, vindictive and unmanly attack upon 
 the author, for the deliberate and expressed purpose of depriving 
 him of his copyrights of the same, the full object of this broch- 
 ure and the following narration will be fully seen, and the 
 author, who was deprived of every copy of his works, thrown 
 into a dungeon, kept there in horror till his lips froze, and until 
 a righteous judge ordered his instant liberation, without so much 
 as an examination. But before the doors opened his capital was 
 reduced to the sum of twenty cents. Hence he appeals to the 
 public to buy his works, new editions of which he has been en- 
 abled to print, and thereby help him to once more establish his 
 publishing house and gain a merited victory over the two bad 
 men, — one of whom is over seventy years of age, worth a hundred 
 thousand dollars, yet ordered this attack upon a poor and de- 
 fenceless man and his child, — and with the second of whom the 
 author freely shared his last dollar and last crust of bread. 
 
 Said an able writer, in the columns of a powerful eastern 
 journal, speaking of one of the works : — 
 
 I write this article not as a criticism nor as a review of the 
 above entitled work, but as a tribute to one who asks no tribute, 
 
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 if I may so judge by the nom de plume behind which the author 
 hides. The subject matter of the volume is that which the great 
 Author of Nature has written in letters of blood in every human 
 heart. Why such false modesty — on this subject so fraught with 
 human weal or woe — which characterizes almost all writers and 
 teachers of the age? The author of this book is an exception to 
 the rule ; and yet, not a word or an insinuation, in this work, can 
 be found to shock the sensibilities of the most fastidious. He 
 has dipped his pen deep into the cankering, festering heart of 
 society, and with its corruption written words in which an angel 
 might take pride, were it not for the picture which stands out 
 before you as you read, in all its ghastliness, over which the good 
 can only weep. Oh ! for millions, that I might place this gem — 
 fresh from out the thickening clouds of humanity's frailties, all 
 pure as the snow-flake from wintry storms — in the hands of the 
 heart-reft on every hand. 
 
 The heart alone can write of and for the heart. The great 
 heart — which prompted the glowing sentences therein written, 
 whose life-history one glimpses faint and shodowy beyond the 
 surface of its prolific pages — has throbbed to the music of its 
 own and other's anguish — has sickened at the greed and ingrati- 
 tude, the unfeeling rush and scramble, and trampling down of 
 torn and bleeding hearts — until he has turned away from the 
 world, all forgetful of the greatest benefactors, and in solitude 
 showers upon his enemies thoughts such as only the great and 
 good can think. 
 
 This greatest thought — that which the world will yet build 
 monuments to — is not so much the corruption and abuses of so- 
 ciety, as it is the remedies of the gigantic evils which stare civi- 
 lization and heaven out of countenance. 
 
 Religion has yet to learn the fact, which science is slowly 
 demonstrating, and which the author claims in reference to love 
 — that salvation must be physical and mental as well as spirit- 
 ual. There can be no half-way work about it. We are as much 
 physical as spiritual, and so long as we remain so, we must have 
 a body, mind and spirit, the same as now, only perhaps in a 
 differet condition. 
 
 Love will have its physical moods and modes as well as 
 spiritual. The basis of love is health, and health depends upon 
 harmony, or a well-balanced union of body, mind and spirit 
 
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 From palpable facts we reach the hidden. Through the body we 
 reach the mind, and through its crystal walls the spirit. Spirit 
 is God. It rules the world, and in us, our own minds, and 
 through these our bodies. Power of spirit depends upon purity. 
 How can a pure spirit control and use a body loaded down with 
 the filth and rubbish of false conditions? False conditions are 
 results of our own follies and crimes. So with diseases of the 
 body. I am well aware there is a great hue-and-cry about "ante- 
 natal conditins," etc.; but I have yet to learn that the child in 
 embryo is not the cause of the peculiarities of the mother while 
 bearing it; but in either case, we who love and loathe cannot 
 shirk the responsibilities and penalties of our acts, no matter 
 how caused. The measure of humanity is love — not the bastard 
 thing society calls love — founded upon physical health and pur- 
 ity. How many are truly human? The measure of Godhood 
 in man is his power of self-control. How many are there who 
 are not blown here and there, like dry leaves in autumn, by 
 trifles beneath the notice of a great mind? Tormented to dis- 
 traction about a new dress, or for the want of something your 
 more fortunate neighbor has ! and making a hell of your home, 
 where heaven, all smiles and joy, should sit all the year round. 
 How devoid of manhood to go home nervous and sour because, 
 forsooth, some one has overreached or thwarted you in your busi- 
 ness! 
 
 All there is of us worth immortality, worth preserving and 
 presenting to the Infinite, is our will power; which must begin 
 at home, if at all. By virtue of will we control ourselves; and 
 when we are perfect masters of ourselves — our passions, thoughts, 
 desires, etc., we are masters of God's universe of lesser Nature. 
 How many are presentable? How many can truly say, in the 
 face of adverse storms, and feel what they say, "Let the winds 
 blow high or low, and let the muttering thunders of evil roll, 
 and the lightnings glare, I am superior to all this! Do your 
 worst — I am here first!" 
 
 Reader do you know how to culture will? what to eat and 
 drink to become superior physically? how to think to become so 
 mentally? what to do to become pure spiritually? If not, read 
 "Love and its Hidden History," and if you are sensible, you will 
 be a wiser and a better man. 
 
 Disease and Purity are antagonists, — they are strangers. Do 
 
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 not think that Death is going to do for you what you neglect to do 
 for yourself. He that dies of disease awakens on the other 
 side similarly situated. Summer-land! Stop, reader, and for 
 your own sake, think! Is pleasure derived from external ob- 
 jects ? If so, then you are rotten within. We make our summer 
 and winter ourselves, and you and I are to-day as much in the 
 Summer-land as we ever will be. Spirit-world! Here is the 
 spirit-world. Eternity. To-day is eternity. Disease and the 
 kingdom of rest are as far apart in condition as the frozen north 
 from the sunny south. A healthy mind in an impure or diseased 
 body is an impossibility. A diseased Christian Is as far from 
 heaven as the devil and hell can be. Christ's religion was that 
 of manhood and health, not of weakness and disease. 
 
 To the wives and mothers of the age this work comes, — so 
 full of plain home talk which all can understad ; so full of coun- 
 sel, and tears, which only experience can give, and hearts wrung 
 by agony can know — like angels' footfalls in the shadows of evil. 
 In reading it, see the sunken rocks and the deceitful sands 
 whereon hearts, like ships, have stranded. 
 
 The sunken cadaverous cheek speaks volumes of heartaches, 
 and reminds one of a stagnant pool of water, within which lies 
 the skeleton of dear love, long since dead and sunken there, 
 sending up to the surface the scum and slime indicative of de- 
 cay and corruption, redolent of mental and moral disease. It is 
 contagious. We breathe it in as we do the atmosphere. Dear 
 little children, all innocent and pure (if there is any purity in 
 mankind), are most in this disease-inducing malaria. Is it 
 surprising, then, that society is so corrupt, so full of crime and 
 folly? She or he who only open their eyes and mouths to look 
 at what has been, and lament and moan for lost opportunities, 
 or to blame some one beside themselves for their present evil; 
 who always see a skeleton in the closet at home; forget that the 
 skeleton walks out when they do, which looks strangely like 
 themselves. To all such I say, read the book. It is "the voice of 
 one crying in the wilderness." 
 
 I quote still another article: — 
 
 THE THINKER AND HIS THOUGHT. (12) 
 By F. D. Dowd. 
 There is but little thought among the world of men. The 
 
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 great stream rushes on, in murmuring rivulets here, in roaring 
 torrents there, or like the ocean billows breaking upon the bar- 
 ren shore in deafening thunders, devoid of thought. The thun- 
 ders, the roaring, the murmuring of men, is not of thought, but 
 of money. In every age of the world the genuine thinker has 
 stood alone, like a solitary tree in the vast desert. His thought 
 has seemed to shroud him from other men, as with the pall of 
 ages. There is another class, however, who are called thinkers, 
 and are lauded to the skies as geniuses, who stand in a different 
 relationship to the mass of men. These are poets and philoso- 
 phers, who fashion and mould thought for their own time. 
 Such cull the flowers of existence, and, having arrayed them in 
 garbs angelically lovely, in their view, present them for the ac- 
 ceptance and adoration of the non-thinkers. But the real thinker 
 exhumes the primitive rocks of man's existence and basic na- 
 ture, and lays bare the native granite of his nature, wonderful 
 and kaleidscopic, which he exposes to the softening influences 
 of storm and sunshine. It matters not to him, if the excavation 
 be deep, or the rocks be rough and ill-shapen; it is his mission to 
 bring them to the surface. He is not unlike the insect which, 
 in the bottom of old ocean, rears its domes of rocks, whose only 
 music is the roar of the rushing waves and the dashing of spray 
 against its edifice; for he hath builded a temple of unhewn rocks, 
 of Infinite Thought, wherein he dwells alone; and which, like 
 the cities of pearl in the deeps of the sea, shall yet be the foun- 
 dations of a new continent of thought; shall yet be engrafted 
 in the temples wherein the teeming myriads of remote ages shall 
 worship. His thought has not been of his own seeking. It comes 
 upon him as comes the hurricane upon the landscape, or over the 
 calm breast of the slumbering sea. It sometimes lays him low 
 and desolate, in +he filth and debris of isolation, misapprehensior, 
 misery, and decay; and at other times it carries him upon the 
 lightning's wing, beyond the topmost clouds of the thinker's 
 world. 
 
 "Foremost among the real and genuine thinkers of the age, 
 stands, one, P. B. Randolph, the author of this astounding and 
 magnificent volume. Among them, but not of them. A mystic 
 in the true sense of the word, and a mystic of the very loftiest 
 order. 
 
 "To him, the great surging waves of this civilization hath 
 
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 brought only woe. But they have not destroyed him, nor his 
 work. From the depths of his great heart, from the garrets of 
 poverty, hath he sent his riches of thought, — which the world in 
 its barrenness could not understand, or appreciate, — broadcast 
 upon the ice-locked wastes. To him, the specious sophistries of 
 the day have been only the pulings of infancy. Forgetful of the 
 little present; in view of the dead past, with its myriad eyes all 
 faded and lustreless, gazing out of the thickening night of decay 
 at him; forgetful of the shining orbs of the o'erarching skies of 
 to-day; in view of the darkened stars and dead worlds of the 
 foretime, which once blazed with pristine splendor, — he hath 
 walked alone among the catacombs of Egypt, and questioned her 
 ruins, her pyramids, her temples, and her drifting sands, and 
 brought back her answer, which he has given to the world, a 
 priceless legacy, under the title of Treadamite Man,' — beyond 
 all question, the most exhaustive, profound, convincing and sat- 
 isfactory work upon human antiquity the world ever saw, or 
 will again for many and many a long decade. Rested he then, 
 after completing his great wcrk on the Human Origines? Nay; 
 but casting it at the feet of the world, — dedicating it, by direct 
 request, to his personal friend, and the friend of mankind, the 
 lamented Abraham Lincoln, — he, discouraged on all hands by 
 ungenerous rivalry and envy, forthwith applied the whole power 
 of his exhaustless mind to the solution of a still mightier prob- 
 lem; and with fearless tread, lighted only by the lamp of God, 
 he entered the gloomiest crypts of being, and dragged from the 
 portals of the tomb its reluctant answer to the great question, 
 which hath burst the hearts of men from earliest time: "If a man 
 die, shall he live again?" In doing which he died to the present, 
 as much so as they whom he questioned. This man hath not 
 sought in college halls for the thoughts of the mighty dead, but 
 with his unaided hand hath he held aside the curtain that hides 
 the past, — walked through the shadow, and talked face to face 
 with the glorious founders of earth's religions, — stood dazed 
 and appalled before the effulgent glories of Rosicrucia' s blazing 
 temples in the hierarchies of the skies; and bowed low in the 
 shining presences of those whose spectra we sometimes vaguely 
 glimpse. 
 
 "Freighted with gems from the golden shores of eternity, and 
 jewels from the crowns of the upper hosts in the farther heav- 
 
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 ens — returning — he hath cast them also at our feet in his two 
 works : 'Dealings with the Dead/ and 'Disembodied Man,' either 
 of which works are sufficient to rest the fame of any man upon, — 
 no matter how profound a thinker, or expert a fashioner of 
 Thought, — and I here assert without fear of contradiction, that 
 these two works of rare and impassioned genius, in their scope 
 and profound simplicity, yet majestic and surpassing range and 
 sweep of thought, are not equalled by any other similar works in 
 existence! — and they have made, and are still making, their 
 mark, and influencing the thought and literature of the age, in 
 spite of prolonged and envious efforts to hurl them down to 
 death. They still live, thank God ! to bless the world and instruct 
 mankind. 
 
 "Not satisfied with this, and hearing much talk of a hell, he 
 sought and found its adamantine walls, all charred and black- 
 ened with the smoke of eternal torment, and, bursting through, 
 stood undismayed amid the howling of demons and the shrieks 
 and groans of the lost, — walked unscathed amid its fiercest 
 flames, and dragged from its darkened caverns, the idea itself, 
 and showed it to the gaping herd, — the uncharitable, ungrate- 
 ful, unthinking, forgetful world — which starved him for his 
 pains — to be only in the miseducated human heart. This he has 
 demonstrated in answer to the groans of the civilized world 
 under the curse of 'the social evil' in his two last master-pieces, 
 called 'Love and its Hidden History,' and 'The Master Passion; 
 or, The Curtain Raised.' Here he has lifted the sacred veil be- 
 fore which the civilized world bows down and worships, and 
 calls the hand profane and unclean which dares disturb. Here 
 he has told us the hidden meaning of 'the sin against the Holy 
 Ghost,' which, according to one of the earth's greatest thinkers 
 is unpardonable. 
 
 "By a mistaken policy Mr. Randolph was induced to issue 
 his second volume on Human Affection (his first was 'The 
 Grand Secret,' now out of print) — under a nom de plume, — 
 'Count de St. Leon.' He subsequently saw his error in that re- 
 spect, made several alterations, and enlarged it somewhat, and 
 was preparing to issue another edition when a seeming accident, 
 but in reality a providence, gave birth to another masterly vol- 
 ume on the same theme: 'The Master Passion; or, the Curtain 
 Raised,' and also determined him to publish both works, there- 
 
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 after, under his own name, and with his own imprint thereon. 
 
 "The circumstance here alluded to, it is not necessary to 
 mention further than to say that the Preface of 'Love and its 
 Hidden History,' was taken from the volume after it was printed; 
 but, as was said before, that rejected stone — that unfortunate 
 preface — grew into the most perfect and comprehensive volume 
 on human love that ever saw the light on this green earth of ours. 
 Now both volumes are published within one cover, and no work 
 of the century is creating a greater interest, being more widely 
 circulated or doing half the good that it is, and it should be in 
 the hands of every man, woman, and child in the land; for if it 
 were, 'twere well for the world. 
 
 "These volumes comprise but a few of those written by Mr. 
 Randolph; but, owing to their trenchant power and reformatory 
 character, I regard them as the most important of those now in 
 print. 
 
 "Says John B. Pilkington, of San Francisco, California, 
 in a communication to a Boston paper, under date of Nov. 21, 
 1861:— (13) 
 
 " 'One after another has visited our shores, of the army of 
 Humanity's teachers, and last, but far from least, came P. B. 
 Randolph, and of him — as an acknowledgement of his services, 
 gratifying to his many friends, but more because knowledge of 
 the noble self-sacrifice of any person should be the world's prop- 
 erty, as an example — I wish here to speak. We may praise, for 
 he has gone again, sailing this morning via New York, — where 
 he will make but a very short stay, for Egypt, Persia, and the 
 Orient. 
 
 " 'Arriving here on the 5th of Sept., this strange (to those 
 who have not studied him) and gifted man has compressed into 
 ten weeks a work which many a man would be proud to achieve 
 in a lifetime. He has written two small, but important works, 
 delivered something like twenty lectures, or orations rather, and 
 the universal testimony of friends and foes of Liberalism is, that 
 no speeches ever given on this coast have equalled them for 
 scope, power, and eloquence. 
 
 " 'Pouring forth the tale of his own trials, temptations, 
 falls, and efforts to rise again, he has carried conviction to many 
 an obdurate heart that there cometh much good out of every 
 Nazareth, but especially out of Imperial Rosicurcia! Many a 
 
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 narrow-minded bigot who listened to him, at first under protest, 
 has had his soul expanded, and openly declares, "Where I was 
 blind before, now I see!" He was some little time in gaining a 
 foot-hold; but did it. Large-hearted, condemning none, speak- 
 well of all, and speaking just the needed words to all, his rooms 
 and places of resort became daily a crowded levee, where, as he 
 felt their needs, he dispensed intellectual, moral, and material 
 healing to those who asked for it. Pecuniary success rained in 
 upon him. Friendships clustered warm around him, yet, strange 
 to say, when everything that makes life pleasant was being lav- 
 ishly offered him, he electrified us by telling us that he had re- 
 ceived commands to depart! Refusing money (the writer is 
 cognizant of sums having been offered him varying from twenty 
 to two hundred dollars, and in one case thousands of dollars) 
 with the words, "I am a Rosicrucian, and cannot accept money; 
 keep it. All I want will come as I need it;" untwining the daily 
 deepening associations forming to keep him here; putting back 
 fraternal love strong as that of woman's heart — with tears in his 
 eyes, sorrow in his heart, he has gone on a journey of over thirty 
 thousand miles, for two years in strange lands among inhospit- 
 able solitudes. And all for an idea. He went to seek more light, 
 who was already universal in knowledge, and beyond all rivalry 
 the first, best, and most clear-viewing seer and clairvoyant on the 
 globe. 
 
 " 'Let no one hereafter condemn P. B. Randolph. He is a 
 self-sacrificing, grand, moral hero! God bless you, Paschal! 
 And hundreds now, and thousands hereafter, will echo the bene- 
 diction. You have commenced a work here that is already as- 
 sured of immortality, and let it comfort you in all your wander- 
 ings that through you, "Try," the motto of every Rosicrucian, 
 will have a power, a moral and mental influence never before 
 possessed by word of angel or mortal utterance.' 
 
 "He has not yet finished his literary labors, but is already 
 engaged upon a massive work called 'The Book of Rosicrucia' 
 (14) written at (the instance of the Supreme Grand Lodges of 
 the Order in America, Europe, and Asia. 
 
 "When ready the world will be informed of the fact. 
 
 "Toil on, O genius rare! Toil on, brave thinker ! Bow low 
 thy head before the mighty thoughts which crowd upon thee — 
 great rocks, though they be — from out the Temple of Infinite 
 
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 Thought. Toil on ! thou knowest not why ! Yet thou rearest here, 
 and now, the Dome of thought of the great hereafter of the 
 world ! What matter the mad ravings of the multitude to thee ? 
 They yet — those others who come after — shall build monuments 
 on thy footprints, and use as text-books thy works in Rosicrucia's 
 glorious temples yet to be! 
 
 ''Davenport, Iowa, Jan., 1870." 
 
 Says a very prominent and able Pennsylvania government 
 officer : — 
 
 "Messrs. Editors: — I have just perused a work published 
 by Randolph & Co., of Boston, and advertised in your columns, 
 entitled 'Love and its Hidden History; a book for man, woman, 
 wives and husbands.' The gratification and benefit derived from 
 its perusal prompted me to express my satisfaction and testify 
 to the value of so worthy a book, whose object seems devoted to 
 the repression of vice, to give light on a much misunderstood 
 subject and unmask the growing charlatanry of the present day. 
 The author is especially severe on abortionists, the slayers of the 
 innocents. He handles his subject with a masterly hand; his 
 thoughts are skilfully and graphically portrayed, and his expres- 
 sions are given in a lucid, concise manner which cannot fail to 
 carry conviction of the facts, unfolded to the mind of the reader 
 and thinker, at the same time giving the subject treated or an in- 
 tense interest; hence no doubt of the wide popularity of his book 
 among the people, and especially is it commendable to all per- 
 sons about entering the married state. It is certainly a treasure 
 in the hands of everybody having an ounce of common sense. 
 The second part is better than the first — if that is possible,, — and 
 the work ought to be in the hands of every intelligent human be- 
 ing." 
 
 Said the Banner of Light, Boston: — 
 "Love and its Hidden History." Boston: Randolph & Co. 
 
 We have referred to this truly remarkable book in a pre- 
 vious issue. The first thing that will strike the readers on its 
 perusal is the bold clearness with which its author gives forth 
 and impresses his profoundly important truths; which is to be 
 explained by understanding that they are originally impressed 
 themselves upon a mind of wonderful capacity and susceptibil- 
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 perhaps the most engrossing problem that has man for its ob- 
 ject, the author naturally pours out a superfluity of statements 
 and inferences, which, though by no means diluting and weak- 
 ening his meaning, nevertheless go to show the fulness of his 
 thoughts and the force of his convictions. It is certainly a good 
 symptom in a writer on any but a strictly scientific subject, that 
 requires to be treated after scientific methods; but on such a 
 grand and engrossing theme as Love and its Hidden History, it 
 were well-night impossible to be satisfied with less than a lux- 
 uriant discussion, provided the force and weight of the argu- 
 ment be not weakened thereby. 
 
 "There is no person, of either sex, let his or her age, condi- 
 tion, acquirements, experience, temperament, wisdom and desires 
 be what they may, who, on plunging into the deep, suggestive 
 growths which these prolific pages are sure to beget, will not find 
 the precise tree, bearing the precise fruit of which he or she is 
 in secret quest. Would one understand the scope and true 
 meaning of love and marriage, considered in its exalted sense, 
 and clothed upon with its highest significations? On these 
 pages he will discover what will lead to his illumination. Would 
 one know more, and more truly, of the nice yet exacting physical 
 laws, which are to be religiously consulted and obeyed in the 
 engagements that yoke bodies and souls in a double life for the 
 term of their natural existence? Here is the treasury of infor- 
 mation which he or she cannot afford to be without, presented 
 with the plainness of simple truth, preaching the most powerful 
 sermon by its practical, every-day suggestiveness, and demon- 
 strating that what we commonly regard as the lower are as much 
 the highest as any that we call such. 
 
 "They who pine from heart-sickness, from soreness of 
 thought, from a continual inability to find the secret cause of 
 incompatibilities, who feel life waste slowly yet without their 
 ability to save it from the loss, who are unhappy in present re- 
 lations but know not precisely why, or, if they know, cannot 
 employ and apply the remedies which such disease requires, who, 
 needing love as we all need food and drink, nevertheless go 
 about starving and dying, who would comprehend the secret — 
 yet no such secret either — of building up a robust condition of 
 the spirit by means of the all-pervading power of affection and 
 attraction — all these will resort to the pages of this volume with 
 
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 the certainty of finding upon them what will excite the grateful- 
 est emotions of their nature. 
 
 "We have no space for the quotations which we should like 
 to make from this timely publication, and which we had ex- 
 pected to make ; out this general notice of its meritorious qualities 
 must stand for all. Let no reader, however, infer that it is a 
 dreamy rhapsodical, sentimental and merely effervescent book, to 
 excite or even exalt, and afterwards to be forgotten. On the 
 contrary, it treats the great question involved with a scientific 
 precision as a whole; abounds with the most pertinent and 
 pointed reflections; is full of practical advice and directions; 
 addresses itself personally to the reader; shrinks from the dis- 
 cussion of no phase or portion of the subject, and worthily 
 handles, as it exhaustively treats, a general problem in which 
 every individual of the human race is personally and profoundly 
 interested, in immediate connection with his health and happi- 
 ness." 
 
 Also the same paper: — 
 
 u Seer ship; The Magnetic Mirror, is the title of a curious 
 but impressive book by P. B. Randolph, which well deserves 
 perusal for the variety of views it presents with such energetic 
 eloquence on the subject of clairvoyance and psychometry. It no 
 doubt contains very many important truths in regard to clair- 
 voyance, with which it is essential that the world should become 
 familiar. The method of developing and establishing the clair- 
 voyant faculty, of knowing, as well as feeling and seeing, is en- 
 larged upon in the gifted author's peculiar manner. He defines 
 clairvoyance as the ability to drop beneath the floors of the 
 outer world and come up on the other side. He says that the 
 sparks or flashes of light that come before us in the night are 
 not what they seem, but instantaneous penetrations of the veil 
 that hangs like a pall between the outer world of dark and cold, 
 and the inner realm of light and fire — true clairvoyance being 
 the uplifting of that veil. Clairvoyance is neither a lure nor a 
 trap for virtue, nor calculated to undermine the religious prin- 
 ciples of any one, nor to sap one's morals, or exhaust one's 
 strength; but it is a very rich and valuable power, and its de- 
 velopment depends on the observance of the normal laws that 
 underlie it. Dr. Randolph has devoted his life to the discovery 
 of these laws and their modes of operation, and he proposes in 
 
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 his work to show men and women how they may become strong, 
 clear-seeing and powerful. Clairvoyance, in his view, is simply 
 the light that the seer reaches through years of agony; the inter- 
 rior unfoldment of native powers, and the comprehension and 
 application of the principles that underlie and overflow human 
 nature and the physical universe, together with a knowledge of 
 the principia of the vast spirit-seas whereon the world of space 
 are cushioned. 
 
 "There are long and profoundly interesting extracts from 
 Madame George Sand in this book, which illustrate very forcibly 
 the views of the author. On the subject of the Platonic philoso- 
 phy of vision, he holds it to be the view of objects really existing 
 in interior light, which assume form — not according to arbitrary 
 laws, but according to the state of the mind. This light unites 
 with exterior light in the eye, and is thus drawn into a senuous, 
 or imaginative activity; but when the outward light is separated 
 it reposes in its own serene atmosphere. And it is in this state 
 of interior repose that all really inspired and correct visions oc- 
 cur. In the author's language this light is the foundation fire 
 upon which all things are builded, ambushed everywhere, burst- 
 ing out when least expected, slumbering for ages, yet suddenly 
 illuminating an inebriate's brain so that he shall see the moral 
 snakes and lavre of his perversion assume physical proportion 
 and magnitude to fright him back to temperance, virtue, and 
 his forsaken God.' He declares the world we live in to be 'full 
 of the pattering of ghostly feet and the music of spiritual sing- 
 ers.' The author discourses pithily on the universal passion of 
 Love, and shows how the white woman, in his opinion, knows 
 less of the foundation laws of love than the inhabitants of the 
 Eastern countries and Southern Europe. There are certainly 
 glimpses of great truths to be met with on these pages, which 
 cannot but take powerful hold on the reader." 
 
 Said the Chicago R. P. "Journal:"— 
 
 "This book, on account of its intrinsic merit, should be in 
 the hands of every one whose soul-chords vibrate with emotions 
 of love. It is not the result of a flash from some fevered brain, 
 but the ultimatum of careful study and reflection, and, therefore, 
 its contents are entitled to that respect which truth always com- 
 mands. Love, which invades every human heart, is sometimes 
 very eccentric in its manifestations of preference, mainly on ac- 
 
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 count of the true nature of the same being but little understood. 
 The author, fully appreciating this fact, gives full directions for 
 its control, in chaste and beautiful language, which cannot fail 
 to be well received by the reader. 
 
 "You who have a daughter just blooming into womanhood, 
 or a son just venturing on the active stage of life, should pur- 
 chase this book at once, for it might be the means of saving 
 either a great deal of misery. 
 
 "Speaking of the 'street walker,' the author beautifully 
 says : — 
 
 "Of all God's creation the most pitiful object. 
 
 "Of all God's creation, the most sorry and the most sacred 
 object. 
 
 "Of all beings made in the divine likeness, given a sense 
 of immortality, an eye for the stars of midnight and the sun at 
 noon, an ear for the murmur of the spring, and the deep cry of 
 the mighty sea, rocked babe of the Great Mother, given a voice 
 for the utterance of the things of the heart, — the one only whose 
 eyes are never turned to heaven, whose ears are sealed to the 
 spheral sounds, whose voice untuned, rattles over a dry bed. 
 
 "Of all a little lower than the angels, the only one that 
 wants the death of any brute. The only one — our Father help 
 her! — that would have no flowers pointing with fragrance to 
 her grave, no stone to stay the stranger's heel from trampling 
 down her dust. Only to lie quietly, never to wake when this is 
 over. 
 
 "The street walker haunts all the places of men. The city 
 with its walls so high that they veil the face of the sun, with 
 stones that never cry out, and mingled sounds that drown the 
 still small voice, is her only home. She has a memory of an- 
 other scene, now and then. While it is light, and she lurks in 
 her covert, shrinking from the searching eye of day, it sometimes 
 crosses her mind, — a still and peaceful land, — cape, fields, a 
 brook, a white church, a cottage with the vines about it, and 
 there, under the tall trees before the door, with the sunset touch- 
 ing his thin face with glory, and the pleasant air blowing through 
 his white hair, an old man foundling a child upon his knee, a 
 child whose large eyes are turned trustful and truthful into his, 
 and whose golden tresses embrace his neck. But she curses 
 this vision and drowns it with fire I 
 
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 "There is a vein of beauty running through the deep phil- 
 osophy of this book, that points to a soul as it author, whose 
 chords vibrate lovingly for all humanity, and who would aid 
 them by directing them in the true pathway of life. 
 
 "In the conclusion of the first part of the book the author 
 says : — 
 
 " Tn conclusion, let me say, that while contending for the 
 materiality of love, I do not deny the existence of a moral force 
 somewhat analogous. They call this force religion, and its 
 domain is the human soul, just as love is in the human body. 
 We shall outlive all earthly loves and all earthly unions; for 
 the only mission of love is to stock the world. To that country 
 where we go at death, we shall carry our religion, our hopes, 
 affections, memories, faith, justice, pity, benevolence, generosity, 
 and goodness; but purely earthly phases of love are felt behind. 
 We shall no longer fall before it, no longer struggle in its toils — 
 no longer be led astray by its falsehoods, or be pierced by its 
 arrows. When I get there, I expect to grow new loves, fitted and 
 adapted to the new conditions. When there, it will be time 
 enough to exercise my "divine loves and nature," for there, per- 
 haps they will be needed; but while here our time is best em- 
 ployed in purifying the every-day human lives, and cultivating 
 and cleansing the human loves. Philosophers may call us all 
 by the title "angel;" perhaps they are such, but as for me, I 
 am only a poor, weak, fallible, erring man' " 
 
 " 'Love and its Hidden history," "I have just finished read- 
 ing the book entiled 'Love and its Hidden History,' and I believe 
 it contains more real truths and common sense, than any other 
 work of its size in the universe. Everybody should read it as it 
 reveals the cause and prescribes the remedy for the most fruit- 
 ful source of human misery, viz. : family jargon and unhappi- 
 ness and quarrels. None can read it without being benefited." 
 
 Simon Emery, of West Pittsfield, Mass., says: — "I have 
 just been reading the book 'Love and its Hidden History,' also 
 the work entitled 'After Death.' I think if one hundred thou- 
 sand of these volumes could be distributed through the United 
 States, it would be a far greater benefit to the people than the 
 thirty thousand preachers." 
 
 The following tells the story of this man in another line of 
 
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 action, and the millions who have heard him will say the pictures 
 are not overdrawn: — 
 
 Dr. Randolph delivered an oration to a vast and attentive 
 audience. . . . This magnificent effort at once 
 
 places him, not only in the front rank of American speakers, 
 but gives him a prominent position among the world's best 
 thinkers. Such splendid eloquence was never before heard with- 
 in the walls of that grand old hall. — New York Tribune. 
 
 He combines the excellence of Gough and Harry Vincent, 
 but is a far greater orator than either ; more pathetic, vigorous and 
 powerful; he is a complete and absolute master of his art, and 
 decidedly the equal, if not the superior of his great relative, John 
 Randolph, of Roanoke. — Alta Calif ornian. 
 
 He is a thrilling speaker, — sublimely eloquent, — entertain- 
 ing an audience at will : man of rare power. — Whiteside Sentinel. 
 
 Dr. Randolph, at the Loyal Philadelphia Convention, made 
 by far the most able address delivered before that body. — Chi- 
 cago Times. 
 
 In its report of the Philadelphia Convention the "Cincin- 
 nati Commercial" says: — 
 
 "The delegate from North Carolina was followed by Mr. 
 Randolph, of New Orleans, who, not content to speak from his 
 place on the floor, rushed to the president's desk, and delivered 
 from there one of the most effective speeches of the session, — the 
 most effective, judging from the thunders of applause which 
 greeted every sentence. As he appealed in behalf of the op- 
 pressed for the right of suffrage as a reward for what they had 
 done in the war, and said they demand suffrage in return for 
 their sacrifices, the audience rose en masse to cheer him. Fred 
 Douglass was so excited that he seized Anna Dickinson' s Derby 
 hat and flung it into the air, and Anna in her turn grabbed, 
 Fred's beaver and whirled it triumphantly aloft." 
 
 Every true man and woman will hail with joy the begin- 
 ning of the Grand Reaction against extreme Radicalism of all 
 sorts, and especially when that reaction is led by such a power 
 as this man wields — a trenchant pen and words of living flame. 
 
 Dr. Randolph is one of the first orators in this or any other 
 country. — Chicago Republican. 
 
 In his address there were passages of strength and beauty. 
 His picture of an execution, and delienation of a suicide were 
 
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 terribly vivid and appalling. After listening to Randolph, it 
 is easy to conceive why Felix trembled before the Hebrew Paul, 
 and how the noble Greek stirred the sluggish souls of his peo- 
 ple, or Patrick Henry wrested the brightest jewel from the Brit- 
 ish Crown, or how the mighty Indian, Logan, — from whom Mr. 
 Randolph is descended, — roused his people to resistance. — Lon- 
 don Weekly Times. (15) 
 
 This Randolph is a most extraordinary man, in appear- 
 ance and everything else. He reminds one of Gavazzi, the Ex- 
 Priest, and in many points Gaspar Williams, the Controversialist. 
 He is self-taught and brimful of the genuine spirit of philan- 
 thropy; such power as he evinces is absolutely astounding; a 
 thin, spare man, unhealthy, apparently, and physically weak. 
 But wait awhile till he warms up, rouses, — precisely as he did 
 last night; then it was, that we found out the mistake, for the 
 energy he displayed was wonderful, as, steeped to the lips in 
 magic thought, he poured forth a stream of eloquence in one 
 mighty, relistless torrent that swept all before it, and took all 
 who heard it willing captives. It was awful to see him writhe 
 in an agony as he seemed to feel what he was describing, — a 
 poor misguided man! As thought after thought, climax after 
 climax, gushed forth from his lips like a rapid rolling river, we 
 felt indeed that a Titan stood before us. — London Times. 
 
 Dr. Randolph delivered his lecture, "The Rum Fiend," in 
 Mechanics' Hall last evening to a large audience. The address 
 was a stirring delineation of the physical, mental, and moral 
 evils of intemperance, in which the speaker's vivid imagination 
 and ready command of language found ample scope. — Worcester 
 Mass. Spy. 
 
 Douglas Jerrold, in the "London Lloyd's News" said, Mr. 
 Randolph spoke on that occasion and drew down the plaudits 
 of the large audience by his wonderful eloquence. 
 "When by the mighty speaker brought 
 Truth's sacred triumphs come, 
 Verse ceases to be airy thought, 
 And sculpture to be dumb." 
 
 This gentleman may well be called the American Timon, 
 for the entertainment last evening was a perfectly rich, a glor- 
 ious and long to be remembered feast of fat things ! His theme 
 was "Man as he is and is to be." The description of the "Good 
 
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 time coming" was splendid, and as he pictured forth immortal 
 man in burning, fiery, passionate words, the audience were elec- 
 trified. Such magnificence of imagery, such sublimity of 
 thought is almost incredible; nothing ever was seen or heard 
 like it before, or ever will be again. It was marvellous, beautiful 
 and grand. The speaker occupied an hour, and when, com- 
 pletely exhausted, he sat down, the hall resounded for full five 
 minutes with the most heartfelt and grateful applause. 
 
 The Wonderful Story of Rav alette. Also, Tom Clark and 
 his Wife, and the Curious Things that befell them; being the 
 Rosicrucian's Story. My P. B. Randolph, Boston; Randolph 
 Publishing Company. 
 
 This is a 12mo, 396 pp., one of the most wonderful books 
 we ever read, written in plain, vigorous English, and cannot fail 
 to interest any reader who has a love for the marvellous. It is 
 more exciting in its incidents than Bulwer's "Strange Story;" 
 throws into the shade the writings of the German mystics; and 
 yet the thread of the story from beginning to end is never broken 
 or stretched beyond the range of probability. Admit the au- 
 thor's premises, and he will carry the reader along with him 
 through all his strange reasonings and descriptions. As a mere 
 story, independent of its peculiar views, it transcends in interest 
 all of the mystical literature of the present day. De Foe's 
 inimitable "Life of Duncan Campbell" is not more fascinating. 
 — Boston Traveller. 
 
 Said the Boston "Traveller": — 
 
 Flermes Mercurius Trismegistus. His Divine Pymander. 
 Also, the Asiatic Mystery. The Smaragdine Table and the Song 
 of Brahm. Edited by Paschal Beverly Randolph. Published at 
 Boston, by the Rosicrucian Publishing Company. This is a 
 finely printed volume, large 12mo, of 148 pages; tinted paper. 
 In a prefatory note it is stated that the authorship of the Divine 
 Poemander is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, who flourished 
 in Egypt long before the age of Moses. The work is not only 
 valuable for its antiquity, but for the view it affords of the mind 
 in the absence of direct revelation, searching after the "unknown 
 God," spoken by Paul, whom the Greeks ignorantly worshipped. 
 This, as well as other mystical works, shows the necessity of a 
 revelation of God in humanity. The mind in its attempt to de- 
 fine the Infinite and the unconditioned, has befogged itself with 
 
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 words of learned length, which have not even satisfied those 
 who have used them. Learned and devout Christians contend 
 that we cannot conceive of any higher being than a man, and of 
 any higher man than Christ Jesus, in "whom dwelleth all the 
 fulness of the Godhead bodily." In other words that God cloth- 
 ed himself with humanity to bring himself down to the appre- 
 hension of mankind. By way of contrast to this simple state- 
 men of Christian belief, the Pymander, or Poemander, is very 
 instructive and suggestive. As a literary curiosity, if nothing 
 more, it is worthy a place in every library, and must be very in- 
 teresting to those who love the mysterious. 
 
 Said another critic, concerning an oration in Boston, of 
 his:— 
 
 His manner of speech, like that of his pen, is unique, 
 strange, wholly inartistic and perfectly indescribable. But he 
 not only makes you see, hear and feel him, but remember him, 
 also, to the last day and hour of your life, even if you stretch it 
 out the length of Methusaleh's, of the "crack of doom." Hi9 
 manner and style, all his own, differs from that of any speaker I 
 ever heard; and as his soul throbs with, and responds to the 
 thought, he flushes up red as fire one minute, to turn pale and 
 livid as a "sheeted ghost," — used to be, the next. 
 
 At all times eloquent, yet when the fire is on and he throws 
 down his glasses on the stand, he is vastly, infinitely more than 
 that — he is absolutely grand, terrible, sublime, and he thrills 
 you in a measure and intensity never approached by the best 
 actors in their finest frenzies, when delivering their best "points." 
 
 He said that if women were as careful in getting clean- 
 souled and virtuous, uncontaminated and true husbands, as 
 men are in selecting a virtuous wife, a moral reformation would 
 soon begin, which would be something more than froth and 
 foam. He laughed at the "Reformers," who gained their ends 
 by misquoting and torturing Scripture, and said he was sick 
 of their new exegesis and readings, and to show them up pro- 
 posed, for them, the following reading for the fifteenth and 
 sixteenth verses of the one hundred and thirtieth Psalm: "My 
 protoplasm was not hidden from thee when, far back in the 
 Silurian epoch, I floated on the sea a frilled and flounced 
 Medusa. Yea, in ages still more remote, before differentiation 
 had begun, thine eyes did see my sarcode, and in thy thought 
 
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 my limbs took form before they were evolved." How strange 
 that one who wields such potent weapons should prefer to sleep 
 in the shade, instead of rushing out upon the glare of the world 
 where so many, less richly endowed, win wealth and fame, for 
 it is but seldom he can, for love or money, be tempted away from 
 his desk to pace the platforms even for an hour. This orator 
 is one who overlooks his contemporaries like some huge moun- 
 tain rising from a barren plain, a solitary, desolate, snow-clad 
 mountain, but whose brow piercing the heavens catches the glory 
 of the sunrises and the roseate flushing of the sunsets ; above all, 
 who gave to the world the new, chivalric conception of love as 
 existing between man and woman, and a new ideal of woman- 
 hood, all these passed in review before us, at his summons; sen- 
 tences were almost rhythmic, and they glowed with the impas- 
 sioned fervor of his conception of the great poet-orator yet to 
 come, who is to chant the now unguessed glories of a purer and 
 more perfect civilization, a holier religion, a human brotherhood 
 such as the past has never known — this Thinker who shall "fill 
 the ideal world with forms of eternal beauty, strew its firma- 
 ment with spiritual constellations, with glorious suns and stars, 
 of which the splendors of the material universe are but a passing 
 symbol." 
 
 Mr. Randolph is continually receiving commeidatory let- 
 ters like the following, which speak a language right straight 
 from the heart, and not to be mistaken : — 
 
 AMESBURY, Mass., Jan. 18th. 
 .... Oh ! It is a heavenly work, and I 
 feel as if it should be in the hands of every man and woman. 
 Please accept a thousand thanks. It has taught me many a 
 noble lesson, and caused me to pass many a happy hour. 
 
 MRS. M. H. PLUNKETT. 
 Said the "Democratic Guard," Sunbury, Pa. : — 
 Casca Llanna. Recently cur attention was called to the 
 above-named work, which we have since read, and we confess 
 that the high expectations of it awakened in our mind were more 
 than realized. It is truly a wonderful book, and also what its 
 name implies, "good news." We feel safe in saying that a care- 
 ful and impartial reading of it will help to make better all who 
 read it understanding^, and it certainly will teach all teachable 
 ones what and where are many, very many, of the breakers on 
 
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 which so many marital barques have been wrecked, and how to 
 avoid them; for on its pages are given truths which nearly, if 
 not all wedded persons have long felt the force of, though unable 
 or unwilling to put them in words. At this time, when domestic 
 happiness is so far away from so many firesides, and divorce 
 courts are so frequently appealed to, it becomes the duty of all 
 who have the best interests of society in view, to inquire for the 
 cause, and try to find and apply the remedy. These two objects 
 seem pre-eminently to be what the author of "Casca Llanna" 
 has aimed at, with what degree of success can be ascertained only 
 by a careful perusal of the book. Its style is good, very attractive 
 and readable. No novel can be more attractive, and herein 
 lies one of the fine features of the book, viz., its attractiveness 
 coupled with its truthfulness. No one can take up the book and 
 read one page of it without desiring to possess the whole of its 
 contents. Its tone is such that none need take offence, while its 
 language is so well selected that the moral fabric of the purest- 
 minded woman on earth will not be soiled by reading it, much 
 less that of any man. We predict for the work an immense sale. 
 Some idea of the esteem in which it is held may be formed when 
 we state that the author was to be paid nearly forty thousand 
 dollars for the monoply. Another feature of the work is its 
 cheapness, being only two dollars and a half for a twelve mo 
 book of over four hundred pages. 
 
 Society's sins and shortcomings are stripped of their mask, 
 that all may see them as they are. 
 
 It is characterized by the critics as a "Bold, Brave Book." 
 It is something more: it is a grand, good book! 
 
 The author's pen is a very Damascus blade; and, well in- 
 formed of what he writes, his book is a Revelation to all, and a 
 Promise to those who will heed. 
 
 To Men and Women alike it has a vital interest. 
 
 Love and the Master Passion. By Paschal B. Randolph. 
 Published by P. B. Randolph, Boston, Mass. 
 
 In this curious and rarely original book the author offers 
 to the public a powerful argument in favor of Love, the great 
 passion that rules the world; and he sets forth its manifold 
 charms and necessities in a perfectly irresistible manner, though 
 with keen wisdom and wonderful tact. No one can even ramble 
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 truth prevails without a cloud to dim its brightness. It may be 
 startling and unusual, but fcr all that is more valuable. No am- 
 biguous terms hide the author's real meaning, and no attempt is 
 made to call things by other than their strong, reliable English 
 names, and this is one of the many charms the book possesses. 
 The great question that always has and must agitate a thinking 
 community is here discussed with philosophic and scientific 
 freedom, and the old, though ever new query, "What is love?" is 
 answered to a nicety. No one need doubt any more, for Dr. 
 Randolph has settled the point to suit every searcher for truth. 
 The Dr. is a Rosicrucian and thoroughly lives up to his faith, 
 as can plainly be seen in every line of this wonderful work. 
 "Love lieth at the foundation of all things," is the motto of his 
 order, and how to love and what to love are the lessons he would 
 teach humanity. He says : "Woman makes the man, who, in his 
 turn, does mighty things," and then proves that the mother ele- 
 ment is the stronger in every human being. His suggestion, or 
 positive assertion rather, that a heart woman will produce a 
 finer and happier piece of mortality than a mere brain woman, is 
 worthy contemplation, and gees far to uphold the old saying, 
 that "If the heart is right all is right." This book possesses too 
 many attractions to single out any for a brief review like this, 
 but by applying to the author, a copy can be procured, and the 
 pleasant and happy hours a perusal of it must insure, will amply 
 repay the small outlay necessary. — Woodhull and Clafin's 
 Weekly, Dec. 3, 1870. (16) 
 
 {From the Religio-Philosophical Journal.) 
 RANDOLPH AND HIS FRIENDS 
 "Jordan is a hard road to travel," especially if the traveler 
 happens, as in my case, to be of mixed blood. When I took my 
 seat in the great Southern Convention, my troubles began, for 
 there were hundreds there who couldn't face the music of any 
 sort of equality, between themselves, the tweedledums, and my- 
 self, the tweedle-dee. But, for the first time in my life, I found 
 I had a "party" at my back so strong, that on a clear vote I could 
 have been sustained by a handsome majority; but seeing that 
 fact, the weak-kneed didn't choose to try it on with me. And 
 so, with the rest, I started on the tour to Lincoln's grave, winning 
 
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 my share of abuse and praise, in alternate slices — a streak of fat 
 and a streak of lean — all along the route from Philadelphia, 
 making speeches all the way through New York, Connecticut, 
 Massachusetts, Ohio. But from the hour that we reached Ohio, 
 our chairman and about two others, out of thirty delegates, be- 
 gan to doubt the expediency of my continuance with the crowd, 
 because I had several drops of foreign blood in my veins, and so 
 curious shifts were resorted to by the chairman to get rid of me, 
 but as I couldn't see it in that light, I went to Akron, Mansfield 
 and Cincinnati, at which place I was treated not only meanly, 
 but inhumanly; but it was no go; then, fifteen dollars that had 
 been given me to pay my way on the railroad, was taken from 
 me by the chairman, compelling me to either use a little money 
 given me, or break in upon the fund I had months before col- 
 lected for my school. I chose the former, and after speaking in 
 Cincinnati, where the chairman had wholly ignored my exist- 
 ence, and being serenaded by a splendid band of the first musi- 
 cians in the place, I reached Chicago, in the same train with the 
 chairman, who repeated his former treatment, and not only ig- 
 nored my existence, but asserted that I was not a member of the 
 delegation, which allegation the said delegation caused him to 
 retract, by gently jogging his memory. It was the same old 
 story of the wolf, lamb, and muddy water. But he was still 
 more surprised when the people of Illinois insisted that not only 
 should I be acknowledged, but assigned to a seat in the first 
 carriage, and a place on the first speaker's stand. Even my 
 religion has been brought up as an argument against me, as well 
 as my hue, and to effect his object, my poor school was with me 
 made to suffer, and yet God's justice bloomed through it all, for 
 everywhere the people received me as a man, and as the herald 
 of the good time coming. A power behind us all has worked the 
 thing up in a most miraculous manner, in spite of a thousand ob- 
 stacles. 
 
 To the eternal honor of the entire delegation, let me say that 
 no man but the chairman treated me unmanfully to my face, 
 while many of them, Messrs. Sherwood, Stokes, Tucker, May- 
 nard, Fennerty, Hunnicutt, Brownlow, Moss, Hamilton, Griffin, 
 Newman, Warmouth and many others, stood by me like men, as 
 much for the man as for the mighty principle at issue. I do not 
 believe that the chairman's hostility arose from personal motives, 
 
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 but from fear of the precedent and inexpediency. Poor man! 
 He's behind the age, for the great heart of the people beats for 
 the right, and the masses keep step to the march of truth; as was 
 proved here in Chicago, where I spoke to assembled thousands 
 on two occasions — the last proving a triumph such as few men 
 have in a lifetime. 
 
 I am now sick and weary from overwork, but I thank God 
 that devotion to truth has been recognized by the nation; nor 
 is this triumph mine, it belong to the people, who now claim me 
 for their own, albeit I have been out in the cold for many a long 
 year. It is a triumph of the long-enunciated principles of the 
 faith I profess, and it is the opening of a new era in the history 
 of the nation; for it is decreed that "The hundred dead shall not 
 have died in vain; that liberty shall have a new birth; and that 
 government for the people, of the people, by the people, shall 
 not perish from the earth." Immortal Lincoln! there's a good 
 time coming; wait a little longer. 
 
 P. B. RANDOLPH. 
 
 Of course the adverse party rejoiced on account of the rain 
 and the absence of the other delegates, but their laughs were 
 turned to lugubrious grins of shame and mortification before the 
 splendid display of intellect, manhood, statesmanship and ora- 
 tory of the speaker of the evening, who, for two hours and a half, 
 held the audience — largely composed of our best men, with a 
 good sprinkling of opposition, here and there — spell-bound by 
 his wonderful eloquence. It w T as no mad appeal to passion, but a 
 clear and logical presentation of the mighty issues of the hour; 
 and was garnished with electric bursts of impassioned elo- 
 quence, and fully justified the "Independent's" recent assertion 
 that Mr. Randolph ranks among the first orators of America, 
 and can test brains successfully with the best political orators 
 extant, and give large odds. — Syracuse Standard. 
 
 Randolph closed in one of his most moving strains of elo- 
 quence, peculiar to himself, baffling all report — a portion of the 
 audience unbounded in enthusiasm. — Boston Banner of Light. 
 
 Dr. Randolph took the stand in behalf of mankind and 
 spoke with earnest emphasis, and in a style that put many to 
 blush.— N. Y. Herald. 
 
 Wood's Hall was filled to overflowing, last evening, with 
 
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 the loyal men and true of Rockford, to listen to the loyal speeches 
 of Dr. Randolph and A. J. Gordon. Mr. Gordon is sound for 
 the Union, and his speech was received with demonstrations of 
 applause. Dr. Randolph followed, surpassing anything ever 
 witnessed in Rockford. The unbounded enthuhiasm with which 
 the people received the sterling patriotic utterances of this cham- 
 pion of right, was indicative of a speedy downfall of "my policy" 
 in these regions, and stamps the Doctor among the greatest of 
 America's great orators. He will continue to "swing around 
 the circle" until the final death and burial of "my policy." 
 After the speech the citizens thronged the platform, and eagerly 
 sought the hand of the Doctor, showing not only that the words 
 reached their ears but their hearts. God speed the good cause. 
 The Doctor believes in three things: God, Abraham Lincoln, 
 and Ben Butler. — Chicago Tribune. 
 
 An immense audience gathered in Brady's Hall last night, 
 to hear the political issues of the day discussed from a loyal 
 Southern point of view, and sat for over two hours, spell-bound 
 beneath the magnificent eloquence of P. B. Randolph, unques- 
 tionably the ablest thinker and most finished orator of almost 
 any race on this continent, and with very few equals on any oth- 
 er. He created the grandest enthusiasm, and effectually drove 
 home the last nail in the Copper Johnson coffin in this locality. 
 He was followed by A. J. Gordon, also of New Orleans, who 
 briefly finished what Randolph began. 
 
 "How are you, Andy Johnson? Good morning, 'my pol- 
 icy.' " — Chicago Republican. 
 
 Dr. Randolph at the Loyal Philadelphia Convention, made 
 by far the most able address delivered before that body. — Chi- 
 cago Times. 
 
 In Plymouth Church (H. W. Beecher's), Randolph follow- 
 ed Moss, of Mo., and his wit and pathos elicited the most rap- 
 turous applause from probably the most critical audience on 
 this continent. — Brooklyn Star. 
 
 When Mr. Randolph closed, the Convention (Philadel- 
 phia), four thousand people, rose en masse, and greeted him 
 with round after round of enthusiastic applause, many gather- 
 ing around him, congratulating him and shaking him heartily 
 by the hand.— N. Y. World. 
 
 At Cooper Institute last night, able speeches were made 
 
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 by several citizens of Louisiana, among whom Dr. Randolph 
 figured conspicuously, his speech being applauded to the echo 
 at nearly every sentence. — N. Y. News. 
 
 Mr. Randolph was very eloquent, and created the greatest 
 enthusiasm in the audience. It was the speceh of the Conven- 
 tion. — Philadelphia Press. 
 
 The speech of Dr. Randolph was a masterly effort, and a 
 most crushing expos of the duplicity, treachery and infamy of 
 wrong done in high places. He is a pleasant speaker, is at times 
 sublimely eloquent, and possesses that rare power of oratory that 
 enables him to entrance an audience at will. In keen invective, 
 in vividness of descriptive power, in withering sarcasm, wit, 
 humor, and in correct, logical, and philosophical reasoning, he 
 has but few equals living, and no superior. — Whiteside Sentinel, 
 III. 
 
 Dr. Randolph is one of the first orators in this or any other 
 country. — Chicago Republican. 
 
 The Southern Delegates had a confrere — Dr. P. B. Ran- 
 dolph of La. — who took his place among them without a word or 
 hint of remonstrance. It was reserved for a few cowardly 
 northerners to seek covertly the exclusion of ONE OF THE 
 FIRST OF AMERICAN ORATORS from a convention whose 
 chief theme was to be the fate of an entire race. 
 
 Just at the opportune moment, Dr. Randolph leaped to the 
 platform, and made an electric speech picturing the wrongs of 
 a race, demanding redress, claiming the ballot, and, suddenly 
 turning to a colossal portrait of Mr. Lincoln behind the plat- 
 form, exclaimed, "We are coming, F?tther Abraham, five hun- 
 dred thousand more!" The effect was irresistible, the house 
 sprang to its feet and gave cheer after cheer, making the panes in 
 the window rattle. — N. Y. Independent. 
 
 Dr. Randolph, the celebrated "Octoroon" of Louisiana, 
 took the stand and made the most eloquent and stirring appeal 
 in behalf of his people, the Union and humanity, that we have 
 ever listened to, interspersing it with a number of the most 
 telling hits, and mirth-provoking sallies of wit, which were 
 rapturously applauded throughout by the delighted audience. — 
 Summit Beacon, Akron, Ohio. 
 
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 SAVANNAH, Illinois. 
 F. M. Jenks, Esq. 
 
 Dear Sir: — Get your folks out en masse; they will lose the 
 richest treat of a quarter of a century, if they fail to hear this 
 man — this singular and wonderful orator from Louisiana. Our 
 people concede that we have never had so eloquent an orator as 
 Dr. P. B. Randolph in our court house, previous to last evening. 
 If he were to remain here to-night, we haven't a hall or building 
 that would hold the people. Yours truly 
 
 C. B. SMITH, 
 Mount Carroll, 111. 
 
 Alluding to an incident that happened to Dr. Randolph at 
 Oneida, N. Y., while traveling on the pilgrimage to the martyred 
 Lincoln's tomb, the "Syracuse Standard" said: — 
 
 "When the party of Southern Unionists reached Oneida 
 yesterday, and were passing from the cars, one of the number 
 was approached by an individual who offered him twenty-five 
 dollars not to speak in that village. 'Not enough,' replied the 
 delegate, 'bid higher.' So the man bid higher, until he reached 
 the sum of three hundred dollars. Even this magnificent offer 
 failed to make an impression on the impoverished but faithful 
 Southerner, who spurned the proposition indignantly, saying 
 there was not enough money in the whole Johnson party to turn 
 him from his course. This story we have on most excellent au- 
 thority. It shows to what desperate expedients the copperheads 
 are driven in their attempts to make head against the tide of 
 popular indignation setting in against them." 
 
 Said the "Chicago Journal": — 
 
 "Gordon is a speaker of fair effect, but Dr. Randolph is 
 one of wonderful and rare power. Combining, as he claims, in 
 himself the blood of seven races — white, brown, and red — he 
 has the energy, humor and persistence of all. Entering at one 
 time into close argumentation of some vital principle, at another 
 introducing something to amuse his audience and relieve their 
 attention, he showed a descriptive power and a capability for 
 moving others that reminded one of John B. Gough. He far 
 exceeds any other orator I have ever heard, and few speakers can 
 excel him in some points, though he has some defects of style 
 that other cultivation and other associations would have rem- 
 edied. 
 
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 Dr. P. B. Randolph. — We received a flying visit from the 
 famous Rosicrucian last Monday, and, considering the vast 
 amount of intellectual work he does, found him looking remark- 
 ably well, albeit he comes West to seek relief from too much 
 confined toil, realizing that "all work and no play makes Jack 
 a dull boy." 
 
 On Sunday afternoon the audience in Music Hall, learning 
 who was in the house, insisted upon hearing the Dr. speak, and 
 he complied, as he did also again in the evening, and we need 
 not say that the people were not only thrilled, but perfectly as- 
 tonished and spell-bound by his strange, weird, and wonderful 
 eloquence. 
 
 There are but few living men who can sweep the strings of 
 the human heart with as much ease and power as can this re- 
 markable man. 
 
 Our friends in the West, who want to hear our glorious 
 faith upbuilt by a master orator, should at once secure the op- 
 portunity of engaging P. B. Randolph. 
 
 We predict for Dr. R. the most flattering success in the 
 great West, both as speaker and physician, and congratulate all 
 those who may be so fortunate as to secure his services, and a 
 treat and feast of good things, not to be had every day of the 
 year. — R. P. Journal. 
 
 Authors. — An author has been compared to asparagus, on 
 the supposition that all that it is good about him is — his head. 
 We venture to protest against such a definition, on the plea that 
 much of his value is also to be ascribed to his heart. It is indeed 
 the latter quality which gives to the realm of authorship its high- 
 est dignity and value. 
 
 Authors, again, have been styled lamps, exhausting them- 
 selves to give light to others; to bees industriously collecting 
 honey from the flowers, which they treasure up in the hive of 
 books to sweeten and solace life. Authorcraft is an imitative 
 as well as a creative art ; an original thinker is one who portrays 
 the works of the great author of the universe — the compiler, one 
 who ingeniously adapts or re-arranges the thoughts and illus- 
 trations of others; both in their degree may be said to possess 
 creative power. Pseudo-authors are counterfeits, and belong 
 not to the true and honorable craft, and should be delath with 
 according to the laws of felony. 
 
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 Everybody remembers Goldsmith's bloom-colored coat; 
 George Fox's "leathern hull," Milton's garb of coarse gray, 
 Magliabecchi's great brown vest down to his 'knees, his broad- 
 brimmed hat and patched mantle, and his cravat full of snuff- 
 droppings; Pope's velvet cap, the wig and sword; and Buff on, 
 with his hair in curl-papers while sitting at his desk; Scott's 
 limp; Byron's club-foot; Pope's little crooked figure, like a note 
 of interrogation; Johnson's rotundity and rheum; Charles 
 Lamb's spindle-shanks in gaiters; and all manner of personal 
 peculiarities of distinguished men. 
 
 Who would not willingly make a pilgrimage to catch a 
 glimpse of an author in his literary laboratory — his workshop? 
 For exampe, of Richardson, in his back shop, writing "Pa- 
 melia;" of Cowper and his tame hares; of Byron and Newstead 
 Abbey; of Burns, in his humble cottage home; of Voltaire, in his 
 retreat of Ferney by the shores of Lake Leman; of Sir Walter 
 Scott, in his studio at Abbotsford; of Dr. Johnson, in his re- 
 treat in Bolt Court; of Shakespeare, and the woods of Charle- 
 cote; of Pope, and his house at Twickenham; of Swift, and his 
 living at Lascor, — and — why not? — of the Rosicrucian, Paschal 
 
 Beverly Randolph the author of "Pre-Adamite Man," "Cas- 
 
 ca Llanna," "Love, and its Hidden History," and a score or 
 so of equally good and powerfully- written volumes ! — the fact is, 
 we are never tired of reading of such things, identified as they 
 are with genius, and consecrated by their association with the 
 names of great men. 
 
 Voltaire was fond of magnificent attire, and usually dressed 
 in an absurd manner. Diderot once travelled from St. Peters- 
 burg to Paris in a morning-gown and night-cap, and in this 
 guise promenaded the streets and public places of the towns on 
 his route. He w T as often taken for a madman. While composing 
 his works he used to walk about at a rapid pace, making huge 
 strides, and sometimes throwing up his wig into the air when 
 he struck out a happy idea. One day a friend found him in 
 tears. "Good heavens!" he exclaimed, "what is the matter?" 
 "I am weeping," answered Diderot, "at a story I have just com- 
 posed!" 
 
 Wordsworth was deemed a madman by some of the villag- 
 ers, by others a criminal in the disguise of an idler. They 
 affirmed that he had often been seen to wander about at night, 
 
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 and look "rather strangely at the moon," and that sometimes "he 
 would roam over the hills like a partridge." 
 
 Grey was a polite monk, the most learned man of his day. 
 His elegy is the most melodious poem in the language. He was 
 a man of extreme tacturnity. It is said he was sometimes known 
 to pass a whole day without uttering a word. 
 
 Dr. Randolph the Delegate. — Doubtless our readers have 
 seen the slander against this gentleman, uttered by one Norton, 
 of Texas, — himself the great kicked-out from the loyal Southern 
 delegation. 
 
 Norton was angry that Randolph was the honored guest of 
 the nation, which refused to be Nortonized, and so he revenged 
 himself by charging Dr. R. with collecting large sums of money, 
 whereas he as not even thought of so doing, since he joined the 
 delegation. What he has collected — some four or five hundred 
 dollars — is for his school. The Dr. and his plans are endorsed 
 by every one of the delegations present at New York, and the 
 following effectually disposes of Norton and his falsehood: — 
 BURNET HOUSE, Cin., Sept. 25. 
 
 To the Public: — Dr. P. B. Randolph is engaged in the 
 laudable and noble effort to establish a Normal School for the 
 education of teachers, for schools in the South. He is an earnest, 
 able, and patriotic man, deserving the encouragement and aid of 
 the public, and I heartily commend him to the friends of human- 
 ity everywhere. 
 
 A. J. HAMILTON, Texas. 
 
 I cheerfully concur with Governor Hamilton. 
 
 JOS. S. FOWLER, U. S. Senator, Tennessee. 
 
 I heartily endorse the foregoing statement of Gov. H. and 
 unite in his recommendations. 
 
 ALBERT GRIFFIN, Ala. 
 
 The signatures of the best men of the nation could be had 
 to this splendid endorsement of an earnest, honest, worker for 
 the right. 
 
 The press are respectfully requested to publish this state- 
 ment, and thus help unmask a disappointed numbscull, who 
 tried to get into good company, but failed. Let the good work go 
 on. 
 
 He is "coming up." Says the "Brooklyn Star," in the re- 
 port of a speech by him; — 
 
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 Mr. Randolph, by invitation of Mr. Beecher and others, 
 will deliver one more speech on Temperance before he leaves 
 us for his western home. He speaks at the Brooklyn Institute 
 to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, at 7.30 o'clock. When this man 
 first appeared among us as a Temperance speaker, his power 
 and eloquence surprised everybody who heard him. The effects 
 produced by him upon his audiences was such that an almost 
 universal doubt prevailed as to whether he could maintain the 
 same power thereafter; but this opinion has given way to the 
 conviction "that," to quote Mr. Beecher, "the Lord has raised 
 up a powerful instrument for his service in the Temperance 
 cause in this man." He is evidently a man of unusual ability 
 and great mental resources. Time after time has he been called 
 upon to speak at a moment's warning, and without the slightest 
 preparation, and yet every speech is a decided improvement on 
 the last, even when the first was universally acknowledged to 
 be excellent. Mr. Randolph takes rank with our best speakers, 
 but is not an imitator of any. His style is unique and entirely 
 original, somewhat resembling J. B. Gough's, inasmuch as his 
 speeches abound in bold figures and magnificent imagery, bril- 
 liant flights, rich anecdote, large philanthropy, and uncomprom- 
 ising hostility to wrong in any shape. It can but infuse new 
 life into the noble movement to have such standard-bearers as 
 Gough in Europe, and Randolph in this country. Mr. R. is a 
 Son of Temperance, and belongs to Washington Division, No. 4, 
 which also claims as members several of the first men of this 
 section of the State. Go to the Institute early, for otherwise 
 it may be difficult to obtain seats. 
 
 Said the "Chicago R. P. Journal":— 
 
 P. B. Randolph. — Our readers will no doubt be glad to 
 learn that this celebrated thinker and orator has once more been 
 impelled to enter the lecturing field. His subjects are entirely 
 new and original, embracing the famous Re-incarnation subject 
 (on which probably no living person is better posted); another 
 on the Woman Question, embracing love, marriage and divorce; 
 one on his journey through Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Pales- 
 tine ; and another on Love and it Hidden History, and the seven 
 Magnetic Laws; embracing also the rationale, philosophy and 
 attainment of clairvoyance — a matter upon which he can speak 
 with the authority and power derived from one of the most mar- 
 
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 vellous experiences ever known. Parties must apply soon, or 
 address him at Boston, Mass. 
 
 It has been repeatedly said, and by the highest authorities, 
 that there are two ways of reaching truth, — by reasoning out 
 and by feeling out. All the profoundest truths are felt out. This 
 is most undoubtedly true. Mr. Randolph, when asked how he 
 gets his uncommon knowledge, almost invariably replies, "I feel 
 it out!" "But how do you get the scientific demonstrations of 
 the truths you so frequently discover and announce to the world, 
 — for instance, the forecasting, and results of the last French 
 Revolution, announced in "Ravalette" ten years before it took 
 place, as well as hundreds of others that might be mentioned?" 
 "I feel them out also! To see is sometimes to be deceived, but to 
 feel is to absolutely know!" 
 
 Dr. Randolph at Strawn's Hall. — Our citizens are possess- 
 ed of a peculiar virtue. Whenever anything novel demands 
 their attention, they either send out a reconnoitering party, or 
 wait the reports of a few radical and reckless persons who al- 
 ways act as skirmishers when anything new or startling is to be 
 investigated, and thus they are enabled to preserve the most ex- 
 act propriety. A lecture is announced from some one not already 
 world-wide in fame, or at least not familiarly known in Jack- 
 sonville, and a small, but always select, audience greets the oc- 
 casion. If it prove a failure, it is pocketed by the heroes and 
 heroines as a small matter, only an adventure from which some 
 good may be derived. If it prove a success, the favored few, be- 
 ing few, relish it all the more, and the cautious multitude con- 
 tent themselves with, "Oh, how sorry I am!" But if the thing is 
 to be repeated, then look out for a crowded house. Our people 
 know how to appreciate a good thing when they are sure they 
 have got it, or are certain to get it. Last night a small, but 
 certainly a select audience listened to the octoroon orator, Dr. 
 Randolph, and as he is to lecture again on Thursday night, we 
 know he will be greeted by a full house. To say that he de- 
 lighted his audience would be tame; he took it by storm, and 
 perfectly enraptured every man and woman who heard him. Dr. 
 Randolph is a descendant of John Randolph of Virginia. He is 
 an orator and a scholar, and his lecture was replete with beauty, 
 pathos, wit, imagery and eloquence. We cannot attempt a 
 synopsis of it. Let no one fail to hear him on Thursday night 
 
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 on the subject of temperance — a grand theme. 
 
 Misrepresentation. — Every man who advocates ideas that 
 the masses have not yet grown up to is denounced as a visionary; 
 his sentiments misrepresented, his motives called in question, his 
 character traduced. He who designs to labor for the enlight- 
 enment and elevation of mankind must make up his mind to be 
 denounced and derided, and must forgive his opposers, for they 
 "know not what they do." The ignorance of the multitude is yet 
 dense, and the majority of mankind are not prepared to under- 
 stand or appreciate the most simple and evident verities. He 
 who cannot bear patiently all abuse, scorn and indifference, need 
 not enter the field of Reform. But the man who is prepared to 
 be poor and unpopular in his own day, to labor on whether his 
 contemporaries hear or refuse to hear, he shall do a work whose 
 issues shall be everlasting, and whose memory shall never perish. 
 
 This is why Randolph's fame is safe. 
 
 Dealings with the Dead. — To any eye that can read and 
 every heart that can understand, I would say that if they have 
 any desire to know the real truths of spirit instruction and spirit 
 knowledge, let them read with close attention and unbiased mind, 
 the book called "Dealing with the Dead," by P. B. Randolph. 
 If they cannot take time to read the whole book, let them begin 
 at the sixty-eighth page. The soul-stirring truths therein ex- 
 plained are too true to be thrown idly aside. Many are now 
 reading and appreciating, and the time is not far distant when 
 thousands more will do the same, and a cry will go forth for more 
 of the same kind. 
 
 ONE WHO KNOWS. 
 
 Dr. Dewey once took a letter or Photograph of Randolph, 
 to a celebrated lady reader of the human character through such 
 instrumentalities. She reported thus : — 
 
 "Opulent with spirit gifts, himself is the cause. His soul 
 is full of imagery, yet lacks the system ; method is no part of his 
 inheritance. Argumentative, concise, clear, he feels his way with 
 care, yet fails to bring to surface what he feels is true. Bigoted 
 at times, he moves among men as Lord of state, as though he 
 was made to govern all within his reach. His speech is rapid, 
 utterance is clear, yet beggars none; 'tis not borrowed, 'tis his 
 own, unique and singular; at times controlled by jets of fun, he 
 laughs himself at what he's done, relates at length his own ex- 
 
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 perience, and calls up mirth and jollity from them, who, hearing, 
 wish to hear again. Beware; all men, beware how you trample 
 on him! Take care, take care, he will not bear nor forbear 
 again. Men he honors, so be he deems them men, but never 
 feels himself beneath their notice. 
 
 MRS. E. M. SHIRLEY, Worcester, Mass." 
 
 Even so late at March 21st, 1872, came the following: — 
 EAST BRAINTREE, Vt, March 20, 1872. 
 
 P. B. Randolph: — Your book "Seership" is a Godsend to 
 
 me. If I could never become a seer, the ideas conveyed therein 
 
 are worth fitfty times the cost of the book to me, and more, if I 
 
 could not procure another copy. Hoping to hear from you soon, 
 
 I remain yours truly HENRY J. HYZER. 
 
 • •••*• 
 
 GRAMMERCY PARK HOTEL, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1866. 
 We, the Southern Loyal Committee, appointed by the late 
 Southern Loyal Convention, held in Philadelphia, to perform 
 a political pilgrimage to the grave of our martyred president, 
 Abraham Lincoln, do hereby express our approval of the edu- 
 cational plans and ideas, calculated and intended to extend the 
 benefits of sound learning, where they are greatly needed, to the 
 entire South, as advanced and entertained by one of our own 
 number, the delegate from Louisiana, P. B. Randolph, M. D. 
 We cordially endorse both the ideas and the man, and especially 
 in the light of the well-known fact that he has proved himself 
 one of the most earnest, enthusiastic and successful teachers of 
 the ignorant, that ever attempted to teach. This he has done in 
 New Orleans, and elsewhere in Louisiana, and the man is entirely 
 and wholly worthy of public confidence and trust. 
 
 R. O. SIDNEY, Mississippi. 
 
 CHARLES E. MOSS, Missouri. 
 
 R. H. BRANSCOMB, Missouri. 
 
 E. V. WRIGHT, Washington, D. C. 
 
 WESTON FLINT, Missouri. 
 
 J. R. S. VAN VLEET, Texas. 
 
 HENRY S. LASAR, Missouri. 
 
 JOSEPH S. FOWLER, Tennessee. 
 
 H. H. THOMAS, Tennessee. 
 
 W. B. STOKES, Tennesses. 
 
 N, H. MILLER, District of Columbia. 
 
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 D. H. BINGHAM, Alabama. 
 Z. K. PANGBORN, New Jersey. 
 WM. S. POPE, St. Louis, Mo. 
 CHARLES P. SMITH, Trenton, N. J. 
 
 D. COOPER ALLINSON, Trenton, N. J. 
 C. B. SAB IN, Houston, Texas. 
 
 E. HIESTAND, Louisiana. 
 LORENZO SHERWOOD, Texas. 
 O. B. HART, Florida. 
 
 A. J. HAMILTON, Texas. 
 
 N. S. MORSE, Georgia. 
 
 H. C. WARMOTH, of Louisiana. 
 
 W. G. BROWNLOW, Governor of Tennessee. 
 
 HERMANN BOKAUM, Tennessee. 
 
 T. I. STEWART, Maryland. 
 
 HOP EBAIN, North Carolina. 
 
 State of Illinois, Executive Department, 
 SPRINGFIELD, Oct. 12, 1866. 
 To the People of the State of Illinois: — 
 
 I recommend to your favorable notice, Dr. P. B. Randolph, 
 of Louisiana, who was a member of the Loyal Southern Con- 
 vention recently held in Philadelphia. 
 
 Dr. Randolph is highly recommended as a gentleman and a 
 scholar. He is an earnest, faithful friend of the oppressed race 
 and to mankind. He seeks by honorable effort to elevate the 
 condition of the poor people in the United States, and in devot- 
 ing his life to this humane and praiseworthy object he deserves 
 your encouargement, and I hope he will receive it heartily. 
 
 R. J. OLGESBY. 
 Said the Vandalia, 111., "Courier," speaking of the two 
 mixed blood campaigners of 1866: — 
 
 The second speaker was Dr. Randolph of Louisiana, a 
 nephew of John Randolph of Roanoke. (17) He made a feel- 
 ing speech — narrated the sufferings of the Union people of the 
 South — gave a brief history of the New Orleans massacre, and 
 in withering and burning words placed the blame of the present 
 distracted condition of the Southern States where it belongs — 
 upon the President and northern copperheads. Dr. Randolph's 
 speech was characterized by eloquent utterances, humorous com- 
 parisons and withering rebukes, and although about one six- 
 
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 teenth foreign, he is a more able speaker, according to the evi- 
 dence of the Chicago "Times," than any of the Demi-Johnson 
 orators new perambulating the State of Illinois. 
 
 Headquarters General Superintendent of Education, La. 
 Dr. P. B. Randolph has been in the employ of this office, in 
 the capacity of principal teacher in one of the largest and most 
 flourishing schools for freedmen in the State. It affords me great 
 pleasure to be able to say from an ofriical acquaintance with him 
 for several months past, that I have found him to be a gentle- 
 man of very rare attainments and qualifications as a teacher,, 
 and excelled by none in sincere earnest zeal in the great cause 
 of education and moral elevation of the unfortunate freedmen. 
 I have no hesitancy in recommending him to the friends of 
 the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, and education of the 
 freedmen. H. R. PEASE, 
 
 Captain and General Superintendent 
 
 of Education B. R. F. and A. L., La 
 * # * 
 
 The following testimonials of character, and endorsement of 
 the proposed school work, are from some of the most illustrious 
 men of the great Republic and the world: — (18) 
 
 Dr. P. B. Randolph stands highly recommended as a man; 
 an educator of the people, a true philanthropist; and a gentleman 
 of very rare and unusual attainments as a scholar and orator ; he 
 is making a very laudable effort to establish a graded school in 
 Louisiana, wherein, in addition to juveniles, men and women may 
 be instructed, and prepared to become teachers throughout the 
 South. 
 
 The undersigned most heartily approve thereof, and trust 
 that he may be heard in behalf of his cause, and assisted by all 
 who desire the advancement of civilization and refinement among 
 the colored people of these United States. 
 He is earnest, eloquent and true. 
 
 ANDREW JOHNSON, President U. S. 
 
 B. F. WADE, U. S. Senator. 
 
 J. P. SULLIVAN, New Orleans, La. 
 
 T. B. THORPE, New Orleans, La. 
 
 E. H. DURELL, Judge, New Orleans, La. 
 
 EDWARD C. BILLINGS, New Orleans, La. 
 
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 I have known Mr. Randolph thirteen years, and can testify 
 to his character and qualifications, and believe him a specially 
 qualified instrument for his work. 
 
 JAMES W. NYE, U. S. Senator, Nevada. 
 HORACE H. DAY, New York. 
 Washington, July 21, 1866. 
 Mr. Nye has known Mr. Randolph since 1848. 
 I cordially recommend Mr. Randolph and the cause he rep- 
 reesnts to the favor of the friends of the human race, and of the 
 country. He has energy, capacity, courage, and integrity neces- 
 sary to perform the work in which he is engaged. 
 
 N. P. BANKS, M. C, Massachusetts. 
 Washington, D. C, July 21, 1866. 
 
 I concur in the foregoing and commend Mr. Randolph and 
 his cause to the consideration of the public. 
 
 WM. D. KELLEY, M. C, Pennsylvania. 
 I cordially sympathize with all movements similar to that 
 of Dr. Randolph's, and believe, with proper encouragement, he 
 will carry it forward to most desirable success. 
 
 J. B. FERGUSON, 
 Cor. Sec. National Union Club, Washington, D. C. 
 I am fully satisfied of the fitness of Mr. Randolph for the 
 enterprise in which he is engaged, and earnestly commend him 
 and that enterprise to public favor. 
 
 A. W. RANDALL, 
 U. S. Postmaster General. 
 I fully endorse the enterprise contemplated by Mr. Ran- 
 dolph. HUGH McCULLOUCH, 
 
 Secretary Treasury, U. S. 
 July 23, 1866. 
 
 I concur in recommending the enterprise of Mr. Randolph. 
 
 U. S. GRANT, 
 General Armies of the United States. 
 WASHINGTON, D. C, July 24, 1866. 
 I heartily endorse the object proposed by Dr. Randolph, and 
 whatever can be done, in accordance with law, I. will do to aid 
 the enterprise. O. O. HOWARD,, 
 
 Major General and Commissioner 
 
 Bureau Refugee Freedmen, etc, 
 
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 Dr. Randolph's character is unimpeachable; as a thinker 
 and author, he stands entirely alone among self-educated people 
 in this country, and it is doubtful if any man of mixed blood 
 now living is his intellectual peer. He should be encouraged in 
 the noble work he has begun. 
 
 We heartily endorse Mr. Randolph and his enterprise. He 
 deserves success. 
 
 THADDEUS STEVENS, M. C, Pennsylvania. 
 SCHUYLER COLFAX, 
 
 Speaker U. S. House of Representatives. 
 
 e. d. Mcpherson, 
 
 Clerk of House of Representatives. 
 JOHN W. FORNEY, Clerk U. S. Senate. 
 HENRY j. RAYMOND. 
 
 CHICAGO ACADEMY OF UNIVERSAL SCIENCE. 
 P. B. Randolph, Esq.: — 
 
 Dear Sir, — At a regular meeting of the above Society, you 
 were nominated and unanimously elected an honorary member 
 of the same. And in view of your acquaintance with so many 
 subjects of interest to humanity, you are kindly invited to con- 
 tribute an article on Budhistic, Chaldean, and other Oriental 
 Magic, to be read before the Society. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 W. T. COLES, Secretary. 
 
 MIDDLETOWN, Orange Co., March 21, 1872. 
 
 Paschal B. Randolph: — 
 
 Dear Sir, — Your writings have done us incalculable good! 
 
 After twenty-five years of marriage, a perpetual honeymoon has 
 
 again dawned upon us — self and wife — as the result. Our best 
 
 thanks, and wishes for your welfare. M. S. W. K. 
 
 * * # 
 
 It is truly said, and most of mankind agree, that the worst 
 of teaching is better than none; one who is self-taught can take 
 no advantage of the experience in methods of learning acquired 
 by his race in hundreds of years; he begins a new history of 
 education for himself. It is equally true that all that we think, 
 nay, even our very manner of thinking, comes from Asia. It is 
 the cradle of thought — the nursery of ideas. Well, Mr. Ran- 
 dolph is wholly and emphatically a self-taught man, and as such 
 
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 long ago mastered the principles, not only of current philosophies, 
 but of the best and profoundest of all past ages; beside which 
 his mind is essentially and markedly Asiatic, and for this rea- 
 son his writings possess a peculiar essence, so to speak, found 
 in but few writers of the age. Those who have ever seen, heard, 
 read or talked with this man, will never forget him. Wholly 
 himself, he follows no leader; is in a mental whirlwind half the 
 time, and will change in style, appearance, manner, a dozen 
 times within the hour, so that you scarce can believe the same 
 human being stands or sits before you. 
 
 In physique as in mind, he differs greatly from all other 
 men; now sympathetic to tears, anon colder than a Nova Zembla 
 iceberg, yet hiding a volcano all the w T hile. Wonderfully, almost 
 preternaturally magnetic, it is but little marvel that he has, to use 
 his own expression (now incorporated in a score of stage-plays), 
 "Loved not wisely, but too much and often." Had it not been 
 so he never could have written "Casca Llanna" and "Love and 
 its Hidden History," both of which were drawn from his own 
 love life experiences and "Walks among the Women," the pro- 
 posed title of a book of gems on the subject of the tender passion. 
 Mr. Randolph is not a handsome man, but there's a something 
 about him which attracts attention wherever he may be ; for even 
 in the theatre lorgnettes by scores are pointed at him, until the 
 thing becomes offensive, while on the street few men draw more 
 passing eyes towards them. In complexion he is sallow-olive, 
 black eyes, black hair, black moustache, imperial and beard, but 
 otherwise beardless. For twenty years he has worn spectacles. 
 
 Formerly he used to frequently speak in public, but for ten 
 years has rarely done so, save in the memorable political cam- 
 paign of 1866; but when he does ascend the rostrum he reigns 
 lord paramount and alone ; for his orations in earnestness of pur- 
 pose and delivery, clearness of outline and vehemence of expres- 
 sion, gorgeousness of figure and trope, and magic, marvelous 
 eloquence, have rarely been equalled and never surpassed. 
 
 With lofty soul and beaming brow he treads the stage every 
 inch a king; dissects his subject — mainly the passions — with 
 master-hand, delieneates each perfectly, and utterly despising 
 punctiliousness of any sort lays bare the human soul, so that 
 even the blind can see. 
 
 A set oration on a theme he delights in is a treat to listen to, 
 
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 for when thoroughly going, engaged, wound up, it is one of the 
 most extraordinary exhibitions of word-painting, idea-advancing, 
 resources, endurance and overwhelming impetuosity ever heard 
 anywhere, at any time, from the lips and brains of any man. It 
 is unique, alone, complete, finished, and without a flaw from 
 exordium to peroration. At least this is the opinion of one of 
 the leading journals of America, from whose columns it is quot- 
 ed word for word. 
 
 In his dramatic power, whether of tongue or pen, this man 
 is almost alone, especially when the topic is either mysticism 
 or the inner life of love — hopeful, non-lurid love ; and no master 
 of cur day can stand on more solid or more lofty ground; and 
 the interest felt in him is intense to a degree, for by turns he is 
 wild, weird, pathetic, grand, even sublime; sometimes grotesque, 
 and not unfrequently, a harrowing sensation — as for instance, 
 his Cobra Scene, is ended in a genuine pathos, itself a flash of 
 rare genius. Never afraid of outraging public sentiment, the 
 man dares and does, writes and says things which would imme- 
 diately kill the reputation of almost any other public character. 
 "But they expect such things of Randolph," and would be sur- 
 prised if he pursued any other course. His speeches have never 
 been repeated, in fact he can neither read a speech, repeat one a 
 second time, or deliver one twice from the same notes. His mind 
 is well-nigh inexhaustible of good things, and new thoughts; and 
 he keeps his originality and freshness, as perfect as if he had just 
 begun to exercise his quick, observant, fertile, sharp, incisive, 
 penetrative mind; and his fancy, satire, invective, humor, wit 
 and common sense, win the reader or hearer in spite of himself; 
 and especially so, in view of the daring boldness with which he 
 sails squarely in the teeth of all authorities whatever, and unhesi- 
 tatingly attacks popular prejudices, sentiments and opinions, so 
 that one can't help feeling, "This man may be right! At all 
 events he is honest, and I guess I'll read, or hear him again." 
 
 There are few more brilliant conversationalists, when in 
 the humor, — and he will not be unless you speak, as well as 
 being spoken to, — than that same queer-looking man. When lie 
 is, then his talk is like the upper part of New York, — a broad 
 sheet of silver in the moonlight, with vague, misty shores, loom- 
 ing just beyond old Erie's wave. Then comes a rapier-like flash- 
 ing in the night, the threat-tones are exchanged for chest-voice, 
 
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 and you know you are in the rapids, and are being rushed, as by 
 an armed battalion, by the wierd eloquence of the speaker, whose 
 face pales, lips turn white, and eyes flash liquid fire, as he whirls 
 you along toward Niagara's dreadful leap; and he rushes you 
 over the parapet of logic to an inevitable conclusion, just as 
 surely as that Erie's floods roll down to the sea. This is why 
 Henry Wilson, senator, and the now Boston postmaster, secured 
 his services for the Republican campaign of 1866, and when 
 they had used this man to their heart's content, he who penned 
 the Civil-Rights bill, and who so stiffened the Republican back- 
 bone that they put a "Black Suffrage" plank into their platform, 
 not only turned the cold shoulder to him, but worse. Without 
 this man they might have carried the elections that year, but it 
 is doubtful. The only greatful Republican of them all was the 
 head of the party, Ulysses S. Grant, who gave Mr. Randolph 
 two hundred dollars for his school, which school O. O. Howard 
 saw fit to strangle in its birth. 
 
 Great souls shine all the brighter when contrasted with 
 the littleness around them; judged by this standard, Mr. Ran- 
 dolph has nothing to fear, either now, or when life's fitful fever 
 is ended, and his weariness finds rest. 
 
 Perfectly aware that intolerance and spiteful calumny have 
 ruined many a good and righteous cause, and driven many a good 
 man to the banks of the bitter waters; that in what is called 
 "society" manners pass for a great deal too much, morals for 
 too little, money for real worth, and genuine character for noth- 
 ing at all, unless backed by a clique or ring, Randolph conclud- 
 ed to take Saxe's advice, and "go it alone," convinced that the 
 affection in his soul would yet set him right before the world. 
 "Love will shine through all!" said he, and so it will. 
 
 The persecutions to which he has been recently subjected, a 
 history of which immediately follows, instead of working the ill 
 intended, bids fair to result in enabling him to reach a far 
 larger public than he had hoped for on this earth, and will 
 unquestionably go far toward setting this gifted man rightly and 
 fairly before the world. 
 
 TISKILWA, 111, May 14th, 1S6S. 
 Doct Randolph : — 
 
 Dear Sir: — Your book, "Love," etc, is received. It is a 
 splendid work ! just such as humanity will cherish — if not yet— 
 
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 as a great work, and your name will be handed to posterity as 
 one of the great lights of this age. 
 
 You have my earnest and best wishes for your prosperity 
 and success in all laudable undertakings. 
 
 Yours respectfully, RHODA BENSON. 
 
 PEORIA, 111., May 17, 1868. 
 Dr. P. B. Randolph: 
 
 Dear Sir, — I have finished reading your very remarkable 
 work, entitled "Disembodied Man," and have been deeply in- 
 terested in the astounding revelations contained therein. Not 
 long since I read Davis' "Stellar Key to the Summer Land," 
 (published about two years after Randolph's wonderful book!), 
 but you seemed to have penetrated the mysteries and glories of 
 the upper spheres to a greater extent. J. OSCAR BELL. 
 
 Dear Brother: — Ever since I read your book I have be- 
 lieved that you possess a true and noble soul, and I believe so 
 yet. Your "Disembodied Man" is my Bible! You have therein 
 asked and solved a great many questions that I never saw any 
 one try to solve before ! The insight you have 
 
 given me in your strange soul history, has awakened my soul's 
 deepest sympathy. I do sympathize with you from my soul's 
 most inmost being, and your sorrows are to me as sacred as the 
 dead. Ycu speak of a personal story in "Seership." While 
 reading it, the thought flashed that that story was you own. — 
 it, and what I read in "Disembodied Man," that you have been 
 a victim. I can readily perceive the exquisite torture, the almost 
 unendurable agony a soul of your fine sensibilities must have suf- 
 fered! Surely, my brother, ycu have been forced to -travel over 
 rough and thorny roads; been forced to drain the cup of bitter- 
 ness to its very dregs. But out of your sorrow and bitter agony 
 you have arisen almost a god, for you are as far above the masses 
 as the heavens above the earth. The more I read your works, the 
 more I worship your great and noble soul, so Godlike in its at- 
 titude, so ful of love and compassion and charity for poor, weak, 
 sinful humanity, why, I feel as though I am but the smallest 
 atom — so weak and helpless. I wish I could leave my body in a 
 sleep, while my soul would enter one of the Sanitoria you de- 
 scribe (in "After Death") and be nursed into health. 
 Heaven bless you, my brother, is my prayer. E. T. 
 
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 WATERFORD, Erie Co., Pa., May 27th. 
 
 Kind Sir: — Your very pleasant and cordial letter, and 
 valuable book came duly to hand; and I gratefully assure you of 
 the pleasurable and agreeable emotions elicited. 
 
 The letter, so grandly cordial in its manly and deeply 
 scholastic tone, awakened emotions of reverence, and almost 
 evoked the "nameless" of Bulwer's unrivalled fancy. I read, nay, 
 studied, your book. Is it essential for you to know the impres- 
 sion made on my mind ? I see you were raised a Christian, with 
 the Bible, not Koram, as your type and model and point of holy 
 reverence. This has become your second nature — a part of your 
 being that, dress it as you will, it is there still; a part of your 
 mother's creation. I am astonished by the glory, and much of 
 the wisdom and pristine beauty in your — Revelation! Is this 
 Rosicrucian? My mind is full of the new ideas of your book. 
 Mejnour, teach thy Neophyte. MRS. A. A. M. GILL. 
 
 Hundreds more to the same purport can be produced, but 
 as this sketch of an "earnest" man's life is limited, one more 
 only shall here be reproduced. 
 
 Another correspondent, B. W. Keith, E. Bridgewater, Mass., 
 says of Disembodied Man," "I admire it, for if it, the here- 
 after, is as you say, it is the highest conception of finite mind — 
 worthy of a God!" 
 
 Of "Casca Llanna," the "Banner of Light" said, under the 
 heading of "The Woman's Book! A life's issues of Love in all 
 its phases:" — We all know what love means, yet fail to realize it. 
 This splendid work tells how. This great work treats of Love, 
 woman, marriage. The grand secret. A book for those who 
 have hearts! And it is the ablest and the grandest book on Love, 
 Man, Woman, the Laws of Affection and Marriage, that ever 
 fell from human pen ! No description, critique, or synopsis can 
 begin to do justice to the mighty work, which ought to be bound 
 in gold and be on the table of every man, woman, and youth in 
 the land and in the world! It includes matchless articles upon 
 Love, Woman, Courtship, Marriage, The Laws of Happiness, 
 The Family, Vampirism, Love-Starvation, Affectional Health, 
 The Grand Secret, Magnetic Leeching s, Good and Evil Effects 
 of Varied Magnetisms, The Infemalisms of Modem so-called 
 ic Philosophies." A book for every man, but especially every 
 
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 woman in the land — a book superior not only to any work of 
 the kind in America or Europe, but this work is superior to any 
 that probably was ever written! 
 
 Better present this book to a loved one than give money or 
 jewels. 
 
 Now let us pass to the next phase of Randolph's career. 
 For the publication of the very identical books, so graphically 
 commended by the people and the press, was made the ostensible 
 motive for thrusting him into a felon's cell, — but the real mo- 
 tive was to blackmail him out of the valuable copyrights of those 
 very works — a scheme which, though it failed of its real end, 
 nevertheless stripped poor Randolph of every dollar he had in 
 the world. 
 
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PART TWO 
 
 THE ORDEAL 
 
 In May, 1871, two men, a man named Peters, (but who in 
 Montreal was known as "Prentiss," proprietor of a weekly paper 
 then called the "Hearthstone" and still known as such under its 
 new, honorable and able proprietor, Mr. Desbaret,) and another 
 named Thomas H. Churchill, (ostensible publishers of a hum- 
 bug pamphlet called the "Harvest of Gold,") who did business 
 at No. 12 Old State House, Boston, under the style of "Amos 
 Mason & Co.," said Amos being a man of straw altogether, 
 called on P. B. Randolph at his rooms, and proposed to deal in 
 his books. In a little while an intimacy grew up between 
 Randolph and the two parties, which continued till "Mason & 
 Co." left Boston. Churchill remained and lived principally on 
 money earned by Randolph, but which that individual will never 
 see again. At this time, Mr. Randolph had just begun to write 
 his book "Casca Llanna," and in that work, as it advanced, 
 Churchill, as a literary expert, expressed a great interest, and 
 declared his ability to circulate three hundred thousand copies 
 of the work when done; nor did he overrate either his ability 
 or the salability of that book; only one thing was necessary, that 
 the copyright of the book pass either into his hands, or those of 
 a "ring" under his engineering and control. 
 
 Early in June, 1871, James Fisk, Jr., visited Boston, and 
 Mr. Randolph wrote the celebrated article about him, which the 
 united testimony of some thousands declared, after Fisk's 
 murder, to be the best and truest estimate of the man, his nature, 
 character and genius, ever written, and the world remains of 
 that opinion still. 
 
 This article Mr. Randolph incorporated in "Casca Llanna," 
 where it commences at page 220 and ends at 240. 
 
 After Fisk's death, Mr. Randolph changed the conclusion 
 of the article in the book, but had it published in a separate 
 pamphlet, as the subjoined copy of its advertisement will show:. 
 
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 "James Fisk, Jr. — His Secret! The secret of his success 
 and wonderful power. What the Clairvoyant lady said about 
 him! Also the laws of love as applied to Fisk's case, with a 
 paper on the Tobacco Habit. — How to break it. The natural 
 antidote. Also, about matters pertinent to the happiness of all 
 wives and their husbands ; also, all males and females of the hu- 
 man species on earth. Post free, twenty-five cents. P. B. Ran- 
 dolph, Boston, Mass." 
 
 So true, so just, did people believe that article to be, that no 
 less than four persons undertook to call Fisk's personal atten- 
 tion to it, the author furnishing copies of the work for that pur- 
 pose. Two days before Fisk's death, he told the gentleman, 
 (Paul H. Nelson, Esq.,) that he considered the estimate of him- 
 self in that book to be the fairest ever made of himself and his 
 springs of action. Said Fisk, "I don't know this Mr. Randolph, 
 never saw him, — but about woman, he's better posted than any 
 man I know of; in fact, he's got a corner on the subject, and a 
 big one too! As for me, I think his head's level, and that he 
 knows me better than almost any one else outside of my strict 
 family circle!" — "Then, Mr. Fisk, can't you use your influence 
 to get a good publisher for Randolph's book?" — "Well, I don't 
 deal in that kind o' stock, but I tell you what I can, and will do. 
 I'll buy a lot o' the books to give away, for I rather like that 
 joke at the end of the piece about me." — "Well, Mr. Fisk, what 
 shall I say to Randolph, — how many copies will you take at 
 wholesale prices?" — "Me? Why as many as you like" — "Will 
 you take two thousand copies?" — "Yes, ten of 'em — but come 
 see me to-morrow." And they parted. Next day they met again, 
 and it was arranged that they should meet at the Grand Opera 
 House on Monday, and fix the business finally. And so they 
 parted again. On that same day another man called on Fisk, 
 upon the self-same errand, and he too was put off till the Mon- 
 day. This was at eleven A. M. That self-same afternoon, 
 Edward S. Stokes foully murdered James Fisk, Jr., and P. B. 
 Randolph lost the best chance in the world he ever had up to that 
 time, and probably also one of the very best practical friends, — 
 friends willing and able to assist him financially, he ever had; 
 always excepting the two or three whose names he has given, 
 with scarcely an exception. Talk about slips betwixt cup and 
 lip, — what a slip was there! (19) Ten thousand copies of 
 
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 Randolph's book lost to him and the world by the assassin's 
 bullet! 
 
 In the August preceding this tragedy, Mr. Randolph had 
 become acquainted by letter, with the second man who talked 
 with Fisk about the book. His name was convertibly W. French, 
 W. T. French, W. Bay French, W. French Bay, of Spalding, 
 Ohio, but writing from a place called Leatherwood, in the same 
 State. 
 
 Now began a scheme so subtle, so unmanly and little, as to 
 almost make one doubt all human integrity whatever. 
 
 All the world knows P. B. Randolph is, and for twenty years 
 has been, at the head of a secret order of thinkers. (20) This 
 order is divided into three parts, corresponding to the universal 
 and multiform Trinity. The first division is called Volantia 
 (21), because its main object is the culture of the human will. 
 The division is thousands of years old, and in Oriental lands is 
 known as "Merek el Gebel" or the Gate of Light, a neophyte of 
 which Mr. Randolph became, in Egypt, many years ago. The 
 second division is known as Rosicrucia (21 ) (Rosicrucians), and 
 in the East is known as the Door of the Dawn, and is of Ansair- 
 itic origin. The distinctive degree of this division is Decretism 
 (21), or the culture of the triple will; it is nrystic, profound, and 
 has for its object the development of inherent, and but little- 
 dreamed-of human energies and powers, not with reference to 
 things of fleeting moment, but of stable and eternal principles, 
 having their rise on earth, their culmination in the heavens. 
 
 The third division of the order is known as The Dome, is 
 Chaldaic in origin; is Pythagoric in essence; and in the Orient 
 is known among its members as The Mountain. Its distinctive 
 degree is Posism, (21) the practical use of Knowledge, Will and 
 Agape (celestial love, non-physical, hypersensuous, and there- 
 fore transcendental ) . 
 
 Well, Mr. W. T. French Bay knew that the gate of the 
 temple always opened for manhood, goodness and honor; and he 
 felt a strong desire to be instructed, and made a man of; but the 
 sequel proved that there are materials out of which silk purses 
 cannot be manufactured! He also was ambitious of medical 
 honors, and expressed a strong desire to be taught Mr. Ran- 
 dolph's system of treating disease; and application was accord- 
 ingly made, a price fixed upon for the latter service; and in due 
 
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 time, eyes filled with tears — crocodile, perhaps, — French-Bay 
 made his appearance, was taken on probation in the Order, and 
 partially instructed in the art Medical. 
 
 French-Bay and Churchill met in Randolph's room, in- 
 stantly afhnitized, laid their plans and things went smoothly on 
 until the negotiation of some false paper by Churchill caused 
 that worthy to quit Boston, for Boston's good, between two days. 
 Before this came to pass, however, French-Bay and himself laid 
 a lGng-headed trap, and this was how the thing was done. 
 French-Bay took his lessons in Medical science, all except a bit 
 of rare knowledge Mr. Randolph learned among the Arabs, 
 Turks, Syrians, Armenians and Egyptians. This knowledge was 
 called the "Golden Secret,'' not the "Golden Letter," — the latter 
 has been printed on a sheet for physicians and a few medical 
 friends, but the former has never been in type, and exists only 
 in Mss. (It exists only so at this writing, and perhaps would 
 have always remained thus, had not circumstances almost forced 
 Mr. Randolph to consent to print, and furnish it to those people 
 whom it is intended for — the victims of disease, originating in 
 disobedience of the primary vital laws of their mental, emotional 
 and aflectional natures. For the first time in the world, Dr. 
 Randolph has made plain the grand secret of Longevity, and 
 still others, calculated to complete what his other works on Love 
 so well begun.) 
 
 Now both Churchill and French- Bay knew the value of the 
 " Golden Secret." They had seen letters containing sums of five 
 to forty dollars in exchange for writing it out and sending it, 
 and other letters containing additional sums as presents to Mr. 
 Randolph, for benefits derived from the very valuable and singu- 
 lar knowledge it contains, and to be baulked in getting hold of 
 what a princely revenue might be derived from, was very hard 
 to be endured. 
 
 During French-Bay's stay in Boston, finding himself un- 
 able to get the "Golden Secret," albeit he had seen the only re- 
 maining copy of the "Golden Letter," the other five copies having 
 been given to the persons they were printed for, — physicians 
 mainly, — he desired to be "led to the gate of the Temple," to be 
 taken on trial. (And it is a singular fact that three of the only 
 four men who were ever thus taken in Boston, proved wholly 
 unfit; the fourth one — a true man — not a resident, proved worth 
 
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 his weight in solid pearls.) He was so taken, as was Churchill, 
 both of whom, with bare heads and uplifted hands, took the 
 Rosicrucian's Oath, which word for word as follows. The same 
 oath was administered to and taken by French-Bay's friend in 
 Ohio. 
 
 The oath: Appealing to God as witness of my integrity of 
 purpose, I ask to be admitted to the preparatory or trial degree 
 of the honorable and ancient Order of Rosicrucians. I solemnly 
 swear to try to be a true and honest man : that I will never pur- 
 posely injure the fair name of any human being; that I will for- 
 ever keep inviolate all secrets that may be trusted unto me : that 
 I will never babble, lie, steal, bear false witness, expost faults, 
 create scandal, or cause any human heart to grieve or mourn; 
 that I will dry all tears and cheer all hearts, and never cease 
 trying to be a good and worthy citizen of the world: that I will 
 never seduce any virgin, wife, widow or matron; but will protect 
 all such, if need be, with my life; that I will henceforth bear 
 without abuse, the grand old name of gentleman ; and if I fail in 
 aught herein, it will be proof that I am wholly unworthy to be 
 called a man. I solemnly swear to be prompt, just and true in all 
 my dealings with man or woman, and that never will I sully 
 my soul with a mean action of any sort or kind whatever, — So 
 help me God! I further solemnly swear, in the awful presence 
 cf Almighty and Eternal God, that I will ever and always cham- 
 pion the just cause of woman; that I will never encourage har- 
 lotry, practise libertinage, defame another, wrong any man, and 
 especially any true woman, and in all things will strenuously 
 endeavor to be a man! So help me God." (22) 
 
 Result : One of these men boasted of seducing his partner's 
 wife, and his own wife's daughter by a former husband ; wrong- 
 ed several persons in Boston out of hard-earned money; con- 
 ducted an illegal intentionally swindling lottery right under the 
 noses of the law officers, and swindled the best friend he ever 
 had; the other deliberately resorted to perjury to gain a few 
 dollars, and caused the arrest of a man whom he knew was as 
 innocent of the foul charge he swore to as that his own soul is 
 warped and guilty. It is not hard to conceive how a man can be 
 rushed into crime for revenge but not so easy to discern how one 
 can deliberately seek to restroy one who, so far from ever having 
 
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 done him a harm, had done all a man could for him, and actually 
 went hungry that he might dine. 
 
 The primary lessons taken, French-Bay, whose real name 
 is W. T. French, expressed a desire to remain with Mr. Ran- 
 dolph, and proposed a business arrangement; he professing his 
 ability to raise the capital necessary, from a friend of his, one 
 Andrew Bay, of Leatherwood, Ohio, — a man reputed to be worth 
 over one hundred thousand dollars ! Randolph, desirous to enter 
 the lecturing field, and not suspecting any villainy, readily 
 agreed to French's proposition, and signed papers whereby he 
 placed all, and singular, his works in the hands of Bay, French 
 & Co., the "Co." being the immaculate Churchill. 
 
 Several of the works being in manuscript, and others need- 
 ing re-stereotyping, it was agreed that Bay should furnish six 
 thousand six hundred dollars for that purpose, after which Ran- 
 dolph was to receive a royalty on all sales; Bay & Co. to have the 
 exclusive monopoly of his works for ten years. This very liberal 
 concession, however, did not satisfy the parties from Canada and 
 Ohio. Nothing less than absolute ownership of the copyrights 
 would satisfy them, and as they could not get them by fair and 
 open means, the vilest and foulest were resorted to. Finally, in 
 September, French, having arranged with Churchill, took his 
 departure for Ohio, to consult with Bay, his principal — an old 
 man, standing on the borders of the grave, whose love of money 
 will not help his entrance into heaven, if ever his soul drifts on 
 the edies of space in that direction — and yet it is a matter of 
 doubt whether that old man himself was not the blinded victim 
 of a villainous trickster, backed and prompted by as complete a 
 scoundrel as ever left Victoria's dominions betwixt two days. Be 
 that, however, as it may, it was not long ere French wrote Ran- 
 dolph that all things were satisfactorily arranged; that Bay 
 would enter into the contract, pay six thousand six hundred 
 dollars for printer's work, furnishing French et als. additional 
 funds for business purposes. He proposed that Randolph should 
 dedicate "Casca Llanna" to Andrew Bay, which was done in the 
 first two hundred and fifty copies, at which point R. declined that 
 dubious proceeding, preferring to dedicate the work to some one 
 more worthy of it than such a being as A. Bay, of Leatherwood, 
 Ohio, and so he inscribed the next issue to his own mother's 
 
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 memory, which so enraged French, that he swore all sorts of 
 "funny things" — poor wretch! 
 
 Now came almost daily letters from French to Randolph, 
 the most important ones of which are still in his possession, and 
 two or three of which first suggested the idea that French was 
 trying a confidence swindle on Bay and his sister, whom F. 
 boasted was neck-deep in love with his pretty self — a thing that 
 Randolph believes to this day, and of which he made notes, it 
 being a "circular singumstance" for a woman of about seventy 
 to turn fool and fall in love with a fellow whose own wife, after 
 twenty long years of agonized life with, had been forced to pro- 
 cure a divorce from — mainly as it has been asserted, on the 
 ground that he was less man than beast — in a matter of horrible, 
 shuddering import; albeit the writer hopes for manhood's sake 
 the truth is overstated. At all events the poor lady lives in Pauld- 
 ing, Ohio, and can tell her own story, just as she did tell it to 
 him of whom the alleged facts were derived ! 
 
 French wrote, asking that A. Bay be admitted to member- 
 ship. "As I feel weak here alone and need his assistance and 
 counsle, would like this Initiation to take place as soon as 
 practable. He is seventy-two years old, is a little dogmatical. 
 Independent of all kinds of Clicks! (Sic!) — Am pleased to hear 
 Churchill remains in Boston. I hope and believe he will suc- 
 ceed." In the same letter, alluding to another man's wife, 
 whose husband wants to meet French for a little private talk, 
 the Paulding hero gushes thusly: — 
 
 "Martin. — Thou Sunlight without a shaddow (?) beauty 
 without a blot; Thou pale-faced, azured eyed, bird voiced, slight 
 hand, slender waisted, small footed little devil in eve's flesh, how 
 art thou? Well, of course, how could it be otherwise? When 
 God makes up his last crown of jewels I feel assured that you 
 will be one of his brightest gems." 
 
 "There, did you ever — haven't I spelt." As to Carrie, (an- 
 other man's wife) French wrieth: 
 
 "I did not make her acquaintance (sorry) only remember 
 her queen life forme and heavenly eyes — " — He wanted to make 
 her his "Turkle Duw!" — "I will be governed by your diction 
 (?) I am constant early and late — all day keep things moveing 
 as long as there is a thing to move with proffit. Have the book 
 dictated to Dr. Andrew Bay. It takes." That is to say, it was 
 
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 a means to enable him to lay siege to the Bay estates, for he 
 wrote Oct. 12, 1871 : "I have this afternoon reach (?) the crisis 
 with Bay. He is about to sell some fifteen thousand dollars' 
 worth of real estate. Give me the use of it for publication of 
 the book, five or six thousand extra to pay for board, and office 
 hire, etc. — I had to work the thing so adroitly that I am now 
 ashamed to show the paper in relation to the statement you give 
 me; make the statement again proposing to dedicate the bood 
 ( ?book) to him, etc. We can change the thing, if I come, to suit 
 ourselves." But why, if he was not throwing dust in Bay's 
 eyes? 
 
 But the details — these letters of W. F. French, when the 
 drama ended, were seen to be so full of fraud, treachery and 
 trickish double dealing that the wonder is they were not seen 
 through sooner. They are still preserved and will one day help 
 to unmask a consummate scoundrel. 
 
 Let us hasten on toward the denouement. At the combined 
 solicitation of Bay and French, in October, Mr. Randolph went 
 to visit them in Ohio, and Churchill invited himself apparently 
 to go along, and at a cost of over two hundred dollars to Mr. 
 Randolph, for Churchill from first to last always refused to pay, 
 but sponged his friend. His journey had been previously plan- 
 ned between himself and French! In due time the journey 
 ended, and Mr. Randolph had the pleasure of beholding Miss 
 Susan Bay, an exceedingly fat person, whose age was stated to 
 be close on that of her brother's. Mr. Andrew Bay was found 
 to be a man of some seventy odd years old, who boasted that he 
 never read a book; who consisted principally of poor clothes, 
 broad acres, much money, more hair, and strong confederate pro- 
 clivities. He had been a doctor without a diploma, and had 
 made the astounding discovery that all diseases sprang from the 
 presence of bugs in the human economy, and that the universal 
 panacea for all mortal ills consisted of frequently repeated doses 
 of the best fruit toddy to be made; when you got enough in you 
 to make you tight you'd wake up well. It certainly isn't a bad 
 remedy to take, for almost everybody liked it, as Randolph found 
 out to his cost, for his brain is large and active and cannot stand 
 much alcohol. Churchill and French now took long daily walks 
 together, and they and Bay proposed to cure Randolph's cold in 
 very short order by the "elixir," and only talked business with 
 
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 him when he was under its influence. The contract was agreed 
 to, under such conditions, drawn up by Churchill, and had Ran- 
 dolph signed it — as he was by Providence prevented from doing, 
 all he had in the world, copyrights, plates, office, mail — all 
 v/ould have passed from his hands into those of the sharp tri- 
 umvirate. 
 
 In order to better carry cut the scheme, French desired Ran- 
 dolph to use his influence and power to bring about a marriage 
 between a relative of Bay's, by marriage, named Head, and 
 Bay's servant girl, an amiable being, with strong constitution, 
 defective speech, and decidedly the best cook of poached eggs in 
 all the region around about. The object of this scheme was to 
 break the connection between the Bays and Head; get the latter 
 — who acts as protective guardian of the family, — and they need 
 it, — out of the way, so that a clearer field might be open for more 
 effective play on Bay's money bags. 
 
 Randolph declined to endeavor to bring about a marriage 
 with Head and "that there gal," as French called her, but de- 
 voted his spare hours to admiring the beauty and perfections of a 
 delicious little neighbor of Bay's, whom he desired to assist in 
 the initiation; — a perfect little gem, a flower, a violet. He was 
 so smitten with her, in fact, that under the triple influence of 
 French-Bay's elixir and resultant spooneytude, he really thought 
 he'd like to change her name for his. 
 
 This was just what F. and C. wanted (although Susan op- 
 posed it, infavor of a Baltimore relative, said to be a great 
 beauty), for then they could not only have a clear chance at 
 Bay's estates, but the book affair also — not to speak of sundry oil 
 wells, supposed reachable by boring on Bay's lands. But "the 
 best-laid plans of mice and men aft gang aglee," and so did 
 these, for although they succeeded in ruining Randolph, lighten- 
 ing old Bay's pockets by some thousands, yet one of the con- 
 spirators is a refugee from Boston justice, and the other is an 
 errant quack doctor in some unfmdoutable place in the west, 
 with altered name, and hiding from that outraged law which 
 Randolph has invoked against him. 
 
 And now two things were done. 1st. Andrew Bay contract- 
 ed with P. B. Randolph to take, print, publish, and, through his 
 agents, French and Churchill, sell all his works, he to monopo- 
 lize the trade, pay Randolph six thousand six hundred dollars, 
 
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 as previously stated herein. On this contract Bay paid Randolph 
 various sums, amounting to a little over two thousand five hun- 
 dred dollars, balance immediately payable. On the strength of 
 this contract and part payment, Randolph put his books in 
 printer's hands, paid thereon all that Bay had paid and nearly 
 as much more of his own, his child's, and borrowed funds. 2d. 
 French had been admitted to probation in the secret society of 
 Philosophers; had reported to Bay; Bay had applied for ad- 
 mission, and had paid five dollars with his application, and 
 both of them demanded his initiation, but vehemently objected 
 to that of Mr. Head, both running him down as not half a man, 
 and who, they said, intended to apply for admission. He never 
 did. In view of these desires of French and Bay, Randolph had 
 gone to Ohio with the essentials requisite to put Bay on proba- 
 tion, as French had been before him — and on whose suggestion 
 Bay had applied. Subsequently to all this French told all he 
 knew of the Temple and its workings — which was just nothing 
 at all, for no man knows ought of its real secrets till after he 
 has been well tried and proved, just as in Western Masonry, that 
 other lofty Brotherhood of men. Masonry has its laws, codes, 
 rules and dispensations. So has Rosicrucia, so have all the 
 brotherhoods of men. Now French had represented to Bay that 
 the society was a good thing. If it was a good thing, he was a 
 villain for aiming a blow at it! If it was a bad thing, then he 
 was a villain for trying to draw the old man into it! If it was 
 neither good nor bad, then he was villain for lying about it in 
 either way! 
 
 Now it so happened that when a person over sixty years of 
 age applies for membership, the laws of the order are that "Sin," 
 the man, be confronted with "Innocence," a pure, young girl, 
 generally a child; but in this case, as French said, there were no 
 pure girls in that burgh he should have to do the best he could, 
 and so obtained the services of Miss Bay — "that there gal," — 
 as French called her, while the third was the young lady already 
 spoken of — a being purer than French's soul ever was or will be, 
 in spite his slur that "no pure people lived in that town;" for, 
 with the exception of himself and immediate associates, Mr. 
 Randolph declared that French's assertion that the folks of 
 Leatherwood were all "leather heads," was a rank libel. How 
 far it was true in his case has already been seen; while a man 
 
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 who (as Bay did) would assign a fair claim of over two thousand 
 dollars to an adventurer, a claim against Mr. Randolph, who 
 would have repaid every farthing of it, a man, I repeat, who 
 would assign such a claim to a fellow who in turn gave a quit- 
 claim for the bagatelle of one thousand books, and then sold these 
 very books back again for less than seven hundred dollars, half 
 of which probably he left in his lawyer's hands, — must have 
 either a large purse, or India-rubber conscience, or leatherish 
 brains; yet Bay did that very thing, right square in the face of 
 the fact that Randolph had offered to pay the whole sum to any 
 honest agent Bay might depute on that errand. 
 
 Be this as it may, Bay took the oath and was admitted to 
 the probationary degree of Oalantia. Meantime, wild, undeflend 
 rumors began to reach Randolph that Bay was looney, and 
 French a "beat." It was also rumored that Randolph was try- 
 ing to fleece Bay by pretending to own plates, manuscripts, and 
 books, whereas, he had no such property. To settle that matter, 
 Bay commissioned Mr. Scott of Bellaire, Ohio, his nephew (and 
 chief clerk or partner in the heavy glass works of Captain John 
 Fink), to investigate the matter in Boston. Scott did so, and 
 went with Randolph and French to his printers, where he soon 
 satisfied himself that Mr. Randolph had in no sense equivocated 
 or in any way misrepresented actual facts, for Bay himself had 
 copies of one book, "Casca Llanna," and Scott saw the others, 
 and received several copies as presents. 
 
 Randolph, French and Churchill returned to Boston, wait- 
 ed six weeks for funds in vain, at Randolph's expense, and 
 finally received notice that no more would be paid. But if Ran- 
 dolph had consented to enter his books in French's name, thus 
 losing his copyright, no doubt funds would have been found, but 
 Randolph did not suspect that, until he found it out behind the 
 dungeon bars, where, by rank perjury, French had cast him, as 
 will be seen further on. Remember that Churchill, French and 
 Bay were sworn brothers of Randolph in the most ancient Ma- 
 sonry on the globe! (23) 
 
 True, neither of the three had learned any of its real secrets, 
 for these are given to masters only, not to builders — a rank far 
 below that of entered apprentice in that other Grand Masonry, 
 whose glorious symbolism fools and knaves can neith appreci- 
 ate nor comprehend. The trinity of aspirants had reached the 
 
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 "iron door," but it had not yet swung back upon its hinges to ad- 
 mit them within the sacred vestibule of the glorious temple. It 
 never swings back until he who stands before it can say "/ am an 
 honest man!" (See the episode of "Lara" in Mr. Randolph's 
 "Ravalette,") — words which but few men among the thousands 
 who have stood there waiting have been able from their hearts 
 to speak! Trials undreamed of by the neophyte beset his path; 
 one man falls through one besetting sin or passion; and another 
 through greed, pride, vanity, libertinism — all of which bar the 
 gates to him or them. (24) 
 
 December rolled itself away, and Mr. Randolph's hands 
 being tied, he shared his money with French — Bay, as he called 
 himself — lent Churchill one hundred and twenty dollars, French 
 two hundred and sixty dollars, and then a hundred more to go 
 to New York to get reviews and supply the trade. New York 
 charmed him, he "saw so many nice ladies on the street — after 
 
 dark — who were so polite!" and he got one of them to assist 
 
 him in putting the book in the market ! ! Of course a New York 
 publisher would not touch a book offered by such hands. Then 
 French-Bay saw Fisk. Fisk was killed and he discovered a 
 "gentleman," introduced to him by this "polite lady," and they 
 concocted a plan, to, in some way, avail themselves of Fisk's 
 generous offer. He returned to Boston. Randolph saw by this 
 time that the best thing he could do was to settle with the fellow 
 and let him gang his gait. Accordingly, he and French wrote to 
 Andrew Bay, for authority to settle the affair, and Bay sent on 
 an assignment to French! who no sooner got it in his hands than 
 he backed out of a fair agreement to take nineteen hundred dol- 
 lars and one thousand books for a perfect release. After which 
 Randolph never saw him again for, assassin-like, the assignee 
 stabbed him, as it were, in the dark, and then fled to a covert 
 to abide the result of the dastardly blow, which took some thirty 
 days to mature, and work out its dastardly effects in. 
 
 "Misfortunes never come alone," "Out of the frying-pan 
 into the fire," and "It never rains but it pours," are very homely 
 old saws, but very truthful ones, nevertheless. Accordingly, 
 when Randolph found that his hopes, based on the Ohioan's de- 
 ceitful promises, were utterly blasted, and that the unscrupu- 
 lous crowd would do their utmost to destroy him, and that his 
 last great work on Love bade fair to lay dead for want of means 
 
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 to let the people know of its advent, he began to cast about him 
 to find means to avoid utter ruin. He therefore decided to em- 
 ploy two ladies as general agents for the book, and he advertised, 
 late in December, for a lady agent, in the Boston "Herald." 
 
 This brought several women, and among the rest, one Mert 
 La Hue, a portly dame, good-natured in appearance, so-so-ish 
 in garb, yet with plenty of self-confidence, reliance, assurance, 
 imperturbability, coolness and astonishing self-possession. To 
 that woman Randolph explained his position and purpose. She 
 "had no capital herself — could easily get it, but objected to un- 
 der the circumstances in which she was placed," but proposed 
 to advertise for a "partner," and did so in the "Personals" of 
 the "Herald." To this there came fifteen responses from males 
 — not men — fellows anxious to find mistresses. Eight of the re- 
 plies were burned and seven replied to; the replies clearly stat- 
 ing the object of the "Personal," which was to engage capital 
 for the book trade. In response to these seven answers, three 
 men came to Randolph's office, two of whom were vagabonds, 
 and the third was a commission merchant of Commercial street, 
 named Robert H. Patton. 
 
 Mr. Randolph contracted with La Hue to furnish "Casca 
 Llanna" at a heavy discount, on condition that herself and as- 
 sociates should take enough copies to amount to nearly three 
 thousand dollars, the amount he required to print the work and 
 release himself from the French-Bay set. This was agreed to, 
 and Jan. 15th set as the limit of the time in which the money was 
 to be paid. It was not half paid at that date, nor at this writing. 
 
 A few weeks sufficed to see "Mrs." La Hue established in 
 fine rooms, elegantly furnished, with Randolph's books in huge 
 lots upon fine shelves — but not the first attempt made to put 
 them in the market! — how could a fine lady, who had a fine 
 gentleman to back her bills, — himself in bankruptcy at the same 
 time — find time to sell books? "Anybody'd be a fool to work 
 when money came without it." Now, Mr. Randolph has a child, 
 a half invalid from birth, for whom he had been saving a little 
 money, all of which, save one dollar, was swept away to pay 
 for the books on the shelves of Patton and La Hue! 
 
 But during these wearisome weeks he was studying human 
 life in phases never dreamed of before. For instance, he learned 
 of deep villanies, such as passing counterfeit money, stealing 
 
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 patents, hiding one's property from creditors; of fraudulent 
 bankruptcy; of getting vessels and cargoes insured, and then 
 wrecking the vessels; in fact, he found out rascalities compared 
 to which, all he had before known of such things paled in com- 
 parison. He was done for. 
 
 Days, weeks, months rolled on, yet Captain Patton failed to 
 pay; French-Bay and La Hue held a few interviews, and Ran- 
 dolph was doner. Please put this and that together, and see 
 the reasons why. To tell all his complaints the answer was 
 "Bah! that's all theatrical." Finally the Patton La Hue book- 
 shop, with its fine furniture, carpets, piano, desks, tables, books, 
 — not paid for! — its sofa, chairs and parlor bed, were attached 
 for rent. Then came La Hue to the already ruined author, say- 
 ing, "Raise me one hundred and fifty dollars; with that I can 
 start, pay off immediate debts, repay you in five days; do it, or 
 the books will go for less than a song." Well, to raise that 
 money Randolph had to give a bill of sale of all his copyrights, 
 redeemable in five days. The woman never tried to save him! 
 The plates were forfeited, but at the last moment by a coup de 
 main the poor fellow induced the holder to exchange the security 
 from them to some of her books, not paid for, which accident for- 
 tunately threw in his hands. 
 
 One night, while pondering on his losses, an acquaintance 
 of Mr. Randolph fell asleep, and dreamed he was on the plains 
 of Hell on a gala day. There he saw troops of devils, many old 
 acquaintances, several men, and one very superior-looking fe- 
 male. He asked the chief devil who that woman was, but the 
 imp, instead of answering, turned up his nose at him, then made 
 a low bow to the lady, and saluted her with this "theatrical" 
 poem : 
 
 " 'She beat her way to the end of time, 
 With manner gay and cheek sublime. 
 Hail, august queen — thou queanly dame! 
 Great empress of the "Boodle game!" 
 Flaunt, flaunt thy way along the streets — 
 All hail, La Grande, thou queen of "Beats!" 
 Swing, empress, swing thy loving arms; 
 They'll sweat, and pay who seek thy charms. 
 If th' captains fail, lose not thy cheer, 
 There's fortunes yet, in shoving "Queer," 
 
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 And boodle fools will bite at straws 
 While you escape all penal laws ; 
 Go shove thy queer, — in dry goods shops, 
 Go pass it off — for malt or hops, 
 From the shores of mighty Michigan — 
 By help of handsome steamboat man, 
 Or him who shrinks from Whitely's thrall, — 
 Poor Fred — in far-off Montreal; 
 Or "Von" the "Gun" and generous giver, 
 (Does he shove queer out in Fall River?) 
 Or those who dwell on Dighton's plain 
 And ne'er walk out — except it rain — 
 To buy umbrells — and pay in notes 
 Tens, twenties — dear at seven groats! 
 Hail, empress of the queerest post 
 From Fanueil Hall to Chicago's ghost ! 
 From Oregon to cold Bangor, 
 And hot Mobile to Labrador; 
 From Frisco's hills to Providence, 
 All hail, great queen of "Confidence!" 
 Who can resist that winsome ways? 
 Not Bob, — e'en with his lengthened days! 
 Thy smile wins hearts — detectives fall, 
 Give back thy "queer," for Mercy" call. 
 While starving authors, ruined quite 
 By thee, yet melt within thy sight; 
 And fret behind dull prison bars, 
 While, nose still pointed t'ward the stars, 
 You win! nor lose your wondrous calm, 
 Nor care for authors — nor their harm. 
 All hail, again, thou queen of sinners ! 
 Still eat thy Fera, Stumpke dinners, 
 Still swing thy velvet on the street, 
 And wind up victims clean and neat. 
 Still beat thy way to th' end of time, 
 With manner gay and cheek sublime; 
 Still frown on all thine own sweet sex, 
 And pockets of all rich men vex; 
 Go on, La Grande, thy way pursue, 
 The de'il himsel' can't equal you.' " 
 
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 Let us pass to another act of the drama. French-Bay and 
 his aids saw that it was impossible by any honorable method, or 
 by means of a civil suit, to recover the money advanced to Ran- 
 dolph, and paid out by him to printers and stereotypers for 
 work done, and having procured an assignment of the claim 
 from Andrew Bay, the "Bug" theorist, he cast about for other 
 means. It is pretty certain that the "polite lady" of New York 
 had taken offence at what Randolph had written on "reputable 
 concubinage" or Free-loveism, and the bright idea was hatched 
 between them to make that very identical and absurd doctrine the 
 means to crush him, and get possession of the copyrights of his 
 works, — the results of thirty long years of experience and liter- 
 ary toil, — among which was that famous "Golden Secret," which 
 must be had, by fair means if possible, but fair or foul, be had. 
 But how? 
 
 Says the Boston "Daily Globe," in an article concerning 
 the "shyster":— 
 
 "Dickens failed to do justice to the Police (or Municipal) 
 Court shyster, and we know we cannot do that thing. He is a 
 peculiar character. In the days of his early childhood, his 
 education was sadly neglected by the cross-roads pedagogue or 
 country school-marm whose idea of 'general sufficiency' was 
 measured by the space displaced by a single baked bean. The 
 shyster is a man of parts. His clothes are not made by a fash- 
 ionable tailor of the town, and a fastidious observer might say 
 his dress was rusty or inelegant, viewed from the Brummel 
 stand-point. He is in his glory while cross-examining a wit- 
 ness and squirting the extract of tobacco. With legs crossed 
 carelessly, and eyes fixed upon the object of his assault, he in- 
 fringes upon the rules of good grammar, and also those of the 
 Court. A simple hesitation in a point made plain in testimony in 
 chief, is the signal with him for a triumphant facial expression 
 and a threatening demonstration with the stump of a Faber No. 
 2, upon a piece of paper. An ordinary piece of strategy is 
 equivalent to intimidation, and then with an attempt at rhetoric, 
 he tries to wear out the patience of the Judge, the five-dollar 
 greenback he having previously received, being the motive power 
 for all this display of legal lore, (not law). Through the maze 
 of his harangue the night-walker in the dock is seen as a model 
 of virtue, the professional thief as the pink of honesty, and the 
 
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 vagrant as the possessor of a happy home, free of mortgage. 
 
 "The shyster is a piece of furniture around the court-house. 
 He is known of all the habitues of the halls of justice as a 
 'bore,' en rapport with the lowest class of criminals, whose 
 money, however, will buy as much beef-steak as anybody else's 
 money. The shyster is also apt to be filled to the sublime of 
 tumidity, and is well qualified to advocate an era of legal ethics 
 not laid down in Blackstone or Kent. The shyster can scent a 
 poor, miserable criminal in duress afar off, like the noble esquire 
 which can snuff the battle afar off. The shyster is a sort of 
 necessary 'bore' in the community. He fills a certain place, and 
 fills it well, just as an augur fills a round hole, and throws out 
 nothing but small chips. The shyster, wherever he may be 
 found, is by pretence, at least, an attorney — a 'learned' attorney 
 too of the lowest possible grade, and therefore vindictive, base, 
 destitute of the faintest pretension to honor ; . a mean, low, con- 
 temptible scoundrel — for an honorable member of the bar never 
 performs the dirty work such fellows are every ready to advise 
 and jump at." 
 
 Now such creatures abound everywhere, and it is more than 
 likely that some one, the "polite lady," an Ohio Leatherhead, or 
 some unprincipled "what is it," hatched a scheme of such fine 
 rascality as deserves a premium, and hence must have originated 
 in New York, somewhere on the avenues, for it was altogether too 
 brilliant in infamy to have had its birth in Boston. Be that as it 
 may, however, an interview took place between LaHue and 
 French Bay, and soon afterward, on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 
 24th, four men, armed with a search warrant, sworn out by F.-B. 
 in all probability, entered Mr. Randolph's rooms, and began to 
 search his desk, tables, library, book-shelves, bureau, trunk and 
 everything else, diary, old letters, (with the names and dates 
 erased, however), for (so the pretense was) Free Love Litera- 
 ture!! the very thing that Randolph had been battling against — 
 for years — that is, if free-love and sensual license mean the same 
 thing. 
 
 At the time Mr. Randolph was sick abed from heart disease, 
 and scarce able to speak, yet the wicked work went on. The ob- 
 ject will be seen further en. 
 
 In its proper place the writer forgot to state that French - 
 Bay knew that Randolph had an insurmountable horror of all 
 
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 confinement, and the plan was to throw him into a dungeon, 
 far away from the reach of friends, late at night, and extort from 
 Randolph an assignment of all his stereotyped plates and copy- 
 rights, while he was in a state of mental agony, bordering on 
 madness ! Think of it ! 
 
 The search over, Randolph was taken to a cell; and that 
 same night, French-Bay, by his lawyer, and in presence of coun- 
 sel, whom a friendly gentleman had kindly sent to Randolph's 
 assistance, actually offered to release him, on condition that he 
 would assign to this Ohio Bay and French, all his right, title 
 and interests, and those of his daughter, in and to his copyrights 
 and plates! He was attempted to be extorted of all the results 
 of a life of incessant toils; and to satisfy their greed, give up 
 what in travel and expense had cost him over fifty thousand 
 dollars ! — for to write these books, Randolph had to travel in al- 
 most every land beneath the sun, and pass whole months among 
 hostile tribes, far beyond the pale of the white man's civilization ! 
 
 The subjoined extracts are copied herein verbatim, save that 
 the tenn "Free Love" is substituted for a far grosser one, mean- 
 ing the same thing used by unthinking newspaper writers, in 
 the various news journals of Boston, Feb. 25, 1872. (25) 
 
 "A Learned Pandit in the Tombs. — Authors are but mortal 
 after all, however high in the realms of romance they may soar, 
 or however erudite and abstruse may be the emanations from 
 their well-springs of knowledge. It is a popular fallacy that the 
 pathways of authors and writers are strewn with roses, and that 
 beds of down await the coming of their learned though ex- 
 hausted owners whenever they shall design to pay tribute to 
 'tired nature's sweet restorer,' but it is the purpose of this item 
 to contradict this theory, pretty as it is, by a few facts. It will 
 be remembered that two weeks ago to-day the 'Herald' chron- 
 icled the arrest of one George St. Elmo Symons Ogden, an ex- 
 editor, who was afterwards held for trial on a charge of forgery. 
 And now comes a bigger man than St. Elmo, one who has seen 
 more worlds and heard more tongues than he ever dreamed of, 
 or read about. No less a person than Paschal B. Randolph, 
 physician, teacher, author, lecturer, philosopher, etc., etc., was 
 an inmate of a cell in the First Police Station, on Saturday even- 
 ing, from which he was conveyed to a similar apartment in the 
 city prison, the said conveyance being by means of a vehicle 
 
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 labelled 'City of Boston.' The cause of the detention of the 
 learned gent was specified in a warrant from the Municipal 
 Court, which alleges that he was the author of several works 
 which were deemed altogether too free-lovish for circulation 
 among the moral community which comprises the city of Boston. 
 Detectives Ham and Wood made the arrest, and among the 
 documents seized were a certain pamphlet or circular, and a 
 volume entitled 'The Master Passion, or the Curtain Raised.' 
 The latter was full of language of the most free and easy char- 
 acter, and entirely unfit for publication or repetition. Randolph 
 will be complained of in the Municipal Court on Monday. It 
 is said that he is one of the most learned and extensively read 
 men in America, is familiar with all the ancient languages and 
 literature, and has written numberless works upon philosophy, 
 love, religion, and other topics, though few of them have ever had 
 an extensive circulation. His acquaintance with prominent and 
 influential men of every known nation is said to be extensive, 
 and his experience seems to have been as varied as the most 
 eccentric could desire. He is a half-breed, the East Indian blood 
 being plainly visible in his complexion. His office is in Court 
 street, and the officers found a bushel or so of manuscripts which 
 had not yet reached the printer's hands. A certain Madame Mert 
 La Hue, who has a place in Washington street, is said to be an 
 agent of Randolph in the circulation of his publications." 
 
 "Arrest of an Adventurer. — Detectives Ham and Wood 
 took into custody Saturday, Paschal B. Randolph, of Court street, 
 on the charge of being the author of several publications unfit 
 for circulation. Randolph is a very talented man, and has been 
 a little bit of everything. He has the title of doctor, and figured 
 somewhat conspicuously in Louisiana political troubles just at 
 the close of the war. He also made a speech at a National Con- 
 vention in Philadelphia a few years ago. He was active in get- 
 ting up what was known as the Rosicrucian Rooms on Boylston 
 Street about four years ago. He has published a number of books, 
 is a man of education and extensive reading, and has travelled 
 over nearly all the world. He is decidedly a soldier of fortune. 
 He will be brought before the Municipal Court to-day. The 
 officers found a bushel or so of unpublished manuscripts at his 
 room on Court street. They state that a Madam Mert La Hue 
 has been connected with Randolph in issuing the publications." 
 
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 All this, of course, set Boston agog for a new sensation, and 
 hundreds were glad of it, not against Randolph, but because 
 they knew his ability as an offhand speaker, and ached to hear 
 him make his defence, knowing well beforehand what the in- 
 evitable result of such an effort would unquestionably be. 
 
 Late on Saturday night French and his co-laborers began to 
 find out they were going a little too far, and a little too fast, in 
 proof of which the accuser changed his lodgings! and could not 
 be found during twelve days' anxious search by several who 
 particularly desired to interview the gentleman. ( ? ) 
 
 Early on Monday morning, before Randolph knew the turn 
 things had taken, the same Boston papers contained these 
 items: — (26) 
 
 "A good deal of Smoke, but no Fire. — They say that the 
 course of true love never did run smooth, and on the same au- 
 thority, if not better, we are warranted in believing that the 
 course of justice is somewhat rough and rutty. In the 'Sunday 
 Herald' something of a reportorial photograph was given of a 
 'learned pundit,' named Paschal B. Randolph, who was repre- 
 sented to be the author of certain Amatory, — in fact Free-Love 
 publications and under arrest for the publication of the same. 
 Now the officers who had him in custody thought that they had 
 him 'dead to rights,' as officers say when they have all the evi- 
 dence against a prisoner they want. In this case officers Ham 
 and Wood had managed to get possession of certain books and 
 circulars that they deemed improper, and laying these publica- 
 tions before the judge, the officers secured a search-warrant, and 
 on examining Randolph's premises, a large quantity of these 
 publications were found, and Randolph placed under arrest. The 
 officers, however, were unable to get the case before the court, as 
 Judge Chamberlain refused to grant a warrant against him on 
 the ground that the works did not come within the meaning of 
 the statute relating to indecent publications. So he was dis- 
 charged from custody before reaching the dock, where he was 
 expected to appear, and where many curious people expected to 
 look upon him. The intent of the publications was not to excite 
 the passions of young people, as many might at first suppose, 
 but to give information on matters relating to marital relations, 
 such as is often sought after in medical books and from medical 
 men, by both husbands and wives." — Herald. 
 
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 "Much Cry but Little Wool. — The great attraction in court 
 this morning was the case of Paschal B. Randolph, said to be a 
 professor of physic and metaphysics; a poet and philosopher; a 
 lecturer and dabbler in literature, and, taken all in all, a man of 
 more than ordinary attainments. He has an office in Court 
 street, where his sign is hung out. The offence with which he 
 was charged was that of publishing an disseminating certain 
 documents alleged to be free-love in their nature and not to be 
 placed before the public. He was arrested by Detectives Wood 
 and Ham on Saturday evening on a search warrant. 
 
 "This morning Judge Chamberlain, after a thorough 
 scrutiny of the doctor's literary effusions, declined to grant a 
 warrant on which he could be brought before the court; so the 
 'Learned Pundit,' as a sensational reporter of one of our con- 
 temporaries styled the doctor, was released from his confinement 
 in the tombs, and for the present that's the end of the last sen- 
 sation." — Times. 
 
 "No case made out. — Dr. Paschal B. Randolph, who was 
 reported under arrest on a charge of publishing free-love books, 
 was discharged without an examination in court, it being decided 
 that the books did not come within the meaning of the statute." 
 — Advertiser. 
 
 "Every now an then brief paragraphs appear in the papers 
 chronicling 'the seizure of improper books, and a few days ago 
 the 'Herald' told how a 'Learned Pundit,' the world-famed 
 Dr. P. B. Randolph, of this city, had been arrested for writing 
 and publishing such books. Happily for the 'pundit,' as well as 
 for the good name of this city, it appeared on investigation that 
 his books were not as vile as painted, but were simply designed 
 to convey valuable medical information to their readers." — 
 Herald. 
 
 " 'Justice warmly defends Dr. P. B. Randolph and his 
 works, and questions the probity of the guardians of public 
 morals when they attack such a man, and allow absolutely 
 obscene periodicals to be freely circulated. — Herald. 
 
 A NOTE FROM THE "LEARNED PUNDIT." 
 
 Editor Herald — I herewith send you a copy of each of my 
 works, "Love the Master Passion" and "Casca Llanna," both 
 written in the conservative, of human society, and both dead- 
 
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 set against radical free-lovism, and that's why such a strong 
 attempt was made to scare me out of my copyright of the same. 
 But the little game didn't work, thanks to an upright judge and 
 Deputy Chief of Police Quinn, but for whom I might have lost 
 my property. I was imprisoned about two days, and think I 
 shall clear at least one thousand dollars a day (for false impris- 
 onment) by the operation. That is not bad for a "Learned 
 Pundit of Oriental extraction" and anti-free love proclivities. 
 Do me the justice to contradict the report that the "Master Pas- 
 sion," or any of my works, are immoral. I wrote them for my 
 daughter, a pure and spotless child, and I am not the man to 
 corrupt the mind of her I love better than all else, save my 
 Creator. It was said in your article that Mrs. Mert La Hue 
 was my agent. This is, thank God! not so. In conclusion, 
 allow me to thank you for what you have said in my behalf. 
 Twenty years a resident of Boston, save part of the war time, I 
 trust in the future as in the past to merit a good name, and at 
 last to quit the world somewhat better for having lived in 
 it. (27) Yours, respectfully, 
 
 PASCHAL B. RANDOLPH. 
 — Boston Herald. 
 
 Says the Boston "Saturday Evening Express": — 
 "The Learned 'Pundit.' — The following is a copy of the 
 note accompanying each of the works presented to the press 
 for notice and review, thousands of which are in possession of 
 the journals all over the land. 'To the Editor, with compliments 
 of P. B. Randolph, in behalf of self and Rosicrucian Publishing 
 House, Boston, Mass. In issuing the volume herewith presented 
 you, we respectfully ask you to give it just such notice as its 
 merits fairly claim. In this age of pseudo-philosophical knight- 
 errantry, wherein every dabster in logic feels justified in run- 
 ning a tilt at all the human virtues, outraging Christian propriety 
 and decency, — attempting to. dethrone the very God of heaven 
 from the universe, — a corrective was needed, and with that 
 view we have issued the rare volume now sent you. Trusting 
 and believing that you, with us, will hail this truly inspired 
 work, and that you will courteously cause a copy of your notice 
 
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 thereof to be mailed to us, we remain, in behalf of truth, civi- 
 lization, healthy and sound philosophy 
 "Yours respectfully, 
 
 "P. B. Randolph." 
 
 On the very day Randolph was arrested, the papers an- 
 nounced that "Mr. Hep worth Dixon is still pressing his suit for 
 libel against the 'Pall Mall Gazette.' The paper charged him 
 with writing obscene books, which went against his feelings just 
 ten thousand pounds worth." 
 
 And he has since gained his suit, for his work, "Spiritual 
 Wives," instead of being an incentive to immortality, is an ex- 
 posure of the polygamous sophisms of Mormonism, Perfection- 
 ism, and things of that sort, just as Randolph's are, and ever 
 have been, devoted to the elucidation of mysteries of human 
 affection which no other writer has had either the courage or 
 ability to even undertake. 
 
 Among those who questioned Mr. Randolph concerning the 
 contents of his two books on love, was a committee of ladies, to 
 whom he said: "If there was an angel in heaven who took ex- 
 ceptions to the morals of those books, I should blush for the 
 angels! — that's all." And full well did they who instigated the 
 persecution knew the base charge would fall at the first trial. 
 If they did net, why did the searching crowd take from Mr. 
 Randolph, F. B. Dowd's works on Physiology, and never re- 
 store them? why did they take from him and lay before the 
 Judge a physiological letter, written to a physician by Dr. Ran- 
 dolph, and printed for private circulation by a friend of his, — ■ 
 F. Smith, M. D., to whom Mr. Randolph sold out his medical 
 practice in 1870 — and the only copy of which belonging to Mr. 
 Randolph he himself handed to the searchers, after they had 
 searched everywhere? — and which copy French-Bay had seen, 
 and Randolph had put aside with memoranda, at the request of 
 French-Bay himself, for the express purpose of embodying its 
 principles in a work he had undertaken to write for Andrew Bay 
 of Leatherhead or Leatherwood, — the long-haired sage of the 
 universal Bug theory of disease, — for the reason that said sage 
 could not correctly write the king's English himself — not even 
 half as well as could his factotum and doer of dirty work — W. 
 T. French-Bay, who spells dog with an r! 
 
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 If those who tried to rob a child of the labors of her fa- 
 ther's life did not know they were outraging human justice, why 
 was Mr. Randolph taken to a far-off dungeon, half a mile from 
 his office, when the Court House and Central Police Office are 
 within a hundred yards of his door? Yet he was so hurried off, 
 and when there dungeoned, and the only friend who know of the 
 foul doings denied admission to see him, until that friend pro- 
 cured counsel and made a combined effort which dared not be 
 refused! Before he was taken from that dungeon to another, 
 the counsel for French, the man who did the "legal" part of the 
 business, came to that dungeon, and in presence of Randolph's 
 counsel offered to release him if he would assign all his copy- 
 rights to the honorable Bay, French and Company. Mr. Ran- 
 dolph, smarting under the sting, indignantly told the lawyer 
 that he'd "see them all in hell first," a strong expression, but 
 wrung from him by the barefaced attempt to wrong himself and 
 daughter. 
 
 Is it right to class an unfortunate arrested one with known 
 thieves and social vampires ? I think not, and yet Mr. Randolph 
 was imprisoned in the same cell with men whose every word was 
 a ribald oath; whose breath was a pestilence, and over whose 
 persons vermin swarmed in countless thousands. 
 
 Do you wonder that Randolph nearly went mad with agony? 
 Can you find it in your heart not to pity him? Lastly, will you 
 not help him to regain some portion of what he has lost, by 
 helping to circulate his works, or inviting him to lecture before 
 audiences of your own collecting? Reader, I feel that this ap- 
 peal in his behalf will not have been made in vain. When Ran- 
 dolph went into that cell, he had two gold studs in his shirt 
 front; when he came out they were — gone. Now is it right to 
 thrust even a semi-decent man in the same cell with a low drunk- 
 en thief ? 
 
 At last Monday morning came, and Mr. Randolph sent for 
 Mr. Quinn, the gentlemanly Deputy Chief of Police, and to him 
 he told the whole story. The result was that the persecutors 
 were foiled, and Randolph was unconditionally released from 
 that thrall, without even an examination at the bar, simply for 
 the reason that a just judge saw through the meshes, and decreed 
 that wrong should not triumph on that occasion, and in the court 
 over which he presided. Randolph is not the man to ever forget 
 
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 a kindness, and it may be that he will have a chance to prove 
 his gratitude to that judge, and all others who then did, do now, 
 or hereafter do, him a good turn. Before, however, Randolph 
 knew the result, and that he was free, French's lawyer had 
 forced him to assign to French one thousand books, being all 
 those upon his own shelves, and some hundreds borrowed from 
 Patton and La Hue, of the Washington street rare establishment 
 — and queer as rare. 
 
 I am but one of hundreds who have heard Randolph speak 
 on love, true and false, before rapt audiences where even breaths 
 w r ere suppressed beneath the powerful spell of his almost super- 
 natural earnestness and power, and I have heard him discuss the 
 free-love system, which he denounced as the most devilish doc- 
 trine that ever emanated from the lips of men. No doubt many 
 were struck by the glowing pictures which he painted of the ter- 
 rible consequences of such a doctrine, and all admired his splen- 
 did portraiture of the tender thoughtfulness, the ineffable con- 
 sideration, and the unlimited kindness of the Father of his ador- 
 ation, whose name is the God of Love, and he bade his hearers 
 love only in such a way as would merit the sanction of a culti- 
 vated conscience, and the approval of eternal God. 
 
 Randolph, always powerful and clear, is never so forcible, 
 never so logical, never so eloquent, as when denouncing the fol- 
 lies of the present or demolishing the long-standing supersti- 
 tions of the past. If he is enthusiastic and audaciously deter- 
 mined in the defence of his own convictions, he is uncompromis- 
 ing in his attacks upon what he esteems the false teaching of his 
 opponents. And yet, the newspapers of Boston, who so well 
 know the unreliability of flying reports, eagerly published the 
 dastardly falsehoods again his good name, and not one of them 
 fairly retracted the slander. 
 
 To conclude this second act of the drama, Mr. Randolph's 
 losses, costs and expenses consequent upon the persecution 
 amount to nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, and 
 he has been compelled to give a bill of sale of all his stereotype 
 plate. 
 
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PART THREE 
 
 THE FREE-LOVE TRIAL 
 
 A paper now before me gives this graphic account of 
 "AN ILL-MANNERED DONKEY. 
 
 At one of the theatres, a few nights ago, a donkey — not a 
 human, but a quadrupedal one — took it into his head not to go 
 on the stage at the time he was wanted. As they attempted to 
 lead him forward he began to kick, and he kept it up until he 
 had smashed things up pretty badly. Net content with knocking 
 over two men, he devoted his attention and his heels to the 
 scenery, and before they could stop him he had kicked over a 
 castle and a range of mountains, put his foot through a lake on 
 which the moon was beaming, overthrown a large city in the 
 midst of a plain and ruined the plain, and demolished an entire 
 palace belonging to a prince of fabulous wealth. The play was 
 seriously marred, and the scene-painter had a good deal to do 
 next day to get things in proper shape. A donkey can do a great 
 deal when he gives his whole strength of mind and body to it." 
 
 And so with these Ohio saints ! They little dreamed of the 
 enormous stir they were creating when they began their raid en 
 Randolph. As already seen, no case was made out by them or 
 those who did their cruel work. Their outrageous attempt to 
 get possession of the copyrights of his works failed also, but the 
 persecution did two things not calculated upon by them: 1st. It 
 gave Mr. Randolph a wider public than he had ever known, and 
 carried the fame of himself and books where neither had been 
 known before; and in the second place led to the subjoined trial 
 of the free-love question; for right on the heels of French-Bay, 
 et als fiasco, came a heavier charge against him, not for his 
 property as a motive, but on a direct question of amative phil- 
 osophy and morals. Eay-French's case was in a police court; the 
 free-love trial was before the most august tribunal in the land ! 
 It is not proposed to give all the steps of it 
 
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 from the open charge to the verdict; or to detail everything said 
 on either side. Mr. Randolph was not prosecuted for property's 
 sake, as in French-Bay's case; nor was he charged with being a 
 practical free lover, or one who disrespected womankind; but he 
 was accused of a heavier offence, and arraigned on the fearful 
 accusation of being a dangerous citizen of the country; — a man 
 of undoubted talent and ability, who used that talent to debauch 
 and demoralize the entire country by publishing books so sys- 
 tematic and eloquently setting forth the alluring doctrines of 
 freedom, that whatsoever man or woman read them straightway 
 became an advocate of that ism, and a disciple of whoever was 
 the leader of that movement. (28) 
 
 To this charge he pleaded "not guilty," and defied the 
 world to convict him of even one single page detrimental to strict 
 morality. 
 
 He conducted his own defence. 
 
 By the conditions of the case three sides were represented 
 in the trial — 1st; the government, prosecuting Mr. Randolph — 
 represented by the Hon. Adolphus Skinner; (29) 2d; Mr. Ran- 
 dolph in self denfence, forced to fight a very able antagonist 
 
 — Mr. Skinner; and 3d; Mr. Selden Beaumont, representing the 
 free-love interest, for the sake of defending certain witnesses, 
 and indirectly influencing the legislative body then in session, 
 and anxiously watching the case, because of an impending effort 
 toward giving legal sanction to marriages a convenance. Thus 
 stood the case. The arguments of all three, and the summing 
 up of the testimony, are herein fully, fairly given. 
 
 The jury, by special agreement, were selected from all the 
 religious sects in the State; there being one each of the faiths 
 Episcopal, Shaker, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Methodist, Unitar- 
 ian, Spiritualist, Infidel, Calvinist, Catholic, Adventist, and one 
 Budhist. Their nationalities were as varied as their beliefs, 
 there being one each of French, African, Asiatic, German, Eng- 
 lish, American, Spanish, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, Russian, and 
 Swedish nationalities. 
 
 The Court having been called to order, the prosecuting 
 attorney arose and said: — 
 
 Gentlemen of the Jury, you have patiently through this long 
 week listened to the testimony in this case. You have heard 
 scores of witnesses for and against the prisoner at the bar. It 
 
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 has been both proved and admitted that this man has enjoyed 
 a popularity as a writer on love, never before accorded to any 
 man living or dead! — Ovid, Michelet, and Aristole not excepted. 
 You have heard, and it is proven by the testimony of hundreds, 
 that on the subject of the tender passion he wields both tongue 
 and pen of such almost supramortal eloquence and power, as to 
 be well-nigh irresistible, and for that reason, and because of 
 that self-same eloquence and power — that base and ignoble pros- 
 titution of talent and genius — that dreadful and stubborn 
 persistency in adhering to a course detrimental to the welfare of 
 society, he is all the more dangerous to the best and highest 
 interests, not only of society, but of the civilization of the cen- 
 tury ! He is undoubtedly, because of his learning, his deep read- 
 ing and research, his philosophical acumen and broadly scientific, 
 attainments, beyond all reasonable doubt the most dangerous 
 man and author on the soil of America, if not of the entire globe ! 
 (Sensation in the court room). He has actually boasted of 
 his free-loveism not only in his books, but also in the memorable 
 answer he gave his Honor the Judge now upon the bench, to 
 whose question, 'Mr. Randolph, what has been your experience?' 
 he replied, T have loved, not wisely but too muchly!!' (Smiles 
 from the ladies, who looked on the dejected prisoner with pitying 
 and curious eyes), and he had the unblushing effrontery to 
 print that sentence in his work, 'Walks among the women' — the 
 book called 'Casca Llanna.' In seeking a verdict against this 
 man, I am actuated not by prejudice against him, but by a stern 
 and vigorous sense of justice. The prosecution does not charge 
 this man with Libertinism in the usual sense of that term, (30) 
 for he is too intellectually refined for that; nor with seduction, 
 either of innocent girls or other men's wives, for he is undoubted- 
 ly morally incapable of the first, and too sharp for the second. 
 Not on either of these grounds do we claim a conviction; but on 
 the ground that his writings are calculated to unhinge the social 
 door, and let in upon society a set of doctrines which must result 
 in making all our wives and daughters shriekers for liberty to do 
 as they please, and remove themselves from under the wholesome 
 restraint now exercised over them. For instance, in one of his 
 books he uses this language, word for word, 'If married men will 
 be fools and play the Oliver, they are double-dotted ninnies if 
 they think their wives won't play a Roland thereto! Why, the 
 
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 thing is done in Sultan's harems even, and the man don't live 
 who can outv/it a woman!' Again, 'I fully justify any and 
 every woman in getting a husband by any art or means within 
 her power — magic, (or magnetic), sympathy, or any other 
 method.' And still again, 'In Casca Llanna' you will find these 
 words, alluding to a husband's kiss not quite too full of what 
 the author calls 'Soul,' 'Scarcely does the sound of such a kiss 
 break upon the still air than the telegraph from his lips records 
 the word "Humburg," on the tablets of her soul. She is instant- 
 ly and perfectly aware of the fact, even if, as is likely, she keeps 
 mum about it and says, nothing; while just as like as not again, 
 she smiles a smile within herself, as she realizes her abundant 
 ability, and willingness, and knowledge of where to obtain the 
 genuine article; or, if not so far gone as that, then such a kiss 
 suggests the necessity of so doing at the very first convenient 
 opportunity; and if there is one thing above another that a 
 disappointed or discontented woman knows how to make it is 
 an opportunity!' 
 
 There, gentlemen of the jury, if those extracts are not fair 
 and open, yet skilfully worded — very skilfully worded incentives 
 to the practice of the free-love philosophy, then the language is 
 not understandable! Sirs, I have read this book, this "Casca 
 Llanna," and with so much power, such almost supra-mortal 
 tact and eloquence is it written, that only by the most herculean 
 efforts of the will, was I able to resist its logic, or to avoid being 
 utterly swept along its tide by the vast fascination centred in 
 every page and in almost every line ! What do the witnesses on 
 the stand say of that book and its mate, "Love and its Hidden 
 History?" Let me repeat the substance of their united testimony. 
 I need not call names, as you heard what these dozen or more 
 women had to say, which, condensed, is to this effect and most 
 decided meaning. They declared: "We have read this man's 
 books. There is not a single improper line, word or sentence in 
 them all, but' (gentlemen, mark these words!) 'but the effect, 
 the effect! for it is so fascinating, that whatever woman, be she 
 maiden, wife or widow reads them, straightway and forthwith, 
 from that moment, not only neglects all other interests and occu- 
 pations whatever, but immediately bends her entire energies of 
 mind and heart to study — of what, gentlemen of the jury? Why, 
 love, sirs! But this author tells us that's just exactly what all 
 
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 women are made for! He tells us she is a living form of the 
 eternal beauty of the universe (31) — which may be true; but I 
 ask what phase of love ? The high and pure and holy, or the vile 
 and volcanic passions now running riot on the earth? Let me 
 read on. "She forthwith knows, thinks — in fact, after reading 
 him she's all love — because she has learned for the first time, 
 perhaps, just what her soul calls for, was born to give, and im- 
 periously demands, and she learns the rules laid down by this 
 author, not how to stir a man's baser nature, but to seize hold 
 upon his very soul itself, by means of his 'magnetic laws,' and the 
 like — (a dangerous power to trust to any one, much less weak- 
 brained women, gentlemen). All a woman thinks of or cares for 
 after reading Randolph is to get the upper hand, not merely of 
 brothers, lovers, husbands, but of any other man who happens 
 to strike their fancy." Gentlemen, even yourselves are not safe 
 from attack; if a Randolphite happens to get her eye on you, 
 the game's up and you are — lost! (Great and intense sensation 
 in the court and jury box, at which the culprit smiled). Yes, I 
 repeat, lost, no matter who the man be, even if, so to speak, 
 panoplied in triple steel, he is powerless before the woman who 
 has imbibed the Pythagoric doctrines of this arch-agapist, this 
 delver into hidden things, this traveller through sunny lands, and 
 some say ''summer lands" as well, this universal lover if not free- 
 loveist, who boldly tells woman that she counts for a great deal 
 more than the best man living, if she but knew her real self — 
 tells her that she's a great deal finer, abler, if she but knew how 
 to exert her awful power, than the doughtest man that treads the 
 earth! Such is the tendency of his teaching. What's the con- 
 sequence, as testified by this score of females? Why, that, fired 
 by the enthusiasm of this weird magician, fascinated by the 
 desire to test their new-found power, they grow restive and rest- 
 less ; gradually the bolder doctrines of the open-boast free-lovers 
 are imbibed; the dream of conquest and freedom, suffrage and 
 the like, agitate their waking thoughts and sleeping visions, until 
 at last, grown sharp, cunning, sure and fearless, they throw off 
 all restraint, and we are plunged neck-deep in the resistless 
 torrent of a social revolution and domestic cataclysm, wherein 
 men must take back seats and universal woman come to the 
 front! 
 
 Randolph himself, in describing the effect of one of his 
 
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 books, "Casca Llanna" on W. T. French-Bay, said that man: — 
 " 'Raaly thought his soul would melt, 
 Lord! how funny he must have felt!' 
 ''because the Ohioan's soul was in the wrong spot, like the ship- 
 carpenter's sons whom sailors tell of." 
 
 Eut to another phase of this cause celebre. Only a short 
 time ago, this man, this philosopher, who has seen fit to pervert 
 the grand mental powers with which the august Creator endowed 
 him — for it were useless for me to declare an imposter and 
 pretender one whom all the world knows and acknowledges to 
 be no common man, but in reality one of the most studied and 
 best-learned men on the continent, and therefore, more culpable, 
 this learned Theban, this professor of a hundred sciences and 
 tongues, (32) was placed under arrest on account of these very 
 books. This trial is to put an enduring injunction upon them, 
 and to totally suppress their future publication, and is there- 
 fore justifiable; the first arrest was a palpable prostitution of 
 public law to compass private ends (32) and it therefore justly 
 failed in its object, though leading directly to the present one, 
 which is, gentlemen, not persecution but prosecution; please 
 remember this in reaching your verdict. If the prisoner will 
 annul his copyrights, the case shall cease at once; if not we 
 must pursue it, even if, to him, the bitter end. This he refuses 
 unless the laws compel him, which they cannot, unless you by 
 your verdict declare them to be immoral. If you do not so 
 declare them, then he will be free to go on, and before two years 
 pass by, hundreds of his works will be in every village of the 
 land. 
 
 During the search of his premises, vast numbers of letters 
 to him were found, from women and men in all ranks of life 
 apparently; but as if with prescient eye, he had taken the extra- 
 ordinary precaution to number these letters, and then erase the 
 mailing places, signatures and dates! And yet when it became 
 necessary to establish all three, he did so by reading them from 
 his marginal note on each, where, in the Chaldaic language he 
 had marked, so that but few in America but this linguist could 
 read them. Now I ask if his correspondence was pure and 
 legitimate, why all this secrecy and care to conceal the identity 
 of the writers? For instance, here is a specimen, all of which 
 is plain English, except his mystical marginalia: — 
 
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 "March 28, 1872. 
 "Dr. Randolph: — 
 
 "My Dear Sir: — Will you please tell me how I can make 
 my dear wife love me? (Right opposite in Randolph's handwrit- 
 ing are these words: 'Love her and treat her well, you fool!') 
 how can I regain her affection? I believe that she once loved 
 me dearly, devotedly; but I fear that I have alienated her from 
 me by harsh ways, hasty temper, fault-finding, unkindness, 
 and even crual treatment. She says she does not, and never can, 
 love me again. I have read your book"Casca Llanna,"which I pur- 
 chased in New York, and I have, after trying every means I 
 could think of to regain her love, at last decided to take the 
 liberty of asking you if you will help me in my dire distress, and 
 have the same compassion on me that other good friends have 
 had on you when you needed sympathy and help. I do not 
 write this to learn from mere curiosity, but only because I am in 
 need of what I ask. I shall consider what you tell me strictly 
 confidential — (Here R. has pencilled 'This man needs the 
 Golden Secret') — and shall faithfully keep it to myself, and 
 esteem the knowledge a boon in very truth. We have been mar- 
 ried eight years. Pray send me the information, and that right 
 speedily, I implore you, that I may not lose a precious moment 
 in the application of the remedy, and if you can do aught to save 
 us God will bless you for it." 
 
 And so from all over the wide country, from crowded city 
 to hillside cabin, men and women, married and single, rich and 
 poor, of all lands, tongues, grades of life, custom, color and 
 religion, write to this man, whenever they seek light on dark 
 subjects, or relief from social and domestic ills and troubles. He 
 knows, and he only, how many five and ten dollars, and heavier 
 presents he has received for his advice. That point does not 
 concern us, but this does: — What are the means this Agapistic 
 sage makes use of to minister unto minds and loves diseased? 
 For that he does use means, and does succeed, is beyond all 
 question, as has been proved in the course of this trial. (34) 
 What is this "Golden Secret?" None of us here know, and 
 those who do are bound not to reveal it. If this man's art was 
 like that of the thousand and one impostures afloat in the world, 
 the same people would not write again and again, giving new 
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 nature of these benefits? what magnetic or Agapic or Aelotic 
 art does he bring into play? — imported from the far-off hills of 
 Asia, whither he went after them. 
 
 What strange lore is this which he learned among the 
 Druses, and Nusaireh of Syria; the Guebres of Persia; the Arabs 
 of the desert; the Turk in Stamboul and the swart sages of 
 sweltering Negro-land? Are they not unlawful, unlit to be 
 transplanted on this soil ? Gentlemen, the "Voudeaux" of Louis- 
 iana, the delvers in black magic, are a terrible set, alike feared, 
 dreaded and placated by whites and blacks. Yet this man was 
 their master, openly defied them all, exposed their secrets to their 
 faces, laughed them to scorn, and actually brought their king and 
 queen to his feet! (35) How did he do it? There are men 
 today in Boston — one a manager of a theatre who was present in 
 New Orleans in 1865, when Randolph publicly lectured en, and 
 exposed the "Voudeaux." Whence his power? What does it 
 mean? Have we an Appolonious, an Agrippa, a Cagliostro, 
 among us? It must be, yet cannot be, for this man believes in 
 God and worships him; trains his children in the same faith, 
 and claims to work his wonders solely through celestial, although 
 mystic means. (36) 
 
 To see this man philosophers cross the seas from India's 
 hills ; sages from France ; mandarins from China ; noblemen from 
 England; thinkers from Germany; negroes from the South; and 
 even the crowned kings invite him to their courts, where he 
 passes in and out, the proudest king among them all! (37) 
 How does lie do it? In 1858, he broke from the ranks of the 
 party he belonged to (38) and that whole creed united almost 
 to a man to crush him out. How did it result? He stood 
 firmer and rose higher than ever! Whence the power? At this 
 very moment he stands literally stripped of all he owned in the 
 world. How long will he stay so ? Wait and see ! 
 
 Nov/, gentlemen, let me call your attention to other points 
 of his career. 
 
 Over twenty years ago, Mr. Randolph was known to be a 
 Rosicrucian, and in that period he ascended the steps of that 
 mystical brotherhood, outstripping thousands and rushing past 
 hundreds of gray-beards in the mental race, until he attained 
 the chieftainship of the true Rosicrucians in America and the 
 Isles of the Seas, and finally to the supreme High Priesthood of 
 
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 the Order and Grand-Mastership of the combined Lodges of the 
 earth likewise, reaching the double office through his absolute 
 defiance of poverty and wealth, and persistent pursuit of ideas 
 alone! Now, then, it is, and for centuries has been, the car- 
 dinal belief of this celebrated fraternity of scientists, thinkers 
 and seers, that, injuries aside, death can be kept at bay almost 
 at will (whence volantia, decretism and posia, (39) the three 
 grand steps of their temple), and in any case for a long period 
 after that in which a man would, ordinarily, die. The world of 
 men generally hold that diseases of the human body are located 
 either in the bleed, bones, flesh and humors, theories which all 
 Rosicrucians laugh to utter scorn, as being babyish, puerile and 
 silly. For they hold that all diseases of the body take their 
 rise, form, shape, character and intensity in the emotive system 
 of the human economy; in a word, that whatever disturbs or 
 disorganizes the love element in human kind induces all the 
 phases of disease known to the race. (40) The same disturb- 
 ances also originate all the moral ills of mankind and are 
 responsible for every gibbet, gallows, murder, rape, war, theft, 
 robbery, incest, abortion, arscn, lying, slander, grog-shop, pesti- 
 lence, famine, insanity, and every other evil in the world includ- 
 ing free-love run wild, and every other abomination on the 
 planet. One thing is curious. No Rosicrucian doctor was ever 
 known to lose a patient! (41) 
 
 They hold that every domestic broil, family quarrel, divorce, 
 scrofula, constable, lawyer, counterfeiter, perjurer, and similar 
 transitionalisms, all come from disturbances of the love-nature 
 of the species, and can never be abolished until the Shiloh of 
 healthful love shall come. 
 
 This is Randolph's gospel, the chief of the Order, taken 
 from his very lips and confirmed by every member in the land. 
 (42) Well, when a person is ill, instead of telling him or her 
 to show their tongue, they say, "How's your heart's affections?" 
 and by various means put them in order and the cure's complete; 
 for they hold that whatever will restore and build up the agape 
 or love-nature will both heal the body, invigorate the will, re- 
 juvenate the soul, and banish hell from every hearth and discord 
 from every fireside. Well, acting on these axioms of the order, 
 it has, for ages, sought, first through alchymy, then modern chem- 
 istry, for the magneto-dynamic connecting link betwixt matter 
 
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 and spirit, body and soul, in a word, the universal catholicon or 
 elixir of life; and from their researches have sprung hundreds 
 of triumphs of the physician and the chemist's subtle arts. 
 
 Twenty years ago Randolph began his part of the work. 
 (43) Fifteen years ago he suddenly disappeared from the 
 American continent. When next heard from he had not only 
 made the tour of Europe, circulating in the highest literary, 
 philosophical, scientific, even royal circles, but among the most 
 secret, mystical societies of England and France. (For an 
 account of his astounding experiences in Paris, and with Napo- 
 leon III, see his "Ravelette." — Editor), and had penetrated 
 Greece, Syria, Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, until at length the "Lon- 
 don Times" and New York "Herald" correspondents announce 
 him as the favored guest of the Abyssinian king, Theodore, and 
 his black majesty of Dongola; and he passed everywhere unques- 
 tioned, unscathed by serpent, climate, beast or man! Not only 
 so, but by some secret means and power, penetrating with im- 
 punity the wild fastnesses of savage men, which no other native 
 of a Christian land, not even Livingstone, Baker, Gould, dim- 
 ming, Hue, Bird or Tytler had even ventured to distantly 
 approach; and all this journey bent on discovering the grand 
 secret which the arch-fraternity had been seeking during two 
 hundred — not years — but centuries, this universal medicine, 
 which all men feel really does exist somewhere in nature, and 
 that was to heal all disturbances of human, physical love-nature, 
 chemical, organic and magnetic, nervous and dynamic alike, thus 
 restoring the equilibrium between the natural forces, then, by 
 reaction and reflection, curing those of the immortal part like- 
 wise — a grand theory, if it be really true, which they believe, and 
 others doubt. If true, as they claim, then the result of its action 
 would be to prolong man's stay on earth, bring strength to the 
 worn-out woman, restore the vigor of youth to senile, hoary age, 
 increase the vital energy of the exhausted student, and perpetuate 
 the health of universal man. 
 
 These people, Randolph included, while disclaiming full 
 success, declare a very near approximation thereto, and the name 
 of the elixir is proto-ozone, or protozone for short. 
 
 Let that stand at present, but what I am aiming at is this: 
 By what strange bond are these men, for I believe there never 
 was but two women in the order, (44) really bound together v 
 
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 savage, civilized, coarse, refined, ignorant boor and polished pro- 
 fessor, barbaric chieftain and gentle poet alike, in one common 
 brotherhood, not, say they, confined to earth either, but rising by 
 successive steps, grade after grade, hierarchy after hierarchy in 
 the starry heavens, is lost to mortal fancy as they sweep away 
 into the awful fields of the further sky! (45) How are these 
 people so firmly, strongly knit together? How do they know 
 each other? and why, except in extraordinary instances, do they 
 sternly refuse aid from each other, when in danger or difficulty ? 
 — wholly unlike any other society on earth. Why do they covet 
 martyrdom and glory in their pain? I have no doubt that were 
 this very Randolph to give the word, not only would relief 
 come from them to him, but that his fees would suffer. Why 
 do they not give the word? (46) Is it because some strange 
 mystic glory blossoms out of their anguish, which they know 
 will come if they but endure? This must be it, and therefore 
 they are abnormal, consequently should be suppressed, as I hope 
 Randolph will be. 
 
 How is it that in all ages the records substantiate the strange 
 fact that these men seemingly laugh at death and defy disease? 
 They are always poor. 
 
 Mr. Connor says that once, in a moment of confidence, Ran- 
 dolph told him he despised wealth for himself, that he wanted 
 money enough to leave his daughter three hundred a year till 
 she died, but was anxious to get money that he might stereotype 
 all his works, so that after his death the Rosicrucians could cir- 
 culate them at but little over the cost of press-work, paper and 
 binding. What a strange ambition! Utterly careless of fame 
 and glory, this Rosicrucian yet lives and hoards like a miser, not 
 money, but leaden plates stamped with his thought, for the world 
 to read when he is dead. (47) Truly this is strange, and were 
 his books other than they are, at least some of them, I could not 
 find it in my heart to prosecute such an unselfish and self-sacri- 
 ficing man, for he is such, in spite of his great error; there's not 
 the slightest doubt that he believes himself right, while I know 
 he is wrong; and even though he is, and duty compels me to 
 urge this case against him, yet when I glance at the wonderful 
 fact I have just disclosed, a fact related by Mr. Connor, imparted 
 in secrecy by Randolph to him, there's something inside con- 
 tinually urging me to speak the words, "Go, Randolph, you are 
 
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 free!" But public duty forbids their utterance. (Scores of 
 people were moved to tears by this confession of the prosecuting 
 attorney). But their voluntary poverty indicates Budhistic char- 
 acteristics; for not only do these Rosicrucians scatter wealth 
 when in their grasp, in charities mainly, (48) but I have heard it 
 stated that they regard Narwana, or final blending with Deity, as 
 the great end of all life and all endeavor. They will not kill 
 either animal or man, no matter what the provocation in the 
 latter case may be; nor will they eat salt, or break bread know- 
 ingly with an atheist, libertine, harlot, thief, defrauder, traitor 
 or slanderer ! — these seven. Hence the institution is not adapted 
 at present to American soil, for if you extract all the above from 
 the population, it will not require a large continent to hold 
 those that are left! (Of course this was a "goak" of the coun- 
 sellor. — Editor. ) 
 
 Seriously: Is it safe to tolerate a body of men whose 
 secrets are deeper than the grave ; whose ulterior aims are known 
 only to initiates of the third degree? (49) men who pursue an 
 idea for centuries, by line and succession, with unabated energy 
 and unflagging zeal, and whose loftiest offices pass by crowned 
 kings and settle upon the weary shoulders of a coffee-carrier of 
 Arabia, a German chemist, or a man of no position in the world ! 
 Again I ask, by what means does the prisoner, and ethers like 
 him, attain to knowledge surpassing those of earth's best schools ? 
 — for instance, this man cannot read a note of music, yet he 
 writes it, and discusses it scientifically and correctly. He is no 
 astronomer, yet predicts a comet eight months before the glass 
 detects it in the sky? He knows nothing about money, yet fore- 
 tells to Horace Hay, one of the first financiers in the land, the 
 greatest money panic of modern days, seven months before it was 
 even dreamed of; and it is on absolute proof that he foretold the 
 last French Revolution and Prussia's sudden rise, nine years 
 before they came to pass, for "Ravalette" was printed nine years 
 prior to 1870. (50) Again, this same man, lecturing to a 
 Boston audience, pointed to three men and said, "Death is on 
 swift wing flying toward one of you!" And the funeral sermon 
 of one of them was preached on that stand two weeks from that 
 very day! Again, three sharp men of Boston contract with him 
 to manufacture his protozone at five hundred dollars a month, 
 and five thousand dollars at the end of two years, yet in the 
 
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 full tide of success, he cancels the trade, and actually prefers to 
 write books and eke out a precarious living, to enjoying a fine 
 income, with the absolute certainity of a splendid fortune in a 
 very few years. 
 
 But we left him among the Oriental savages. After three 
 years' absence he returned, announced his protozone, sells a few 
 thousands of it, and then suddenly gives up that trade, and 
 devotes himself to writing books; first, his "Pre- Adamite Man," 
 which Lincoln, (51) the lamented, asked to have dedicated to 
 himself; then a mystical work concerning man and his chances 
 after death; then another still stranger, in which he tells every- 
 body how to become magnetic clairvoyants ; and before these are 
 fairly off the press, he dashes off another work called "Love and 
 its Hidden History." Of this work I hold in my hand a review 
 by the refined and learned Marian Dennys, which I will now 
 read to you. "When I had read three pages of the book, I threw 
 it down, quite disappointed, for I had heard it highly spoken of. 
 There it lay for a week. In those three pages, however, I had 
 found one single point of interest — and that was a woman's idea 
 (Julia Ward Howe's Polarity, a study of sex), which induced me 
 to re-read the thought. I did so, was tempted to read a little further 
 — and then it was impossible to lay it down again. I marvelled 
 whether a man really wrote that most masterly analysis of a 
 woman or not. If written by a lady I could understand her, she 
 must have suffered; if by a man, then his sex belied him, for the 
 female soul was imminent in every line, on every page. Leaf 
 after leaf I turned, hour after hour slipped away, still I sat 
 eagerly devouring the feast before me, and although I thought 
 some of it was rather overstated and crude, yet on the whole 
 I was so well pleased, that — would you believe it — when at last 
 I laid it down, a whole night had gone, and a new day had 
 broken in upon me, for not till the gleaming sun rays over the 
 eastern hills glided into my room did I realize that I had been 
 cheated of my slumber by the weird and earnest soul of the book. 
 You have asked what my opinion of it is. Frankly, let me con- 
 fess, I do not like it all. Some parts I admire, they are so fine, 
 so tender, and withal so sadly plaintive and mournfully true; 
 but on the other hand it bears evidence of too much haste, as if 
 the writer was working for his next dinner, and could not get it 
 till his task was over; but, taken altogether, it is certain that 
 
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 nothing I ever read gave me such an insight into the deeper and 
 sublimer mysteries of the divine passion; and never before did I 
 realize fully, the meaning of its grosser counterfeit, the ignoble 
 fire that burns in coarser moulds, and covers woman's path, 
 alas! too often, with red hot ashes and smouldering dead men's 
 bones. Evil? I cannot yet tell whether the book's effect was 
 that, or whether it was a grateful satisfaction that I had learned 
 from a master the sometime valuable secret of power. 
 
 Assuredly I realized that if a woman of unprincipled mould 
 had read the book carelessly it was quite possible for her to con- 
 clude that thenceforth all men, to her, were to be but marionettes, 
 to be played upon at will and pleasure, and be made to dance and 
 whirl and turn topsy-turvey at her will and bidding. I can also 
 conceive how, if her corresponding alter ego were to read it in the 
 same way, without the restraints of morality and conscience, he 
 might possibly use the knowledge of woman nature thus 
 obtained, to the great disadvantage and injury of his mother's 
 sex, for really the book, as its sequel, "Love, Woman and Mar- 
 riage," is a new revelation, another world opening before the 
 reader. Perhaps it is well that the circulation of all books is 
 necessarily limited, for I can conceive that if every household 
 possessed either of these volumes, the reign of the sterner sex 
 would very quickly terminate everywhere, for while they are not 
 woman's right's works, they both tell her what her real rights 
 are, (52) and how to get them, in utter silence, too; hence, if 
 woman's rights in that sense is wrong, then these two are the 
 most dangerous books in the world; for before the strength and 
 power of a woman armed with the knowledge he lays bare, the 
 proudest man on earth would be as potter's clay. Let women gen- 
 erally comprehend the author's principles and exert their force 
 systematically, and from that moment woman becomes queen of 
 the world, and sole arbitress of its destinies." 
 
 There, jurymen, what think you now of this author and his 
 works? Is not this unbiased judgment of a clear-headed, pure- 
 hearted, highly-cultured expert, proof strong as holy writ that 
 these two, ay three, books should be suppressed, and their author 
 prohibited from circulating any more? (53) True, not an inde- 
 cent word, or indelicate allusion occurs in any of them, (54) but 
 their piths, their marrow, their essence and subtle meaning is 
 what makes the trouble, for what with his books on love, his 
 
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 protozone, magnetic laws and principles, the very devil will be 
 to pay in society at large, among the men, but especially the wo- 
 men, for the very foundations of a true and conservative social 
 order are undermined and universal chaos impends o'er the mar- 
 ried world ! (Applause, smiles, and even tears, in the court-room 
 followed this fine burst of eloquence). Gentlemen, once a female 
 reads these works, she rises therefrom by no means the same soft, 
 gentle and ductile being that she was when she sat down. Watch 
 her as she turns page after page! Now she starts and bites her 
 lips; then waves her hand as if she felt herself to be queen reg- 
 nant of the world. Anon she turns deathly pale as some subtle 
 thought breaks in upon her excited soul; and again the 
 red flush bathes her face in crimson glory, and, bound- 
 ing to her feet, with compressed lips, eyes flashing liquid 
 flame, she paces the floor with imperial tread, and beneath 
 her breath, with bosom palpitating with some new and 
 strange resolve, she exclaims, "The man is right! . we 
 women ought to rule the world! and — I mean to do 
 it!" Her demeanor has utterly changed, and she who erewhile 
 was a meek and ductile woman, has become suddenly suffused 
 with a new and lustrous beauty, flashing from her eyes, blooming 
 in her cheek and blushing through her coral lips; her nature, 
 wiiolly altered, she feels herself to be in very truth every inch a 
 queen! (55) fully understanding all men, able to laugh alike at 
 his honest effeorts to win her, and defy all his ways that are 
 dark ! She now knows that of all lovers it may be truly said that 
 his ways are ways of wariness and his walks are slantindicular. 
 Perfectly confident in her new-fledged powers, she prides herself 
 on ability to hedge and edge her path to victory over the wariest 
 male heart on the globe ! for this author has taught her the scope, 
 range, methods and rationale of that mysterious influence known 
 as magnetism, more in woman than in man, and which in com- 
 petent hands is a force against which no human heart or will can 
 successfully contend or stand, provided the assaulted party is at 
 first unaware of the fine attack ! 
 
 What, then, ought we not to do to guard ourselves against 
 this man, who studies the profundities of ontological science 
 for the avowed purpose of finally arraying the whole vast host of 
 women against the rule of their natural lords and masters in the 
 grand economy; upheaving the world, destroying the established 
 
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 social order, and revolutionizing the world! (Murmurs of 
 applause and dissent). 
 
 What measure should be taken to effectually silence this 
 preacher of a new crusade, who declares that society is essen- 
 tially barbaric; that true civilization is yet to come; that every 
 wife has the inborn right to say what shall and what shall not 
 be, in all things pertaining to domestic life; that when this is 
 the case heaven is close at hand; that the spirit of the universe 
 is essentially feminine, and females therefore ought of right to 
 rule; that no father ever yet sired a genius or child of talent; 
 that the mothers alone gave all there is of good and great to the 
 world; and that they, these Rosicrucians, are the true avant 
 couriers of the good time coming! 
 
 With marvellous address they whisper into a woman's ear. 
 "Do not trouble, or unsex yourselves about ballots, voting and 
 all that; but cultivate the special feminine graces of your sex, and 
 you will speedily rule the land ! (56) All men may not believe 
 in God, Christ, or Immortality, but every mother's son of them 
 believes in woman ! You can never win real homage by putting 
 on airs, but you can by acting always from the love-batteries 
 of your soul!" 
 
 Dear reader, pray remember this. Again, remember this: — 
 Every man of sense and refinement admires a woman as a 
 woman, and when she steps out of this character, a thousand 
 things that in their appropriate sphere would be admired, become 
 disgusting and offensive. The appropriate character of a woman 
 demands delicacy of appearance and manners, refinement of 
 sentiment, gentleness of speech, modesty in feeling and action, a 
 shrinking from notoriety and public gaze, aversion to all that is 
 coarse and rude, and an instinctive abhorrence of all that tends 
 to indelicacy and impurity, either in principle or action. These 
 are the traits which are always admired and often sought for in 
 a woman. Act on that idea, and your cause is safe and sure. 
 You can have it all your own way, if you will try ! These prin- 
 ciples will subdue the most ferocious and brutal beast, miscalled 
 "Husband," and by them a man may tame the fiercest vixen 
 that ever bore the name of "Wife!" Thus he wins their confi- 
 dence, converts them to his ideas, and their victory is won before 
 the battle fairly begins. Says lie : — 
 
 "Fair woman was made to bewitch, 
 
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 A companion, wife, nurse, 
 A blessing, a curse, 
 A termagant, shrew, or something far worse — 
 Fair woman was made to be which?" 
 It is not hard to predict if his reasonings are just. 
 
 He gains his points by descanting on woman's beauty, the 
 laws and rules for its increase and most powerful display; gives 
 recipes and items — the gathered treasures of all tongues and 
 lands, and lays them at her feet, saying: — "Take, use, and reign 
 queen forever!" and they follow his advice: "Be beautiful' I 
 have shewn you how. Magnetically alluring and attractive! I 
 have taught ycu. Waste not your sympathies, vitality or physical 
 force ! I have pointed the means how you may make life's game 
 your own in the briefest possible space of time." What's the 
 result? Why, that all women far and near, losing sight of 
 social duties, strive only to gain such an ascendancy in the world, 
 that it will net be habitable by any high-toned, spirited man: for 
 only effeminate human lollypops could or would endure such a 
 state of affairs. 
 
 One singular argument advanced by, not Mr. Randolph, 
 but the regular free-lovers, is that the state of the general human 
 health is such, that it requires magnetic changes; and the only 
 correct method of inducing them is frequent change of magne- 
 tism; in other words, shameless concubinage, and promiscuous 
 libertinism — a doctrine so utterly abhorrent as to bring the blush 
 of shame even on a demon's iron brow. 
 
 To conclude, gentlemen, we ask a verdict against the pris- 
 oner, net so much to punish him, as to warn others that society's 
 laws are not to be ruthlessly tramped upon; nor doctrines per- 
 mitted, whose effect must be to array the sexes in hostile combat. 
 I have done! (Court adjourned). 
 
 At ten o'clock next day the court was fairly packed, to listen 
 to the argument of Mr. Selden Ecaumcnt, (57) the advocate of 
 the ultra-liberal side of the issue, who rose and said : — 
 
 Gentlemen, I am here not as counsel retained for Mr. Ran- 
 dolph, or against him either; but for the purpose of disabusing 
 your minds of the prejudice against what is called free-love. If 
 the accused is convicted, then the days of free thought and 
 expression are ended and our liberties pass under Star Chamber 
 
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 rule. I am not aware that either Mr. Randolph or the believers 
 in free-love ever regarded him as favoring that cause. (58) 
 If there is anything favorable to it in his writings, I have not 
 seen them, and if there were, I should certainly not denounce him 
 for their utterance or expression; but with all my heart should 
 say, God-speed ! You are right, nor can human justice or right- 
 eous law condemn you ! The gates of hell cannot prevail against 
 you, for you but give tongue to the eternal gospel of truth, dwell- 
 ing in every man and woman's heart. That gospel is found in 
 the words freedom, liberty, self-accountability — the inalienable 
 right of self-defence and self-preservation; and so long as the 
 human heart acknowledges that gospel, just so long has a man 
 or woman a right to love or hate just as they please, with only 
 God and their own souls to say them nay! (Great sensation). 
 If this author has said one word in behalf of that liberty of 
 thought denied to mankind by their self-appointed rulers and 
 legislators, but which are guaranteed to every human soul by 
 the Infinite Master of all when he spoke them into existence, 
 then is Randolph fairly justified by the triple sanction of God, 
 nature, and universal human instinct! 
 
 If by his pen, tongue, or act, he has struck even one effective 
 blow at the strongest and heaviest gyves that ever bound a 
 human being — that of a hateful marriage — which fills more 
 mad-houses, peoples more brothels, fills more jails, causes more 
 crime, and stocks more grave-yards with prematurely dead, than 
 any other one thing under the starry sky — then again I repeat, 
 God bless him for the blow thus struck! (Wild excitement in 
 court). If, as the learned prosecutor says, he has done this 
 thing, and so effectually that conservatism stands aghast, then 
 from my soul, and the souls of all true people, there goes up to 
 God a loud vivat! and thanks for the brave, bold utterance! 
 (Applause). 
 
 I am not here to inquire if he be or be not a free-lover; but 
 if he is, he has an undoubted, heaven-born right to be, and so 
 has every other human being who breathes the air of heaven! 
 
 If he is not a free-lover, theoretically or practically, he 
 stands solitary and alone, amid the teeming myriads of earth — 
 brute and human alike — for no love ever yet was confined to 
 pairs, and never will be! If it is, why are so many brothels, 
 right in the midst of church, supported by married men — and 
 
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 members? Why are there so many convenient houses where 
 high-toned dames pass pleasant hours with low-toned lovers? 
 Do you want me to speak plainer? Shall I call names of parties, 
 places, streets and numbers, in godly Boston too? Shall I point 
 out bankers, merchants, deacons and right reverends, who go 
 down to see the sights of Babylon, and stay there too? If so, 
 I can prove what I say right on the spot! (Tremendous sensa- 
 tion in the court — a turning of heads, wiping of faces, and 
 dropping of veils!) 
 
 We are told in Holy Writ that he who looketh upon a 
 woman to lust after her has already committed adultery in his 
 heart. I believe it, and, measured by that standard, how many 
 men on earth are innocent ? You might pack them all in a ten- 
 foot room! 
 
 Do you suppose that either Randolph or the free-lovers 
 favor such othings ? Do you think they seek to render earth and 
 society a lazar-house? No, never! Let the principles of social 
 freedom be well understood, and that moment every brothel in 
 the world will be forever closed! Why? Because wrong mar- 
 riages would be dissolved without disgrace, and righteous take 
 their places; and when rightly married, hell is forever banished 
 from the household, and purity and heaven begin their sweet 
 and melodious reign ! 
 
 Of all the people on the globe who from their souls depre- 
 cate prostitution, and earnestly try to uproot its causes, free- 
 lovers are emphatically the people. If the prisoner at the bar 
 has never been a practical, mental or theoretical free-lover, forth- 
 with deck him out in linen and purple, put chains of gold about 
 his neck, and proclaim him the grandest marvel of all the cen- 
 turies, for he stands alone, the only human male on earth who 
 has not in desire, thought or deed been what the learned prose- 
 cutor — in court — is so utterly horrified by — but whether that 
 horror will not grow smaller by degrees, and beautifully less, 
 after he leaves the court, and finds himself the cynosure of a pair 
 of ripe lips and sparkling eyes — is not much of a question to me, 
 and I doubt even to the learned gentleman himself? (Smiles and 
 That's so!" and "Thrue for you's!" all over the room). We, 
 just as Randolph says, "live in barbaric times, and under bar- 
 baric law." What else can it be called which crushes thinkers, 
 and builds gibbets ? which throttles virtue and encourages broth- 
 
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 els? which sells "justice" to the highest bidder, and liberates 
 murderers — who can pay? which tolerates concubinage, and 
 liaisons, yet makes war on real marriage. What else than bar- 
 barism is it which holds a woman to a living death and hell in a 
 mockery of marriage, yet thrives on petty crimes extorted from 
 common prostitutes? What is that but barbarism which holds 
 that a woman, by the force of a few mumbled words, has sold 
 herself, soul and body, and has, to all intents and purposes, 
 become the property of him who buys her, and who may turn 
 out to be a man, but as like as not a coarse brute beast in human 
 form? Yet she must remain his bond-slave and creature of his 
 lusts, turn harlot or die, in order to free herself from the dread- 
 ful thraldom! 
 
 These witnesses have feeling, conscience, character, and he 
 who affirms they have not lies in his throat, and is on par with 
 the cabal of people, who, failing to blackmail P. B. Randolph, 
 thrust him through perjury to keep company for two days with 
 people like themselves, behind the bars of a prison, but out of 
 which he comes, to pass unscathed through two more ordeals, 
 and then triumph as few men ever triumphed in this broad land. 
 Mr. Randolph is charged with being the champion of free-lovers, 
 yet a score of people positively swear that he is not and that they 
 regard him as the hero on the other side! Now when doctors 
 and experts disagree, who shall decide? For myself I wish he 
 would in sober earnest bring his energies and powers to the free- 
 love cause; and I deeply regret at being compelled to count him 
 out of the advocates of that cause, still having hopes that he may 
 yet get his wings of soul plumed for a flight to where the truths 
 of freedom now nidulate. He has, however, enunciated one of 
 the most sterling truths ever spoken by human lips, and this is 
 it: "Alas! as the world stands today most people are married 
 to other people's wives and husbands!" A truer, real gospel was 
 never uttered — or a sadder one! But who comprehends it? — 
 or its utterer? 
 
 It is a great defect of your "practical" people, that they can 
 never understand that the genius, the poet, the enthusiast and 
 dreamer, such as this robbed, swindled, almost ruined prisoner, 
 have their places in the economy of things, and supply the ma- 
 terial upon which these people of common sense work. Beethoven, 
 King of Music, begged his bread of Himmel; Poe dies neglected, 
 
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 starved, frozen; Randolph lives in a garret, and human jackals 
 thrive upon the productions of their labor and toil. Such is life ; 
 so goes the world! Two of them have costly monuments, and 
 their works are bound in gold and crimson; the third one today 
 stands pleading not only for justice, but for bread ; for this toiler 
 of thirty years has never realized from all his books enough to 
 keep him in good food a single month ! For this man has put all 
 he has received into copyrights and stereotype plates, and today 
 is nearly ten thousand dollars behindhand, as to my certain 
 knowledge he has suffered to that extent since these persecutions 
 began, and unless he gets help soon, plates, copyrights, and all 
 will pass into the hands of speculators, who will make millions 
 from them while himself starves to death ! 
 
 True, during twenty-two years he, from all his books, labor, 
 travels and lectures, succeeded in putting by eight hundred dol- 
 lars, hoping to make it a thousand before he died, to leave his 
 invalid daughter; but in an evil hour that too was swept away 
 from him by the ungenerous conduct of the last pair of victim- 
 izes, just on the heels of another operation of like nature by 
 the Ohio worthies. (59) Now if on the heels of all that you 
 convict this man, then justice may as well give up her office, 
 and rapine rule the land! (At this three ladies and two gentle- 
 men stepped over to the dejected prisoner, and put five dollars 
 in his hand!) 
 
 If you want to raise friends for a cause or a man, just 
 persecute it or him, and your work is done. Convict this man, 
 and you put the world on its mettle to avenge him; and I am 
 greatly mistaken if the American people, all over, and every- 
 where, from the moment the news of this persecution reaches 
 them, do not buy of Mr. Randolph his books by the score of 
 thousands! In fact I know they will do it, and for a double 
 reason, first to show their feeling for a down-trodden man of 
 talent; and secondly, for the sake of reading the extraordinary 
 emanations from his brain and pen, as many actually and at 
 this moment are doing, and tens of thousands more will before 
 the years roll away to oblivion. (Reader, remember this — 
 there's meaning in it. — Editor.) 
 
 Marriage in these days, is understood to mean the absolute 
 and undeniable proprietorship of a wife by the husband, and 
 she is expected to defer to him in all things whatever, and when 
 
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 she acts of herself to do so only by the consent and sufferance 
 of her supreme lord and master. 
 
 That ownership, as the representative of freedom, I dis- 
 pute and deny. I contest the authority and impugn the honor 
 and manhood of all who sustain it, nor will I ever admit its truth 
 and force, its right or justice, until every man shall produce a bill 
 of sale from almighty God Himself to prove his claim and sub- 
 stantiate his ownership of any woman who breathes the air, no 
 matter what forms have been gone through with to give color to 
 the swindle and the farce — but swindles and farces that end in 
 tragedy and horror, ineffable and supreme ! ( Immense astonish- 
 ment and profound interest). 
 
 I stand here, not the hireling of interest, nor the minion of 
 unjust law, but the voluntary champion of an abused cause, 
 and as such I defy the world — Randolph included (60) — that 
 true free-love ever debauched a single human being, or led an 
 innocent woman astray ! But I shall be told that so-called free- 
 lovers have been, and are, guilty of these wrongs. To this I 
 rejoin: Paste is not diamond! and he or she who is yet under 
 the reign of the lower passions have a long hill of development 
 to wearily climb before they are fit to assume the title of free- 
 lover, or associate on equal terms with their born and cultured 
 superiors! Love, forsooth! why, he or she who is so juvenile 
 in intellect, so mean in soul, and so very low in the human scale 
 as to confound love with lust, or pure, unsullied affection with 
 the modern "passional attractionalism," had better retire to the 
 jungles, where they properly belong — for look you, he or she 
 who cannot love without making beasts of themselves are but 
 the imperfect shadows of the substantial things theirs faces and 
 forms represent. Faugh! they are obscene birds, hawks and 
 buzzards, who gather at the edges of the battle to sniff at valiant 
 blood and thrive upon its carrion! — not men and women, but 
 adolescent children — the "what-is-its" in crinoline and broad- 
 cloth, neither of which they honor, and both of which they dis- 
 grace! (This burst of elopuence created a tumult which the 
 gavel of the clerk found it impossible to wholly suppress. He 
 went on: — ) I stand here to defend the honor of those men and 
 women, who, admitting themselves believers in social freedom, 
 yet have been badgered and insulted as if they had no feelings, 
 and were on a par with the off-scourings of the slums and purlieus 
 
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 of New York or Boston, than in which no greater sinks of 
 corruption ever festered on the earth — eyesores and dens of per- 
 dition, giving Sodom the go-by — never wholly suppressed, but 
 allowed to flourish for the sake of rent, taxes and votes! — dens 
 of infamy whose stench offends the nostrils of the devil, if there 
 be one, but which no virtuous officials see fit to clean out and 
 extirpate — these selfsame identical officials who permit abortion- 
 ists to publicly announce their dreadful trade in the public 
 prints, and wink at hoary old sinners, who through "personals," 
 advertise for new victims, the deserted wife or forlorn girl, 
 cheated out of her wages by scoundrels, sewing masters, forced 
 to accept the infamy or die — "personals," too, wherein shame- 
 less professional harlots advertise for new victims — and get 
 them, too! O virtue-compelling officials of the law! Civiliza- 
 tion? bah! hell itself would blush at comparison of conditions. 
 (Applause, in which even the judges joined). What free-lover 
 on God's green earth has it in his mind or heart to tolerate or 
 wink at enormities like these ? Where's Christianity ? 
 
 What do the rabble know of genius foreign to its uncultured 
 tastes? What do such persecutors as old hoary Andy Bay, or 
 the thick head, foxy, rattle-snakish Frenches, know really of 
 him whom they ground unto the dust? What do the mob, who 
 never think, and seldom feel, realize of the life — a life of keen 
 intensities, like this poor victim, who has brains enough to scale 
 the heavens, yet not enough to see through the wiles of scheming 
 foresworn human adder; the plots of a wandering counterfeit- 
 money-passing adventuress, or her contemptible self-seeking 
 paramour — a fellow who has the heart to send ships to sea and 
 wreck them, and openly boast of his villany. They, such lecher- 
 ous dead-beats, can know nothing of a life like his, between 
 which and their own a shoreless ocean rolls ! Who of the thou- 
 sands, who upon mere hearsay slandered this patient thinker, 
 because it was the fashion to underrate and affect to despise 
 him ; what do they know of the fearful price he has had to pay in 
 order to attain his awful powers of mental flight — the magni- 
 ficent stretch of his soul's pure vision? Who of them all, even 
 with bright fancy keen set, can drink in the flood of glory, pic- 
 tured of the far heavens in his "Disembodiment of Man?" 
 
 What do the money-seeking sons of earth really know of 
 this lone student of the deepest lore of all time? — this chief 
 
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 mystic of them all; this thorn-crowned king of the Rosicrucians; 
 this philosopher, whom they sillily think so careless of his fame 
 and mental dignity, as to stoop low enough to indite things 
 detrimental to the morals of mankind — him whose sole aim in 
 life has been to purify and elevate the species! Poor toiler! 
 Without friends capable of assisting him financially; struggling 
 all alone, yet snarled at by thousands of human curs, envious of 
 his talent, jealous of his fame; a man who has traversed the 
 world, a comet of intellect, sent across the human sky to tell 
 the mighty story of God's new and better way — an unfriended 
 being, who has alone mastered more science and philosophy than 
 would, spread out, suffice for ten score college professors, and 
 have enough left over to keep them busy for a century ! Probably, 
 like us all, he has his personal faults and shortcomings. They 
 complain of his audacities of statement and reasoning and mar- 
 vel at the brilliant voluptuousness of his descriptions, as if that 
 were a fault. Every line he has written has been, as Taine says 
 of the contemplar genius Alfred de Musset, "torn from his 
 vitals," produced by an absolute expenditure of life, and are not 
 the fruits of mere feeling or fancy. 
 
 Randolph has for twenty years been known as the "Man 
 with two souls!" — the one soft, gentle, humane, simple as a child, 
 trusting, credulous, wholly blind to financial advantages and 
 economies; the other imperial, imperious, vast, titanic, space- 
 piercing, heaven-storming, and claiming kindred with the gods! 
 Uneven, unbalanced, erratic, independent, yet craving sympathy, 
 this double-souled being has steadily fought the surviving spirit 
 of New England's overstrained righteousness and blue-law pro- 
 priety — when it was deemed a sin to smile and an indictable 
 offence for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday; when an indi- 
 vidual's religion and general character were measured by the 
 length of his prayers; when honest Quakers were burned at the 
 stake, and poor, frail women hung as witches; when congrega- 
 tions assembled in churches like the most woe-begone mutes at 
 a funeral, and long faces were considered as the only livery in 
 which to serve the Lord. Habitual dram-drinking was one of 
 the fruits of that regime, because that could be indulged in 
 secrecy, and pursued to a certain extent in defiance of the cen- 
 sors, and self-righteous leaders. Can any one look back upon 
 those Puritanic da} r s without a mental shudder at the unmistak- 
 
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 able hypocrisy that reigned triumphant? Do not let us mistake 
 the lesson in our own history, and the moral of events and occur- 
 rences so near to cur own times as to have left indelible marks 
 and warning all about us. Is there any one among us today who 
 believes that such mad zeal and bigotry were ever a grateful 
 tribute to the Father of our race? 
 
 That spirit he has fought, and wholly on woman's side. He 
 has taken her part, arming her in proof against deception, and 
 yet few men have suffered as has he from and by deceptions 
 practised on him by women. No seer can see for himself! It is 
 a law inherent in the very soul of seership, that he or she who 
 can safely and triumphantly lead a world, are actually blind 
 when themselves are the object to be seen for. It was so with 
 Gautama Buclha, who could not see the lurking poison in the 
 dish of pork before him; and Appolonius, betrayed to death; 
 and Cagliostro, another Samson, like the man of Israel; nor 
 Plato; and Fulvius; or Agrippa; and of Him whom they cruci- 
 fied, and in short, of them all, from the world's dawn to this 
 hour. 
 
 This last of the true seers is no better able to see through the 
 plots and rascalities hatched against his peace and pocket, than 
 any one else, yet turning his soul's gaze from himself to others, 
 the grand sweep of his inner sight has astounded living thou- 
 sands ! 
 
 Bayed as free-lovers and this man has been, hounded down 
 to the bitter death by bigots, knaves, and narrow-souled hypo- 
 crites the "ism" will yet prevail, and the man, the thinker, have 
 new lustre added to his name, by the abuse of those whose names 
 fifty years hence will be in resurrectionless graves. This man 
 is an example of perseverance seldom surpassed, and has 
 achieved everything he aimed at, which his foes said he could not. 
 They said he could not write a book, and he produced a dozen 
 of the best in any language used on the globe; and although at 
 this moment poor to penury, living for three years, and there 
 still — when free to do so — in a garrett, yet his power is felt the 
 wide world over, and he is today a leading spirit of the age, in 
 spite of detraction, slander, sneers, scandal, and wilful purposed 
 neglect. But again I say his triumph is at hand, for the great 
 Public, and Women everywhere will hasten to buy his books, 
 net through others, who reap the profit, but directly from him- 
 
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 self — if from a jail, then from a jail; but I believe, gentlemen of 
 the jury, that your verdict will restore this man to his garret, 
 his pens and ink, and to the great work for loving hearts it is his 
 task on earth to do! 
 
 But to the other aspects of the case before us. The men and 
 women who have here declared their belief in social freedom 
 must not, shall not, be confounded with either prostitutes or their 
 patrons! Free love is one thing, sensual license quite another. 
 They are antagonistic, antipodal, and no more alike than most 
 lawyers and detectives are like honest, honorable or principled 
 gentlemen! True, a few of the latter are among them, but one 
 swallow does not make a spring. 
 
 In free love these women and men believe; in license they 
 do not. For free love the people have a world of anathemas; 
 in sensual freedom the people have no public faith, but in its 
 practice, when night and darkness palls the world, the crowd to 
 be found in places where courtesans reign queens, and the garish 
 lights are burning, would form armies large enough to confront 
 the combined military of the entire globe ! Consistency, thou art, 
 indeed, a jewel ! 
 
 Llypocrisy rules the hour and the man, for in the face of day 
 thousands, ay, millions, there be, who vehemently denounce all 
 passional license on the highways, who, three hours afterwards, 
 may be found disgracing their manhood and dishonoring their 
 mother's sex, in cosy little parlors, just around the corner, to the 
 tune of clinking wine-glasses, and the inspiring radiance of a 
 painted wanton's charms! And these self-same hypocritical 
 debauchees, whose name is legion, have the unblushing effron- 
 tery to class an honorable woman, sick of social tyranny, half 
 worn out by domestic brutalisms, who, seeking escape from hell 
 and taking refuge by the wayside, dares tell the world she owns 
 herself, with the painted lemans of the thoroughfares, whose 
 paint and glitter, and flashy jewels, and the rum that crazes 
 their brains and rushes the poor things at break-neck speed 
 toward the steep-down gulfs of misery and suicide, were bought 
 and paid for with the crisp bank notes doled to them in exchange 
 for double infamy by these self-same doubly dyed hypocrites 
 and unco-godly wretches. 
 
 Let one of these denouncers of free-lovers stand up, if he 
 dares, and name one single lady advocate of social freedom who 
 
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 has ever disgraced her womanhood, or sold herself for baubles, 
 clinking gold, or greenbacks ! I defy the world to point out one! On 
 the other hand, I defy the same pack to point me out one single 
 man, who is a genuine advocate of the same doctrine, who thinks 
 more of his senses than he does of his soul; or whom they can 
 ever find haunting the sinks of sin after nightfall, to avail him- 
 self of the dreadful necessity of some poor child, driven to vice 
 for want of bread and shelter, and kindness, and fairly paid 
 labor. "Alas for the rarity of Christian charity — under the 
 sun." Why, it stinks even in the nostrils of a savage from the 
 isles or Booraboola gha ! 
 
 Never, never will you find male or female social freedom- 
 ists, or Randolph's agapists, degrading God's image, either in 
 themselves or others. (Applause and sensation). 
 
 Free-lovers are not for sale, no matter how high these de- 
 nouncers may bid, who usually buy in the open markets, else, 
 sneak-thief-like, undermine a man's home and seduce his wife 
 and daughters in the guise of friendship! they do these things, 
 at which free-lovers stand aghast with ineffable horror — do 
 them, under the spur of the most infernal passion that ever 
 thrilled a devil's veins, and plead, when caught, "Couldn't help 
 it!" Meantime, their own wives, wearisome, sad, are pining, 
 not at home, but in an infernal mockery of one, their lords 
 abroad, sowing a few wild oats, till disease or death sews them 
 up in turn. They do these things because it is one of the inalien- 
 able rights of man, forsooth, to do as he pleases, provided he is 
 not caught at it, or hurried off on the toe of a boot, or persuaded 
 to desist by the solid logic of a pistol-ball. But if one of these 
 injured and neglected wives so far agrees with them as to claim 
 identical rights, then, oh then, there's trouble in the camp, right 
 away. 
 
 "Mister Injun," said the hunter, "We'll divide our game 
 fair, and you shall have the crow, and I'll have the turkey, or I'll 
 have the turkey, and you shall have the crow." It was all very 
 fair, no doubt, but somehow the Indian couldn't see it for, "You 
 never talk turkey to me one time!" 
 
 Just so in the case before us, for just let a woman assume 
 the same privileges, they, the lords, take, without asking, the 
 lords, with hands uplifted in holy horror find out what's in a 
 name, and that gander sauce is bad for the goose! . . . AH 
 
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 that we ask is perfect equality between the sexes. If mere sen- 
 sualism was our aim, we had that and its conditions already 
 made to our hands by "civilization!" All that social reformers 
 ask is, that whatever a man may do, that also may a woman, and 
 under the self-same freedom, pains, penalties and non-notice — 
 only that and nothing more. (Applause). 
 
 What man is there on the earth, intelligent, sound, healthy 
 in mind and body, who will yield the right and fact of self- 
 ownership to another? Who and where is he, who, sane and 
 sound, yet being jailed and ill-used will not escape if he can, 
 with or without the leave or license of his jailer ? 
 
 Is that a fair and valid contract where all the advantages 
 accrue to one party, and the pains and losses fall to the lot of 
 the other, on the heads I win, tails you lose, principle? Such, 
 however, is the scope, tenure and result of modern "civilized" 
 marriage, and the loser, nine times in ten, is the woman. If a 
 man in business is thus taken in, the sense of equity in all men 
 frees him from the bond and relieves him of its unjust obliga- 
 tions. But if the general verdict is just in matters of dollars, it 
 is ten times stronger in an affair involving health, happiness, 
 life and death. This justice we claim for woman as for man, and 
 intend to make the world acknowledge it, and ring the bells until 
 it does. 
 
 No human law can justly compel a man to run risks of life 
 and health, but, declaring that self-preservation is the para- 
 mount law, bids him defy all thralls and escape if he can ! Well, 
 who shall compel a woman to remain where she runs risks worse 
 than death, because they involve her and the children she is 
 likely to mother in hatred, not love; loathing, not tenderness. 
 Do you see the logic ? 
 
 P. B. Randolph in "Casca Llanna" says: "The world can 
 never be rebuilt until it becomes impossible for Mr. Boarland 
 to swindle Miss Green into wedlock under the impression that 
 he's a man, and that what he offers is love, when in fact he's no 
 such thing, and his wares are counterfeit. When the graves 
 give up their dead, and the murdered are duly classified, there 
 will be a frightful host of Misses Green clamoring for justice at 
 the bar of God." Is this free-love?" No! Well it is just what 
 free-lovers say, believe, and try to prevent, by reforming the 
 marriage codes of Christendom, and the great wide world. 
 
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 A woman recently said, "That marriage as it ordinarily 
 exists in society was a delusion of an unenlightened age, fraught 
 with the gravest evils, and that woman, free to love, free to dis- 
 own her wedded husband for cause, and free to turn the tables 
 upon man when he went after strange women, was a millennium 
 in the world's history, and that she called upon Divinity itself to 
 witness that she dedicated her life to assist in bringing about its 
 actual and living consummation," and she was very close to the 
 right. It is affirmed that "Life is a desert" — marriage and 
 mirage are the same thing, only differently spelt, and you all 
 believe, because you know it to be true, but ought not to be. It is 
 said, and truly, that a young man generally gives a lock of his 
 hair to his sweetheart before he marries her. After marriage 
 she generally helps herself. Is this what the institution ought 
 to be? 
 
 The rich landscapes and meadows, seen in the distance by 
 the young bride, turn out to be arid wastes, with bitter waters and 
 acrid fruits in a very little time, nine times in every ten, and can 
 you wonder at the prevalence of crime among the living fruits 
 of such parents ? 
 
 Now because a woman went into the mirage of marriage- 
 land, thus impressed, is there any reason, earthly or divine, why 
 she should forever stay there? especially when she clearly sees 
 her way out ? when she realizes her right to go, and has the same 
 will to leave that she had to enter ? 
 
 If on her journey through that scoriae wilderness, she 
 reaches a hill-top whence she can see the smiling happy valleys 
 outspread at her feet, who shall forbid her going down there to 
 pluck its ripe fruit and bathe her in its limpid waters? Cer- 
 tainly no man has such a right, nor can any human enactment 
 confer it upon him, or prohibit her free acticn, save by brute 
 force, and we are not debating that side of the question. No 
 ecclesiastical or judicial power on earth can confer any such 
 right, a right which nature disavows, and Eternal God disclaims 
 — for He has said, avoid disaster ! seek happiness ! and those two 
 lines are engraved by His fingers on every human heart and 
 consciousness. 
 
 Do not run wild with the notion that the advocates of 
 social freedom are barbarians, and sensual malcontents, who see 
 no good ahead save in unbridled passionalism, for if you do 
 
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 you err, because freedom and license, though sometimes con- 
 founded are really anthithetical and opposites, and in nowise 
 related to each other; for freedom means order, license means 
 anarchy and chaos! After all it is not the savage nor the bar- 
 barian over whom lust reigns with iron rod and omnipotent 
 sway; but is is your reedy-souled, casuatic civilizee, whose dream 
 by night, and thoughts by day are on the twin damnations of 
 the world — dollars and lust! The true free-lover dwells in 
 life's parlors — his or her heart, soul, brain; while passion is in 
 the kitchen, where it belongs! The civilizee reverses all this, 
 and his parlor worship is — faugh ! let me not pollute my lips by 
 naming it. When one of the ilk beholds a beautiful female, his 
 thoughts run upon dishonorable lines. When a free-lover be- 
 holds such, he adores the Creator, and sees in her another form 
 of His infinite beauty and great glory, to adore whom from his 
 very soul is a rapture indeed, because it is manly, noble and, 
 pure! When the civilizee beholds her, the chances are, that he 
 would compass heaven and earth to debase her, and if he had 
 the chance would not resist it! Thus, gentlemen, you see the 
 difference between this and that, a lie and the truth, free love 
 and free lust — in a word, between a true man and an educated 
 gorilla. 
 
 These men, these conspirators, not only against Randolph, 
 but against literature itself, allege that his books are not sound 
 in morals. If this be so, then let every medical work in the world 
 be suppressed. Nay, if he is to be condemned, then I impeach 
 every minister in America, for to my certain knowledge every 
 one of them owns, reads and circulates a certain volume contain- 
 ing oaths, curses and obscenities of the most abominable char- 
 acter, in plain English too, without disguise or circumlocution, 
 and with a detail of statement highly delightful to morbid minds. 
 This book they buy, sell, give away, lend and borrow — actually 
 doat on, reading it in secret, and take special pains to point cut 
 to innocent young girls, and discontented married women, its 
 most unctuous, meaning and significant passages. "What book?" 
 Why, the Bible, a volume abounding in glorious things, but 
 sadly marred by accounts and allusions too filthily low for even 
 a common brothel! Exclude these, and a great good thing will 
 have been done. The Bible's purpose is the best good to us all, 
 and so also is that of Randolph's books. 
 
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 One witness against him said: "After reading 'Love,' 
 'Casca Llanna' and 'Seership," about the seven magnetic laws, 
 I think it an easy matter to get the better of any man I choose 
 to try for — husband, lover or utter stranger; and I think I'm 
 able, after studying them, to wind any man around my little 
 finger, just as easily as I can wink my eyes. What's to hinder ? 
 Don't he tell how it's done? I've tried them, and know just 
 what I'm talking about." 
 
 Another witness: "I got hold o' them books, especially 
 'Seership,' and I think it's mighty easy work to make any wo- 
 man believe the moon's made o' green cheese — fact is, most of 
 'em do any way! But them there rules is high, you bet!" The 
 defence immediately produced a notice cut from the columns of 
 one of the first religious journals of the land, and which was 
 kept standing therein for months — a notice of one of these iden- 
 tical volumes. Here it is : — 
 
 "The statements contained in this book are indeed startling. 
 Its exposures of simulated and morbid love and the monster 
 crime of this age are withering, and will go far toward changing 
 the current of the thought of the century upon matters affec- 
 tional, social and domestic, for a firm, vigorous health pervades 
 every page. Its appeals for woman, and consolements of wound- 
 ed spirits, are tender, pathetic and touchingly true and eloquent. 
 Its advice to women, so often the victims of misplaced confidence 
 and affection, is sound to the core, and withal it gives direct, 
 explicit and valuable counsel concerning the great chemi co- 
 magnetic laws of love, as to render it on that branch of the sub- 
 ject undoubtedly the book of the century. Especially is this 
 true of what it says concerning the true method of regaining a 
 lost, wondering or perishing affection. But no brief notice can 
 do justice to this most remarkable book on human love ever 
 issued from the American press." 
 
 I need not call your attention to the character of the two 
 first witnesses, nor ask you to weigh their testimony against that 
 of the last one, for this you have already done, have seen the 
 animus of the couple, but have not asked what price they were 
 paid for their testimony! 
 
 Any man can torture the Bible till it apparently substan- 
 tiates any conceivable absurdity; and just so can this man's 
 books be tortured against their just intent, which is to arm men 
 
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 against the wiles of women like the first witness; and to teach 
 females how to foil the schemes of such persons as the male wit- 
 ness, they, as you see, being a pair who hunt in couples. In 
 conclusion, I affirm that Mr. Randolp's arrest, imprisonment and 
 loss of all he had on earth, was brought about by cupidity, 
 malice, personal spleen, in part, and because he found out too 
 many dangerous secrets of a branded villain and his infamous 
 paramour. This malice and revenge it is no part of a judge or 
 jury to permit, much less assist in. I confidently look for his 
 acquittal, and now leave the case with you." 
 
 Applause greeted the eloquent pleader as he sat down. It 
 being late, the court adjourned till the next day, on which the 
 defendant was to make his plea. It seemed almost impossible 
 to imagine how any man could, placed between two such able 
 forces, manage to escape conviction on the one hand, or meet 
 the arguments of the other. However, Randolph was considered 
 equal to the task, and so great was the desire to hear him, that 
 standing places even could have been sold at heavy rates. 
 
 At ten o'clock the court convened, the room being literally 
 
 packed with a surging mass of people, many of whom were 
 
 ladies. The court having been called to order the defendant 
 
 rose, and amid profound silence began his defence: — 
 A ft * • « * 
 
 RANDOLPH'S SPEECH TO THE JURY AND COURT 
 
 May it please the honorable court and jury .' I stand here 
 today in a singular attitude, between two fires. I am accused 
 of writing and scattering broadcast over the country works calcu- 
 lated to overturn society and completely change the existing code 
 of ethics; and I am called on to defend myself from that chnrge, 
 so far as actual free-love is concerned, and that too in face of the 
 fact that while I certainly am not aware that any arguments in 
 favor of that doctrine are in any of my works; yet the advocates 
 of it claim that I have written stronger for woman's emancipa- 
 tion than almost any other author of the times we live in. Here 
 then is a dilemma of extraordinary character at the start. If, 
 gentlemen, you should ask the question: Mr. Randolph, what 
 do you know of free-lovers and free-love? I should answer, I 
 have seen so few honest ones that I can hardly answer; while 
 as to the doctrine itself, it may have its good points, but I am not 
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 the extent claimed by its votaries. (61) I do not altogether be- 
 lieve in human independence or in individual sovereignty; why, 
 will be seen before I finish my plea, not only for myself and 
 books, but for every honest man and virtuous woman living. And 
 right here let me say that in spite of the eloquent gentleman's 
 plea for free love, there is a fearful sophism passing for sound 
 logic in it, which is compounded of anything but justice, truth, 
 or right. Whatever may be the practice of free-lovers, certain 
 it is that the corner-stone of their edifice is that any man 01 
 woman is at perfect liberty to ask, receive, and grant, favors 
 from or to any one whom fancy may take to, wholly unquestioned 
 by ane one. In a state of society possibly existing in Heaven, 
 such a doctrine might be understood, and no harm come of it, 
 but on the earth today — which, as the gentleman says, is bar- 
 baric, and the vast mass but little better than savages at heart — 
 that doctrine don't work well, for where one person would under- 
 stand and see it from the heavenly point of view, fifty millions 
 would see, and use it, from a wholly earthly one! Now a rela- 
 tion subsisting between two persons can not be love if it allows 
 each the unlimited passional liberty which is the soul and essence 
 of the free-love dogma! 
 
 We have just listened to the most splendid instance of 
 special pleading ever heard at the bar of any court; but, glitter- 
 ing as it was, eloquent as all concede it to have been, it will not 
 hold water; is altogether too thin, weak and of no real weight 
 to stand the test of being picked to pieces, as I intend to do right 
 here and now. 
 
 Free-love, disguise it as you may, means sensual license, 
 no more, no less; and wherever its doctrines prevail there will 
 you find either a worn-out debauchee, a freedom-shrieking wo- 
 man of faded charms, sharp voice, rapid tongue, overplus of 
 brain, paucity of soul, little passion and less love; or brainy 
 men, actually heartless unemotive, spasmodically lecherous, bent 
 on world-saving, themselves wholly lost, vapid, not worth tying 
 to, unreliable, strangers to generous manhood or manly feeling, 
 devoted to an ism; people of a clique or ring, loud-mouthed, 
 sour-sculed brawlers for liberty to infract every social and 
 moral lav/, bitter propagandists, unreasoning zealots, criers down 
 of "bigotry," themselves the most ultra and one-sided bigots who 
 breathe — usurpers of divine right, claiming the right to demoral- 
 
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 ize the world, yet denying that of any man to kick them down- 
 stairs for poisoning the mind of his wife or daughters I (Unmis- 
 takable sensation among audience, court and jury). 
 
 I have seen the practical working of free-love, but never saw 
 a man among them who stuck to his text of "Divine love" five 
 minutes after he had a chance to tempt an honest wife to her 
 infamy and ruin ! Nay, I brand their leader as guilty of crimes 
 too foul for naming; and I know of two girls — sisters, pure as 
 spotless snow when that fiend encountered them first, and whom 
 he not only ruined and debased, but made them ministers of a 
 crime gainst which death by stone and fire was denounced by 
 Moses, and ought to be visited upon the wretch today ! Dare the 
 villain deny this ? If so, I, with his victims, will prove it to his 
 teeth before the criminal courts, and in presence of the world! 
 (Immense emotion, as the orator warmed to his work). Again, 
 let any man or woman read the astounding exposure of a great 
 free-loveist recorded on pages 285-6, of "Casca Llanna," and if 
 that does not settle the question forever, nothing on earth will. 
 Only think of an act like that — she so artless, he so — but I have 
 no term strong enough to apply to that "Great Leader." 
 
 There may be honest free-lovers, but I never yet met one, 
 unless, as I believe, the honorable counsellor who preceded me 
 is such, but he is the exception which proves the rule, and I no 
 more believe that man capable of rape or seduction than I do 
 that I am capable of descending to the infamous level of those 
 by whom I have just been robbed on the right hand and impris- 
 oned, and the lower level of the amiable couple who finished by 
 robbing and swindling me on the left, and my child ! 
 
 Without any other than that exception, all the free-lovers I 
 have ever met were about equally divided; one-half being nar- 
 row-headed, one-sided, long-haired, and longer eared, morbid, 
 disappointed fanatics; the other half rogues, libertines and har- 
 lots by nature and choice, rather than the force of circumstances ! 
 Gentlemen of the jury, these people claim the right to ignore and 
 trample upon the marriage laws, which laws are the safeguards 
 mankind have erected around the social state to protect itself 
 from the incursions and raids of disorganizing social banditti, 
 such as follow the lead of these free-love leaders. But I claim 
 that no man has a right to poison either the bodies, minds or 
 morals of any member of the body, social or politic; and I dis- 
 
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 pute and denounce the so-called "Right" of any man to overstep 
 the barriers of decency which men have erected between civiliza- 
 tion and savagery or worse. No man, no woman on earth has, 
 or can have, the right to openly proclaim doctrines subversive of 
 Christian morality, unless he does so outside of and beyond its 
 limits ; but so long as he or she remains in a moral and civilized 
 community, just so long are they bound to obey its rules and 
 laws. 
 
 What man or woman on earth has the right to set an 
 example before our children whose direct effect shall be their 
 demoralizing and contamination, utter, total and complete? No 
 sane man dare claim such a right. Free-lovers do claim it, and 
 the inevitable, logical sequence is that they are either lunatics, 
 villains or fools! one of the three, for there is, there can be no 
 other conclusion. (Applause). 
 
 Limited liberty is the root of civilization. The sovereignty 
 of the individual begins and ends within himself. He has no 
 right to intrude beyond the limits of his own sphere, nor to do 
 what is offensive to all the moral sense of the world, even if he 
 honestly believes himself to be right. A midnight thief is 
 caught, not liberated, but made to pay the penalty of his crime; 
 but a million such thieves in a lifetime can never do the harm 
 to the human race, done by a single woman who stands before a 
 public audience and claims as a divine and human right that of 
 being a public leman, and brawls her obscene stuff into the ears 
 of old and young alike, sending the girl forth from the hall with 
 the fixed idea that concubinage is no crime ; and the young fellow 
 out upon the streets fortified in the belief that seduction is 
 justifiable, no matter who the victim may be. That's what 
 conies and forever must come, from free-love teachings! no 
 matter what may be the thought or intentions of here and there 
 a high-minded soul among them, such must be the result upon 
 the masses of the world today. Men and women dissatisfied 
 with their conditions will gladly avail themselves of any subter- 
 fuge or sophism which temporarily blinds them and hides them- 
 selves from themselves, to "go in for a good time and a fig for 
 the consequences!" But the "consequences" are sure to follow, 
 the least of which is loss of self-respect, and the certain, if 
 disguised, contempt of every one else, not omitting their own 
 fellow "reformers." The true music of outraged justice will be 
 
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 heard, and there's trouble in their hearts when the band begins 
 to play! (Applause). Free-lovers are such because their emo- 
 tional, physical and moral natures are thoroughly diseased, and 
 a person in such a state is dangerous in every sense, and in no 
 case trustable. 
 
 I have been asked in this court if I am, or ever have been, 
 a free-loveite. To this I give an honest answer: I know what 
 wild oats are, and in my early days sowed a few; because when 
 a young man, like all juveniles, I loved all wearers of crinoline — 
 or rather, coffee bags — which were then in vogue. Today, when 
 half a century almost lies between me and my natal morn, and 
 but few years at most divides me from the upper flight, I love 
 them still, but not as then; and at no period have I believed that 
 doctrine sound and good. 
 
 Twenty years have I practiced medicine, my specialty nerv- 
 cus disorders of both sexes, my experience very marked and 
 ample; but the result is that I do not believe, but know, that 
 promiscuity in the social relation is the direct road to physical, 
 mental and moral impotentia, resulting in insanity, early death 
 and ruin. (62) True, it is an exciting game of life play, but it 
 always ends against the player, whether man or woman. Now, 
 what else is free-love but this very thing? Nothing! Mind, I 
 do not assert that there are no honest people who believe the 
 doctrine, whether they practise it or not; I only say / have not 
 seen them; while there may be such, it is certain that there are 
 hosts who use the term as a cloak and shield to cover up their 
 shame, while revelling in the most debasing of all vices. This 
 class belongs to the second half of the ism. They are but liber- 
 tines and cyprians out on their travels up and down the world — 
 social toadstools, fungi, hanging on to the skirts of social phil- 
 osophy, a disgrace alike to themselves, the age, and civilization ! 
 These constitute the great army of the modern "ists," but the 
 lesser body, though possibly earnest and honest, are wrong. A 
 maniac may earnestly and honestly believe himself inspired by 
 the arch-seraphim, and he be willing to die for his opinions, 
 yet is a maniac still, nevertheless. In twenty years I have seen 
 as many thousands of free-lovers and "passional attractionists," 
 but have yet to see the first woman made happy by or through 
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 one made joyous by the knowledge that her husband was sustain- 
 ing such relations beyond his own homeside. 
 
 On the contrary, I have never failed to see quite as much, 
 and even more bitter jealousy within the lines of the free-love 
 camp as outside of it. Now, if the doctrine be true, and its 
 practice right, "Why is this thus?" The fact is that the doctrine 
 really is: — 
 
 "Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, 
 And turns to ashes on the lips." 
 
 You will notice one peculiar circumstance. No young 
 woman is a free-lover until after she has swamped her morals 
 under the teachings of some old sinner; and after that, her prac- 
 tice of the doctrine veers with the current of currency. 
 
 The older women who take to it are those whose cheeks 
 need plumpers, busts need cotton-aids and palpitators, lips want 
 coraline, and face, lily white and rouge; women lost to the true 
 grace and dignity of womanhood, and whose souls invariably 
 turn toward him whose veins bound with animal life, and pockets 
 are plethoric of greenbacks and gold. A poor free-lover stands 
 no chance whatever! In such they never discover an affinity. 
 
 On the other hand, the he free-lover never discovers his 
 heart's best feelings, touched by the charms of Madame of thirty- 
 five or forty; but the scales drop quickly from his eyes, and his 
 bump of affinity-discovery becomes suddenly developed when a 
 buxom damsel, with lithe form and tripping gait, crosses his 
 path, and then, ah! then, he sighs and ogles and talks lofty 
 transcendentalisms, as he begins to wave his infernal web about 
 her — poor, unsuspecting, giddy fly; and all the while he drones 
 his damned music in her ear, until, completely immersed, she 
 becomes mesmerically infatuated, and wakes up some fine morn- 
 ing to find herself in the pestilent arms of a human ghoul, an 
 infamous scoundrel robed in hell's blackest panoply, and as 
 conscienceless and cruel as the ravening tiger of the jungle and 
 the swamp! (Great excitement). 
 
 Gentlemen of the jury, I should question the sanity of any 
 man who could tolerate for one moment the idea, or complacently 
 smile at the knowledge that his wife, whom he loved affection- 
 ately and conjugally, favored another than himself, or as many 
 others as whim, caprice, or morbid fascination might prompt her 
 to. Yet they say they can and actually do this very thing! If 
 
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 they do, are they human, or have they sunk below the level of 
 the brute beasts ? for these latter will die on the spot before they 
 will yield the point involved ! Does man ascend toward immor- 
 tality ? Do beasts descend to the level of mankind ? 
 
 Again, suppose one of these philosopher has a family of 
 beautiful daughters, will he teach them the harmlessness of his 
 own mad vice ? Far from it ! Will he tell his sons that libertin- 
 ism is right and proper ? Never ! Will he even tolerate free-love 
 talk in their presence, and not feel a strong kick inclination 
 toward the man who dares attempt it? No. His philosophy is 
 all very fine and well, so far as he is concerned, with regard to 
 all women outside the limits of his own household, but not within 
 it ! He will not hesitate to prey upon the wife and daughters of 
 any other man, but if the game is played on himself, he will 
 cry like a spaniel kicked, and whine like a whipped hound — ■ 
 as he is! (Applause). 
 
 No free-lover, I care not who he is, has "philosophy" 
 enough to relish the fact that his wife and daughters were the 
 lemans of whoever had magnetism enough to subjugate their 
 wills and natural morals to the extent of making them so. That 
 good old rule called Golden, protests in thunder-tones against 
 the specious villany I now dissect. 
 
 This game of free-love works well enough, so long as their 
 own corns are not trampled on; and their writhings when they 
 are, is proof positive that not one of them at heart believes one 
 word of the dreadful lie they are trying to thrust down the public 
 throat. 
 
 It may be said that I am ungrateful in thus attacking the 
 system and logic of the speaker who preceded me, from whose 
 lips fell many praises of myself and my career; but, gentlemen, 
 eternal truth is of more value than the reputation of P. B. Ran- 
 dolph, and tickle my ears who will or may, I am not to be 
 cajoled into even the faint resemblance of yielding one jot or 
 tittle against the truth God sent me on the eartii to propagate 
 and defend ! ( In spite of the clerk's gavel, the audience would, 
 and did cheer the orator). 
 
 It is said that "To natter a. person adroitly, one must know 
 three things — what they are, what they think they are, and what 
 they want other people to think they are." Now in earlier days 
 I was more subject to seme kinds of flattery, "ma!s j'ai change 
 
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 tout cela." But it is true, I am sorry to say, that in other lines I 
 have been flattered and cajoled by designing knaves, until 
 between them all today I am stripped of every dollar; but then 
 I never made a special study of the arts of financial villany, and 
 therefore was not armed against it. I believed the people with 
 whom I dealt, and whom I trusted, to be square and honest as 
 they claimed to be, and not till all was lost did I realize the 
 exquisite degree of rascality to which swindling could be car- 
 ried. Not till I was beggared did I learn how an imperturbable 
 front could cover up base and lascivious designs, and if I fell a 
 victim to confidence operations, perhaps I am not the first, but 
 hope to be the last. 
 
 Who, I ask, who and what are my accusers ? Who of ihem 
 all, the wide world over, dare face me with their scandals and 
 slanders? Behold I know them all, and not one of their char- 
 acters will bear the light! not one of whom but that has crime 
 written on their fronts, and rapes, adulteries, swindlings, in- 
 numerable to answer for hereafter, if not on the earth. I chal- 
 lenge them all to compare characters ! 
 
 Many are the calumnies that have been heaped upon my 
 name by those who tried to, and failed in grinding their own 
 axes at my expense. Sampson came to grief through a polished 
 harlot. So did I! (Laughter). So has more than one other 
 within the sound of my voice I (Squirming all over the room). 
 What of it ? The lessons will serve their purpose if well learned. 
 Now society may be likened unto the hero of Gaza and the foxes, 
 and the Delilah is this painted harlot on whose cheeks the hue 
 of the rose blushes, but in whose heart is lasciviousness, decep- 
 tion and wickedness, whose name is free-love, and I, not she, 
 cry, "The Philistines be upon thee!" just as they were upon 
 myself ere while. But I and society have as yet been only tied 
 with green withes; let us preserve our hair intact, and not let it 
 be cut of; for when it is gone there's only one scene more, and 
 that is death. 
 
 For ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain, the mag- 
 nates of free-love are peculiar, which assertion I dare to main- 
 tain. And here is one of them: To tell a man's wife that her 
 husband's magnetism is injurious to her, which undoubtedly 
 may be, and very often is, true, but instead of teaching her how 
 to avoid and annul the ill effect, as I have done in my books, and 
 
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 in my consultations with thousands of such cases, these free- 
 loveites' voices grow thick and husky with the hell-fire raging 
 within, and they whisper the intended prey that her ill health, 
 backaches, nervousness, gloom and chronic low spirits are the 
 result of her husband's perverse magnetism, but that it can all be 
 remedied by a new infusion of "mercury" and magnetism, with 
 both of which himself — of course! — is highly charged, and a 
 share of which he generously offers to supply her, first by pawing 
 her head and bust, then by gazing intently in her eyes, all on the 
 high priori principle, until at last, the poor woman, confused 
 mesmerized, bewildered, and almost daft, knows not what she 
 is doing, and another victim is added to the villain's score! (63) 
 If these things were done openly, and for just what they are, it 
 would be horrible enough, but to use the cloak of medical science 
 and philosophy to boot, is the acme and climax of scoundrel] sm! 
 True, like the play-bills, he advises her that the remedy is "for 
 this occasion only," well knowing that once fallen, the road down 
 hill is both steep and slippery. 
 
 Gentlemen, it is charged that in my books I advocate prin- 
 ciples which lead directly to that sort of thing. To that charge 
 I have but one answer : It's a lie hot from Hell ! and whoever 
 affirms that I either by speech or pen gave encouragement to 
 such doctrines, is a vituperative liar, foul, villanous, diabolical 
 and obscene! for I would sooner cut the tongue out of my head 
 and burn the hand I write with, than for one moment sanction 
 a doctrine like that — one whose cardinal principle is that lust is 
 celestial, rape archangelical, and adultery a supreme white,robed 
 virtue! I have spoken and written not permissum superiorum, 
 for I do not acknowledge any human leader, but look only above 
 for light and power: I have not written for the ignoble vulgus 
 either, but for thinking, feeling men and women. True, in my 
 books I have laid bare the secret springs of human action; and 
 have revealed hundreds of the mysteries and miseries of love, but 
 never trenched upon the respect and delicacy due to the finest 
 and most sensitive lady on the earth, much less have I in any 
 way pandered to a gross and sensual taste; for such things suit 
 the mob, not people of refinement, delicacy and sense. 
 (Applause). 
 
 I have aimed to instruct the sex how to preserve themselves, 
 and gain the a Sectional mastery over their sometimes rccalci- 
 
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 trant, wandering, and not seldom brutal lords. I have told her 
 how to magnetically get the upper hand of lover and husband 
 alike, because she should have it, if for no other reason than to 
 see how the world will thrive under the reign of a new set of 
 rulers. Listen while I read a letter received since I have been 
 pleading at this bar: — 
 
 "Amesbury, Mass., April 9th, 1872. 
 "Br. Randolph: — 
 
 "Sir — I have just read 'Casca Llanna,' your new book, and 
 have derived much benefit therefrom. Could I have read it 
 seme years sooner it might have prevented much suffering. I 
 very much want to circulate the book. 
 
 "Very respectfully, 
 
 Miss S. P. F." 
 
 To this I replied: — 
 
 "As I wrote the book on purpose to effect just such results 
 among the thousands of the land, you or any other woman shall 
 have all you can dispose of at half price. Send for them, even 
 if you can pay but for twenty or forty copies. Could I afford it 
 I would give them away, but in my impoverished state I must 
 depend upon small editions, until fortune brightens up a little; 
 when it does, I shall get out larger ones on equally good terms 
 to others. P. B. R." 
 
 Gentlemen of the jury: Do you believe that ladies would 
 thus write for and about a work whose morals were questionable ? 
 Or that I would dare to employ them to circulate them, if they 
 were? The answer is apparent. No! True, I have told them 
 how to hold affection when once gained; to inspire it where it 
 exists not; and how to win it back from lover or husband when 
 lest. Is not that better than fomenting trouble, setting divorce- 
 sharpers at work, (64) or inculcating free-love? I think it is. 
 Nowhere, and at no time, have I inculcated looseness of morals, 
 however distorted were the views taken by the counsel for the 
 prosecution. I am not in favor of free-love or any other sophis- 
 tical abomination; nor of liberty to do as one pleases in the 
 intimacies of human life, as do these howling dervishes of 
 Christendom. O shame, where is thy blush? When a woman 
 so far ignores the proprieties of life and delicacy of her sex, as 
 to openly boast of her right, desire, and ability to quench the 
 streams of hell-lire blazing in her own veins, and in those of the 
 
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 one, two, three, ten, dozen or hundred others who look like, but 
 are not men; and to whom she may be attracted: — 
 "They are neither man nor woman, 
 They are neither brute nor human, 
 They are ghouls." 
 They are shameless! They toss their heads, with an "I don't 
 care what the people say, I feel that I'm right. I shall go the 
 whole figure. I defy and despise public opinion!" 
 
 Error, to be really dangerous, must have a preponderance 
 of truth mingled with it, else it must hide itself and thrive only 
 in the darkness; because it cannot bear the broad light of day. 
 Shame is written on it, and sonner or later the veil will be torn 
 away. Vice loses its charm when it flaunts its banners in the 
 open air. Hence this ism is deprived of its deadliest fang, 
 because whoever is forewarned, is forearmed also. Collect a 
 hundred of these free-lovers together; question them all, and 
 each will swear that while he or she devoutly believes in the 
 theory, not one of them ventures on the practice! They know 
 they lie! but shame is doing her proper work ! (Applause). In 
 such a collection of them you might find some of the males who 
 would brag, and chuckle over their asserted victories, as villains 
 usually do, yet you will scarcely find a solitary female there but 
 whose brow would mantle with the deep red flush of shame when 
 she realized that all present were conscious of her infamy, and 
 knew her to be a cyprian on the high-pressure principle and 
 "philosophic" plan! Now if it is all right and true and divine, 
 why not face the music when the band begins to play ? 
 
 Is it not patent that each knows herself to be a rebel against 
 universal womanhood ! Put them to the test, and their shrinking 
 or forced bravado alike gives the lie to the sophism, of whose 
 real truth they vainly try to convince themselves. In fact the 
 radical steep-down lie of free-love is so patent to ordinary com- 
 mon sense and fair reason, that no one at heart can possibly 
 believe it and be sane at the same time? — for, if this foul thing 
 enters their own homes, desolates their own firesides, and carries 
 its deep damnation to their own hearts, then come regret, open- 
 ings of eyes and tappings of tears from their own heavily,charged 
 bosoms, when they come to find out how it is themselves, and see 
 at their own hearth-stones how the bad thing works ! 
 
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 it and civilization are wholly incompatible and antagonistic. 
 What else, then, can I do, but be thankful to Heaven for this 
 foul arrest, brought about by men who had solemnly sworn, 
 before the altar, God, and on their own souls, to be true, men 
 worthy of the grand and ancient Masonry into whose mysteries 
 they sought to enter, as a prelude to entering the temples of Eng- 
 lish and Scotch Masonry — enrolling themselves with the grand 
 fraternity of the ages, yet whose secrets they would undoubtedly 
 parade and babble at the street-corners, just as they did the 
 apparent but really only trial secrets of the brotherhood of Rosi- 
 crucians. (65) Thank God, they knew not one of Rosicrucia's 
 real mysteries, and yet I owe it to other secret Brotherhoods — 
 Masonry first, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and all others 
 in the land — to bid them all beware of these traitors who may 
 one day come tapping at their doors. Why should I not thank 
 God for the fearful experiences of and with, and losses through 
 and by, Bay, French, Churchill, and above all Robert H. Patton 
 of Boston, and his special and particular female "friend" Mrs. 
 Mercy, alias "Mert," Hathaway La Hue? Verily, she hath a 
 way, and its hue is very peculiar! Muchly. Why should I not 
 be glad, at even the loss of all but hope and courage, when the 
 experience let me gaze down steep depths of almost fathomless 
 villany, such as I dreamed impossible to exist in the hearts of 
 those who broke my bread and meat, and ate my salt and hard 
 earnings too? 
 
 Why should I not be glad and patient over all this, seeing 
 that it gives me a chance to pull the bell-ropes of warning to all 
 mankind, until the ding-dong out on the da)^ and off upon the 
 night shall be heard all over the land, and thus wake up the 
 people and rouse them to the extinguishment of the bale-fires, 
 and the purging of the nation of the shameless fanatics, whose 
 morbid idiosyncracies need so much correction ! 
 
 But these ismizers tell us that "universal marriagedom 
 groans with anguish," and they propose to better it by making 
 foul what little of good is still in it ! Gentlemen, these people 
 ought to take lessons of the Virginia City philosopher, who thus 
 describes his peculiar method of conjugal discipline: "When- 
 ever I see she's got her mad up, if it is a dozen times a day, I 
 just quietly say nothin', but kinder humor her; and she comes 
 round all right after a while. Then when she throws things at 
 
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 me, or gives a wild slash for me with the broom or rollin' pin, I 
 just dodges a little, and she never hits me the third time before I 
 get my eyes on her and let her know I disapprove of such action 
 on her part. Perhaps I have to leave the house to show her this, 
 but she soon sees the point. Then, by being careful not to 
 irritate her, and letting her have her own way, I manage to make 
 her do as I please." 
 
 But instead of encouraging this bear and forbear idea, our 
 modern "Reformers" propose to treat mankind for his social ills 
 as "Pratt," the horse-tamer, treats unruly beasts; said he to his 
 "Class," "If a horse kicks I devise means to call his attention 
 toward his head; if he bites I amuse his other extremity, and so 
 I cure him." Are we horses, gentlemen of the jury? Are we to 
 be cured of our ills on the tamer's principle ? Well, that's about 
 the sum and substance of their teaching. If our heads are at 
 fault, we must undergo a course of profligacy. If our affections 
 are sick, we must cure them by running every decent woman 
 whom our infernalism may enable us to circumvent, and then 
 betray. When a couple disagree, the proper thing is, not to make 
 peace, but to fan the flames of discontent, until divorce ends the 
 deadly game. I say that if both parties would follow the Western 
 city man's plan, there'd soon be no ears to listen to the free -love 
 twaddle now rattling round the land. 
 
 I protest against the spurious tenderness which accuses God 
 of leaving woman defenceless against man, when she has a 
 stronger armament than ever thundered on Nile or Mississippi 
 in her pure instincts. The penalty which falls upon her if she 
 violates these instincts is not arbitrary, but a bolt launched 
 from the Thorne of Equity, because purity is betrayed in its 
 strongest citadel. Less gorgeouness of attire among the wealthy, 
 in order that girls may have less temptation to sin, in order to 
 emulate it, and industrial education to enable them to earn their 
 own living, is one thing needed. It is woman herself, far more 
 than her wrongs, which needs to be redressed. But, if this 
 general freedom-shrieking gees on in the same spirit it has till 
 now, the American women — the most brainful at least, on the 
 globe — will become wholly unfitted for either wives or mothers, 
 and be ready when the tocsin sounds, to emulate the ghastly 
 deeds of the she-fiends of all three French Revolutions, against 
 which horrors may merciful God defend us all! for the women 
 
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 of those dreadful days began their mad careers by despising God, 
 reviling religion, denouncing man, ay, and ended on the battle- 
 field in the hulks and on the guillotine. 
 
 Foreseeing such results is why I have written against their 
 producing causes. 
 
 Love which involves intimate domestic ties cannot at the 
 same time be pure and general. By its very nature, it must be 
 special. It must have one object, and one only, upon which to 
 centre itself and lavish its immortal tenderness. Few women and 
 less men know either how to manifest, cultivate, or maintain love. 
 If they did there'd be fewer skeletons in their closets. 
 
 Seeing, feeling, knowing these facts, I studied the subject 
 for long years, in many lands, and, accumulating dollars one by 
 one, finally printed what I had learned, and gave my books 
 freely to the world. I say gave, for as I stand here, I have given 
 away more than I ever sold, and was swindled out of the greater 
 part of the balance. My books to the number of thirty thousand 
 have been printed and circulated, yet I, their toiling author, have 
 never yet realized sufficient food, shelter and clothing, from all I 
 ever received for them. Perhaps it will not be so in the few years 
 I shall yet be on the earth, for I somehow feel that my present 
 persecution will raise up friends for me among the millions of the 
 land, and that I shall at least have patrons enough to ensure me 
 food while living, and decent burial when dead. 
 
 Love of two, in honorable marriage, is the only true rule, 
 and only insurance society has against anarchy and for its own 
 preservation. They who fight against that rule and natural law, 
 and claim diversity of and variety in love, are not truly human, 
 but something much lower; nor can they be until they have 
 learned that grand lesson — the main one for which the worlds 
 were created. (66) 
 
 Not a word, not a line, have I ever written or spoken to the 
 detriment of human morals; but for the correction of errors, yes 
 — for the broken-hearted ones standing on the brink of suicide 
 and despair, death and madness; and I have saved them! I 
 have written for those who have loved and lost, and shown them 
 that hope and victory remained behind; for those who have 
 yearned for affection and found it not, have I pointed the path 
 where the treasure lay; for those whose careers have been a 
 wearisome pilgrimage all along the ways of life, have I led the 
 
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 route where the fountains were; and I have toiled and written for 
 those who have merited and earned eternal rest beyond the stars, 
 by reason of the fiery assation and ordeals they have been com- 
 pelled to pass through; and who for that reason, will, after death, 
 triumphantly enter the golden gates of immortal glory, heralded 
 by the seraphim. For such have I written, and not for the larger 
 hosts who have made marriage a wreck of lazare, and who have 
 practically defied the sexual instinct — people without soul; for 
 only the civilized and refined have it — all others spirit only ; and 
 soul, not body or spirit, is that in which true immortality inheres; 
 soul being the thinking, feeling, knowing, suffering, enjoying 
 principle of man; and spirit is its soil. 
 
 Unless a man has something more than life, sensation and 
 intellect, he amounts to but a very small sum; because human 
 existence without emotion, devotion, justice, charity, music, art, 
 love of beauty, and above all, the kingly, central, well rounded 
 love, is half a blank, more shadow than light, more low than 
 high, excitability than principle. 
 
 True immortality is the concentrated unification of all 
 these; and the unjust, egotistic, partial, purse-proud, bigoted, 
 lustful, cringing, double-dealing, two-faced, cowardly, selfish, 
 mean, conceited, doggish, waspish, foxy, piggish person — in fact, 
 the civilized savages generally, have not yet reached the plane 
 of self -equipoise ; have not yet developed soul enough to appre- 
 ciate truth, but are content to remain in a chronic state of puer- 
 ility, out of which they must come before they have a real value 
 and meaning in the great economy. To help bring them out is 
 why I have ever championed the cause of woman, true woman, 
 not on the suffrage or free-love basis, but on far higher and 
 deeper grounds, for she has been a lifelong study with me; and 
 the result of that study is that anything like licentious freedom 
 is fatal to her in every sense. Her very nature forbids it. Every 
 woman on earth appears different to every man, and only one 
 can love her and have that love responded to! Every nature, 
 
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 male, as well as female, has its separate and distinctive key and 
 watchword. It answers to one, and one only, and will not, can- 
 not respond to another; and no stronger, argument against the 
 pernicious doctrine can be urged, for it is rooted and grounded 
 in the very framework and constitution of the human soul — ■ 
 planted there by the Infinite God Himself. 
 
 Gentlemen, if in advocating such principles, I have violated 
 any law, human or divine, let me suffer the just penalty." 
 
 At Mr. Randolph's conclusion, the judge briefly charged the 
 jury, who in two minnutes by the clock, and without leaving their 
 seats, returned a verdict of not guilty. 
 
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MOTES OF REFERENCE 
 
 In the publication of the Life of Dr. Randolph, it has been 
 found necessary to have special attention called to certain por- 
 tions of the work, because so many of those who had been stu- 
 dents, betrayed him and the work in order to benefit therefrom, 
 and again others who, never having studied in the Rosicrucian 
 school, desired to benefit through the honorable prominence given 
 to the work by the Brothers, and therefore attempted to defame 
 him, in order that their nefamous thefts might not be discovered. 
 
 With these, it is as with the thief, who has stolen another 
 man's goods, and being caught in the act, nevertheless, tries to 
 escape by taking to his heels, and, in finding others following 
 him, will call cut "stop thief" in order to make those who are 
 following him believe that he is an honest and wronged man, 
 while some one ahead of him is the real culprit. 
 
 The publisher of this work naturally regrets that such a 
 step had to be taken at this time, but if there is a criminal, and 
 we know of the fact and allow the crime to go unpunished, then 
 We are equally responsible for the crime, because we do not 
 attempt to make other crimes impossible by exposing the criminal. 
 
 (1) It is of great importance to call the attention of all, 
 to the fact, that one of the first Rosicrucian books to be published 
 by Dr. Randolph was the book "Dealings with the Dead," 
 which was copyrighted in the year of 1861. This is especially 
 important because it shows that Dr. Randolph was actively 
 engaged in the Rosicrucian work at that date. The present title 
 of the book is "Soul, the Soul World." 
 
 (2) Dr. Randolph was born in the City of New York, in 
 the month of October, 1825. 
 
 (5) His enemies have tried to defame him many times by 
 telling' the old and exploded tale, that he was of negro blood. 
 This was because some one took it for granted that he, being of 
 a pronounced brunette type, must of necessity be of the negro 
 race. Moreover, Dr. Randolph believed in Reincarnation, and 
 
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 held that he was a reincarnation of a King of Madagascar of 
 some five thousand years ago. But even if this were true, it 
 would not make him a negro by any means. But, even had he 
 been of negro blood, that was no disgrace, as there are men who 
 have pure white skin, but whose hearts are as black as the dark- 
 est night, such for instance, as those who have stolen his teach- 
 ings, clothed them anew, and palmed them off as their own under 
 a different name, or those who have put forth a philosophy ('sic) 
 of their own, and stolen his honored name. Again, there have 
 been, and are yet, many colored men whose hearts are as white 
 as the driven snow. Judge not a man by the color of his skin, 
 but by his acts, and by his works. "By their fruits shall ye 
 know them." 
 
 (4) It was in the year of 1861 that Dr. Randolph visited 
 California, where he lectured for ten weeks on the Rosicrucian 
 Doctrine. It was at that time the first Rosicrucian Lodge was 
 founded in California ; and it was from the lectures delivered in 
 California, that most of the doctrines, in fact, the very founda- 
 tion, was taken for many of the systems known at the present 
 day as New Thought, Theosophy, Mental Science, and all the 
 other isms. Many a thought given out by him was seized upon 
 and became the foundation for new cults, but never once did Dr. 
 Randolph receive credit for them. However, this is simply to 
 call attention to the fact that Dr. Randolph was actively 
 engaged in Rosicrucian propaganda at that early date. 
 
 (5) It was after these lectures were finished that Dr. 
 Randolph departed for foreign shores, traveling through Eng- 
 land, Scotland, Ireland, France, Malta, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, 
 Palestine, Turkey, Greece and other countries, it was on one of 
 these trips that he became the Grand Master cf the true Rose 
 Cross Order of France, and then of the entire World. 
 
 (6) While on this trip during the year cf 1861-62, he 
 gathered the material for his wonderful work "Pre-Adamite 
 Man," conceded to be one of the most scientific books on the 
 subject, and it was this book that was dedicated to Abraham 
 Lincoln, who was a very intimate friend of Dr. Randolph. 
 
 (7) The Friendship between President Lincoln and Dr. 
 Randolph was so close, and sincere, that President personally 
 requested Dr. Randolph to undertake a mission, which was very 
 
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 close to the heart of Lincoln, as he had ever the welfare of the 
 negro at heart, and it was this love for a down-trodden race that 
 made Lincoln so great a man, and it is this love for humanity 
 which makes the Rosicrucian possible. 
 
 (8) Among the many whom Dr. Randolph numbered as 
 his friends, was Alexander Dumas, the novelist. Not only could 
 Dr. Randolph find friends in his own country, but likewise in 
 every country in the world, for he was stranger in none. 
 
 (9) If any further proof were required to set at naught 
 the foolish ideas that Dr. Randolph was of negro blood, then 
 the fact, that John Randolph of Roanake, Va., was a close rela- 
 tive, would surely be sufficient proof, and it must be borne in 
 mind, that it was not Dr. Randolph who made this statement, 
 but the Chicago Tribune, in an editorial. 
 
 (10) Some have said it was a tale of his own that Presi- 
 dent Lincoln had appointed him to work in the cause of the 
 negro race, but here we also find the Chicago Tribune making 
 this statement, in its editorial pages. 
 
 (11) Moreover, we find the largest newspapers of that 
 day. admitting that Dr. Randolph was as famous in England 
 and France, as in his own country, and clippings from foreign 
 papers prove this to be a fact. 
 
 (12) Freeman B. Dowd became a student of Dr. P. B. 
 Randolph, was taught many of the doctrines of the Rose Cross 
 Order, and was admitted deeply into its mysteries. 
 
 A work which has been before the public, bearing the name 
 of F. B. Dowd as its author, and which defames Dr. Randolph, 
 was never written by Freeman B. Dowd. 
 
 (13) F. B. Dowd was not only a personal friend of Dr. 
 Randolph, but as previously stated, was one of his most favored 
 students. Every move was known to Dowd, and in this article he 
 gives the exact date of Dr. Randolph's visit to California as Nov. 
 2 1st, 1861, and also states that Dr. Randolph had already 
 prepared the book "The Master Passion," or, the "Curtain 
 Raised,'' a bock for which he suffered deeply later on, but today 
 it is admitted to be one of the most sublime ever written by man. 
 
 However, we do not have to speak so much of his books 
 or their value, as we do of the dates, since it has been claimed 
 by those who have boldly stolen the honored name of the Order 
 
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 founded by Dr. Randolph, that he, Dr. Randolph wrote pseudo- 
 works and was in disrepute, moreover, that the Order had not 
 been founded in America until 1915, or more than sixty-five 
 years later than the time when Dr. Randolph was actively en- 
 gaged in the work. 
 
 (14) At the time when Dowd prepared the sketch now 
 under consideration, Dr. Randolph was engaged on "The Book 
 of Rosicrucia," which was being prepared at the instance, of 
 not only the Order in America, but at the instance of the Supreme 
 Grand Lodge of the Order in America, Europe, and Asia, and 
 this is the man who is said to have been in disrepute, and whose 
 books, Clymer the expert printer, is accused of republishing — 
 
 HOW I WISH THE ACCUSATION HURLED AT ME WAS TRUE, 
 
 Truly, I would feel highly honored. 
 
 (15) The Chicago Tribune stated in its editorial, that 
 Dr. Randolph was as well known in England and France, as in 
 his own country. Here we have a quotation from the "London 
 Weekly Times." There is also a quotation from the "London 
 Lloyd's News," thus proving the statement made by the Chicago 
 Tribune was founded in truth. 
 
 (16) Woodhull and Calfin's Weekly," Dec. 3rd, 1870, 
 or forty-five years ago, in reviewing his book "Love and the 
 Master Passion" proves it was well known that Dr. Randolph 
 was a Rosicruclan, moreover, that he not only taught the doctrine, 
 but admits that he lived up to his faith. Can those who have 
 stolen his writings, and the honored name of the Fraternity he 
 founded in America, say as much ? 
 
 (17) Dr. Randolph was the nephew of John Randolph of 
 Roanoke, Va. 
 
 (18) Many attempts have been made to defame Dr. Ran- 
 dolph, but will not the testimonial here given, and other endorse- 
 ments given him, amply prove that the men who try to defame 
 him have a set purpose in view? and that said purpose is not 
 truth, but rather, the hiding of some truth they do not want 
 known. One will hardly believe the men who signed the 
 endorsement, would do so unless they knew that Dr. Randolph 
 was all they said he was. 
 
 (19) The writer of this memoir knows how Dr. Randolph 
 must have felt, for one in the Order of the present day, not long 
 
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 since, was arranging to turn over to the Order the sum of $50,000 
 in gold for the purpose of establishing a laboratory and observa- 
 tory, when said brother, A. W. Shirey, was foully murdered 
 before he could carry out his intention. Thus, as we have said 
 in the very beginning "History repeats itself." 
 
 (20) This was in 1871. Take twenty years from this 
 date, and we have 1851. Here we find it was a well known 
 fact in 1851 that Dr. Randolph was a Rosicrucian, and a repre- 
 sentative of that Order. 
 
 (21) These three: Volantia, Rosicrucia and Decretism, 
 are known to the Inner Order as "The Mystery of Eulis." 
 
 (22) This same oath is required of all who desire to 
 receive the Ceremonial or Ritualistic Initiation in the Rose Cross 
 Order, and in 1910, at "Beverly Hall" a building was erected 
 and dedicated, for the express purpose of holding Conclaves of 
 the Rose Cross Order, and at such times confer the Ceremonial 
 work. 
 
 (23) This is the experience of all those who would really 
 serve humanity. It is very often some of those within the ranks, 
 those most trusted, who act as the betrayers. Thus I have found, 
 that some of those whom I had taken in at "Beverly Hall," gave 
 them the best that I could, sacrificed myself for them in every 
 way, turned and betrayed not alone myself, for that amounts to 
 very little, but betrayed the Order and some of its teachings, 
 though the Inner teachings are never given to anyone until after 
 they have been able to draw "the Fires from the Throne of 
 Heaven to the throne within themselves" and then to act as 
 betrayer will mean that which is worse than death to the 
 traitor. 
 
 But not alone has this been the experience of Dr. Randolph 
 and myself, was it not also the experience of the Master Jesus? 
 Truly, Dr. Randolph and I can expect no better treatment than 
 Jesus received. 
 
 (24) For this very reason it is at once apparent that any 
 Order, calling itself Rosicrucian, no matter from whence they 
 claim a Charter, which claims to make men Rosicrucians through 
 the formality of a Ritual or ceremonial work, is clearly a fraud. 
 
 The true Rose Cross is a training school. Has ever been 
 such, and will ever remain such. It takes its Neophytes and 
 
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 puts them through a careful course of study and training, and 
 it is through this system that the Neophyte grows into a Rosi- 
 crucian. After such growth, after fellowship in the Order has 
 been obtained by Divine right, which is the privilege of fellow- 
 ship through natural growth, then it is, that the Neophyte may 
 have the ceremonial degree conferred upon himself. 
 
 (25) Please note, that this article appeared in the Boston 
 papers in the year of 1872, or more than 42 years before the New 
 York people claim to be founding the Rose Cross Order. More- 
 over, the papers stated that he had been engaged in establishing 
 the Rosicrucian rooms for about four years, which adds to the 
 number of years that Dr. Randolph had been engaged in the 
 Rosicrucian work. 
 
 (26) Here we find, that no matter how sincere a man may 
 be, no matter how deeply he has the love of humanity at heart, 
 there will always be traitors, who, for self-interest, will stoop to 
 any deeds, no matter how degrading, in order to accomplish their 
 point. At this date, it is not necessary to make apology for the 
 books written by Dr. Randolp, as the true student will under- 
 stand their great value, but it is gratifying to know, that even 
 at that date there were Judges in Boston, who were fair, and who 
 would not cooperate with a fraud, such as that attempted by 
 the Bay, French, La Hue class of people. 
 
 (27) Here we also find that Dr. Randolph had been 
 a resident of Boston for twenty years before the arrest, which 
 adds that number of years to his work in Boston, and thus 
 we find that the Rosicrucian work in Boston actually dates from 
 1852. 
 
 (28) After the French-Bay-La Hue affair, Dr. Randolph 
 was arrested for circulating his books, the claim being made by 
 his enemies, that his books were obscene. Needless to say, just 
 as the former Judge had found that his books were not immoral, 
 so did the Jury find in this case, that there was nothing in Dr. 
 Randolph's books which was not for the benefit of humanity. 
 I wish to call particular attention to the Hon. Adolphus Skinner, 
 as the statements made by him before the Court, and against 
 Dr. Randolph are worthy of note, as they are our best evidence 
 of Dr. Randolph's activity in the Rosicrucian work, they are also 
 our best evidence that the statements made bv these others, who 
 
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 have deliberately stolen the Ross Cross name, are absolutely false 
 and were made in order to conceal their own peculiar method in 
 making use of the property of others. 
 
 (30) The reader should note that the accusations made 
 against Dr. Randolph, by those who, at the present day, have 
 deliberately stolen his title of the R.ose Cross, were denied by 
 the prosecuting attorney, who freely admitted that Dr. Randolph 
 was not a libertine, or a seducer of innocent girls, or other men's 
 wives, he was considered morally incapable of that, but simply 
 on the ground that his works might do harm. Here we have 
 sufficient evidence of the absolute falsehoods circulated about 
 Dr. Randolph, at the present day, for purely selfish purposes. 
 
 (31) We of the true Rose Cross of the present day, hold 
 this as true — that though man is the master of the universe, or 
 may be master if he first obeys the mandates of Jesus — "Over- 
 come thyself and thou mayst overcome all else" — we hold that 
 woman is the flower in the garden of God, the most beautiful 
 handiwork created by a Just and Knowing God. This we teach 
 woman as Dr. Randolph taught in the foretime, and she is not 
 to blame if man is a brute. If man becomes truly man, then he 
 no longer complains at this statement, but glories in the fact that 
 God made woman as perfect as He did. 
 
 (32) Here the prosecuting attorney freely admits that Dr. 
 Randolph was not a mere dabbler in science, but, he was in 
 truth, a master of many. 
 
 (33) Here we find the prosecuting attorney freely admit- 
 ting, that the first case against Dr. Randolph was, without 
 question, "a palpable prostitution of public law to compass pri- 
 vate ends" and yet, it is from this case, that those who would 
 profit by his great work, find material to defame him. 
 
 (34) Here it is freely admitted that Dr. Randolph did 
 relieve humankind, that he helped thousands, and that the mys- 
 teries of the true Rose Cross help to minister to mind and heart, 
 but that which is of greater importance, is the admission that he 
 was not, like thousands of others, an imposter. 
 
 (35) Here again it is freely admitted that Dr. Randolph 
 traveled in all lands, and among all people, that he was unmo- 
 lested by all, and even defied the Voudeaux of Louisiana, the 
 most dreadful Black Magicians of the present day, more danger- 
 
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 ous than any of those now working under the title of the "Devil 
 Worshippers" in New York City and other places, to whose 
 viles thousands of innocent girls, and women, are falling victims 
 daily. If he did not fear these, then why should the Grand 
 Master of the Rose Cross Order today fear them? Does he fear 
 them? Let this book, issued at this time, be the answer. 
 
 (36) This is the greatest vindication of our Order ever 
 made by an enemy, for freely does the attorney admit that Dr. 
 Randolph, like we of the presesnt day, believe in, and worship 
 God, and that we train our children to do likewise. Moreover, 
 we work solely through celestial, although Mystic means. 
 This we admit, and further, we claim that we are totally against, 
 and forever opposed, to all the Black Brotherhood and their 
 destructive agents, now running wild all over this fair country, 
 and even masquerading under a stolen name. 
 
 (37) It was not the ignorant, nor the poor and lowly, who 
 came to Dr. Randolph for help, and for instructions, but the 
 greatest, most learned, and most refined people in the world. 
 
 (38) This date is important, for it is from it that we date 
 the Rose Cross Order in America. It was in the year of 1858 
 that Dr. Randolph became active in the Rose Cross work, and 
 tore away completely from all other work. Though, all the sects 
 fought him, he did not give up, did not fail, but kept up the 
 light. This shows the wonderful strength of the man, and his 
 entire lack of fear, when he knew he was in the right. 
 
 (39) Volantia, Decretism, and Posia, are the three parts 
 of the Mysteries of Imperial Eulis, and given only to those who 
 have, through long training, and not through some foolish 
 ceremonialism, passed the "Terror of the Threshold." None 
 can obtain this except through worth, and to obtain it in any 
 other way, and use it, would result to the one making use of it, 
 just contrary, to the results that would be obtained by those who 
 had become prepared for its use through inner growth. 
 
 (40) Here we have a mighty mystery, one that would help 
 our physicians a thousand-fold in the cure of disease, if they 
 would but investigate. To the proof: Take any dried, shriv- 
 elled-up, man or woman, one full of aches and pains, let him 
 or her fall in Love — truly in love, not simply en passioned — 
 and watch the results, all the aches and pains will vanish, the 
 
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 eye will become full of life and flashing fire, and the physical 
 being will take on magnetic, vital power. What is the reason? 
 simply that two conditions cannot exist in the body at the same 
 time, any more than one can accurately think of two things at 
 the same time. Both Jesus and St. John taught that love is 
 life, ay, even that it is God. Therefore, when Love begins to 
 take birth, Love being liee, all that which is contrary to life 
 falls away, as the weak enemy falls before the powerful guns. 
 Then, is the Rosicrucian doctrine wrong? Try it and see. 
 
 (41) What an admission for a prosecuting attorney to 
 make before a jury, with the idea that a jury would convict such 
 a man unless he had actually committed a crime. And yet, this 
 is true, for I have never known a patient to die under the care of 
 a Rosicrucian physician. 
 
 In several years of practice as a specialist, I have found 
 that out of the hundreds of women treated, every single one 
 could be readily cured from the ailments usually afflicting wo- 
 men, if the cause was first removed, and if the patient was then 
 given some real heart interest in life, even cancer of the internal 
 organs, the most fearful of all diseases, gave way. Out of thou- 
 sands of cases treated, not one was lost. 
 
 (42) Here the admission is freely made, that Dr. Ran- 
 dolph was then (1872) the Chief of the Order. Also, that this 
 statement is confirmed by every member of the Order in the 
 land. What then becomes of the false statements made by 
 Lewis et at, stating that the Order, by virtue of a Charter from 
 France, was net founded until 1915. 
 
 (43) This statement was made in 1872 by the prosecuting 
 attorney, it is an official statement that the Order was started in 
 America in 1852. Some years thereafter Dr. Randolph left 
 America, and travelled all over the world, and amongst the most 
 Mystical bodies, it was at this time that he became Grand Master 
 of the Order of the World. 
 
 It was after his return that the Order was actively started 
 in America, and has since continued to work faithfully for its 
 sublime ideals. 
 
 (44) At the present day there are possibly as many wo- 
 men in the Order as men, and it is found that as a rule, the 
 women are the most faithful of the Brotherhood, though at 
 
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 times, it is admitted, some one woman forgets that she is "The 
 flower in the Garden of God" and betrays her Order, thus falling 
 under the control of the Black Brotherhood. 
 
 (45) Even the prosecuting attorney of that time (1872)' 
 was not ignorant of the fact that the Rose Cross Order is not 
 a degree peddling institution, but, that it is a School of Spiritual- 
 ity, where the student grows into the mysteries, step by step, 
 grade after grade, reaching Hierarchy after Hierarchy, until true 
 Initiation has been achieved. What then of the claims of those 
 who, at the present day, attempt to make Rosicrucians in a night, 
 through ceremonial work, which is not even Rosicrucian? Are 
 they not frauds? Are they not part, and parcel of the Black 
 school of Magicians, men and women who live but to betray? 
 
 (46) Because to do so were to destroy. The true Rose 
 Cross lives to construct, not to destroy. To give this word 
 would be to belong to the Black Brotherhood, and it was no 
 doubt this principle which it attempted to illustrate in "The 
 Mysteries of Myra." We of the true Rose Cross do not attempt 
 to punish, because we know, that those who betray will punish 
 themselves, as did Judas after the betrayal of Jesus. 
 
 (47) Money and finery pass away with time, but the truth 
 taught to mankind, help given the needy, are the things that shall 
 live forever, and the Rosicrucian builds for Eternity, not simply 
 for the present. 
 
 (48 No true Rosicrucian ever brags about the help he 
 gives to others, to him the command: "Let not thy left hand 
 know what thy right hand doeth" is binding. Nor do they ever 
 refuse help to those who are worthy of help, but they are strong 
 enough to refuse help to those not worthy, no matter how seem- 
 ingly in need. The Rosicrucian looks to the heart, not to mere 
 appearance. 
 
 (49) Why should they be known, or intrusted, to any but 
 the third degree members? Others, though tested, are not tested 
 sufficiently, nor is their strength, under difficult conditions, 
 known. 
 
 Again, these secrets being the right of those of the Third 
 Degree, what of those orders, styling themselves Rosicrucians, 
 who possess only negative, Spritualistic teachings, or who, a la 
 Lewis, Besant, Russak, and others of that kind, have only a 
 ceremonial Initiation which can give no traiiying? 
 
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 (50) It was also in the year of 1861 that his book, "Soul 
 the Scul World" was first printed. Therein was given much 
 of the Rosicrucian belief. 
 
 (51 ) Here the statement is made by one not friendly with 
 Dr. Randolph, that Lincoln had personally requested that "Pre- 
 Adamite Man" be dedicated to himself. Always remember, that 
 all these statements were made in 1872, and were used in order 
 to attempt to convict Dr. Randolph. 
 
 (52) The Rose Cross Order has always, and does yet, 
 teache a better way for a woman to obtain that which belongs to 
 her, than either through the ballot, or physical means. It 
 teaches the right way, the true way, and the God-given way ; and 
 every woman with love in her heart will want to follow this 
 true way, although it is freely admitted that these teachings are 
 of no benefit to the masculine woman, or the woman without true 
 sex. 
 
 (53) Should a book be suppressed because it teaches the 
 truth, a truth in which there is no shame? True, those who 
 have deliberately stolen our sacred name have claimed that my 
 books should be suppressed, but then, one must expect, that the 
 thief would rather have the one from whom he had stolen the 
 goods, in prison, than be in prison himself for the stealing. 
 
 (54) Another damaging admission — not a word that is 
 indecent, net an indelicate allusion, in any of Dr. Randolph's 
 books, but because they taught the truth, because they taught 
 that which would bring us a greater humanity, they should be 
 suppressed. 
 
 (55) And the true woman, the woman with a heart that 
 is warm, with a sex that is normal in every respect, is truly a 
 queen, the most sublime creature that a mighty God could think 
 of. But, and it is an important but, she must be a real woman. 
 The village gossip, cold of sex, and small of heart, is not "The 
 Flower in the Garden of the Gods," but the weed that runs to 
 many seeds. 
 
 (56) And right he was. The true woman has no use for 
 the ballot, she possesses a greater power than can ever be found 
 vested in the ballot. In a letter now before me, a well-known 
 woman has this to say: 
 
 "I hold fast to the Vision of a wonderful Mother-God, one 
 
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 with the Father, endowed to the infinite power with all the 
 attributes we have given to the word "mother." Of Her I ask 
 that all those attributes manifest more and more through me. her 
 child, (and the Father, cognizant, is glad that I ask of Her, one 
 with Himself). She holds me in her lap, and as a babe, I draw 
 from her, her loveliness, her purity, tenderness, patience, and 
 wisdom, as much as I can, and more and more, as I grow to com- 
 prehend capacity for more. Thus do I seem part of the Universal 
 Mother to everything, to flowers, all life, human or other, a 
 mother part toward all. I think the great mother part has not 
 been taken sufficiently into account in our "religions." Man has 
 always thought in tenns of himself, and masculinized even his 
 God. Paul put women in the back pews of Christianity; Christ 
 did not. Take woman out of the New Testament and the Cross 
 would have to go too. That is perchance one reason why His 
 beautiful creed appeals, and man made doctrines do not; to the 
 soul, that, like all life, craves a mother. I think too, this is 
 one reason for the great feminine upheavel today: the desire — 
 at root, of the Mother-God for fuller recognition, fuller mani- 
 festation. But so many of my sex have fallen into the race 
 error of getting the "cart before the horse," putting the outer 
 before the real of the Inner. The material thing of Equal 
 Suffrage will never make woman the Evangel she is destined 
 to be. Regarding War, for instance, we cry, that if we had a 
 "Voice" in the government, there would be no wars. (As we are 
 constituted at present there would doubtless be more). Why, we 
 have now the first Voice. When the infant at her breast draws 
 in a hatred and horror of war with its mother's milk, (and 
 of all other evils likewise), then will war disappear with the 
 rest of the noxious tribes. Votes for women : She has the first 
 deciding vote, and always will. Better births, and not 
 the ballot boxes will regenrate the race. 
 
 Equally, when she dares teach her child to pray to the great, 
 pure, divine mother- God (one with the Father) giving Her the 
 same recognition in the child consciousness, then will she lay the 
 foundation sure for reverence of the future man, for all mani- 
 fests of that Mother. Also then, how simple for the Mystery of 
 Sex to be unfolded in loveliness and not in lewdness, the divine 
 power that makes us one with the Divine Creators — Father and 
 Mother, masculine and feminine, in one, a glorious thing 
 
The Rose Cross Order 193 
 
 to be crowned in the Holy of Holies, of our Sacred Inner Con- 
 sciousness, and not smothered shamelessly in the darkest corners 
 of Being. 
 
 These are a few bits of my thoughts, and by them, inade- 
 quately expressed, I am shaping my life. And when my sex 
 will get closer in consciousness to her, and draw from Her, and 
 teach Her (as well as Him), to their children, then will they 
 become what it is Her desire, (and the Father, cognizant, 
 approves) the blessed Evangel God-Mother of the world." 
 
 Every woman can, should be — is destined to be — a 
 Madonna : when she is, every child will become a Christ. 
 
 When it is her blessed privilege — nay, duty — to bring 
 forth saviours, what in the world does she need of Suffrage?" 
 
 Nothing need to be added to this letter, it is clear, and to the 
 point, and shows the true method for the saving of the race. 
 
 (57) During the trial of Dr. Randolph, the Free -love 
 cause was also on trial, and Mr. Selden Bennet made the plea 
 for their cause, thinking that in the vindication of Dr. Randolph, 
 should that happen, there would also be vindication for the 
 Free-Love cause. 
 
 (58) It has been said that Dr. Randolph believed in the 
 Free-love theory, but here the advocate of Free-love admits that 
 he does not. This testimony is very important, since the present 
 day defamers of Dr. Randolph claim that he taught Free-love 
 doctrines. 
 
 (59) Through the former trial Dr. Randolph had been 
 practically ruined, and not a cent remained in his possession, 
 moreover, even his plates were in pawn, in order to get the neces- 
 sary money to fight for the cause. Like Dr. Randolph, three 
 times have I been practically ruined and but for the help of good 
 friends — God bless them all — I would not have been able to 
 continue. But God is just, and though these experiences are 
 necessary in order to round us out, the Divine Law takes care 
 that our enemies cannot ruin us to such a degree, that we cannot 
 continue the Great Work. 
 
 (60) Freely admitting that he does not even know that 
 Dr. Randolph is interested in free-love, but if not interested, 
 that he defies him as he does the others. 
 
 (61) Dr. Randolph was his own attorney, as he did not 
 
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 have the money to engage a good one. Here he boldly declares 
 that he dees not believe in the doctrine of free-love, nor can 
 any true man believe in it. 
 
 (62) Here, as in the preceding paragraphs, Dr. Randolph 
 condemns free-love without any reservation, and every statement 
 he makes, I, as an humble worker in the cause, uphold to this 
 day as a cardinal teaching of the true Rose Cross Fraternity. 
 
 (63) It may not be believed by the many, but these very 
 things are now taking place universally throughout this country, 
 and there is an organized band, claiming to hold foreign chart- 
 ers, who follow this work of practical damnation. Dr. Randolph 
 labored to destroy these human vampires, and today, he is de- 
 famed by those whom he would have destroyed. This is but 
 natural, and to be expected, but we, his followers, cannot allow 
 it to be said that he upheld these destructive practices. 
 
 (64) Many so-called Occult orders in this country at the 
 present day, through their teachings of the non-use of sex, have 
 been the means of parting thousands of families throughout the 
 country. 
 
 The Rose Cross teaches right use. Right use is the Law. 
 Non-use means stagnation, stagnation means death. It is the 
 aim of the Order to point out the Way to erring humanity, in the 
 marriage relation as in all else, and thus conserve the family 
 ties, rather than tearing them asunder. 
 
 But this teaching of non-use, is not only the means of 
 destroying family ties, but it is the means of causing insanity 
 in hundreds of instances, for where you find non-use, as before 
 pointed out, you find stagnation, stagnation means death, and 
 this steam of death poisons the entire system including the brain. 
 
 Besides the breaking of family ties, and being the cause 
 of insanity, it also, in many cases, is the direct cause of degenera- 
 tion, as is clearly proven by the case in the Courts of India, 
 respecting the semi-leader of a certain cult. 
 
 (65) The Rose Cross tests its Neophytes well before it 
 gives them the Inner teachings, and for this very reason, a long 
 course of training, development and growth is necessary, for him 
 who would truly enter Rosicrucia's Sacred Temple, and those 
 calling themselves Rosicrucians, and making others believe they 
 
The Rose Cross Order 195 
 
 can be made Rosicrucians in a night, are giving humanity its 
 supreme Farce, a farce which is destructive to all that is highest 
 in man, because it causes him to believe that which he is not, 
 and thus allows him to live in delusion, preventing him from 
 seeking further for the truth. 
 
 (66) This is the only safe rule, the one upheld by the Rose 
 Cross Order. 
 
 In conclusion : I wish to state that, some twelve years ago, 
 when the leaders of the true Rose Cross, the Illuminati, Order 
 of Melchizadek, Priesthood of AEth, The Ancient Order of the 
 Magi, Fraternity Sons of Osiris, and several others, found that 
 men, who, having no training themselves in any of these 
 branches, knowing nothing of the true teachings of these Orders, 
 were deliberately stealing these titles and organizing bodies of 
 men under them, and without authority from these already estab- 
 lished bodies, they banded together, formed an outer Association, 
 under the title of the Royal Fraternity Association, so as to 
 protect these already established bodies. 
 
 This Association was first started in 1902, and was called 
 the International Academy of Science and Knights of the Mystic 
 Shrine. In 1909 this body was reorganized and Incorporated as 
 the Royal Fraternity Association. 
 
 The above mentioned Orders are members in good standing, 
 and any man, or set of men, claiming to have authority to estab- 
 lish such Orders, but whose charter is not from the Association, 
 is without a doubt deliberately trying to deceive the people, by 
 professing to give them that which they have not, and we care 
 not whether it is a la Lewis, Russak, Besant, Marsland, Plum- 
 mer, Hiendel, Mori a El or any other person. 
 
 To be forewarned is to be forearmed. 
 
 In this book has been given the proof of the long existence 
 of the Order in America, and most of this proof is from the lips 
 of a prosecutor, and not from a friend. 
 
 EXHIBIT A 
 
 In the year 1912, I was informed that Annie Besant had 
 started an order or society, calling it the "Temple of the Rosy 
 Cross." 
 
196 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 Finding the information correct, I at once wrote the fol- 
 lowing letter: 
 
 Allentown, Pa., November 21, 1912 
 Editor of The Theosophical Messenger, Krotona, Cal. 
 My dear Sir : 
 
 A copy of the November number of The Theosophical Mes- 
 senger has been mailed to me by one of the Theosophical Society. 
 Also a personal letter reaches me, requesting me to read page 
 120 of this number of the magazine. 
 
 The statement made in your magazine concerning the Rosi- 
 crucian Order is amazing to me. 
 
 Among students, it is generally known that the Rosicrucian 
 Order was founded in America in the year 1852, and that there 
 has been a continuous line of Grand Masters ever since, under 
 whom the work has been carried on. 
 
 Moreover, books have been issued continually since then 
 by the different Grand Masters. Proof of this fact can be 
 found in the Library of Congress. 
 
 Furthermore, it is known to all students of the Esoteric that 
 the Rosicrucian Order is not Ritualistic, but absolutely Esoteric, 
 or given to Soul Development. 
 
 You must also be aware of the Law, a Law that holds abso- 
 lutely on both the material and the spiritual plane, that only 
 one body of a given Order can be recognized in any one country. 
 It may have been necessary for the Theosophical Society to 
 found a Ritualistic Order; but, surely Mrs. Besant is as able 
 to invent a name as she is of founding a Ritualistic Order, and 
 therefore does not need to take an honorable name that belongs 
 to an Order long-established. This cannot bring credit to her 
 or to her work, since the proof that the name belongs to an 
 Order of recognized standing can be found in the copyrighted 
 books issued by this Order. 
 
 As before stated, all true students of the Occult and the 
 Higher Knowledge know that the true Rosicrucian Order has 
 long been in existence in this country. And these students, being 
 fair-minded, will certainly conclude that it is not right, either 
 under material or under Divine Law, for a newly founded body 
 to take the name that rightly belongs to another body. 
 
 Without doubt, Mrs. Besant is doing great good through the 
 Theosophical Society, etc. .... but it is doubtful whether 
 
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 she can accomplish good through the newly founded Temple 
 of the Rose Cross when the truth becomes known — especially 
 when I call your attention to the fact that F. B. Dowd published 
 a book under that title which was copyrighted years ago. 
 
 I mail you copy of booklet which was copyrighted in 1908, 
 and again in 1911. 
 
 This letter is not written in the spirit of criticism, but solely 
 with the idea that justice and right may rule. If those who teach 
 the higher truths will not uphold right and justice, then who will 
 uphold them? 
 
 I hope this matter may have both your careful consideration 
 and that of Mrs. Besant, and that I may have a reply from you 
 at an early date. Otherwise, I must give the matter publicity 
 through our monthly magazine. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Signed, R. Swinburne Clymer. 
 
 To this letter the following answer was received from the 
 Headquarters at Krotona: 
 
 December 3rd, 1912 
 Mr. R. S. Clymer, Allentown, Pa. 
 My dear Mr. Clymer : 
 
 I have your letter of November 21st, and have duly trans- 
 mitted the same to Mrs. Besant, since you desire that she should 
 give "careful consideration" to the matters of which you write. 
 
 Do ycu happen to be possessed of statistical information 
 as to the number of societies and Orders already in existence, 
 bearing the names Rosicrucian, Rose Cross, Rosy Cross, Rose 
 Croix, etc? If so, would you kindly allow me to share the 
 information with you ? 
 
 In your answer I should be happy to know also how many 
 of these societies were already established and in existence before 
 Dr. Randolph founded the Order of which you are a member. 
 
 Of course, ycu are aware of the fact that one of the higher 
 degrees in Masonry is a Rose Cross (Croix) Degree. 
 
 Your kind information upon the points mentioned will be 
 appreciated by 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 A. P. Warrington. 
 
 To this letter the following replv was made : 
 
198 1 HE Rose Cross Order 
 
 Allentown, Pa., Dec. 16th, '12. 
 A. P. Warrington, Los Angeles, Cal. 
 My dear Mr. Warrington: 
 
 Replying to your letter of December third, it gives me great 
 pleasure to give you the following information. 
 
 In America, there was no Society, Order, or Fraternity bear- 
 ing the name Rosicrucian before Dr. P. B. Randolph founded 
 the Rosicrucian Fraternity in its triple form. 
 
 The Masonic body, when the Scottish Rite began to be 
 worked, had a degree known as the Rose Croix as they have now ; 
 but this must not be confused with the Rosicrucian Order, since 
 it is purely Masonic and purely a Ritualistic Degree, making 
 no pretense of inner teachings. 
 
 Up to a few years ago, the Rosicrucian Order, or Fraternity, 
 founded by Dr. Randolph, was the only one existing in America. 
 Since then, the Rosicrucian .... has been started, which, 
 I understand, is teaching Theosophy under that name. 
 
 Some twenty years ago, the English Masonic Rose Cross 
 began to do work in America, but that was given up entirely 
 after the first attempt. 
 
 Dr. Randolph used different names: such as, Rosicrucians ; 
 Rosy Cross; Rose Cross; and Hierarch of the Rose Cross. The 
 title Rose Croix is purely Masonic. 
 
 I think I have given you all information at hand, but 
 would kindly refer you to my book, "The Rosicrucians; their 
 Teachings." If I may be of further service to you in any way, 
 I shall be happy to comply. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 Signed, R. S. Clymer. 
 
 No answer was received to the above letter but a letter was 
 received from Mrs. Besant, addressed from Adyar, India. 
 EXHIBIT B 
 
 Adyar, Madras, S., Jan. 8, 1913. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 The name Rosicrucian is too old and too widely spread for 
 any one of us to claim the exclusive use of it. Since the blessed 
 Christian Rosencreutz founded it, the true Order has not 
 perished. The 18th degree, the Rose Croix of Masonrv, bears 
 
The Rose Cross Order 199 
 
 this name. It is widely spread in Germany under Dr. Steiner. 
 It is found in other lands. The "Temple of the Rosy Cross" in 
 no way interferes with any other Rosicrucian Order, ncr is it 
 likely to be confused with any other, the name being quite dis- 
 tinctive. We do not call it "The Rosicrucian Order," but its 
 members are Knights Templars of the Rosy Cross. 
 
 Sincerely, 
 
 Annie Besant 
 R. S. Clymer, Esq. 
 
 In this letter evasion of the real issue is clearly shown. We 
 did not claim that the Rose Cross was not widely known, for we 
 well know that it is, otherwise Mrs. Besant would never have 
 chosen it, but we did claim, and still do claim, that the true 
 Rose Cross Order had long existed in America and that no other 
 Society had a right, either legally, morally, or under Divine Law 
 to take that title and use it. 
 
 The title "Temple of the Rosy Cross," was used, and pro- 
 tected under copyright, long before the Theosophical Society 
 found that it had to organize ritualistic bodies in order to keep 
 in existence. 
 
 However, we then had faith in the leaders of the Society 
 as at that time nothing was known of the inner works as aired 
 in the Courts of India a short time thereafter, and which clearly 
 proved that no justice could be had from these people. 
 
 The following answer was made to the letter just given: 
 
 Allentown, Pa., February 28th, ; 13 
 Mrs. Annie Besant, Madras, India 
 My dear Madam: 
 
 Your letter of January 8th has been received and has had 
 my careful attention. 
 
 I fully agree with you that the Rosicrucian Order has not 
 perished, but that it is now in existence as in the foretime. I 
 further agree with you that no one has exclusive right to the 
 name; but it has been a recognized fact that, when an Order 
 or Fraternity of that name existed in a country, no other body 
 should be started under the same name. 
 
 As to the name, "Temple of the Rosy Cross," I believe that 
 I called your attention to the fact that F. B. Dowd, a member of 
 
200 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 the American body, issued a book under that title and had it 
 copyrighted about twelve years ago. 
 
 Respecting the name, "Knight Templars of the Rosy Cross," 
 I wish to remark that the Degree, "Knight of the Rose and 
 Cross," has been conferred upon many members by the Order of 
 the Illuminati during the last sixteen years. In the early spring 
 of 1912, a Convocation was held in their own Temple, in which 
 the Degree was conferred upon representatives from many states. 
 
 Do not think that I am criticizing in any way; for I am 
 not, I simply call your attention to these facts without any 
 intention of trying to change your plans. 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 R. S. Clymer 
 
 For reports of scandals hinted at in this Introduction, the 
 reader can write to "Divine Life Book Concern," 614 Oakland 
 Boulevard, Chicago, 111., and get Pamphlets No. 1, 2 and 3. 
 Price one cent each. 
 
 EXHIBIT C 
 
 In the Pittsburgh Sun, the leaders of the so-called Rosi- 
 crucian Order, admit that they just began their work in America 
 in 1915, and claim that the Order had not been established 
 previous to that date. I think the data given thus far is suffi- 
 cient to fully disprove these false statements. 
 
 However, it may not be amiss to reproduce here an article 
 which appeared in a Detroit, Mich., newspaper in 1910. This 
 article, though unconsciously making some misstatements, never- 
 theless proves that our teachers were actively engaged years 
 before this so-called body started its work. 
 
 WOMAN TEACHER FORMING "EXALTED FRATER- 
 NITY OF ILLUMINATI" CLASSES 
 
 Students Later May Join Order of Rosicrucians; 
 Reincarnation Part or Belief 
 
 "Why are our asylums full of the insane? Why are drunk- 
 ards protected till they die violent deaths? Because they are 
 obsessed by vampire spirits who need the deadly nourishment of 
 the liquor to which they were prey during their lives in this 
 
The Rose Cross Order 201 
 
 world," says Miss Laura B. Southard, instructor in "Soul 
 Science, or Divine Illumination," at 93 Clifford Street. 
 
 Miss Southard is organizing classes in the interests of "the 
 Exalted Fraternity of the Illuminati," which is the kindergarten, 
 as she terms it, that prepares the way to membership in the 
 ancient order of the Rosicrucians, the American branch of which 
 is incorporated at Allentown, Pa. 
 
 In her own phraseology, the local "circle" studies a phil- 
 osophy which "teaches development of the physical, mental and 
 spiritual, giving balance and harmony, and making for success 
 in the material, mental and spiritual." 
 
 "We are in no way connected with faith healers, Christian 
 Scientists, New Thoughters, or spiritualists. There is truth in 
 all of these movements, but it is a small truth, and in the latter 
 case dangerous. 
 
 "We are studying the divine truths that Jesus studied in 
 secret with the Essenes in Egypt, between his fifteenth and thir- 
 tieth years, that period of his life which is unrecorded in the 
 scriptures. We are studying a philosophy that is much older 
 than Christianity, and which has been secret for centuries, as a 
 result of persecutions long practiced in the dark ages. We now 
 find it beneficial to keep it a secret order, for the great masses are 
 unprepared for the powerful truths it has to open to them. 
 
 'The true Rose Cross order, or order of the Rosicrucians, 
 was instituted in America by Dr. Paschal Beverly Randolph in 
 1852, and now holds secret meetings in every state in the union, 
 and the isles of the sea. 
 
 The Rosicrucians claim a more or less devoted discipleship 
 from Abraham Lincoln, to whom one of their more pretentious 
 volumes was dedicated "at his personal request." 
 
 "We teach the philosophy of the immortal soul, founded on 
 and built by the master mind in a healthy body. We believe that 
 the desire to have proves the power to get. We teach you how 
 to make of yourself what you will. We do not dabble in phe- 
 nomena of the lower orders. We do not run healing parlors. 
 We study. 
 
 "There are now about 25 students in my 'kindergarten,' 
 and from half a dozen to a dozen profound students. We have 
 to weed out many, for first of all we require absolute purity of 
 life and of example, and we know if the student docs not live up 
 
202 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 to our standard. He cannot keep an evil life secret from us. We 
 read the open book of life. We take no knowledge second 
 handed. That is the trouble with other faiths and 'isms.' " 
 
 But it appears from the publications of the order that if one 
 desires to become a healer, "to have the power that the Christ 
 said all might have," he may find the way through this strange 
 cult. 
 
 "Many people," says Miss Southard, "come to us claiming 
 to be Rosicrucians, but we find them false. They have not the 
 secrets. They have not the wonderful, hidden manuscripts. They 
 are of the black order, not the white." 
 
 Reincarnation is a fundamental in the philosophy of the 
 
 order. 
 
 • ••••• 
 
 EXHIBIT C— SECOND PART 
 
 In further proof of the absolutely false claims made by the 
 several and various clandestine bodies, that the Rose Cross 
 Order, and its various Councils and Conclaves have not been in 
 existence in America before 1915, we here give in full an article 
 which appeared in "The Initiates and the People" for December, 
 1912, and which is a report in part of the Grand Convocation of 
 the "Order of Initiate Masters," at which Conclave the Three 
 Degrees had been conferred upon the delegates present. 
 
 In order to prevent the confusion which these people who 
 use a name to which they have no right, are trying to bring about, 
 it may be here stated, that though the Rosicrucian Order is a 
 distinct and separate body, there are, in the Great Fraternity, 
 grades like that which hold in Masonry. For instance, as a base, 
 there is the Blue Lodge, often called the York Rite, of three 
 Degrees. Following this, along the York Rite branch there is 
 the Royal Arch. Along the other, or Scottish Rite branch, there 
 are the several grades, distinct and yet part of a whole. 
 
 In the Great Fraternity we have the same thing. We have, 
 first of all, the Illuminati as a starting point. Then the Rose 
 Cross Order. Highest of all, the AEth Priesthood, this is the 
 direct stem. As branches, there is the Order of the Magi. The 
 Sons of Osiris, the Fraternity of the Masters, etc. Each is dis- 
 tinct and separate, yet all in harmony. 
 
 As an example, we may take the University, which, governed 
 
The Rose Cross Order 203 
 
 by one supreme head, nevertheless, it has various courses and 
 grants various degrees, and it is foolish to claim that the man who 
 enrolls and takes the medical course and degree, has all the 
 knowledge of the various other branches, such as Law, Theology, 
 etc. 
 
 AFTER THIRTEEN CENTURIES, TEMPLE OF 
 INITIATION RE-ESTABLISHED 
 
 In the Grand East, near mid-day, not far from the mid- 
 year, in response to an invitation from the Supreme Grand 
 Master, worthy members of the Imperial Order met in Grand 
 Convocation. The place and the time are known only to those 
 that were present and received degrees. 
 
 The Imperial Order traces its fundamental principles of 
 thought, and, in modified form, its systems of training to 
 Atlantean origin, long prior to the Egyptian Priesthood of Ini- 
 tiate Kings. 
 
 The Imperial Order represents the Third Temple of Initia- 
 tion in the Sacred Mysteries. The history of the First Temple 
 covers a period of several thousand years. It claims among the 
 first of its Supreme Grand Masters the wise King-Initiate, 
 Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus. After the fall of the temple — 
 Irak Eulus — in A. D. 632, the Second Temple perpetuated in 
 the Orient the Sacred Mysteries and their interpretation, through 
 a succession of Initiate Kings, practically uninterrupted, down 
 to the year 1789. The year 1789 marked the end of the Oriental 
 rule and the decline of the Second Temple, and also marked 
 the establishment of European and Occidental branches. The 
 Third Temple was founded on American soil, about the year 
 1861. It has faithfully preserved the sublime teachings in their 
 purity, and has spread their beneficent influence in accordance 
 with the dictates of wisdom and discretion. 
 
 The First Temple gave both the Inner and the Outer Initia- 
 tion. They had Temple ritual; and degrees were conferred on 
 true Initiates. None except those that had passed through 
 courses of effective training in the development of the Inner 
 Being, and that had experienced the true Initiation were admitted 
 to Temple degree work. 
 
 The Second Temple, which covered a period of more than 
 twelve hundred years, had no cuter initiation. Their work was 
 
204 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 altogether a work of private instruction and of private guidance 
 in the Inner Initiation. 
 
 For almost thirteen centuries, there had been no Temple 
 Convocation and no conferring of degrees through ceremonial 
 rites. The recent Convocation of the Imperial Order is the first 
 Temple Initiation that the Great Work has had since the fall of 
 the Egyptian Temple — Irak Eulis — in A.D. 632. 
 
 At this Convocation, the following degrees were conferred on 
 those who, in their own experience, had crossed the Threshold: 
 first, the "Imperial Degree;" second, the degree, "Priest of 
 Mysteries," which gives a full interpretation of all systems of 
 Symbology; third, the degree, "Order of Priesthood," which 
 traces all religions to their origin, and interprets both their like- 
 nesses and their variations. 
 
 The Imperial Order has a ritual; but the ritual does not 
 constitute Initiation. The ritual is only a form or a ceremony 
 conferred on the aspirant, after he has become an Initiate. The 
 Inner Initiation is the essential ; the Outer is secondary and non- 
 essential. Before one can become a member of the visible Fra- 
 ternity, he or she must already have been enrolled among the 
 invisibles. In connection with the ceremonial features, there are 
 no initiation fees, no monthly dues, no salaried officers. Money 
 cannot buy one's way into such an organization. No one can 
 join such a Fraternity. One must grow into eligibility to mem- 
 bership through definite training of soul. There is only one way 
 by which one may become an Initiate. "Straight is the gate, 
 and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life." The one way 
 is to live a life in harmony with the principles of the Christ, and 
 to develop the Christ-nature in one's own soul. This way leads 
 to true Initiation. After one has attained this, he comes to regard 
 rites, ceremonies, passwords, and signs with comparative indiffer- 
 ence. 
 
 Initiation means development of all the faculties of the 
 Inner Being. It is a process of growth, in which the soul, already 
 illuminated, becomes acquainted with the dynamic center of 
 Illumination, and learns to master and to direct the laws under- 
 lying power of soul. The illuminated soul may enjoy the light 
 and the warmth of illumination: the Initiate learns the mechan- 
 ism of the dynamo that produces the light and the warmth, and 
 comes to have a reasonable decree cf control over this dvnamo. 
 
The Rose Cross Order 205 
 
 In order to become an Initiate, it is necessary to heed the injunc- 
 tion: "Enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, 
 pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father which seeth 
 in secret shall rew r ard thee openly." 
 
 The Initiate makes little noise: silence, discretion in speech, 
 unpretended good works, kind interpretation of others are his 
 characteristics. He works through the powerful vibrations of 
 thought, will, and love; this he does, not so much by a definite 
 exercise of mind as by the unconscious influence of his normal 
 thought-life. Fie seeks to become the servant of all, and con- 
 siders the ministering spirit more to be desired than name or 
 rank or title. The proverb, "Knowledge is power," he counts, at 
 best, only a half-truth: for this, he substitutes the adage, "Good- 
 ness is power." He recognizes the omnipotence of Will, but 
 well understands that goodness must be established in one's own 
 heart before one can claim the right to project will-power. 
 
 Initiates seek illumination and development of soul, not for 
 their own sake nor for the sake of personal greatness, but in 
 order that they may be the better qualified to help their fellow- 
 mortals upward tow T ard higher planes of consciousness. Many 
 live such quiet, secluded lives, and are so free from intruding 
 upon the sacred interests of others, that even they themselves, 
 although they are conscious of the Christ within, little dream of 
 the influence and the power they wield in their own community. 
 Again, there have been Initiates in high positions of state, who 
 let their light shine far and near, but who maintain a discreet 
 silence regarding their own knowledge concerning the source of 
 power. Vanity and self-pride have been transmuted into quali- 
 ties of meekness and humility ; herein lies their strength. Having 
 trod the lonely path of self-mastery and of self-abnegation, they 
 regard it a sacred privilege to serve others in lowliness of spirit. 
 Flaving silenced the dictates of the personal self, they are fear- 
 less — Lincoln-like — in dispensing to these under their care the 
 claims of justice, no matter what the cost may be to themselves. 
 
 The motto of the founder of the Imperial Order in Americe 
 may well be adopted by every acolyte of the temple : 
 "Pledged to no sect; to no creed confined; 
 The world my home, my brethren all mankind." 
 
 The watchword, of the Order, TRY, seems simple and in- 
 significant enough; but this little word of three leeters may 
 
206 The Rose Cross Order 
 
 become a mighty power in one's heart, enabling one to pass from 
 bad to better, from better to best, from ignorance to knowledge, 
 from poverty to plenty, from weakness to power. 
 
 "To be self-poised and perfect in motion, like the worlds 
 swinging in space, is the prerogative of every human being; but 
 only those who have found the center, and have lighted the flame 
 on the altar, approach that condition." It is the purpose of the 
 Imperial Order to teach men and women the secret of self -poise 
 and to lead them to rhythmic activity in the affairs of life. It 
 teaches them this by leading them to find the center of their own 
 Being. To aspire to this is prophecy of attainment. True and 
 pure aspiration connects the soul with the spaces of spirit vibrat- 
 ing with immortal energies. 
 
 The teachings of the Imperial Order are never imparted to 
 classes or to groups. They cannot be thus taught. Each living 
 being is an individual, and must learn to interpret and to obey 
 the law of his own individuality. No two persons are alike; no 
 two can be instructed in exactly the same way. Each must 
 receive private instruction. The neophyte should be cautious 
 about telling others of his experiences and his perplexities; to do 
 this only does harm. Each person must put himself under the 
 care of a competent Master. All seekers who are qualified in 
 earnestness and in sincerity may enroll in the Imperial Order 
 for instructions and for personal guidance. 
 
 Next Convocation of the Imperial Order will be at the call 
 of the Supreme Grand Master. Let all who hunger for the 
 deeper teachings enroll for instructions. Those who are success- 
 ful in crossing the Threshold will be eligible to an invitation to 
 
 attend the Convocation. 
 
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 EXHIBIT C— THIRD PART 
 
 In calling further attention to pages 26 and 27 of this 
 book, referring to the unauthorized use of the title of "Knight 
 
Th e Rose Cross Order 207 
 
 of the Rose and Cross" we give verbatim, from the April, 1913, 
 number of the "Initiates and the People" the following 
 PROCLAMATION 
 
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 INNER CIRCLE 
 
 TEMPLE ONLLUMINATI 
 
 It has been ordered that another Convocation of the Temple 
 of the Illuminati shall be held the coming spring or summer; 
 possibly, at the same time the Convocation was held in the year 
 1912. 
 
 The Convocation will convene at the same place as in the 
 spring of 1912; and the Degree, "Knight of the Rose and 
 Cross," will be conferred in the same Temple in which it was 
 conferred during the former Convocation. 
 
 All those who have attended past Convocations are again 
 invited to be present and take part in the ceremonies; and all 
 those who are eligible, but who have not yet received the honors 
 of the degree, are invited to come and have it conferred upon 
 them. 
 
 The exact date has not yet been set. But we desire to hear 
 from all who are taking the Soul Science lessons, and who desire 
 to be present; and full information will then be given to them 
 in due time. 
 
 By order of the 
 
 Master of the Temple. 
 
 All readers who desire to verify the truth of the statements 
 made, can order a bound copy of "The Initiates," wherein they 
 will find these reports as given in the foregoing. 
 
208 1' HE Rose Cross Order 
 
 EXHIBIT C— FOURTH PART 
 
 On page 30 of the Introduction, you will find reference 
 made to the Triangle, and to the fact, that when the two points 
 are upward it represents the Black Brotherhood, while with the 
 two points down and one point up, it represents the True Order 
 and the Illuminated Soul. 
 
 The same laws hold good with the Pentagram, and we wish 
 to refer you to E. Levi, in his "Doctrine and Ritual of Magic," 
 the most authorative book published. 
 
 "It is the Star of the Magi; it is the sign of the Word made 
 flesh; and according to the direction of its points, this absolute 
 magical symbol represents order or confusion, the divine lamb 
 Ormuz and St. John, or the accursed goat of Mendes. It is 
 Initiation or Profanation; it is Lucifer or Vesper, the star of 
 the morning or the evening. It is Mary or Lilith, victory or 
 death, day or night. The Pentagram (or Triangle) with 
 
 TWO POINTS IN THE ASCENDANT REPRESENTS SATAN AS THE 
 GOAT OE THE SABBATH; W r HEN ONE POINT IS IN THE ASCEND- 
 ANT, IT IS THE SIGN OE THE SAVIOUR. THE PENTAGRAM IS 
 THE FIGURE OE THE HUMAN BODY, HAVING THE FOUR LIMBS, 
 AND A SINGLE POINT REPRESENTING THE HEAD. A human figure, 
 
 head downwards, naturally represents a demon; that is, intel- 
 lectual subversion, disorder, or madness." 
 
 When, therefore, you see the sacred sign of the True Order, 
 used in the profane way, you can readily judge the Order so 
 using it. "Forewarned is forearmed." Beware, lest you be drawn 
 into the snare, and once caught in the net there is little chance of 
 escape as the confessions of many prove. 
 
A CATALOG OF 
 
 ROSICRUCIAN and 
 SOUL SCIENCE AND SUCCESS BOOKS 
 
 Try 
 
 All books herein listed are part of the teachings formulated and 
 given by The Temples of the Illuminati and Illumination 
 
 Published by 
 
 THE PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO. 
 
 Allentown, Pa 
 
Soul Science 
 
 THE SON OF GOD 
 
 The Mystical Teachings of the Master or 
 The Christic Interpretation 
 
 The old edition of the book called, "The Son of Man," 
 is sold out; and so great is the demand for it that it has been 
 completely re-written and much enlarged, and harmonized with 
 the teachings as given by the Temple of Illumination. 
 Preface. 
 
 In the Preface is summarized the fundamental principles 
 of the Christic Interpretation and the characteristics of the 
 Christic Law, as advocated by the Temples of Illumination and 
 of the Illuminati. 
 Jesus an Essene. 
 
 In this chapter is given an historic sketch of the training 
 that Jesus received among the Essenes. The harmony is clearly 
 shown that exists between the teachings of the Essenes and 
 those of the true Rosicrucian Order; and the connection between 
 the old Essenean Order and the Rosicrucian Fraternity as 
 founded in America by Dr. P. B. Randolph is clearly shown. 
 The Son of God. 
 
 Here the expressions of Jesus, "The Son of Man," and 
 "then Son of God," are used as the basis of interpretation. The 
 esoteric significance of these terms furnishes the foundation of 
 the Essenean Law and its interpretation. 
 The Sages. 
 
 In this book are given quotations from the great sages 
 representing different nationalities, to show that the Illuminated 
 Masters of all ages agree in regard to the essentials of a living 
 Religion and Philosophy, and that all those who lived in har- 
 mony with the Divine Law reached the same state, of Soul 
 Consciousness. 
 The Cream of Christic Interpretation. 
 
 In this book is found the cream of the Christic and the 
 Rosicrucian teachings. It is a book that should be given to your 
 friends, whoever they may be; and it is issued with this especial 
 purpose in view. 
 The Book Itself. 
 
 The book is printed on laid paper, beautifully bound in silk 
 
 
Catalog of Mystical Books 
 
 cloth so as to harmonize with "St. Matthew" and with "St. 
 John." It is a $1.25 book; but, as we desire that it shall be 
 used as a propaganda book, we offer it for 50 cents. 
 
 A limited number of these books are bound in paper, and 
 can be had for 25 cents. 
 
 Some of the friends and the Brothers of the Illuminati 
 have ordered as many as 20 copies in cloth, in order to use them 
 as gift books. Do not miss obtaining at least one copy; and, if 
 possible, order more to present to friends whom you wish well. 
 
 CHRISTHOOD 
 
 Second of the Text-books Issued by the Temple of 
 Illumination 
 
 Christie Power can be awakened only through obedience 
 to the Divine Law. When we obey this Divine Law, then is the 
 Christ Child born within us ; and, if we continue in the way, this 
 child grows to manhood and enters into power. 
 
 The millions are today looking forward to a world teacher, 
 to a new interpretation of the Law; for they instinctively know 
 that to understand the law, to live the Law, is to give man power. 
 
 "Christhood" gives positive instructions concerning the 
 power to be obtained through soul development. It not only 
 hints at the powers, but it gives many clear instructions as to how 
 to live in order that these powers may be obtained. 
 
 Contents 
 The Christ. 
 
 Showing who and what the Christ is. The Son of God ; His 
 Work; the Inner Man; how you may become the Son of God. 
 The Divine in Man. 
 
 Showing that all men are Divine if they but awaken the 
 Divinity within them. It elucidates the meaning of "Man being 
 the Temple of the Living God." 
 Development. 
 
 Giving the laws for the inner development which lead to 
 Real Initiation. It also gives many of the laws and rules for 
 Soul Development. 
 Formology. 
 
 Showing the necessity of forming a clear idea of what you 
 wish to be. Also of the necessity of developing this idea. Full 
 
Soul Science 
 
 mental laws are given. 
 Power of Love. 
 
 One of the greatest powers in the universe. It shows how 
 all things may be accomplished. 
 Christ and Osiris. 
 
 Showing how the principles of the Christ and Osiris were 
 the same, and much of ancient initiation is also given. 
 Development and Employment. 
 
 Proving that it is not necessary for the student to give up 
 honest labor in order to become a Leader or Master. 
 The Religion Demanded by the People. 
 
 Millions realize that a true religion — a religion of the 
 heart and soul — is much needed. Many grope in darkness, 
 never finding light. The beauties and practical points of this 
 religion are clearly set forth. 
 Temple of Illumination. 
 
 Giving a discourse on the Temple of the Illumination of 
 the Soul. The religion that millions demand, but have here- 
 tofore sought in vain. Leaders are wanted everywhere. 
 Healing. 
 
 True Soul Science. Giving concisely, but fully, instructions 
 that are alone worth more than the cost of the book. 
 Prayer. 
 
 Explaining why prayer is, and is not, effective. It reveals 
 this most important mystery. 
 The Book Itself. 
 
 The book is printed on laid paper, beautifully bound in 
 silk cloth and side stamped in gold. It harmonizes with the first 
 text-book, "Soul Science, the Way to Immortality." Price 75 
 cents, postpaid. 
 
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 SOUL SCIENCE THE WAY TO IMMORTALITY 
 
 The Coming Christ 
 
 It is universally admitted among scholars that we are on 
 the Threshold of a new Dispensation. This means that we are 
 expecting a new Law, which shall govern all things. To state 
 this more correctly, we are expecting a new interpretation of the 
 olcl Law, an interpretation that is at once practical and mystical, 
 
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 Centuries ago, when civilization had reached a state some- 
 what similar to the present, when the time was ripe for a new 
 Law Giver, or a Master who should anew interpret the Law, 
 Moses appeared to the civilization of that age. 
 
 Centuries later, when the dispensation brought about by 
 Moses was nearing an end, and new expectations arose among 
 the people, the Master Jesus appeared and gave a new Interpre- 
 tation to the same Laws interpreted by Moses centuries before. 
 
 The old cycle is at an end, a new cycle has begun; and 
 there is, among the people, anticipation of a new Age. As, in 
 the long past, Moses gave a new interpretation to the people, 
 Moses who had been taught and Initiated among the Egyptian 
 Priesthood, and, as centuries later, the Master Jesus, also taught 
 by that same Priesthood, then called the Essenes, so now, in the 
 new Age, who other than the same School of Priesthood should 
 give forth the New Interpretation of the Law? 
 
 "Soul Science, the Way to Immortality" is the first of the 
 text-books given out by this many-cycle-old school. In this 
 book will be found a great many of the Christie Interpretations 
 in harmony with the coming Age ; for in this book is pointed out 
 "the Way, the Truth, and the Life." 
 Annunciation, or Conception. 
 
 ' When the Soul succeeds in arousing the Mind and the Will 
 to a desire for Truth, for Wisdom, and for greater Love, it is 
 planting the seeds, or the Conception. Man cannot, and will 
 not, accept of anything until there is something within him 
 which tells him that it is truth. Thus, when we turn from an 
 old condition to a new one, from an old belief to a new belief, it 
 is a condition of Conception that has taken place. 
 The Confession. 
 
 Sorrow for old deeds and turning away from them, accept- 
 ing new and higher belief in a just Law, and living in harmony 
 with the Law — this is repentance. It is a confession; for to give 
 up the old, and accept the new, is to confess that the old was in 
 the wrong. 
 Re-Birth — Baptism by Fire and the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Few know the mystery of the Baptism by Fire. In this 
 book the mystery is made so plain that all can understand it. 
 The Baptism by Fire is the coming into Conscious Sonship with 
 the Father— the Birth of the Christ. 
 
Soul Science 
 
 The Coming of the Christ. 
 
 The various theories and guesses of the unenlightened are 
 completely changed into Light and Understanding, as the full 
 truth is unfolded and the mystery concerning the Coming Christ 
 is revealed. How will the Christ come ? When will he come ? 
 Where will he come? 
 The Judgment. 
 
 The Judgment Day has been portrayed as a day of terrible 
 trial. What is the Judgment? W r hen is it? Are all judged 
 upon one day afar off, or is there a judgment every day and for 
 every one? The Judgment has no terrors for those who know. 
 The Judgment is not a day to be thought of with terror, but is 
 something that we can change if we will. 
 The Awakened Soul. 
 
 The Soul that has awakened knows its birthright, knows 
 good from evil, false from true. There are no more terrors of 
 the Threshold when the soul awakens from its sleep and unfolds 
 in Light and Wisdom — 1 when Illumination is reached. 
 Building of a Soul. 
 
 The mystery for the millions to know; for to know is to 
 become free. There is a right way and a wrong way. The 
 architect knows his plans of work, so should the soul builder. 
 Every living human being must become a Soul builder in order 
 to become Immortal. Many are building upon the sand, without 
 knowledge of the rock of truth. 
 Works and Faith. 
 
 Where there is true faith, works will be manifested. Faith 
 without works is dead. He who has true faith will do the works 
 according to his faith. 
 Understanding and Love. 
 
 Those who know Love understand all mysteries. Love is 
 the Key to Wisdom; and Wisdom unlocks the doors to Under- 
 standing. 
 Atonement. 
 
 The meaning of At-one-ment. Unless we become at-one 
 with the Father, we cannot know the Christ. To know the 
 Christ is to become Illuminated. None can reach Immortality 
 except through the Atonement. 
 Crucifixion. 
 
 The real meaning of Crucifixion. Soul Science and the 
 
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 Christie Interpretation alone can give the true meaning. 
 The Passover. 
 
 There are few who know the true meaning of the Passover. 
 The Passover is not a feast to be held once a year, but has a 
 deeper, a mystical, or occult, meaning. None can become Im- 
 mortal, none can become one with the Father, unless they have 
 gone through the Passover. 
 Illumination. 
 
 Illumination is the resurrection of the Christ. The Resur- 
 rection always comes after the Passover. 
 The Christ. 
 
 If we walk as he walked, we shall become like him. To 
 walk as he walked is to obey the same laws that he obeyed and in 
 the same way. Mere belief will not give us the Christ; but in 
 believing and in doing alone is to be found the Christ. 
 Healing. 
 
 John the Baptist taught the Laws of the Mind, or Mental 
 Healing; but Soul Science and the Christie Interpretation teach 
 the Healing of the Soul. 
 The Book Itself. 
 
 The book is printed on laid paper, beautifully bound in 
 silk cloth, and side and back stampel in gold. More than 200 
 pages. Price $1.50, postpaid. 
 
 THE ILLUMINATED FAITH 
 
 St. John Mystically Interpreted 
 
 A test was recently made by the Temple of the Iluminati 
 to find out what subjects most interested those whose names 
 were on their mailing lists. These subjects included "Soul 
 Science and Success," "Spiritual or Mystic Christianity," and 
 the "Christie Interpretation." Out of five thousand names, the 
 largest number was interested in Mystical Christianity; the next 
 largest number was interested in the Christie Interpretation. 
 
 The book now offered to you is a complete and exhaustive 
 Mystical Interpretation of the Gospel according to St. John, 
 so well called the Philosopher of Love. 
 Christhood. 
 
 Throughout the lessons of the book, the subject of Christ- 
 
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 Soul Science 
 
 hood is exhaustively dealt with. Do not think that the method 
 of attaining Christhood is only hinted at; for much more than a 
 hint is given concerning the subject. Indeed, it is carefully 
 emphasized from many points of view. The teachings of St. 
 John are treated in their entirety, and are fully and completely 
 explained so that all may live the Illuminated Life and become 
 as the Christ. 
 Initiation. 
 
 Throughout these lessons it is clearly shown that Attaining 
 the state of Christhood means that he who so attains has reached 
 Mastership, or Initiation. 
 Soul Consciousness. 
 
 To reach Christhood is to become Soul Conscious. Those 
 who reach Soul Consciousness reach what several well-known 
 writers have named "Cosmic Consciousness." 
 Illumination. 
 
 Illumination is reached when the mind has become awak- 
 ened and enlightened, and when through this awakening the 
 Mind Forces are used in the building, or creation, of a Soul that 
 is "Consciously Conscious." 
 The Goal. 
 
 St. John recognized the one great Law — that the goal of all 
 human endeavor is to become a Conscious Soul, a Cosmic Being, 
 and that potential Christhood is nothing less than this. 
 The Divine Law. 
 
 Unless man understands the Divine Law and obeys it, he 
 can reach neither Christhood nor Soul Consciousness, and it 
 was the labor of St. John to teach men this Law. 
 Love. 
 
 St. John has been called the Philosopher of Love because 
 the base of the whole work in the redemption of man, according 
 to his teachings, is love. 
 The Ancient Wisdom. 
 
 The whole Philosophy is based upon the fundamental 
 principles as taught in the Ancient Wisdom by the old Masters. 
 Each Law is made plain, and, in many instances, appropriate 
 illustrations are used. 
 The Crucifixion and the Resurrection. 
 
 The old Theological explanations are no longer believed in 
 by mankind, and advanced criticism does not accept them. In 
 
 
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 this book a clear explanation is given; and, in the light of the 
 discoveries of the ^Eth Priesthood, it is shown, beyond the possi- 
 bility of contradiction, that not only could Jesus, having become 
 the Christ, arise from the tomb but that any man now on earth, 
 if he will obey the Divine Law, can do the same. 
 The Book Itself. 
 
 The book is printed on laid paper, bound in silk cloth, 
 and throughout is in harmony with, and a companion to, "St. 
 Matthew." It contains 53 chapters or lessons, and can be 
 used as a text-book in schools and colleges where "The Illum- 
 inated Faith' is taught. Price $1.25, postpaid. 
 
 THE ILLUMINATED FAITH 
 
 The Christic Interpretation of St. Matthew 
 
 Who does not know of the unrest among the multitudes of 
 today? Who is not aware of the fact that the many have lost 
 faith in the established church of the present day? Who is not 
 aware of the clearly apparent fact that millions of people are 
 seeking, here and there, for a new religion — a religion or relig- 
 ious teaching, that is practical and can be applied in all the 
 walks of life ? 
 
 Many think that the Bible is a useless book, that it contra- 
 dicts itself, that in it are found teachings which have been 
 clearly disproved by science. 
 
 But there is one thing these multitudes do not know. They 
 do not know that there is nothing at all the matter with "the Old 
 Book," they do not know that all that is in the book is actual, 
 scientific truth. They do not know that the fault lies, not in the 
 book, but in the interpretations of the book. 
 
 In the Christic Interpretation, a clear distinction is made 
 between those teachings of the book which should be considered 
 literally, and those which must be considered symbolically. 
 
 When this is done, we find that the teachings are practical, 
 that they can be applied in ordinary life, and that to apply them 
 means health, wisdom, peace of mind, and success in life. 
 
 The Interpretation of St. Matthew is the first attempt of 
 the Illuminati to give to the seeking world a clear interpretation 
 of that Gospel. The interpretations are such as can readily be 
 understood by all. These Laws can be applied in every-day 
 
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 life; and to apply them is to find peace, it is to find new life, 
 a new faith in God and His revealed teachings. 
 
 To obey the Laws as interpreted in this book is to find the 
 Christ, to find Conscious Sonship with the Father, and to find a 
 religious faith that nothing can shake. 
 The Higher Law. 
 
 The Higher Law governs the body, the mind, the spirit, 
 and the Soul. A clear distinction is made between these four 
 departments of man's being. 
 
 The Illuminati is the only school that makes this distinc- 
 tion, and shows the reason for it. 
 Development. 
 
 The wise know that it is not well to undertake any develop- 
 ment unless one clearly understands what he is doing. To under- 
 take to run an engine, without understanding the mechanism, 
 and how to set it in motion, how to stop it, how to feed, and how 
 to oil it, would be dangerous. It is just as dangerous to meddle 
 with the human machine without an understanding of the Divine 
 Law. 
 The Forces. 
 
 The Divine Law controls all the forces in nature. The 
 Divine Law and the Natural Law are one; but the Divine Law 
 applies to the things of the Soul, while the Natural Laws apply 
 to material manifestations. To break one is to break the other. 
 True Guidance. 
 
 The book is a guide. It is such a guide as all need who de- 
 sire to follow the Path to Life, and Light, and Love. Occult 
 and Mystical Laws are clearly interpreted, and the reasons given. 
 Going Astray. 
 
 There is no danger of the seeker's going astray if he studies 
 these Laws and obeys them. 
 The Forces and Their Use. 
 
 All forces are for use; otherwise, a Wise Creator would 
 never have brought them into existence. Wisely used, they will 
 enable the seeker to make all the resources of his fourfold nature 
 available and productive, so that he may create and execute 
 plans, make his way through obstacles, and realize his highest 
 ideals; in other words, an intelligent application of these forces 
 will enable him to become and to accomplish. 
 The Book for You. 
 
Catalog of Mystical Books 
 
 The book explains, from various points of view, the Divine 
 Law underlying all things; and, if you become thoroughly estab- 
 lished in its principles, there will be little likelihood of reaction 
 from the forces you set into motion by your intense desires. 
 The Book Itself. 
 
 The book contains 265 pages; is printed on beautiful laid 
 paper, bound in silk cloth; side and back stamped in gold. Is a 
 standard text-book to be used in Soul Science schools and col- 
 leges and in class work. Is used at the "Beverly School of 
 Sacred Science" when in session. Price $1.50, postpaid. 
 
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 CHRISTISIS 
 
 Higher Soul Culture 
 
 The lessons on Soul Culture in this book are a happy com- 
 bination of two important features : first, they afford instruction 
 concerning the fundamental truths of life expressed in language 
 simple yet comprehensive; second, they afford practical sugges- 
 tions concerning the application of these truths to the develop- 
 ment of one's Soul nature. Thus, they satisfy two needs of the 
 honest seeker, instruction and self-training. 
 
 The book is not for the idle curiosity-seeker. It is for the 
 one who is eager to find the truth and is willing to submit him- 
 self to patient self -training that the truth may be unveiled to his 
 own consciousness. 
 
 These are rightly called lessons, in that they teach; they 
 are rightly called "lessons in Soul Culture," in that they offer 
 and explain simple practical methods by which the Soul Nature 
 of man may be developed. It is a text-book, in that it gives a 
 definite course of study, and gives general outline of a specific 
 course of self-training. 
 
 It is a book for the teacher because it is an excellent guide, 
 in that the expressions are clear, yet condensed, leaving room 
 for the teacher to follow his own inspiration in expanding and in 
 illustrating the principles taught therein. It is a book for the 
 student who has no teacher, because the instructions are so clear 
 that he need make no mistake. 
 Lesson One. 
 
 Teaching that within himself each one must seek for, and 
 
Soul Science 
 
 find, all power. Telling what to do, and how to do it, in order to 
 develop the likeness of the Christ, the true Christisis, within 
 himself. 
 Lesson Two. 
 
 The beginning of wisdom and knowledge. Teaching the 
 Science-Religion, the wedding of Science with Religion. The 
 giving up of mere belief in the acceptation of reality. 
 Lesson Three. 
 
 Life is concentration. Concentration is accumulation. 
 Accumulation is power. The Magnetic Center, its finding, 
 development, and power. 
 Lesson Four. 
 
 The undeveloped soul within man, like unto a seed. The 
 seeds that lie dormant, the seeds that spring up and die, and the 
 seeds that spring up and grow. The Divine Spark within. The 
 development of the Christisis. Man a creator. The esoteric 
 teachings of the Masters. 
 Lesson Five. 
 
 The whole external universe is the outpicturing of the 
 thoughts retained within the Infinite Soul. God pictures the 
 universe in His mind, and it becomes. Likewise, man can pic- 
 ture a universe in his own mind and cause it to become manifest. 
 Material success and spiritual success. True success is one. 
 The religion-science world. 
 Lesson Six. 
 
 The Master of Mysticism, Jacob Boehme. "God intro- 
 duces His will into nature for the purpose of revealing His 
 power in light and majesty to constitute a kingdom of joy." Will, 
 the lever that lifts in any desired direction. How to use the 
 power. Two aspects of the force. The grand faculty. 
 Lesson Seven. 
 
 Mind, not magnetic. Mind is electric. The Soul is the 
 Magnetic Center. Mind the dynamo. Mind an electrical gen- 
 erator. The laws of of creation. The great secret of personal 
 magnetism. 
 Lesson Eight. 
 
 The physical plane. The earth plane. The Soul plane. 
 Limitation is bondage. Limitation is not reality, it is not life. 
 Life is universal, it is unlimited. We can draw from the Uni- 
 versal Center as much as we need. We are limited only as we 
 
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 limit ourselves. 
 Lesson Nine. 
 
 "I and the Father are One." "I am in the world, but not of 
 the world." The proof that man may live on the earth plane, 
 but not be of that plane. All states are but conditions of mind 
 and soul. Man is limited only as he limits himself. The voice 
 of conscience is the voice of God speaking within us. 
 Lesson Ten. 
 
 The new life. In trying to find the universal life, you try 
 to find the Christisis. The Christisis is the Son of God. The 
 Christisis is the unity of man with God. The Christisis is the 
 wedding of Science with Religion. The becoming One. The 
 Soul is the life of man. The body is simply the necessary vehicle 
 through which to manifest. 
 Lesson Eleven. 
 
 Individual responsibility. No one can escape from the 
 law of cause and effect. It is absolute. 
 The Book Itself. 
 
 The book consists of an Introduction ana eleven lessons. 
 
 One hundred and ninety-two pages, printed on one side of sheet 
 
 only. Printed on 80-pound beautiful cream Alexander book 
 
 paper, and bound in buffing, with back and side stamped in gold. 
 
 It is the text-book of the third year's lessons. 
 
 This book may be bought separately. The price is $5.00. 
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 THE DIVINE LAW 
 
 Inner Aspect 
 
 In this book, many of the aspects of the Divine Law are 
 taught in their application to the life of man. 
 
 The Laws here taught have to do with the Mystical side 
 of life, those things which concern the Soul, the Life after this; 
 or, the Law concerning the present life in its esoteric sense, so 
 that, when the present life ends, it will be actually a continuation 
 of the present life on another plane of existence. 
 
 These Laws, as here taught, are practical. We know that 
 they are practical; for they are, in nearly every case, answers 
 to questions received from some perplexed student. These expo- 
 sitions of the Divine Law are answers to such questions as were 
 
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 received from students in the Temple of Illuminati. We there- 
 fore know that they are adapted to seekers' needs. 
 
 These expositions of the Divine Law formerly appeared in 
 The Initiates, and are demanded in book form, in order that 
 the student may have ready access to various phases of the Fun- 
 damental Law in its application to life. 
 
 Contents 
 Initiation. 
 
 Around the word "Initiation" centers all the work that has 
 to do with the student who takes up the higher Life, the life 
 that is different from that which is ordinarily led by man. 
 Moreover, there is no word in the English language which is 
 explained in as many different ways as the word "Initiation." 
 In this chapter, a sane, rational, and mystic explanation is given 
 of the work of initiation ; and to give careful study to the chapter, 
 and to heed the instructions contained therein, would be the 
 means of saving thousands from unnecessary suffering and from 
 traveling the wrong path, a path which leads to disappointment. 
 The Cause of Suffering. 
 
 Man suffers. There is no gainsaying that point. But why 
 fs it necessary that he should suffer ? Is there a good reason for 
 it? What is the reason? Does man suffer for any other acts 
 than those connected with the present life? Does he suffer for 
 the sake of others? All these questions are fully answered and 
 a reason given for it. No sincere student can afford to be ignor- 
 ant of the great Law; for it will show him that both God and the 
 Law are just. 
 Man in the Great Beyond. 
 
 What is the status of man in the Beyond? Is his destiny 
 irrevocably sealed at the transition called death ? After having 
 lived a godless life during his earth existence, is he forever 
 debarred from the opportunity to accept the divine standards, 
 and to amend his ways in harmony with them? In this chapter, 
 the life of man in the Beyond is made clear in every respect. He 
 is taught the Laws and the conditions that make for the future, 
 the life on the Soul plane. The Laws of growth and develop- 
 ment are clearly taught; and he is shown just what is necessary 
 in order to advance continually without being retarded by ignor- 
 ance and false beliefs. This chapter alone is worth more to the 
 sincere seeker than the cost of the book. 
 
Catalog o r Mystical Books 15 
 
 The Origin and the Seat of Evil. 
 
 Is there evil in the world? There are those, so-called 
 teachers, who claim that there is no evil. This claim is based 
 upon the fact that God made all things and that when he made 
 them He made them good. The School of the Christie Interpre- 
 tation admits this fact; but it recognizes the greater fact that, 
 when God made man, he gave him free-will, the right to use 
 things for good or for evil, and that a good thing can be used for 
 an evil purpose. The Law is fully taught in this chapter, the 
 reason and the cause for evil given, and clear instructions for 
 the overcoming of evil through obedience to the Divine Law. 
 The Status of the Soul. 
 
 What is the Soul? Do all souls reach perfection? How 
 are we to account for the different stages of development which 
 different souls reach? 
 
 This is one of the most important chapters in the book. It 
 is clear, sane, and to the point. It shows just what the soul is, 
 where it is, and what it may be. It answers the question that is 
 uppermost in the minds of the multitudes. 
 The Law of Freedom. 
 
 What constitutes freedom? This is the question of the 
 ages. All men desire to be free, to do as they think they should 
 do; but few really know what freedom means. Very often they 
 free themselves from one bondage only to come under a greater 
 bondage. The old saying, "Know the truth and the truth shall 
 make you free," is full of meaning; but we must know how to 
 search for truth, where to find it, and how to apply it. 
 The Law of Faithfulness. 
 
 What constitutes faithfulness? To whom should we be 
 faithful? All Divine Laws center around one Being, the One 
 Being manifested in two. God the Father, or call Him what 
 you will, is the One Being; man is but a part of that Being. To 
 be faithful to God means to be faithful to the self. Faithfulness 
 to these means faithfulness to all else; and to be faithful in truth, 
 is to be a success upon all three planes of being. Faithfulness 
 to the object underlies all real things in life, no matter upon what 
 plane man may be. Before he can attain full satisfaction, man 
 must understand the Law of Faithfulness. 
 Protection Through the Divine Law. 
 
 Can the mind of man be free from the adverse influences of 
 
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 other minds ? Is it possible for man so to live, so to think, that 
 he need not be affected adversely by the perverted wills of other 
 human beings? These questions are agitating the minds of 
 many, especially those who are becoming awakened to higher 
 ideals of living and thinking, and are seriously perplexed over 
 the possibility of becoming victims of unprincipled wills. In 
 this chapter, the Laws are fully taught, and, if obeyed, there 
 need be no fear whatever. Frankly stated, this chapter is alone 
 worth more to the student of the Mystic and Occult than the cost 
 of the set of books ; for it means freedom from fear concerning all 
 evil influences of whatever nature. 
 What of God, the Father? 
 
 In this age when unbelief seems to be rife, when men 
 seemingly believe in nothing, not even in themselves, it is high 
 time that consideration be given to that which our forefathers, 
 in faith and love, called God. Men now, are beginning to pre- 
 tend that there is no God, no beneficent force in nature. Such is 
 not the case, and the Christie Interpretation believes that, when 
 men are taught the truth concerning the Father, they will again 
 believe, and, through their faith, manifest the goodness of the 
 Father. False interpretations of mystic truth has been the 
 cause of the present unbelief. A mystic and sane interpretation 
 will bring men to have faith, and, through their faith, to mani- 
 fest goodness, truth, and power. 
 Prayer and the Unity of Souls. 
 
 Is there power in prayer ? Can Souls be united in a prayer, 
 or a Sacred Mantram, and does such unity give power, or bring 
 an answer from the source of power ? These questions are fully 
 answered. Moreover, this chapter, clearly shows the true meth- 
 od of prayer, which is, in fact, concentration. It shows why such 
 concentration should be had, and why Sacred Mantrams do 
 possess power. 
 The Unborn and the Divine Law. 
 
 There is no greater need than that of teaching prospective 
 mothers the laws that concern motherhood, the law that makes it 
 possible for them to have healthy, bright, and desirable children. 
 There is a Divine Law which has to do with this ; for this is the 
 most sacred duty of mankind. The instructions given are clear 
 and to the point. It is possible for every woman to obey them, 
 and therefore possible for every woman to have children that are. 
 
Catalog of Mystical Books 17 
 
 desirable and an honor. 
 The Book Itself. 
 
 The book is printed on beautiful laid paper, bound in silk 
 cloth, and in perfect harmony with the books, "St. John," "St. 
 Matthew," and others of the Christie Interpretation The price 
 is $1.25, postpaid. 
 
 # # # 
 
 THE DIVINE LAW- 
 
 OUTER Aspect 
 
 This book is a companion to the book, "Divine Law, Inner 
 Aspect;" but it deals more with the Laws that have to do with 
 success in life than with those Laws which concern only the 
 Mystical, or the Inner, Life of man. 
 
 However, it must not be understood that these same laws 
 have not also to do with the Inner Life; for to break any Law 
 that concerns the Physical being, or the material life, is also to 
 break the Law that concerns the Soul ; but these Laws have more 
 especially to do with the things of the physical plane. 
 
 Contents 
 The Leaders. 
 
 Men have said that in this age it is almost impossible for a 
 man to succeed. The fact is, never in the history of the world 
 was there such a demand for real, capable men and women. But 
 they must be capable in the real sense of the word, they must be 
 fully rounded out, proficient in the things they would undertake ; 
 and, above all, they must be loyal to that which they undertake, 
 in other words, put their whole heart, mind, and soul into the 
 work, and not attempt to dabble in this, that, and every other 
 thing. The Illuminati, with its Christie Interpretation, needs 
 leaders, true men and women; and there is power, contentment, 
 and advancement for such. 
 The Confessional. 
 
 Can the confession, or rather, can any confessional have 
 part in the work of the Illuminati ? To answer this question, we 
 need but ask another : Is it necessary for men and women in the 
 present age to confide in anyone? Is it necessary for them, at 
 times, to relieve the mind of pent-up feelings? We do not 
 endorse the old idea of the confessional; but we believe that 
 
18 Soul Science 
 
 human nature is much the same today as in the fore time, and 
 that men and women need those in whom they can confide, and 
 from whom they can receive instructions and words of encourage- 
 ment. 
 A Promise, a Pledge, or an Oath. 
 
 What of the promise, the pledge, or the oath, made by man? 
 Is it to be upheld? Has it any place in the life of the modern 
 man? These have been perplexing questions of many students; 
 and the Christie Interpretation answers them clearly and fully 
 and according to the Divine Law. 
 Destructive Effect of Negative Yogaism. 
 
 To the Western Mind, the terms, Adeptship, Mastership, 
 Yogaism, Psychism, Yogi, Master, Adept, and Psychic, are apt 
 to present vague and confused ideas. Moreover, in the present 
 day, when destructive Occultism is being so widely taught, it is 
 time to sound a warning so that the beginner may be protected 
 from spurious occultism, from those teachings which would make 
 him a mere machine, to be used by other beings, embodied and 
 disembodied. The chapter is clear to the point, and spares no 
 one, though absolutely impartial and just in its conclusions. 
 Why is Man a Failure? 
 
 What is it to be a failure? Why is man a failure? What 
 constitutes a failure? When we know what it is to be a failure, 
 the reason for it and what constitutes a failure, then are we also 
 prepared to find the remedy and to apply it. W T hen we teach 
 man the reason of his failure in every walk of life, then we can 
 also teach him how to succeed, and this is one of the greatest 
 works of the true teacher. This chapter on the cause of failure 
 should be read, studied, and its suggestions applied by every 
 man and woman in the world. The Laws applied will lead 
 from failure to success. 
 The Law of Vibration. 
 
 Every one interested in the Occult and Mystic desires to 
 advance in the science and the art of Soul Culture. Soul Cul- 
 ture is based upon absolute law, just as the building of a house 
 is based upon absolute laws, laws which are known to the 
 architect. Unless the student fully understands the Laws of 
 Vibration, he cannot make much progress; and, the sooner he 
 understands that every thought, every desire, creates vibrations 
 which help him either to build up or to tear down, the better 
 
Catalog of M ystical Books 19 
 
 Magnetic, or Drawing, Power of the Mind. 
 
 In nature, magnetism is active force, or energy. It is a 
 drawing, or attractive, power. It is a force that draws things to 
 itself. It may attract life, or life-giving forces ; or it may attract 
 to itself that which produces death and failure. No one can be 
 truly successful unless he possesses the power called "magne- 
 tism;" and the more abundantly he posses it, the more successful 
 he will be. 
 Highest Magnetic, or Mth Power. 
 
 Within every living thing, there is a power, a force, called 
 magnetism. This power, this force, this energy, may be in 
 different states of manifestation: it may be latent, it may be 
 inert, it may be in an active state; or it may be reversed — that is, 
 the power may be negative and of no use to its possessor; or it 
 may even be misdirected and thus be a positive detriment to the 
 possessor so long as it continues to be reversed. Without positive 
 magnetism, man is a failure, no matter what his status on the 
 earth plane may be. Learn the Law and be free. 
 Thought and theMth Forces. 
 
 In the forces produced by thought lies the secret of all power 
 that man can ever obtain. By thought, we concentrate upon a 
 given object; and, through concentration, we accumulate the 
 power to obtain the thing desired. Herein is found the power 
 that brings us either failure or success; and it is a lesson that 
 all must learn in order to succeed. 
 Miracles. 
 
 The common error concerning miracles is to regard them 
 as effects without causes, sudden vagaries of the Divine Mind. 
 Effects without cause contradict nature and all natural laws. 
 A single miracle of this class would destroy the universal har- 
 mony, and reduce the universe to chaos. It is customary among 
 both the educated and the common classes to designate 
 miracles those things which the mind cannot comprehend. The 
 chapter clearly explains the parable of the Master Jesus con 
 ing the loaves of bread and the parable concerning wall 
 upon the waters. 
 The Book Itself. 
 
 The book is printed en beautiful laid paper, bound in silk 
 cloth, and in perfect harmony with the books of "St. John," "St. 
 
20 Soul Science 
 
 Matthew," and others of the Christie Interpretation. The price 
 is $1.25, postpaid. 
 
 SPECIAL 
 
 All the articles as they appear in these two books appeared 
 in 'The Initiates." We have about 100 copies of the "The 
 Initiates" beautifully bound in silk cloth. While they last, copies 
 may be had for $2.00. 
 
 By ordering a copy, you will have all that would appear in 
 the two volumes besides some valuable additional matter. Order 
 at once. 
 
 # # # 
 
 RAKADAZANISM 
 
 The Exalted Life 
 
 As the title indicates, this book deals with the Science and 
 Art of LIVING — living the Highest Ideal possible to man. It 
 pertains to the' culture and normal development of man's entire 
 being — body, mind and soul. 
 
 The book recommends itself to the true seeker particularly 
 on this ground ; it is the result of years of practical experience in 
 teaching the Higher Life to students. Consequently it is not an 
 untried theory nor something far removed from human need. 
 It is largely composed of material that has already been used in 
 personal letters to students in answer to their question regarding 
 individual difficulties. It has satisfied the needs of others, why 
 not yours? 
 
 The book recommends itself to the earnest seeker again, in 
 the most helpful manner, in that it sounds a clear warning 
 against certain erroneous teachings that may have come to the 
 student and makes clear WHY they are erroneous. These sug- 
 gestions and warnings alone are worth the price of the book to 
 one who has wandered through many phases of modern teaching 
 concerning the Science of Life; for fundamental principles are 
 made so clear in this book that one can readily see wherein the 
 error lies in other systems of Self- Culture. As one studies 
 carefully The Exalted Life, something within says, '-'These 
 principles and deductions are correct." 
 
 The book presents the philosophy and general principles 
 
Catalog of Mystical Books 21 
 
 underlying Self- Culture, including Health Culture, Soul Cul- 
 ture, the natural method of Rejuvination of the body and conse- 
 quent Regeneration of the whole being, leading to conscious 
 Immortality of the Soul. 
 
 The chapter on "The Metaphysics of Regeneration and 
 Immortality" deals with such unique topics as these (among 
 others not to be mentioned here for want of space) : Interpre- 
 tation of the "Fall of Man;" Distinction between soul and 
 spirit; First and Second "Fall of Man;" First and Second 
 Resurrection of Man;" Correct use of the Sex Function in the 
 process of Regeneration; Interpretation of the Tree of Life and 
 the Tree of Death, the Flaming Sword, the Lifting up of the 
 Serpent in the Wilderness; Women's exalted place in the work 
 of the Regeneration of the race; Finding the Ineffable Light 
 Within; The Bread and Water of Life; Physical and Spiritual 
 Effects of the true exaltation of the sex forces; Correct Use is 
 the Law in all things; Why a teacher is necessary in Soul 
 Development; Soul growth must be gradual. 
 
 The chapter on "The Science of Youth and Regeneration" 
 or "The Regenerate Life" is full of inspiration. It deals wkh 
 the Laws that govern health, strength and beauty, under such 
 topics as these: Consciously cultivating a youthful mind and 
 body; Constant renewal of physical cells; Transmutation of red 
 corpuscles into white; Sex power is Soul power; Proper use of 
 generative forces in promoting youthfulness and long life; The 
 Elixir of Youth may be a reality; The Gospel of Life; Thought 
 attitude concerning age and death; Destructive effects of fear; 
 Regeneration belongs to body as well as soul. 
 
 The closing chapter of the book deals with Hygienic Laws 
 under such topics as, The Natural Food of Man; Bath for 
 cleanliness and Bath for absorbing magnetism and for Soul- 
 development; Correct Breathing; Value of Sun Bath. 
 
 This book will be warmly received by the advanced student ; 
 for it presents in a new light truths already known to him 
 together with many new aspects of truth. To the beginner it is 
 indispensable; for it will give him a correct start in regard to 
 matters of fundamental importance. This book is worth while. 
 
 Description. The book has 180 pages. Printed on good 
 book paper and bound in cloth with gold stamp on side and back. 
 A limited de Luxe edition was issued. This edition is in beauti- 
 
22 Soul Science 
 
 ful Berkshire book paper and bound in silk cloth. The price 
 of this to all is $10.00. 
 
 This is a strictly private book and obligation of silence is 
 required from all who desire it. 
 
 "THE WAY TO LIFE AND IMMORTALITY" 
 
 No book ever issued by this house has sold so well, and 
 given such universal satisfaction, as "The Way to Life and 
 Immortality. 
 
 This has well been called the most important book of the 
 Age. Those who are no longer satisfied with the present-day 
 presentation of religion, science, and philosophy, and who believe 
 that there is something greater, deeper, and more sublime in life 
 than generally recognized, will find this just the book to en- 
 lighten them regarding that something Higher, something 
 Deeper, and something more Sublime. 
 
 The teachings of the book are in entire harmony with the 
 article on "The Divine Spark." In fact, this is the most impor- 
 tant text-book of the Illuminati. 
 
 The book contains more than 200 pages, printed on fine 
 paper, and beautifully bound in cloth. Price, $1.25. 
 ****** 
 "THE WAY TO GODHOOD" 
 
 To those who want to get away from the poor, "worm-of- 
 the-dust" idea, inculcated by many of the churches, no book 
 ever issued is as important as this. This book teaches man so to 
 live that he becomes not only a man, but even more than man; 
 so to live that he will reach toward Godhood, toward all that is 
 desirable, all that is worth while. 
 
 It condemns the theory that man is a worm of the dust, and 
 holds that man is not a weakling, but that he has within himself 
 the germ of all strength; that he is not a slave, but a master; 
 not a child of the devil, but a son of the Godhead. 
 
 It is a book for the present age. It teaches a sane, a s virile, 
 a powerful philosophy, and shows the way — to Godhood. 
 
 It is a companion work to "The Way to Life and Immor- 
 
Catalog or Mystical Books 23 
 
 tality;" and no sincere student should fail to obtain a copy of 
 each. 
 
 Printed and bound in harmony with the other book. Price, 
 $1.25. 
 
 Those desiring further information concerning one or both 
 of these books before ordering, should write for circulars. 
 
 "THE ROSICRUCIANS; THEIR TEACHINGS" 
 
 It is now becoming an admitted fact, by those who have 
 given any thought to the secret philosophies, that the Rosicrucian 
 Fraternity has been the Mother-Father of all that is truly 
 mystical. 
 
 The Fraternity is "as old as the hills," and has never ceased 
 to inculcate a sublime doctrine, though often its work has been 
 secret and silent for centuries at a time. 
 
 Now that a new awakening has come, this book, giving 
 much of the fundamental teachings of the Fraternity, is both 
 timely and valuable. 
 
 Book is printed on fine paper, beautifully bound, contains 
 212 pages, 6 by 9 inches. For a limited time, the $3.00 edition 
 is being sold for $1.50. 
 
 "THE PHILOSOPHY OF FIRE" 
 
 It has been well said, that the Fire Philosophy is the basis 
 of all religion, and of all religious mysteries. It is the underly- 
 ing principle on which all secret Occult Brotherhoods are 
 founded. This philosophy was the foundation of all ancient 
 religious systems, and it is actually the life of every known 
 religion at the present day. 
 
 No one who is interested in any of the mysteries, in any of 
 the Fraternities that teach a part of the mysteries, can afford 
 to miss reading this book. 
 
 In this work are given glimpses of nearly every mystic 
 Order, of both ancient and mediaeval times, tracing the teachings 
 from their first conception on the lost Atlantis, up to the present 
 time. Some of the subjects touched upon are the Ancient Mys- 
 teries, Secret Doctrines, Regeneration, the finding of the Christ, 
 the Templars and the Essenes, and Higher Initiation 
 
 Printed on fine paper, beautifully bound, 265 pages. Price, 
 $1.50. 
 
24 Soul Science 
 
 "THE MYSTERIES OF OSIRIS" 
 
 More than one-half of the Masonic scholars hold that the 
 Masonic Ritual is nothing more nor less than a rewritten ritual 
 of the Ancient Egyptian Order. Be this as it may, it is true 
 that the mysteries of Osiris were among the most sublime that 
 have ever been taught by, or through, the Ritual of any Order 
 known. 
 
 This is a private work, and can be had only through an 
 obligation of silence concerning its teachings. It should be in 
 the library of every sincere seeker after truth, and in the library 
 of every Mason. 
 
 The Great Lost Secret which was reflected in the Ancient 
 Initiation was the knowledge of God and His relation to nature 
 and to man, and the knowledge of man and his relation to God 
 and nature. The ancient Magi, Initiates, had an occult but 
 absolutely science, wherein self-knowledge, God-knowledge, and 
 nature-knowledge were combined in an exact and mathematical 
 system. Of the teachings of the Magi, the Hermetic and profane 
 sciences which have survived, were mere fragments, and were 
 in turn used as a vocabulary, more as a means to conceal than to 
 reveal. It makes no difference whether we call these sciences 
 Astrology, Alchemy, Magic, Mythology, Natural Sciences, Phil- 
 osophy, or Metaphysics. The book, "The Mysteries of Osiris, or 
 Egyptian Initiation,'' is not an exposure, but a true Key to 
 unlock the Great Mystery. 
 
 In language as plain as it is possible to write of mystic 
 subjects, free from jargon, the author has given us in this book 
 a true history and explanation of the Great Initiation. 
 
 We cannot too strongly recommend a careful study of this 
 valuable work. 
 
 Students of the inner knowledge will no doubt avail them- 
 selves of this opportunity, especially since the edition is limited. 
 
 The book is on cream queen laid paper, printed in blue ink, 
 and bound in leather, gold stamp side and back, 260 pages, size 
 6 by 9 inches. Price, $5.00. 
 
 Write for special arrangements necessary to secure the work. 
 
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