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THREE SEVENS.
A STORY OF ANCIENT INITIATIONS.
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CHICAGO, ILL.
THB HERMETIC PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1889.
Entered according to Act of Oongress, in the year 1889, by
W. P. Phblon and M. M. Phslon,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. O.
[All rights reserved].
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CHiCAao:
A. L. FYFE, PRINTER, 128 S. CLARK ST.
1880.
PREFACE.
Gheetikg to those who love knowledge and seek understanding, for to them shall come the satisfying of their desires. The things herein written, although they may not seem probable, are possible.
All things, of any and every kind whatso- ever, which may enter into the thought of man, can, under favoring circumstances be made manifest. But this is immaterial. We should always regard, not the dress, but the man who wears the -dress. So do not linger to question the story clothing the parable.
That which lies within, concerns the truth of being. All the mortal-bom travel the same road. The paths are rough and stormy. They drip constantly with the blood of torn and weary feet. Storms brood loweringly along their devious windings. Disasters by flood and
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fire, enwrap all who dwell upon the earth. Not onq would care, even for a short half-hour, to view the misery and sufiEering that is the lot of those who dwell upon the Earth.
The initiations of the physical, which are to give power, strength and dominion to the Divine Essence, over all the created, visible and invisible are herein typified. In as few words as possible, we have sought to show the com- mon suffering of mortals; from whence they come; whither they go; what they may attain; and that he who seeks can receive, only by uniting the lower self with the Higher Princi- ples, thus becoming one with the Infinite.
We trust they who read, will be quick to see, between the lines, the intended lesson, and th^t it may lead all into the illumination of the Supreme Truth, that the Divine Unity and Har- mony are one, both in Infinity and Eternity.
William P. PnBLOiir, M.D. MiBA M. Phbloit, C. S. B.
CONTENTS.