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Occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse or godmother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute queen of society in those ages – when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and kings. 
It reigned in Persia with the Magi, who perished in the end, as perish all masters of the world because they abused their power; it endowed India with the most wonderful traditions and with an incredible wealth of poesy, grace, and terror in its emblems;
it civilized Greece to the music of the lyre of Orpheus; it concealed the principles of all sciences, all progress of the human mind, in the daring calculations of Pythagoras; fable abounded in its miracles, and history, attempting to estimate this unknown power,
