extremes he may not go. "L' appetit vient en mangeant" [appetite comes from eating --- Ed.], and the more power he gets, the more he will want; and the more his desires are gratified, the more he will become satiated and require fresh stimulus to his jaded appetites.

Knowledge

This is no fancy picture. History tells us of the Emperor Tiberius offering a great reward to anyone who would discover a new pleasure, and Nero burning Rome for a sensation. Picture such men in possession of a knowledge of psychic laws which would place all the powers of Anima Mundi at their disposal, and then imagine not one such, but hundreds or thousands combining in some common enterprise under the leadership of some pre-eminently gifted individual, and recollect in this connection the accumulated power of massed mental action --- and what must the result be? Surely just what the Bible tells us: the working of all sorts of prodigies which to the uninstructed multitude must appear to be nothing else than miracles.

The knowledge, then, of the enormous possibilities stored up in the Anima Mundi, or the Soul of Nature, is the great instrument through which the power of the Antichrist will work. It is, indeed, the acquisition of this power that will more and more confirm him in his idea of self-deification; and note that though for convenience I use the singular pronoun, I am speaking of a class --- that is