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great secrets, had been adopted, and had become tireless and useful workers
in the great cause. Then, the chances were that when Kroez became associated
with the Masters, and knew that they really existed, he would become a
devoted disciple; anyhow, he would be pledged and bound by his invocation,
and if under his invocation he violated his pledge, death or madness would
follow swiftly upon him. Therefore he was adopted; but his adoption could
not wash away the unexhausted Karma in his nature. Instead of controlling
his nature, and through pain and suffering allowing the evil to exhaust itself,
as one of the most celebrated occultists of the nineteenth century had done, he
allowed it to master him and violated his pledge. The result was swift and
inevitable; he was not struck by Masters, but by the elemental powers he had
evoked when he violated his pledge. He lost his soul; while, if he had adhered
to the Masters, he would have been united with his God.
You will join the division which leaves the city this morning on its way to
join Von Kral; when you arrive go immediately to his headquarters and
present these papers.
He handed me a package of papers and continued:
When he sees these he will give you his full confidence, and signed as they
are, you will be his most intimate companion. I also give you a clairvoyant
analysis of the constitution of Von Kral, and the number of his organism, so
that you can, if necessary, read or even influence all his thoughts. Further,
since the treachery of Kroez, all the passwords of our order have been changed;
I will give these to you as communicated to me by Albarez and Saroy. In the
future answer no signs of the sixth degree, as they are not in our movement
other than as individuals; member s there follow their own inclinations, but
we are bound together as a unit. Now you can go. Report at division
headquarters, and when you have joined Von Kral, keep Iole informed of his
every movement.
When the doctor had finished I shook his hand, and having carefully placed
away my papers, proceeded to division headquarters. With the letters in my
possession I found a ready admittance to the immediate company of the
general, and was soon en route towards the field of action. That night we
camped in a village not far from Berlin, and I determined to try and have a
mental communication with Iole. Ten and five o clock at night were the two
fixed hours we had agreed upon for lengthy communications, but every hour
throughout the day we were to call each other, so that no demand for special
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communications as yet, I retired between my blankets and patiently waited for
the hour of ten. At last it came, and assuming a restful position I concentrated
all my mental energies upon my sister, at the same time sounding our keynote.
My efforts were not without result; she answered. An astral current
commenced to throb through my temples and pervade my brain, then came
the words:
All is well; Saroy has left for Vienna, and Albarez and I are hastening on
toward Brussels. I am a peasant girl on a crowded train and the conditions are
not the best; therefore, if you have no special information, be content with the
knowledge that all is well and we will communicate tomorrow.
Very well, my dear sister, all is well; good spirits overshadow thee.
Good-night.
We will meet in dreamland within the hour; goodnight, she answered. As
the current ceased to flow through my temples, I sank back to sleep.
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CHAPTER XVII.
NAPOLEON THE GREAT.
TWO weeks passed; two weeks of rapid marching and concentrating forces,
and we were upon the historic field of Waterloo. I was body surgeon to the
German commander-in-chief, Gen. Von Kral, who now commanded four
hundred thousand men. All was discipline and the most expert training
present everywhere. For a week Iole had communicated with me regularly
every night, from the secret council tents of the new Napoleon. The hostile
armies now lay facing each other, and the next day would, without doubt,
witness such carnage and destruction of life as the world had never seen. Ten
o clock was approaching, and having read the German general s thoughts
throughout the day, I had important information to communicate. To my
great satisfaction I had suddenly developed, or become possessed of the
faculty of clairvoyant sight, and could see the mental images of the general as
he thought.
Ten o clock struck and I assumed a passive and restful position between my
covers. Hardly had I became silent when a voice as though from my inner
throat said, All is well.
All is well, spoke my mind in answer.
Then communicate first, came back the response.
Feeling the current flowing from me, and knowing, therefore, she was
passive, I became the active end and spoke mentally as follows:
Von Kral will strike to-morrow unless the totally unexpected
happens here is his plan:
He will repeat the field of Marathon; advancing with a weak center,
cloaked by apparent strength, he will mass his men upon the flanks. He will
let Napoleon pierce him but to let him fall into a deep ditch, not unlike the
sunken road of Waterloo, now dug across his rear. Behind this ditch he has a
jaggy fence, and this he calls his trap. As the French pass through the center,
he will close upon them on the sides and rear and annihilate the whole; no
quarter will be given; he means extermination. All told, his force is four
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hundred thousand strong, and he will himself command the right while
Frensterine leads the left. If not prepared to meet this strategy, but give the
word, and an eastern potion will be more powerful than all the guns of war.
Finishing thus I became passive, the current reversed and the following
answer came:
We employ no such means; these men are but the instruments of Karma,
and we as agents of the Masters cannot annul the dues men and nations have
by their evil acts brought upon themselves. We can but control, guide and
keep within its proper limits, and bring to its appointed end this awful
whirlpool of Karmic retribution. What men and nations sow, that they are
bound to reap; and neither Gods nor Masters can annul or set aside the law.
When the hour arrives that marks the limits of this retribution, then if these
men persist and defy our order, we may act, because the ends then justify the
means. But no such methods must be pursued until permit is given by those
who know the limits, so say Eral and St. Germain. Now I report to Napoleon at
once; be ready to receive an answering report at twelve.
The circuit broke and I sank off to sleep with will set to awake at twelve. At
the appointed time I awoke and felt a current as before.
All is well, came the call.
All is well, I answered.
Napoleon is a peculiar man; he seems passionless and impenetrable; but he
cannot escape the inner eye which can see and interpret his very thoughts. He
received my communication in rapt attention; his white cheeks flushed a faint
re; his lips became more firmly set; his eyes filled with a burning flame, but he
said nothing. He then looked at me with admiration in his eyes, and
questioned me of my powers; but I refused to speak of them, and he knew
better than to insist. Strange as it may seem, he is no brother, but he knows of
the Brotherhood s existence and realizes that its members possess great and
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