PREFACE LTHOUGH would-be explorers of the occult continent may be numbered only by the em- ployment of seven figures, it is notable as a curious fact that the world’s master Magi have been neglected by popular biographers. Lives of all the great sorcerers there are, certainly, from Zarathustra to £liphas Levi, but without exception, so far as I am aware, these are designed for the use of the student they are not for every man. Fictionists have dipped into the magical pages, but lightly and warily. If we except some of the novels of Lord Lytton (who was an initiate, deeply versed) and the stories of Mr. Algernon Blackwood, to whom we are indebted for an account of a “ Witches’ Sabbath ” littl…
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