Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-08-20
IEURoPEAN MAGAZINE.
SECRETS OF CABALISM.


SciIimeipenink; as an American bsothe
called himself, was seized at the entrance
of his obscure lane, in Berlin, blind fold
Ell and carried through sundry winding
streets ana passages Till sharp fresh all
informed him lie was in some large or un
inclosed space. A loosening purposely
permitted in the bandage over his eyes
allowed him 10 see several muffled figures
passing and repassing In such attire az
might grace an 4 itO-da fe. A hollo"
voice very near his ear began by asking il
he had repented all his sins. OF now many
renamed to repent. Famine and perse
cution had wrought hardly on the poor
Americans nerves, and lie bethought him,
self with some remorse Of the hummer
les he had practised under the sacred
symbol of Freemasonry. His joints
slackened, ond his hair, if age had spared
any, might have realized the tale of MIR
Ledupe's, which single night mace
grey The familiars, who seemed to
know and resent the impostions he had
practised in their sembiance, deposited
him in stone sarcophagus, Gesi ing him
to commune with his conscience and pre-
pare himself to learn those catholic Sc
crets he had milnicked and profaned.
Now, though frig htened man has seldom
any curiosity, he is apt to be very con
sclentious; and two hours confinement in
cold and darkness, added to hunger, crea-
ted all the terrors the Secret Society
could desire. Two of their servitors
raised him from the stone cistern, cover
Ed with the dews OF agony, and command
ed him to ascend the ladder of three
thousand steps by which the illuminate
ascend into the presence of that omniscien,
eye selected for their symbol from Hindoo
mythology Supported by these too. and
in the utmost tribulation Of spirit, poor
Schimelpenink toiled up his endless as
cent, lettering, trembling and beseeching
the merciful care OF his guides. The buz
of voices which had sounded close to his
ear at first, became gradually fainter, till
it seemed lost in distance; and the thin
sharp air which met his face, announced
his approach to the intense cold of the
upjer regions His terror and convulsive
became too intolerable for
mortal strength to bear or see; and
sudden burst of hideous sounds, which
appeared to his strained fancy like he
cackle of demons, but was in part only an
explosion of uncomfortable laughter from
many mouths, SO narrowed his nerves
hat he fell from his dizzy height over the
,wo ,ools, which formed The la, der, in a
leep swoon. "Thisfe ow will do for u.s."
aid the cabalist whose office ad been to
place he stools alternately under the feet
- their dupe. lie viii need neither
'yrup OF borage, nor John of MINISTER'S
cctures to make him mad. Let our
tiectro-magus make ready his magic
antern, ana he will see and say what we
please when our other novice arrives to |
'e instructed"
This charita BILE philosopher immediate
J called Tor his comrades assistance, and
cposl'ed our American in a sack Tor
Irther use, in dry corner of an outer
hamber, ventilated by large CRATE in
ne wall. The air or the motion of the
lck' Tor 1t was not too rigidly tied, had
lst begun to recall Schimelpenink's
reath, and his mind was in frightful
rcam OF demons and inquisitors, when &;
IS eyes opened and beheld lit lie lean ,
an dressed exactly like himself. looking
to the mouth of the sack. The fright,
led scholar began prayer in curious t
lxture OF Saxon, Arabic, and modern {
reek, tn his apparition interrupted a
III. Mutter no exorcisms to me; / am
y good genius Creep out of that crate a
d into thy garrett silently like a true q
nerlcan Musquash, and let me get into q
sack" Schimeipenink climbed more S
e wild cat than the dull animal his O
itor named, and was out of sight in the h
mixing OF an eye. The new occupier d
the Sex rolled himself up in the least | D
1nPass possible and remained quite still c,
his corner till the servi or Of the So te
, Society took him on his back and W
ust him into the cavity of a closet h,
m whence he heard the muttered dia te
ne of the familiars. :.
VIII ne not shrink think youpn 60
There is no fear; he is thorough he of
'er in Heruletic craft, and as our banL ~.
tells me. has the rarest dream we no
Id devise when his head is properly an
red" al
D., - wi
But If our patron should insist on hi
stioning him3" 49,
Let him answer for himself; he has hi,
I'd strange things and will cav he has W.
the millennium. Could you not see die
his Imagination travelled when he nle
GIT himself going up the ladder, and h;r
oiew the grea bellows in his faceon w..
he agent the Cabalists could not in
ear mt of laughing-"Wsll, l have Inv
curiosity myself to know what oc. 49,,