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255 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1927
Let it be realized, in judging the action of these men, that they had a grave trust to fulfil in safeguarding the knowledge placed in their keeping, and that no one values human life more cheaply than the occultist, for he holds the belief in eternal life as a fact of his own personal experience, not as a theory, based, at best, upon the evidence of sacred writings. Some one had learnt their secrets, and that person, must, at all costs, be effectually silenced, only thus could their trust be held to have been fulfilled.I don't trust anyone who values life, any life, cheaply. That goes against my nature and my own spiritual beliefs, and the obvious fact of that statement appears again and again throughout the novel. It reminds me of the Inquisition, in which priests were willing to sacrifice the body in order to save the soul (or so they believed). Whatever high moral ground one claims to stand on while making such proclamations, it's clearly and plainly evil to me.