Mabel Collins: The Blossom and The Fruit; A True Story of a Black Magician - eBook

The great contending forces of good and evil we see battling in the world on every plane. This book is called the story of a black magician, because it shows the struggles and mistakes of one who has been an adept in black magic, and who is endeavoring with great force, but very blindly, to reach toward the White Brotherhood and learn good instead of evil. Fleta, who in her earlier incarnation, took power selfishly into her own hands, became by virtue of that power a black magician: one who has knowledge and uses it for selfish ends. We see her at the masked ball, in the first chapter, endeavoring by her arts to attract the companion of many of her past lives; but her object in doing this is to bring him directly under the influence of Ivan, that one of the White Brotherhood who, in his divine pity, has stretched his hand out toward her. Her aim is to begin the occultist's great work of saving others, especially those whom she has formerly injured. But through what terrible experiences she passes, and those about her, in this endeavor! We see her falling back instinctively on her old rites and using her old powers; we see Hilary deceived by his senses and passions. Fleta forgets that the Lotus flower can only bloom within one's own soul; but oh! Reader, do not judge of Fleta, nor of her relation to the White Brotherhood till you have seen her fierce career to its end and read the words in which, at last, Ivan says: "Enter."

The Author said about this eBook: 

"This strange story has come to me from a far country and was brought to me in a mysterious manner; I claim only to be the scribe and the editor. In this capacity, however, it is I who am answerable to the public and the critics. I therefore ask in advance, one favour only of the reader; that he will accept (while reading this story) the theory of the reincarnation of souls as a living fact. "

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