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=3D"content">I say that these - which are the laws of mesmerism in its gene=
ral features - it would be supererogation to demonstrate ; nor shall I infl=
ict upon my readers so needless a demonstration ; to-day. My purpose at pre=
sent is a very different one indeed. I am impelled, even in the teeth of a =
world of prejudice, to detail without comment the very remarkable substance=
of a colloquy, occurring between a sleep-waker and myself. I had been long=
in the habit of mesmerizing the person in question, (Mr. Vankirk,) and the=
usual acute susceptibility and exaltation of the mesmeric perception had s=
upervened. For many months he had been laboring under confirmed phthisis, t=
he more distressing effects of which had been relieved by my manipulations =
; and on the night of Wednesday, the fifteenth instant, I was summoned to h=
is bedside. The invalid was suffering with acute pain in the region of the =
heart, and breathed with great difficulty, having all the ordinary symptoms=
of asthma. In spasms such as these he had usually found relief from the ap=
plication of mustard to the nervous centres, but to-night this had been att=
empted in vain. As I entered his room he greeted me with a cheerful smile, =
and although evidently in much bodily pain, appeared to be, mentally, quite=
at ease. " I sent for you to-night," he said, " not so much=
to administer to my bodily ailment, as to satisfy me concerning certain ps=
ychal impressions which, of late, have occasioned me much anxiety and surpr=
ise. I need not tell you how sceptical I have hitherto been on the topic of=
the soul' s immortality. I cannot deny that there has always existed, as i=
f in that very soul which I have been denying, a vague half-sentiment of it=
s own existence. But this half-sentiment at no time amounted to conviction.=
With it my reason had nothing to do. All attempts at logical inquiry resul=
ted, indeed, in leaving me more sceptical than before. I had been advised t=
o study Cousin. I studied him in his own works as well as in those of his E=
uropean and American echoes. The ' Charles Elwood' of Mr. Brownson, for exa=
mple, was placed in my hands. I read it with profound attention. Throughout=
I found it logical, but the portions which were not _merely_ logical were =
unhappily the initial arguments of the disbelieving hero of the book. In hi=
s summing up it seemed evident to me that the reasoner had not even succeed=
ed in convincing himself. His end had plainly forgotten his beginning, like=
the government of Trinculo. In short, I was not long in perceiving that if=
man is to be intellectually convinced of his own immortality, he will neve=
r be so convinced by the mere abstractions which have been so long the fash=
ion of the moralists of England, of France, and of Germany. Abstractions ma=
y amuse and exercise, but take no hold on the mind. Here upon earth, at lea=
st, philosophy, I am persuaded, will always in vain call upon us to look up=
on qualities as things. The will may assent - the soul - the intellect, nev=
er. " I repeat, then, that I only half felt, and never intellectually =
believed. But latterly there has been a certain deepening of the feeling, u=
ntil it has come so nearly to resemble the acquiescence of reason, that I f=
ind it difficult to distinguish between the two. I am enabled, too, plainly=
to trace this effect to the mesmeric influence. I cannot better explain my=
meaning than by the hypothesis that the mesmeric exaltation enables me to =
perceive a train of ratiocination which, in my abnormal existence, convince=
s, but which, in full accordance with the mesmeric phenomena, does not exte=
nd, except through its _effect_, into my normal condition. In sleep-waking,=
the reasoning and its conclusion - the cause and its effect - are present =
together. In my natural state, the cause vanishing, the effect only, and pe=
rhaps only partially, remains. " These considerations have led me to t=
hink that some good results might ensue from a series of well-directed ques=
tions propounded to me while mesmerized. You have often observed the profou=
nd self-cognizance evinced by the sleep-waker - the extensive knowledge he =
displays upon all points relating to the mesmeric condition itself ; and fr=
om this self-cognizance may be deduced hints for the proper conduct of a ca=
techism." I consented of course to make this experiment. A few passes =
threw Mr. Vankirk into the mesmeric sleep. His breathing became immediately=
more easy, and he seemed to suffer no physical uneasiness. The following c=
onversation then ensued: - V. in the dialogue representing the patient, and=
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<p>Compare Alcohol Rehab Choices<br /> The waters of the river have a sa=
ffron and sickly hue; and they flow not onwards to the sea, but palpitate f=
orever and forever beneath the red eye of the sun with a tumultuous and con=
vulsive motion. For many miles on either side of the river's oozy bed is a =
pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that =
solitude, and stretch towards the heaven their long and ghastly necks, and =
nod to and fro their everlasting heads. And there is an indistinct murmur w=
hich cometh out from among them like the rushing of subterrene water. And t=
hey sigh one unto the other. "But there is a boundary to their realm -=
- the boundary of the dark, horrible, lofty forest. There, like the waves a=
bout the Hebrides, the low underwood is agitated continually. But there is =
no wind throughout the heaven. And the tall primeval trees rock eternally h=
ither and thither with a crashing and mighty sound. And from their high sum=
mits, one by one, drop everlasting dews. And at the roots strange poisonous=
flowers lie writhing in perturbed slumber. And overhead, with a rustling a=
nd loud noise, the gray clouds rush westwardly forever, until they roll, a =
cataract, over the fiery wall of the horizon. But there is no wind througho=
ut the heaven. And by the shores of the river Zaire there is neither quiet =
nor silence. "It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rai=
n, but, having fallen, it was blood. And I stood in the morass among the ta=
ll and the rain fell upon my head -- and the lilies sighed one unto the oth=
er in the solemnity of their desolation. "And, all at once, the moon a=
rose through the thin ghastly mist, and was crimson in color. And mine eyes=
fell upon a huge gray rock which stood by the shore of the river, and was =
lighted by the light of the moon. And the rock was gray, and ghastly, and t=
all, -- and the rock was gray. Upon its front were characters engraven in t=
he stone; and I walked through the morass of water-lilies, until I came clo=
se unto the shore, that I might read the characters upon the stone. But I c=
ould not decypher them. And I was going back into the morass, when the moon=
shone with a fuller red, and I turned and looked again upon the rock, and =
upon the characters; -- and the characters were DESOLATION. "And I loo=
ked upwards, and there stood a man upon the summit of the rock; and I hid m=
yself among the water-lilies that I might discover the actions of the man. =
And the man was tall and stately in form, and was wrapped up from his shoul=
ders to his feet in the toga of old Rome. And the outlines of his figure we=
re indistinct -- but his features were the features of a deity; for the man=
tle of the night, and of the mist, and of the moon, and of the dew, had lef=
t uncovered the features of his face. And his brow was lofty with thought, =
and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read t=
he fables of sorrow, and weariness, and disgust with mankind, and a longing=
after solitude. "And the man sat upon the rock, and leaned his head u=
pon his hand, and looked out upon the desolation. He looked down into the l=
ow unquiet shrubbery, and up into the tall primeval trees, and up higher at=
the rustling heaven, and into the crimson moon. And I lay close within she=
lter of the lilies, and observed the actions of the man. And the man trembl=
ed in the solitude; -- but the night waned, and he sat upon the rock. "=
;And the man turned his attention from the heaven, and looked out upon the =
dreary river Zaire, and upon the yellow ghastly waters, and upon the pale l=
egions of the water-lilies. And the man listened to the sighs of the water-=
lilies, and to the murmur that came up from among them. And I lay close wit=
hin my covert and observed the actions of the man. And the man trembled in =
the solitude; -- but the night waned and he sat upon the rock. "Then I=
went down into the recesses of the morass, and waded afar in among the wil=
derness of the lilies, and called unto the hippopotami which dwelt among th=
e fens in the recesses of the morass. And the hippopotami heard my call, an=
d came, with the behemoth, unto the foot of the rock, and roared loudly and=
fearfully beneath the moon. And I lay close within my covert and observed =
the actions of the man. And the man trembled in the solitude; -- but the ni=
ght waned and he sat upon the rock. "Then I cursed the elements with t=
he curse of tumult; and a frightful tempest gathered in the heaven where, b=
efore, there had been no wind. And the heaven became livid with the violenc=
e of the tempest -- and the rain beat upon the head of the man -- and the f=
loods of the river came down -- and the river was tormented into foam -- an=
d the water-lilies shrieked within their beds -- and the forest crumbled be=
fore the wind -- and the thunder rolled -- and the lightning fell -- and th=
e rock rocked to its foundation. And I lay close within my covert and obser=
ved the actions of the man. And the man trembled in the solitude; -- but th=
e night waned and he sat upon the rock. "Then I grew angry and cursed,=
with the curse of silence, the river, and the lilies, and the wind, and th=
e forest, and the heaven, and the thunder, and the sighs of the water-lilie=
s. And they became accursed, and were still. And the moon ceased to totter =
up its pathway to heaven -- and the thunder died away -- and the lightning =
did not flash -- and the clouds hung motionless -- and the waters sunk to t=
heir level and remained -- and the trees ceased to rock -- and the water-li=
lies sighed no more -- and the murmur was heard no longer from among them, =
nor any shadow of sound throughout the vast illimitable desert. And I looke=
d upon the characters of the rock, and they were changed; -- and the charac=
ters were SILENCE. "And mine eyes fell upon the countenance of the man=
, and his countenance was wan with terror. And, hurriedly, he raised his he=
ad from his hand, and stood forth upon the rock and listened. But there was=
no voice throughout the vast illimitable desert, and the characters upon t=
he rock were SILENCE. And the man shuddered, and turned his face away, and =
fled afar off, in haste, so that I beheld him no more." Now there are =
fine tales in the volumes of the Magi -- in the iron-bound, melancholy volu=
mes of the Magi. Therein, I say, are glorious histories of the Heaven, and =
of the Earth, and of the mighty sea -- and of the Genii that over-ruled the=
sea, and the earth, and the lofty heaven. There was much lore too in the s=
ayings which were said by the Sybils; and holy, holy things were heard of o=
ld by the dim leaves that trembled around Dodona -- but, as Allah liveth, t=
hat fable which the Demon told me as he sat by my side in the shadow of the=
tomb, I hold to be the most wonderful of all! And as the Demon made an end=
of his story, he fell back within the cavity of the tomb and laughed. And =
I could not laugh with the Demon, and he cursed me because I could not laug=
h. And the lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom, and=
lay down at the feet of the Demon, and looked at him steadily in the face.=
~~~ End of Text ~~~ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH. THE &q=
uot;Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever=
been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal -- the red=
ness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness,=
and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stai=
ns upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest =
ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men=
And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the =
incidents of half an hour. But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless =
and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his=
presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights =
and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one=
of his castellated abbeys. This was an extensive and magnificent structure=
, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and=
lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, havi=
ng entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They r=
esolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses =
of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With =
such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The externa=
l world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, =
or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There =
were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there w=
ere musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security wer=
e within. Without was the "Red Death." It was toward the close of=
the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged =
most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand fr=
iends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence. It was a voluptuou=
s scene, that masquerade. But first let me tell of the rooms in which it wa=
s held. There were seven -- an imperial suite. In many palaces, however, su=
ch suites form a long and straight vista, while the folding doors slide bac=
k nearly to the walls on either hand, so that the view of the whole extent =
is scarcely impeded. Here the case was very different; as might have been e=
xpected from the duke's love of the bizarre. The apartments were so irregul=
arly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time. =
There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn a =
novel effect. To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, a tall and=
narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the w=
indings of the suite. These windows were of stained glass whose color varie=
d in accordance with the prevailing hue of the decorations of the chamber i=
nto which it opened. That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example, i=
n blue -- and vividly blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple =
in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third =
was green throughout, and so were the casements. The fourth was furnished a=
nd lighted with orange -- the fifth with white -- the sixth with violet. Th=
e seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hu=
ng all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy folds upon a c=
arpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber only, the color of =
the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were =
scarlet -- a deep blood color. Now in no one of the seven apartments was th=
ere any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that la=
y scattered to and fro or depended from the roof. There was no light of any=
kind emanating from lamp or candle within the suite of chambers. But in th=
e corridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, =
a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire that protected its rays through t=
he tinted glass and so glaringly illumined the room. And thus were produced=
a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances. But in the western or blac=
k chamber the effect of the fire-light that streamed upon the dark hangings=
through the blood-tinted panes, was ghastly in the extreme, and produced s=
o wild a look upon the countenances of those who entered, that there were f=
ew of the company bold enough to set foot within its precincts at all. It w=
as in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gi=
gantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, mo=
notonous clang; and when the minute-hand made the circuit of the face, and =
the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock =
a sound which was clear and loud and deep and exceedingly musical, but of s=
o peculiar a note and emphasis that, at each lapse of an hour, the musician=
s of the orchestra were constrained to pause, momentarily, in their perform=
ance, to hearken to the sound; and thus the waltzers perforce ceased their =
evolutions; and there was a brief disconcert of the whole gay company; and,=
while the chimes of the clock yet rang, it was observed that the giddiest =
grew pale, and the more aged and sedate passed their hands over their brows=
as if in confused reverie or meditation. But when the echoes had fully cea=
sed, a light laughter at once pervaded the assembly; the musicians looked a=
t each other and smiled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and made =
whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock shou=
ld produce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the lapse of sixty m=
inutes, (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time t=
hat flies,) there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the =
same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before. But, in spite o=
f these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel. The tastes of the duke =
were peculiar. He had a fine eye for colors and effects. He disregarded the=
decora of mere fashion. His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions=
glowed with barbaric lustre. There are some who would have thought him mad=
His followers felt that he was not. It was necessary to hear and see and =
touch him to be sure that he was not. He had directed, in great part, the m=
oveable embellishments of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great f=
ete; and it was his own guiding taste which had given character to the masq=
ueraders. Be sure they were grotesque. There were much glare and glitter an=
d piquancy and phantasm -- much of what has been since seen in "Hernan=
i." There were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments.=
There were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions. There was much o=
f the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the =
terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust. To and=
fro in the seven chambers there stalked, in fact, a multitude of dreams. A=
nd these -- the dreams -- writhed in and about, taking hue from the rooms, =
and causing the wild music of the orchestra to seem as the echo of their st=
eps. And, anon, there strikes the ebony clock which stands in the hall of t=
he velvet. And then, for a moment, all is still, and all is silent save the=
voice of the clock. The dreams are stiff-frozen as they stand. But the ech=
oes of the chime die away -- they have endured but an instant -- and a ligh=
t, half-subdued laughter floats after them as they depart. And now again th=
e music swells, and the dreams live, and writhe to and fro more merrily tha=
n ever, taking hue from the many-tinted windows through which stream the ra=
ys from the tripods. But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the s=
even, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is wanin=
g away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes; an=
d the blackness of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls up=
on the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled pea=
l more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulge in t=
he more remote gaieties of the other apartments. But these other apartments=
were densely crowded, and in them beat feverishly the heart of life. And t=
he revel went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding o=
f midnight upon the clock. And then the music ceased, as I have told; and t=
he evolutions of the waltzers were quieted; and there was an uneasy cessati=
on of all things as before. But now there were twelve strokes to be sounded=
by the bell of the clock; and thus it happened, perhaps, that more of thou=
ght crept, with more of time, into the meditations of the thoughtful among =
those who revelled. And thus, too, it happened, perhaps, that before the la=
st echoes of the last chime had utterly sunk into silence, there were many =
individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the prese=
nce of a masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single indivi=
dual before. And the rumor of this new presence having spread itself whispe=
ringly around, there arose at length from the whole company a buzz, or murm=
ur, expressive of disapprobation and surprise -- then, finally, of terror, =
of horror, and of disgust. In an assembly of phantasms such as I have paint=
ed, it may well be supposed that no ordinary appearance could have excited =
such sensation. In truth the masquerade license of the night was nearly unl=
imited; but the figure in question had out-Heroded Herod, and gone beyond t=
he bounds of even the prince's indefinite decorum. There are chords in the =
hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even w=
ith the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are m=
atters of which no jest can be made. The whole company, indeed, seemed now =
deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit =
nor propriety existed. The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from hea=
d to foot in the habiliments of the grave. The mask which concealed the vis=
age was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse th=
at the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat. An=
d yet all this might have been endured, if not approved, by the mad revelle=
rs around. But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red =
Death. His vesture was dabbled in blood -- and his broad brow, with all the=
features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror. When the ey=
es of Prince Prospero fell upon this spectral image (which with a slow and =
solemn movement, as if more fully to sustain its role, stalked to and fro a=
mong the waltzers) he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a =
strong shudder either of terror or distaste; but, in the next, his brow red=
dened with rage. "Who dares?" he demanded hoarsely of the courtie=
rs who stood near him -- "who dares insult us with this blasphemous mo=
ckery? Seize him and unmask him -- that we may know whom we have to hang at=
sunrise, from the battlements!" It was in the eastern or blue chamber=
in which stood the Prince Prospero as he uttered these words. They rang th=
roughout the seven rooms loudly and clearly -- for the prince was a bold an=
d robust man, and the music had become hushed at the waving of his hand. It=
was in the blue room where stood the prince, with a group of pale courtier=
s by his side. At first, as he spoke, there was a slight rushing movement o=
f this group in the direction of the intruder, who at the moment was also n=
ear at hand, and now, with deliberate and stately step, made closer approac=
h to the speaker. But from a certain nameless awe with which the mad assump=
tions of the mummer had inspired the whole party, there were found none who=
put forth hand to seize him; so that, unimpeded, he passed within a yard o=
f the prince's person; and, while the vast assembly, as if with one impulse=
, shrank from the centres of the rooms to the walls, he made his way uninte=
rruptedly, but with the same solemn and measured step which had distinguish=
ed him from the first, through the blue chamber to the purple -- through th=
e purple to the green -- through the green to the orange -- through this ag=
ain to the white -- and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement h=
ad been made to arrest him. It was then, however, that the Prince Prospero,=
maddening with rage and the shame of his own momentary cowardice, rushed h=
urriedly through the six chambers, while none followed him on account of a =
deadly terror that had seized upon all. He bore aloft a drawn dagger, and h=
ad approached, in rapid impetuosity, to within three or four feet of the re=
treating figure, when the latter, having attained the extremity of the velv=
et apartment, turned suddenly and confronted his pursuer. There was a sharp=
cry -- and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, =
instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero. Then, su=
mmoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once thre=
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figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gas=
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sk which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangibl=
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