Zanoni - Apertura a Napoli: Initiation in Naples: the Initiation of Glyndon

By Signet Il Y’ Viavia:Daniel

Zanoni is a love story of a Great Soul, a Mahatma, bound by the seeds of duty and sacred obligations and human aspirations, long-suffering, forbearing self-interests for the greatness of the world at the crest of liberation. Yet even now, the backward pull into moral connections still binds him to his scars of karmic debtsdrawn from dormant untamed desires, tethered to the past, contrasting liberation.

Zanoni, though master, is the same but from the other purpose and a greater endbound to Mejnour, both master/protector, brother and friend. Mejnour has the great power of self-control and is less deterred by the fragrance of these passions that are set against the desires of a cast of remarkable friends.

All are bound by fate on the road to self-destruction and the cross of regeneration . . . weakened by the fateful politics . . . the Master of the Theaterroyal, rejected . . . turns to selfish love and lusts interest, which breaks traditions of decency with the powers of a king.

Zanoni is a fictionalized work with historical interjections. If you are simply tired of the liberal silly dialogue, part 2 promises even more depth of detail. The true purposes tied to this fictional tale are vastboth for history and self-education. This is just the introduction of what may come to follow after this, if the time permits and the story continues, saved for another day to remember and to set the calendar by.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514406519

Signet Il Y’ Viavia:Daniel

The writer (for the term "author" is not the correct one since a term like "hearer" is probably more correct) was born in North Dakota and grew up in Washington. He worked for the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC in the 1970s and was in charge of international printing and publishing and later shipping and receiving, where he served in the supreme grand lodge and took initiation as well as served on their initiation teams. He was, at the time, hugely influenced by Frater Erwin Watermeyer and also had a very deep personal friendship with people like Lamar Kilgore. From 1987 to the present, he has worked in the medical imaging field as an MRI engineer in service and support for medical manufacturing. He was introduced to Rosicrucianism, Martinism, and Kabbalah initially through the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC in the 1970s as well as to alchemy. It was then that he also studied hypnosis through people like Lavona Stillman, Arnold Furst, and Ormond McGill. He studied practical alchemy after first being introduced to it through AMORC and from Frater Albertus (Albert Reidel) in Salt Lake City at his Paracelsus College and then worked at it as an amateur alchemist in his own labs. He was hugely influenced by the writing of the Theosophical Society as well as the Philosophical Research Society, Freemasonry, and other esoteric groups. He was a distant home study member of the group calling itself the Philosophers of Nature when it first formed until it faded; it was founded by Jean Dubuis and run by Russ and Sue House. Then, in 1988, he became devoted to Sri Sathya Sai Baba. He has been a student of private study and meditation practices and a collector of rare books and periodicals on many subjects and research for over forty-five years. These studies include academic studies as well as brief periods involved with BOTA, the Golden Dawn, Theosophy, SRF, Eastern and Western philosophical systems, and Kabbalah. He has written for private correspondence as well as poetic works, but for many years, he has also written as a technical writer in the fields of NMR and MRI, even underwater sonar and sound properties in the 1980s. Disenchantment or disillusionment came with established curriculums, and it has had its own epiphany. He began writing for a popular philosophical publication after experiencing many inner visits and demands inspired by meditations touched by Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and one's own inner hearing, which has provided its own demand to get to work. This was stepped up dramatically after Sai Baba's death and an inner visit from Sai Baba just prior to his death. Accepting no excuses for the lazy, disinterested nature of modern culture nor the fixed ideologies of subjects overlabored through the distribution of more and more books on many subjects (usually rewritten and hardly understood), he has taken on his own open philosophical challenge for the review of the many experts who provide well-read commentary rather than practical inner experience in the hopes of redefining one’s practical philosophy through initiatic use of dramatic philosophical language and, particularly, the spiritual dynamics hidden in the depths available to the readers of the English language.

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ZANONI

APERTURA A NAPOLI - INITIATION IN NAPLES:

THE INITIATION OF GLYNDON

DANISHWARA

–ADNI DANI -

LORD DANI – THE LORD JUDGE

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Contents

Dedication

Dedication An Open Tribute to Baron Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton – Signet IL Y’ Viavia

Introduction

Chapter One

1787 Kingdom Of Naples. The Hills Above Naples—Night

Chapter Two

Space Beyond Earth’s Atmosphere—Night

Chapter Three

1787 Kingdom Of Naples. The Hills Above Naples—Night

Chapter Four

1787 The Hills Above Naples—Night

Chapter Five

Aboard The Sailing Ship—Continued

Chapter Six

1787 Hill Above Naples—Continued

Chapter Seven

The Home Of Gaetano Pisani—Morning

Chapter Eight

Paris France—Passport Office—Day

Chapter Nine

The Great Theater Of San Carlo—Later

Chapter Ten

Near Covent Garden, London—Two Weeks Before—Day

Chapter Eleven

Glyndon’s Aunt’s Home—Day

Chapter Twelve

Home Of Gaetano Pisani—Later

Chapter Thirteen

Home Of Count Cetoxa—Day

Chapter Fourteen

Home Of Gaetano Pisani—Evening

Chapter Fifteen

Outside The Theater—Night

Inside The Theater At San Carlo—Continued

Inside The Theater At The Cardinal’s Box—Continued

Outside The Theater—Continued

Chapter Sixteen

Gaetano Pisani’s Home—Later

Chapter Seventeen

Viola’s Upstairs Bedroom—Night

Chapter Eighteen

Viola’s Upstairs Bedroom—Morning

Pisani Living Room At Breakfast—Morning

Outer Porch Of The Pisani Home—Morning

Chapter Nineteen

Ridotti Porch Entry Above Roadway In Naples—Continued

Chapter Twenty

Zanoni’s Ship, Moored On The Docks—Continued

Chapter Twenty-One

Ridotti Gaming Hall Porch—Continued

Chapter Twenty-Two

The Hills Around Rome, On The Site Of Roman Ruins—Daylight

Chapter Twenty-Three

Inside The Old Building—Continued

Chapter Twenty-Four

Outside Zanoni’s Apartment In Paris—Night

Chapter Twenty-Five

Old Man’s Apartment—Continued

Chapter Twenty-Six

Art Show—Uffizi Gallery—Florence Italy—Two Months Later—Day

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Road Outside Gaetano’s Home—One Month Later—Morning

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Gaetano Pisani’s Bedroom—Moments Later

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Kingdom Of Naples—Catacombs Of San Gennaro—Night

Chapter Thirty

Naples, Ridotti Gaming House—Next Day

Chapter Thirty-One

Public Gardens In Naples—Two Days Later—Night

Catacombs Of San Gennaro—There Is A Flashback

Public Gardens In Naples—Continued

Police Station Flashback—Continued

Public Gardens In Naples—Continued

Chapter Thirty-Two

Streets Of Naples—Continued

Chapter Thirty-Three

Kingdom Of Naples Countryside—Morning

Zanoni’s Inner Vision—Continued

Zanoni’s Vision—Hill Above—Continued

Kingdom Of Naples Countryside—Continued

Zanoni’s Vision—Continued

Kingdom Of Naples Countryside—Continued

Chapter Thirty-Four

Zanoni’s Ship, Moored On The Docks—Continued

Chapter Thirty-Five

Theater Of San Carlo, Backstage—Night

Theater, Infante Gabriel’s Box—Continued

Theater Of San Carlo, Backstage—Continued

Theater Of San Carlo, Backstage—Night

Corridor At San Carlo Theater—Continued

Chapter Thirty-Six

Outside The Theater—Continued

Inside Count Cetoxa’s Carriage—Continued

Mascari From The Shadows—Continued

Inside Count Cetoxa’s Carriage—Continued

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Inside Viola’s Carriage—Later

Outside The Carriage—Continued

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Outside Viola’s Home—Later

Viola’s Living Room—Night

Outer Corridor On The Porch—Continued

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Zanoni’s Estate, Outside Sitting Area—Evening

Hours Later, Zanoni’s Estate, Outside Sitting Area—Night

Zanoni’s Estate, Outside Sitting Area—Evening

Living Area And Stairway To The Upstairs—Continued

Chapter Forty

Down The Hill From Zanoni’s Palace—The Next Day—Day

Chapter Forty-One

Zanoni’s Palace—Day

Zanoni’s Palace Entry—Continued

Zanoni’s Palace Rotunda—Continued

Chapter Forty-Two

Theater Of San Carlo, Later That Day—Afternoon

Chapter Forty-Three

Naples Gardens—Continued

Inside The Carriage—Continued

Outside The Cathedral Of San Gennaro—Continued

Carriage—Continued

Chapter Forty-Four

Pisani Home, Outside On The Porch—Evening

Chapter Forty-Five

Glyndon’s Hotel Room—Evening

Chapter Forty-Six

Pisani Home, Outside On The Porch—Morning

Chapter Forty-Seven

A Physical Projection Of Zanoni Into Viola’s Home—Night

Chapter Forty-Eight

Chapter Forty-Nine

Viola’s Home—Continued

Viola’s Outer Porch—Continued

Chapter Fifty

Glyndon’s Room—Continued

Chapter Fifty-One

Cardinal’s Palace—Day

Chapter Fifty-Two

A Small Room In Infante Gabriel’s Palace—Later

Chapter Fifty-Three

Grotta Vecchia—Virgil’s Tomb—Kingdom Of Naples—Day

Chapter Fifty-Four

Outside Viola’s Home—Later

Outside Viola’s House—Continued

Inside Viola’s House—Continued

Chapter Fifty-Five

Inn In Portici—Day

Chapter Fifty-Six

Stables In Resina, Near Vesuvius—Later

On The Path Up To The Lava Flows – Night

Chapter Fifty-Seven

Near The Summit Of Vesuvius—Night

Path Leading To Vesuvius—Night

Chapter Fifty-Eight

Deserted Streets Of Naples Countryside—Night

Chapter Fifty-Nine

Pisani Home—Continued

Streets Of Naples Outside Of Viola’s Home—Continued

Viola’s Bedroom—Continued

Chapter Sixty

Chamber At Infante Gabriel’s Palace—Night

Infante Gabriel’s Meeting Room—Continued

Chapter Sixty-One

Zanoni’s Palace, Sitting Room—Continued

Chapter Sixty-Two

Pisani Home Front Door—Morning

Inside The Pisani Home—Continued

Pisani Home, Porch—Continued

Chapter Sixty-Three

Infante Gabriel’s Palace, His Stateroom—Afternoon

Chapter Sixty-Four

Prince’s Palace In Portici, Banquet Hall—Later

Chapter Sixty-Five

Inside The Palace—Continued

Banquet Hall—Continued

The Harbor Over Naples—Night

The Garden At The Palace—Later

Chapter Sixty-Six

Coastal Road Outside Naples, By The Harbor—Night

A Rosicrucian/Masonic Tale

Based on Zanoni, Part One

by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Dedication

This is dedicated to my wife, Nancy, whose love and support have always provided an inspiration and practical foundation for the work within the Mysteries. Zanoni was a book that we read together many years ago, and it had such a profound effect that it was inevitable that it should take the form that it has with this.

Notes

This is the declaration for those who are serious devotees, philosophers or mystics who seek truth over immaturity.

And to the New Age, be certain we are sick of it. It is the Golden Age that we are certain drives this destiny. Those with talents and those with courage and devotion and the sense of duty and obligation are revered by us in this. Those who are planted firmly on terra firma yet are capable of contemplating stars are certainly our friends. Those educated and devoted to Truth and not policies, and those who are certain that God drives the destiny of our lives; these are the gifts we recognize for value in human character. Enough said: They are our true brothers, sisters and friends.

You may decide to share this book with them and they may share it with anyone or any group they wish to, for they have the marks of true character. This is a philosophical fire and this has no fountainhead save truth and righteousness.

As with all things of great importance we have the youth to thank for our struggles in our future. But who are they and who are we? We will find that we are our future. We are our descendants. We will incarnate again and again and we will inherit this. Now we have come to gather fruits from the gardens of the Master’s palaces and we have finally dressed ourselves with his jewels of moral necklaces. We will become, no longer talkers, but wanderers in sync with those creatures of the stars.

This foundation is firm with that resolve resolved by the practical followers of those forgotten or Self-begotten Mysteries revealed; founded in that which once was, bound again for an age of Truth and Beauty as that moral aged monopoly: Peace in the heart, peace in the mind and humility that is certain.

A militant mystic is one who is devoted to chivalry and charity. The greatest sacrifice their lives for the goals of divinity and the welfare of the people who deserve their care. These are those who influenced this. The young people have to be drawn to find a grand path that is greater than themselves. You will read into this, a proven doctrine in Zanoni, Apertura a Napoli, The Initiation of Glyndon. The book Zanoni, A Rosicrucian Tale by Edward Bulwer-Lytton was used as a basis for this, and this not without its perfect clarity. It is buried in the mysteries of the Mahatmas and they are the true signatories in this.

I am surprised about the support and attention that has been coming from every direction for Zanoni, Apertura a Napoli, The Initiation of Glyndon; particularly among the young people that we’ve met. Where are the grownups in the room? Damned empty shallow halls echo nonsense from every crevice. They who speak clearly and honestly are few and far between. Where are those who have given up the personal life, the worldly life, to become their sacred messengers for the instauration of moral courage?

Sharp teeth determine the process for the outcome of digestion. These works like Zanoni, Apertura a Napoli, The Initiation of Glyndon will sharpen the teeth that are uneven, crooked and deformed.

True mastery is Self-Mastery, honesty and humility. Conquer untruth and anger, greed and self-conceit. No one will be left behind. We will perfect the perfect, and designate those who are Prefects by witnessing their self-confidence and the perfection in their form, and their selflessness. To know, one must know they know by demonstration, not for others, but for themselves alone; witness God in spirit and call out those moral attributes with purpose and resolve.

Zanoni, Apertura a Napoli is written to be introductory and the first portal for, not simply Spiritual Initiation, but to demonstrate the requirements for the practical mystic and those destined for greatness in the Mysteries by those teachings that drive the heart that strives sleepless, breathless, toward that greater destiny.

You may know we were "asked to do this and how many times we refused or shied away, or when counting those in for service to Him" didn’t count ourselves; for this in the conflict of immature accounting.

This is also an introduction to the sign to recognize: "Signet IL Y’ Viavia: Daniel" wherein is hidden a symbol for a sign.

We were told that those who simply touch this work, Zanoni, Apertura a Napoli are blessed (we have witnessed this by the inspiration in their lives); not by us, or even the books, though they carry forward a message and this triggers it, but by those great souls responsible for this who are greater than ourselves, who wish to make ourselves and others aware of this, since it is their destiny to reveal it.

Volume II of Zanoni, is called Zanoni, the Dark Night, The Initiation of Glyndon Part II, will be a great challenge for many as will Volume III that reflects that period of the story during the Reign of Terror. The object given to this work is catechistic. Within those secrets revealed slowly in it, there will be demonstrations of their success and the penalties for failure. There is a depth to these tests that are profoundly divine. The catechistic methods will awaken by their suggestion and their query and inquiry and generate an inner response, a message that will spawn successes within every framework (as the methods are drawn from the pure virgin Archetype).

These are initiations meant for the Philosophical work called the Akshaya Patra Series that follow these works. Why? Because we are not interested in the success of fools. We’re interested in the success of those destined to shape the goals, for righteous and moral ends, in the elevation of character, with the destruction of that spiritual cowardice that hides behind every platitude and ingratiates itself to those craving moral ignorance; as a sign for human intelligence. Selfish passivity is not a Mystery. Weak wills make for sloppy enmity with every argument defeated. Royal activity is Divine.

And so it begins. A long journey towards a hundred ends. These are the real reason we are releasing these Zanoni versions meant for the experience of this as an indoctrination and self-initiation. We need not remind you of who they are dedicated to. He asked and asked. The reluctance to write for years has been the shame and we bear witness to it. You may know this. This is about the message.

Dedication

An Open Tribute to

Baron Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton –

Signet IL Y’ Viavia

It is hard to say just a few words about Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the original author of the novel Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale, upon which this series is based. His incredible influence was felt throughout the world through a vast array of accomplishments. His work was tireless.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton was heavily influenced by his mother growing up, and the imagery of Knebworth House is a stunning reminder of his Gothic roots and philosophical interests that were as mysterious as he was. The heart of works like Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale were born and introduced in deep thought, with the writings born within the walls of Knebworth House, where they are easily identified by one’s own pilgrimage—and where those experiences are witnessed, haunted by the energy stayed in halls, filled with that precious energy of a life richly lived, in a monument dedicated to sacred inquiry.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s talents and accomplishments are phenomenal. He was a very close friend to many writers and politicians like Disraeli; but most of all, we recall his lifelong friend Charles Dickens, who to us was his Mervale. They spent much of their lives together in conversations at Knebworth House.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was an English social patron, philosopher, novelist, historian, poet, playwright, and politician. He was also the president of the British Archaeological Society.

In a conversation with Henry Cobbold, the great-great-great- grandson, we were told Edward Bulwer-Lytton outsold Dickens four to one when alive. In all, Bulwer-Lytton wrote about seventy books. He wrote in a variety of genres, including history, historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction. Though in a style not always ripe for the weak modern minds, his thoughts were philosophical and his idioms legendary. As a politician, he is responsible for the founding of British Columbia. Lytton, British Columbia, is named after him—as are Lytton, Quebec, and Lytton, Iowa, in the USA.

It seems to run in the family. His son, Edward Robert Bulwer- Lytton (1831–91), was a British diplomat and Viceroy of India (1876-80) and was also titled First Earl of Lytton, Viscount Knebworth, and Second Baron Lytton of Knebworth.

Edward’s middle brother, Henry, was Lord Dalling. The eldest brother, William, looked after the Bulwer family estates in Norfolk.

Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, First Baron Dalling, and Bulwer spent a lot of time outside England as Attaché to embassy at Berlin 1827, Vienna 1829, The Hague April 1830, Brussels Aug. to Nov. 1830, Paris Aug. to Dec. 1832; sec. of legation to Belgium 1835–7 and chargé d’affaires 1835–6; sec. of embassy to Turkey 1837–8, Russia 1838–9, France 1839–43 (minister plenip. 1839–41); envoy extraordinary and minister to Spain 1843–8, United States 1849–52, Tuscany 1852– 5; minister to Modena 1852–5; Danubian Principalities 1856–8; and ambassador extraordinary to Turkey 1858–65.

Henry was the British Ambassador to Turkey … while there, the Grand Lodge Freemasonry instituted the creation of the District Grand Lodge of Turkey (English Constitution). What happened then was the irregular Masons started to visit or join English and French lodges, which initiated the need to respond, and so the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, Lord Zetland, ordered the foundation of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Turkey to be established in Istanbul. The consecration ceremony took place on 24 June 1862 at the Embassy. The first Provincial Grand Master to this lodge was the British Ambassador Sir Henry Bulwer, Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s middle brother.

Victor Alexander Lytton wrote a biography entitled The Life of Edward Bulwer, First Lord Lytton, by His Grandson, in 2 volumes, London: 1913. Victor Alexander Lytton was the son of Robert Lytton.

Victor Alexander Bulwer-Lytton was Second Earl of Lytton and was styled Viscount Knebworth until 1891. He was born in Simla (British India) during the time when his father, Robert, was viceroy. He was a British politician and colonial administrator who served as governor of Bengal between 1922 and 1927 and was briefly the acting viceroy of India in 1926.

It is certain that the Lytton family had a deep love for India, and from the perspective of the Theosophical Society for any misgivings of the viceroy, much is forgiven, and respected and truly honored, because

of the associations with the father, Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Edward Bulwer-Lytton was himself very close to the Master KH, called Kuthumi. Kuthumi was not unlike St. Germain as someone with the vast mind transcending that of a Shakespearean-Baconian. Too vast for any one country, the entire world became their true home in the preparation for the Golden Age of Man—and not simply the rule of an island nation, as imagined Sancho Panza supported by Alonso Quijano. They were brothers. The Theosophical perspective is found in their writing about the Viceroy Lytton:

A THUNDERCLOUD WITH SILVER LINING.

All comes in good time to him who knows to wait, says the proverb. The small party of New York Theosophists, who arrived at Bombay eight months ago, had scarcely enjoyed the friendly greeting of the natives when they received the most unmerited and bitter insult of an accusation of political intrigue, followed by a shower of abuse and slander!

We had come with the best and purest of intentions -- however utopian, exaggerated, and even ill-timed, they may have seemed to the indifferent. But lo! Who hath believed our report? Like Israel, the allegorical man of sorrow of Isaiah, we saw ourselves for no fault of ours numbered with the transgressors, and bruised for the iniquities of one for whose race we had come to offer our mite of work, and were ready to devote our time and our very lives.

This one, whose name must never pollute the columns of this journal, showed us his gratitude by warning the police that we were come with some dark political purpose, and accusing us of being spies -- that is to say, the vile of the vile -- the mangs of the social system. But now, as the last thunder-clap of the monsoon is dying away, our horizon too is cleared of its dark clouds. Thanks to the noble and unselfish editions of an English friend at Simla, the matter has been brought before His Excellency, the Viceroy.

The sequel is told in the Allahabad Pioneer, of October 11th, as follows: "It will be remembered that in the beginning of this year, their feelings were deeply hurt on the occasion of a trip they made up-country by an insulting espionage set on foot against them by the police. It appears that some groundless calamity had preceded them to this country, and that the police put a very clumsy construction upon certain orders they received from Government respecting the new arrivals.

However, since then the subject has been brought especially to the Viceroy’s notice, and, satisfied that the Theosophists were misrepresented in the first instance, he has given formal orders, through the Political Department, to the effect that they are not to be any longer subject to interference."

From the bottom of our hearts we thank his Lordship for having with one single word rubbed the vile stain off our reputations. We thank Lord Lytton rather than the Viceroy, the gentleman who hastened to redress a wrong that the Viceroy might have overlooked. The high official has but done an act of justice, and would not have been wholly blameable if, under the temporary pressure of political work of the highest importance, he had put it off to the Greek kalends.

We love to feel that we owe this debt of gratitude to the son of one whose memory will ever be clear and sacred to the heart of every true theosophist; to the son of the author of Zanoni, A Strange Story, The Coming Race, and, the House, and the Brain; one who ranked higher than any other in the small number of genuine mystical writers, for he knew what he was talking about, which is more than can be said of other writers in this department of literature. Once more we thank Lord Lytton for having prompted the Viceroy …

—The Theosophist, (1:2) November 1879,

H. P. Blavatsky, editor

For us modern readers of Zanoni, philosophically, our original author of Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale, Edward-Bulwer Lytton, is well- known in some capacity as a Freemason and Rosicrucian—but to what depth the Rosicrucian ties, it is strangely undetermined. It is difficult to ascertain because of its characteristic secrecy. Truthfully, the true Rosy Cross has an independence that is reserved for only those long-lived saints. But who is that Rose represented by? It is clear.

The true Rosicrucian Fraternity was, despite recorded histories, founded by Francis and Anthony Bacon in 1601 after the death of the Earl of Essex. It was never a public organization, although its history is buried in the depth of just a few of the families of the English nobility. Who remembers? Its name is lent to Freemasonry.

The RC was a project that led the way to found the Great Instauration and the Invisible College. It was the vision of Francis and Anthony Bacon, in order to prepare or clear the path for humanity in the coming Golden Age of Mankind, through the methods of the enlightenment that were achieved by virtue of their ability to create and use the Philosopher’s Stone.

Bulwer-Lytton was made the Grand Patron of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA) in 1870, and it is said also that he had a membership in a German Masonic lodge Zur aufgehenden Morgenröthe, which is said to have been proven false. I say, "Who knows? Who are those who pretend to know?" They do by public record, which on its face is false and misleading.

The SRIA was founded in 1865. They acknowledged Bulwer-Lytton as their patron. Bulwer-Lytton wrote a letter in 1872 to the organization to complain about this public announcement of his patronage. That’s it. The patronage was not announced through his own admission, as a member within that organization. It may have been an honor given to him due to just that however, meaning his private patronage was provided in some capacity, which inspired them to give him this as an honorarium. He may have supported the organization without attending, and may have had other motives.

Those voices he wished to be silent. That is certain. Not unlike Isaac Newton when scolding Boyle. He would have the subject kept private.

Who knew the Mahatmas or the Secret Chiefs of Freemasonry at the time? Only Bulwer-Lytton.

Is this Zanoni a tale of the RC fraternity, by one of its members, or one of an intelligencer with special opportunities? If an RC tale as described, who told it to Bulwer-Lytton? It would have had to have been someone who was RC. In the conclusion of the book Zanoni (not elucidated in this part of the story labeled as part 1), there is the revelation of the Terror on the Threshold. This is a psychological metamorphosis that takes place as the dissolution of mind at the threshold of liberation. Not a topic often discussed, but in a passage from this letter, KH makes